Show the I 1 lie advantages of a comm community ON unity hospital by will 0 corlett A I 1 A oakland calif I 1 it has been said bald that the last thing one settles in writing a book is 13 what one should put in first which of course makes it difficult to bevin I 1 have not written a book however but I 1 had bad to decide what to put pub first what to touch upon nand and what to ignore A community hospital as the name camo implies Is meant to meet the general re health service demands of uia the community and be its health center this sounds formidable as general means brond broad in scope as regards service end and community implies considerable extent and large numbers to be b served in smaller centers of population there la in likely to be the feeling that it would of course be nice to have such euch a hospital but it con can not be dane tie the answer to this doubt to Is that it can bo be done in many cases and it la Is done successfully in constant ly increasing instances hospitals in the larger population centers in recent years treat lessening num bera of out of town patients pat lenta as reliable community hospitals hospital have been created and public confidence lo in them established reliable reports of nationwide nation wide bo hospital spital buil building dine construction from architects plans plana in 1930 1030 place the mount amment at about ato tills this amount has shown chown an increase in subsequent yew years some of the reasons for increasing numbers of community hospitals are clear and unmistakable population increases obviously create demand but other and more potent social and economic changes change have more to do with alth it not many years past it was wa considered almost degrading to be sent rent to a hospital and it as thought one should go 90 only as 05 a lust last resort mort but the public Is learning or we as may almost say aay has haa learned that the hospital la is the baft place for the sick and injured ietter than the home higher standards of living wider dissemination of kno knowledge uledge improved tra transportation importation all tend to bring more patronage physicians recognize that expert nursing care proper dietary bervice and necessary control of patients can lant be secured in a hospital the me practice of mt medicine has become more thorough and more complex supplemental facilities to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of disease alwa se are essential to proper prom practice such precision serl service ices as aa the xray X ray pathological bacteriological and chemical laboratory and electro cardiograph belong in the hospital in the interests of proficiency and economy and not repeated in individual practitioners offices any more than surgical and obstetrical equipment should be the public finds that COM commini MUni ties tle with hospital are better places to live in better practitioners both medical and nd surgical will I 1 locate ate or remain in such corn com the economic soundness of keeping the money for hospital care or sure surgical cal treatment at home la is obvious besides these reasons for more hospitals and more hospital beds there are unmistakable evidences of greater humanitarianism more knowledge and appreciation of the work of hospitals the startling way in which hospital construction was waa kept up in the bad construe tion year of 1130 1930 the amount of hP hospital ital cons construction ruction work since then increased community chest red lud crow con tribu eions relief funds wms hems cant perhaps part of the good that cornea comes from and jiwa times talmeg and even sar air la Is the arousing of humanitarian impulse rather hather than KO go into more detail in closing may I 1 touch upon ft a general ideo idea a prophecy a few years yeara ago a definite trend now this lilea idea has haa to do with a tide side ot of the problem quite subtle and difficult to define demanding skill to handle but certainly very essential it has to do with the character and quality the at of f the resultant building it means ft a building that in tide side and outside shall be cheer ful but not exciting varied but without disturbing contrast using physical environment to bring cheer and hope hop of recovery it 16 his has to do with the human tide side of the hospital program putting into the word ord hospital the mean ing of hospitality at least to the extent that it may have been forgotten in the tresa stress of scientific progress afi it means expressing that familiar quality of the individual home to a degree to rob the institution of its ita tendency to arouse the feeling of strangeness and grodum a soothing and agreeable reaction on the patient it means to comfortably house hoube all the various function sunder one root roof so that they may all present their most agreeable aspect to the st stranger who entera enter the household to the workers within and to the patient sho ho Is the uett guest of honor the patient een more so BO than tho those who are well Is affected by hla his surroundings twentieth century club arila cowan president lydia vice president jennie miller secretary junior current topics topic club clab merle 13 merkley president beatrice Il ennion vice president marle margie eaton secretary current topics club ruth huth dennion Benn lon president mae II enderson vice president grace mcconkle secretary ecret ary 0 T adre club eveln W alexander president ruby Nel helsel heisel vice president vera hacking secretary STAKE OFFICERS hyrum 13 calder pred president dent archie johnson first counselor hugh hug h W colton recoil councel counis elor charles A hardy clerk i frederick 0 bingham patriarch councilmen fred 0 bingham lewis B 8 gardi iner erastus peterson Pete raon karl IS emer und harold IB carl R Iti chens A T johnson Joh naon jesse haws haw joseph collier harold tharold al M lundell and it grant vest KW society elnora vernon vemon president agnes calder first counselor may H calder second counselor leona hull hall secretary society board bollett Ool lett stells stella rich ards ads ad ft cook mary johnson jennie weeks cornell cornelia peter son bon and mary relief society ward president ashley clara clam davis mattle chivers jensen mary M gardner lapoint celestea Cel estla Rac mussen gitnes myrtle ereckson Q maeser maeger mary F hall naples christina merrell TY trudell idell martha morrill vernal first pauline a olsen vernal second nora cook sunday school 11 walter woolley superintendent J wallace johnson asai assistant stant prank goodrich Oo odrich second assistant stella stevens secretary meda walker chorister ward sunday S superintendents ashley ronald davis henry blaugh glines clive perry Jen jensen seia A demar dudley lapoint grand maeser don L I 1 mcconkle naples arthur harrison Harrl sun Tr aridell tridell idell lorn ross vernal verna fint david 11 calder avem vem vernal a I 1 second aird 0 merkley primary claire C hacking superintendent sayah sarah B bingham lint first assistant beatrice second assist olena B hacking secretary otella carroll chorister meda walker organist primary bowd board pearl snyder lela johnson dora cook stella hardy oral tenney sidney sdney calder balder lola christen sen and jennie hatch primary aard d superintendents ashley lucille faett davis kate chenea helen brockson son jensen jessie wall eleanor allen alien naples ivy Manwai manwaring ing lapoint prances frances horracks Ilor rocks venal al first mable liable stagg atae e vernal second mae mac johnson John fion aridell tridell Trl Tr dell idell christy ross rosa mutual improvement Am ablation Lation I 1 lount oung men driver E smith tilt L 0 noble counselor wallace winder secretary board members member alton hatch leonard perry martin catl W curtis P ir lambert and richard luchard jensen ward 3 residents ashley ivan atwood davis da via hyrum blaugh glines 0 lines don batty jensen george A case lepoint Lo point david 0 stoker naples charles T pope maeser leslie thacker tradell aridell Trl Tr dell idell bruce harvey vernal first floyd noel vernal second charles charlea A blath yur young ladi Lad hadjeff Jeff muriel 8 wallis president vella it smith first counselor freda 8 davis second counselor alta wardle secretary raye faya corresponding correspond ln secy fy board member Me raber doria dori lp johnson hanle W searle bearle orfa johnson marguerite M colton may bingham beulah perry enola noble elva davis dails ward presidents Pr elden ashley olive bryant davis jennie workman blines clarice 11 timothy jensen amelia N reader lapoint iva caldwell maeser blanche smith naples ruby kuby aured allred aridell tridell Trl Tr dell idell ethel M goodrich vernal first ruth it II lundell vernal beconi cond evelyn green continued in next section |