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Show In the World War. Share. F or These are Saving Mpre Lives Than Were Lost U tah Hospitals Are Doing Their Eull Life-Savin- Close to 20,000 persons' receive treatment in Utah hospitals each year. leave the hospital curedrorweH on By far tKegreat majority-ofhen- r the road to complete recovery. 7Were it not for the hospitals thousands would sufferuntold pain and their lives.' misery, and in many, instances would needlessly-sacrifi- ce With all its modem equipment and facilities, its organization and.ex pert managemePhJhdjnodern hospitaUsno longer a Houseof Horrors, as it was once regarded. It is, on the contrary a house of Service and Bless- mg. Every enterprising city or town has its hotel a place where people who are well can go and obtain shelter and accommodation. 1 Institutions Health-Givin- g g, TT More and more each year the public .is coming to recognize the hgsi pital as cT placy of f riendly and helpful - service. - In the old days the average person would not go torhe hospital until his illness had reached such an advanced stage that lt was almost- - im possible to .sayehis life. Today the .citizenis .beginning to realize that the time to utilize -- the beneficial aid of the hospital Ts when his ailment is in an incipient stage, for then it can be corrected, his normal health can be speedily restored, and in many cases his life actually saved? The marvels of modern medicine and surgery are- - making f such strides that not dnly is much suffering and sorrow being prevented, but the span of life is being lengthened and the oppprtunities for healthy and happy living are being greatly increased. - A special feature of the hospital is its maternity division, where mothers, at a very moderate expense, can have the. very best of care for themselves and their babies. -- io 7 Hie hospital with its scientific laboratories, its skilled physicians and its devoted nurses, its sanitary and comsurgeons, expert dieticians, its modious operating rooms and wards, has become one of the most useful and helpful agencies in modern life. - The hospital is a hotel for sick folk more than that, it is a Home for them, where they can have all the attention and. comfort with. which it is for in the well equippossible to surround them. It is indeed a super-homped hospital, under the constant care of skilled doctors and nurses, a patient can be made more comfortable and be given a greater degree of, assistance than he could arrange for in his own home, however fine a home it might be. -- i--r. Most hospitals are maintained by churches or welfare societies and are not institutions. Some of them are greatly overcrowded and so are limited in the good they can do. What a fine thing it is that people of means are endowing wards and beds where the worthy poor can. be given the very best of attention and care. A 'worthier purpose for bequests could not be found. e, profit-makin- g Tuesday, May 12th, National Hospital Day Every citizen should become more familiar with our hospitals and the good work they are doing. A fine opportunity to better this acquaintance will be afforded next Tuesday. This is the birthday of Florence Nightingale, and in commemoration of her and her noble work the day is set apart for the special purpose of encouraging people of America to visit the hospitals and to learn more of what is going on -- in them. In all of the local hospitals programs will be rendered and special' preparations made to receive and care for thousands of guestsT Opportunity will be given to visit and inspect the various departments of these institutions, and to see the commendable service which is being rendered in behalf of men, women and children who through illness or accident are patients there. SL THE DESERETNEWS . " pride in the excellent Jg a expresses e-and benefit and serve. Let us regard the hospital as a friend and benefactor, as a place:of comfort and aid, and let .usgivTo these institutions ev ery cncou rage men t and as- sistance within our power, so that more and more they may progress and become perfected in their ability to- help care for us in our hour of need. te -- sion the-tim- -- 66 . -- would its-pleasur- hospitals of Utah and the yeryTelpiuljseryice t hey. are. rende r i n g. We urge - that -- all citizens takeladvantage of the opportunity to visit -- these Hospital Day. We are none of us so busy that we can not spend an hour in this way and we shall be could not be e highly repaid; in fact, Will you" be there?The success of the Jiospitals in the great work which they are trying to do demands an appreciation and cooperation from the public whom they up-to-da- 7 - -- " Our hospitals are recognized'and. rated- - as among The best Let us help them to keep this standard soth.itwe may7 truthfully proclaim, that for modern, beneficial hospital service, up-to-da- te, . This Is The Place . k f && -- - |
