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Show MEDICAL STIFF FOR HGSPiTAL ASSURED V First Act of County Commissioners Com-missioners Will Be to Approve Ap-prove Recommendations. Organization of the board of county commissioners at noon today will be followed fol-lowed by immediate creation of a medical staff for tiie county hospital, such as has been advocated for the past two years by the Salt Lake County Medical association. associa-tion. Organization of the board of commissioners commis-sioners is scheduled to occupy but little time. Lafayette TIanchett js to be chairman chair-man and head of the finance department; J. S. Lindsay Is to have the department nf health aud charity, and C. F. Stlllman, the holdover commissioner, is to have roads and bridges, according to pre-or-ganization plans. YThile it is expected that other appointments ap-pointments will be disposed of at today's meeting, the creation and appointment of a medical staff for the hospital will be the one sweepin? innovation marking the change of administration. Earnest effort upon the part of the city's most prominent promi-nent medical men to have an organization organiza-tion of the sort effected met with stubborn stub-born resistance during the last administration, adminis-tration, Commissioners A. H. Crabbe and J. H. Wheeler refusing to approve the plan after many conferences bad been held with the representative committee of the medical association. Preliminary to the creation and appointment ap-pointment of the members of a staff Dr. T. J. Howell will be appointed county physician. The purpose of the medical staff is to obtain for the patients in the county hospital the services of the best medical and surgical talent in the clty without added cost to the patients or the county. The appointments to be made today will be for six months, at which time new members will be appointed from the membership of the county association. The creation of the staff will be in conformity con-formity with the plan originally suggested suggest-ed by the medical a ssocia tion. In add i-tion i-tion to the active members, there will be an advisory board that will have general oversight of the work of the si an and will determine upon the fitness of any physician to serve on the staff. The appointments for the next six months as they are to be made this afternoon aft-ernoon follow: Surgical division Dr. John Sharp, Dr. George W. Middleton. Orthepedic Dr. S. C. Paldwin, Dr. J. E. Tyree. Medical Dr. W. R. Tyndale, Dr. W. H. Roihwell. Eye, ear, nose and throat Dr. L. W. Snow, Dr. A. Ray Irvine. Ir-vine. Dr. Robert R. Hampton. Ger.itary Dr. Francis GoeltTL Skin diseases Dr. William l- Rich. Dr. G. .1. Field. Children's diseases Dr. Charles L Carter. Car-ter. In-. R. Olsen. Orson Allen is slafed for appointment to tiie position of superintendent of the county infirmary. |
