Show TOOELE GENERAL HOSPITAL WILL OPERATION WILL EFFECT SE SERIOUSLY PEOPLE OF TOOELE AND m V CASES TO BE TREATED IN N SALT LAKE coordinate with the closing of the smelter the active medical and surgical services of the tooele thoele general hospital closes is the announcement of dr chips only a small nursing force will be maintained to operate the maternity service the medical and surgical cases will be trans trana to salt lake city hospitals where dr phipps has haa established connections connections to do his hia own operating and care of hospital ants the tooele thoele hospital was established by dr phipps and has been maintained by him as a private institution at an expense of approximately 1000 a month with the help of the smelter he was able to keep up this enormous expense and give the people of this section hospital service equal to any in the state the record of dr phipps as a surgeon is known throughout the west among men of his profession and it may be conservatively stated that no surgeon in in our good state has a record which excella his patients have come from as far as california in order to undergo operation at his hands the people of this city will face a serious condition when the hospital service is suspended and a move should be taken to try and obtain means to defray t the initial n it expense en e at least of the pip dpn ohe hospital Hos 08 serious emes cases will have to be to salt lake city which is both dangerous in the delay and having to make the journey over the roads but that is id not all the drawbacks when a patient is taken into a city hospital the money for the case must be deposited at the office before the patient is allowed to enter for treatment no matter how serious they may be and the expense i is s almost double what our good townsman dr phipps has been charging for services and the local treatment has been bee neven even better than can be obtained at the city hospitals many charity cases have been taken in at our local hospital since its foundation and dr phipps has shouldered the expense of such cases and said nothing about it with the clos ing odthe of the hospital hospit nl no such cases can be treated in the future and the expense of such operations will fall back on an the public to defray we regard the closing of the hospital as of serious concern to our people and we consider it of such general importance that the city and county should give monetary ald aid to maintain this local institution or a more complex plan would be for each family of this city and vicinity to pay a small hospital fee which would keep our hospital running until such times as the town opened up again the commercial club should give this matter their serious attention |