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Show UNDER MUNICIPAL CONTROL. General Hospital Is Taken Over by City and Bannock County. Special to The Tribune. POCAT.BLLO, Dec. S. Pocatcllo will havo a municipal genoral hospital January 1, for on that date the cltv of Pocatcllo and the county of Bannock will assume not only control but the absolute possession posses-sion of the general hospital operated and owned at present by the Pocatcllo General Gen-eral Hospital company. The deal was closed Saturday evening, .Mayor Turner being the prime mover In Interesting the county commissioners and the city council. At a joint session the matter was discussed from varied points. Tho property, which includes a three-story three-story slono building, modern in every particular, represents a cost of approximately approxi-mately 321.000. The county and cltv aro ablo to purchaso the propertv for M2,DO0, as a good portion of the holdings will bo donated to tho city and county. Tho property will be improved to tako care of the constantly Increasing demand for a general hospital. This will not bo the poor house, as there is a poor farm and infirmary In connection south of tho city. Tho business of the hospital will bo along general hospital lines only. The old county jail manganese steel cages have been purchased for tho use of the city, while tho county will secure se-cure more commodious fixtures. |