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Show COUNTY-PHYSICIAN HOI FROM COAST Goes lo Los Angeles to Look Into City and Comity Hos- . nilal Question. 1 Dr. T. G. Odell, county phvrdclan, is bacu on the Job again after spending ten days In Los Angeles. San Francisco and other California coast towns looking into hospital conditions for tbe benefit of Salt Lake City and county. Me returned home Sat urday. The hospital situation In Salt Lake City and county Is an -aggravating one. and Dr. Odell went to Los Ange..:, especially to gel some Idcjia as to how the question Is handled there. Hero the clly and county authorities are continually at variance In emergency cases, the county frequently refusing to take' rases tlrsl discovered by city authorities au-thorities off the city's hands, lu Los Angeles An-geles and San Francisco both, the situation situa-tion Is far different. Dr. Odell says, lu Los Angeles th' city has a receiving hos-.pltal hos-.pltal ana: the county has a general hospital. hos-pital. In emergency eases rleh and pior alike are taken to the city receiving hospital a.nd afterward turned over to tin-county tin-county hospital. Dr. Odell says, a similar simi-lar condition obtains In San Francisco. fcometlilng iikc tins is hadiy licence here. Dr. Odell holds, and others In touch with the situation thoroughly agree with him. The county must hnve a. sort of a general hospital, and the time is not far distant when the city will have to establish a receiving hospital to take care of emergency cases until they can be taken to the county hospital, Dr. Odell Insists. Dr. Odell 'will lay the ideas he pot in California before the county commission- . era within a few days, and it is likely that Ills trip will give impetus to tins eounty'a proponed hospital adjoining tlie county Infirmary on South State sired The county now sends lis patients to the . Holy Gross hospital, but this is loo expensive, ex-pensive, the county authorities claim. Dr. Odell went to Los Angeles over the ! Salt Lake Route, and Intended lo return tbe same way. but had to come back by way of San Francisco and Ogden. on account ac-count of the floods. |