Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-02-09 | Page 16 | Hospital is Badly Needed at Rochester

HOSPITAL IS BADLY NEEDED ATRDCHESTER Pneumonia Reaping' Harvest in Booming Camp of Ihe Humboldt Range. There always arc cortnln phases to a booming mining camp repeated each time a now district Is christened, and Rochester Roch-ester Is not immune from tho disease. Tho world hears much and often about rich discoveries of ore, deals for mining clalmB and fortunes made by a mcro flip of the wrist, but the other sido is kept discreetly in the background. One Nevada paper not far from the Rochester camp fills much of Its first page with material regarding property conditions, relegating to the back page the fact that tho county hospital Is pverflowing with pneumonia patients from the camp. The superintendent superin-tendent of the hospital reports his establishment estab-lishment completely flllod. There aro more cases reported In Rochester than the hospital contains. Rochester came Into notlco In tho heart of tho winter, and hundreds crowded Into tho camp during tho coldest season of tho year unprepared to take proper psys-ical psys-ical care of themselves, arriving to find tho camp a few wceltH old and without the comforts atid accommodations so essential es-sential to tho hundreds crowding in. Considerable Con-siderable suffering has resulted, over fifty cases of pneumonia now exist and each phase of the camp's growth is duly emphasized in the press of the camp and world except the cemetery. Just as a mining camp must bo baptized bap-tized with fire, freuently on moro than one disastrous occasion ,so must It pass through the sickness and death stago on account of mankind In his haste for wealth overlooking oven the most fundamental funda-mental principles of sanitation and bodily health. Pneumonia Is especially urgent for its toll of human life, and at Rochester Roch-ester as In nil comps a hospital likely will be tlio last thing installed of which the camp can boast.