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Show - Timely Topics ! . AMERICA'S GOOD HOSPITALS "America now lead, the wwl.l hy a lon way In the development and maintenance of modern hoepnele" Thcee worde form a rt of a letter written hy Preal-dent Preal-dent Hardlni to Indoreement of the plena for a national hoapitai day to be celehrated on May 1 J. The modern hoapitai haa become one of the moat uae-ful uae-ful aa well aa one of the moat humane Inatltutlona of thla em. Ita development, particularly in thla country, durlne; the paat quarter of a century haa been almoet a marvel. Today every American city la well eoppllrd with hoepiul. of the beat type, with complete mulpmrnt 'r their teork, many of them houard tn handaome and lommodloua building, that have leen erected at ereat coat. More and more are the people of thla country comlnc to look, upon their hnapliala In the nght llrht. lread of them hu paaeed away and a true appreciation of their value hae taken Ita place. Ilapldly are th people be-cotnlne; be-cotnlne; convinced that In caaee of eerlnua lllneaa the hoapitai offer, far belter' facllltlea for food treatment than even the beat of hnmea. In the hoapitai the trained nurae la alwaye at hand to add her .od eervlce to that of the phyaldan or the Burgeon and the equipment of the In. million le equal to all demanda made upon It Not many yeara ago America waa far behind (Ireat llrnain. France, (lermany, Auatrla and other Kurouean cnuntrlr. In Ita hoapllala Hut now In numl-ra and tn killed aervl.e. American hoepnala. aa the prealdent aava lead the world Korheater Herald. |