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Show MllTIS i i ran I Physician and Assistants Accomplish Splendid Improvements. SANITATION DEVELOPS Hospital Department and Equipment Are Brought Up to Date. L'ti'ltT th o.ffinout direction of Dr. ("'. C. Snydfir, county phytic. inn, the county lioalth epiirtrnent lins taken hip strides fnnvnrd during tlifi pfist year toward the !;o;il of every health department depart-ment the ro action of tlie rle;ith rati Ky the curbing of disease n:id tht im-provpiuent im-provpiuent of sanitation in the community commun-ity it. servos. Tlio county health department has undoitnken ventures that were never ilrefimi'd of half a dozen years ago. 1 1 i-iniitLl ufter the city health depart me nt , it has em ployed district school nu rse to u;i rd ;i jrn int contagion Jiinotii; the children, has couducted r'-lenth'ss r'-lenth'ss am ;i ipris ariinst lack of limitation lim-itation iu the various unineorporaterl places in tlie county, has improved and guarded the va t er supply and in va-i va-i ions w ays has dri v.-n disease to covi-r wed niadi' life in the comity freer front thr dangers that arise from unclean th!,;. A farmer in SaU Lake county cannot even kill hif. pis without complying with tlie retpiiiemeuts of the health department. de-partment. Me must remember the. ordinance ordi-nance uii water "-imitation when he constructs con-structs a pen or a barn or any other n; t Inn isP, 'or he ts f orb ii Idea I o bui Id 'ii'li sti'uctui'es in Mi'di places as v,oubl ie;'i-r iiosildc drainage into any stream o! waier. lie must do things sanitarily iiv run afoul of ihe law ami the sharp-i't"j sharp-i't"j inspectors id' the health department. depart-ment. .1. 1,. VWih'r i iu charv of this iValm-e of the work. disease ReiHirccL 1 Mirin u' I H 1 the eonnty v; a freer final disease than it has been for many e;.rs. I'r. Snyder attributes this eon-dil'-m In the improvement in sanitation and tn the I i 1 t t. unrsn work in the - dionls the irrruiite distru-t. The mil s"-i dis'Nu-r all eruit aC'ion as it d- dnp . mid h prom j-it action if is con -Imlld hrfnr anv. dancer of an epi-.MpuV epi-.MpuV arisen ,S u i-y id en ce nf the improved eondi-ti'-n-i is found in fho fact that there iit( Imt two siiimI!h'k ca-'es in the iso bftjoii hospital Mcfemlmv 1 of this year, '-ot'ipa red tn feu rt n I'ris a year :i, A jii'oiiorl ionai - decrease was ef-r-i'-'d in all the other I'l'tnnion forms of r-ontaio: disea;-,.. Th,. enmity hospital at Twelfth South a no. Si at e -i reets has yrown to such 1 l'oinvi inns that ni or" room i needed already. Tlie hoM'iitnl occupies a Jarjje I'ovtion of the if". mo liospital-infir-iiia: v build i n erect ei in tf 1 . and at ils present rate of firnv, th the hospital will require the euti re Vuiildinj; before many rears have pas-ed- Already the o,utM.ion of building,' a new infirmary is boin discussed. . Since the hospital was opened February Febru-ary 1. IPl.'i, :?1o" patients have been! cared for, of whom nearly 1000 were! handled in ll'l'i alone. A total of 9oft : major operations have been performed in tlie hospital, and 400 of thse were pfrformed during the past year. Branches Developed. ! I'nder Tr. Snyder's direction the extent ex-tent and s"ope of the hospital has been enlarged constantly until it now includes many branches. In connection with i hese there is a modern isolation hospital hos-pital for the treating of highly contagious con-tagious diseases, an open-air tub'erculo-is tub'erculo-is ward on the roof, equipped for use the year round, and many other wards for special purposes. In fact, the hospital hos-pital is organized and equipped to handle han-dle all manner of natieuts. It is said to be ouo of the finest county hospitals hospi-tals in the country. The operating room i$ specially de-sic.nfd de-sic.nfd ior the handling of. emergency cases such as arc common to a public hospital. In connection with it is a laboratory equipped for chemical, bacteriological bac-teriological and pathological work. Here the county's drinking water is regularly tested as a protection against impurities. impuri-ties. Here, too, cultures are developed for the diagnosis of diseases coming to the attention of the health department. A modern maternitv ward has been added to the hospital. This phase of the hospital work has been growing more and more important. Here the children of the poor are. born under conditions far mure conducive to the welfare of mother and child than would be the case otherwise. Superior Conveniences. On the roof the tuberculosis ward has prove. 1 highly successful in the treatment treat-ment of the dread disease. Fresh air ami sunshine, the two main elements in a tuberculosis cure, are afforded in abundance. Patients arc constantly in the opcu and in inclement weather thev have s ream -heated glass-wall wards iu w h;ch to sleep. Or. Snyder is planning to establish a psychopathic ward for tne treatment of distraught and temporarily deranged patients, pa-tients, who while not actually "insane ret pi i re special men tal treatment. He believes thev should be treated in such a ward, ra ttier than sent to the state mental hospital. A feature of the health department work which in other years had been neglected is the inspection of canyon streams beyond the city 's ten-mile jurisdiction jur-isdiction and of summer colonics in the canyons. The present admiuistra i on in the health derailment lias made this work of much importance. Special inspectors in-spectors are engaged uiruir the summer months to see that inhabitants of the mountains do not pollute the water supply sup-ply of t tie city and county. |