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Show 0E HOSPITAL ATTRACTING ATTENTION Patients From Idaho, Nevada Ne-vada and Wyoming Receive Re-ceive Treatment at the Institution. In the list of Ogden institutions -which are attracting attention outside of this city, as well as outside of the state, the Thomas D. Dee Memorial hospital during th past year attained a place well toward the top of the list. The hospital is not only patronized by the people of Ogden -and Weber county, but scores of patients were brought here from cities and towns in Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming. Wyo-ming. According to information furnished fur-nished by the hospital authorities, a total of approximately 1650 patients were treated at the institution during the year. The hospital, which is under the management man-agement of the Mormon church, has mad great forward strides in its development during the past year, thus adding materially ma-terially to its efficiency and value to the community. One of the principal Improvements Im-provements recorded for 1916 was the addition ad-dition of a department of hydrotherapy, many patients taking advantage of the baths, massage and electrical treatments afforded by tills department. As to physical physi-cal equipment throughout, the local hospital hos-pital is classed among the best institu- tions of the kind in the west. Another improvement which may be regarded as a 1916 development is the nurses' home now in cxmrse of construction. construc-tion. Erected at a cost of about $35,000, the building when completed, on or about February 1, 1917, will furnish quarters quar-ters for fifty nurses and all other employees em-ployees of the hospital. A training school tor nurses is conducted In connection with the hospital, and this department maintained main-tained an average of thirty-five Btudents during the year. Miss Stella Sainsbury Is superintendent of nurses and chief Instructor In-structor in the training school. The present officers of the Thomas D. Dee Memorial hospital are: W. H. Wat-tis, Wat-tis, president; David A- Smith, vice president- Maude D. Porter, secretary and treasurer; Mrs. Thomas D. Dee, honorary matron; L. W. Shurtliff, T. B. Evans. James Wotherspoon and Dr. R. S. Joyce, trustees. |