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Show THE KIND OF HOSPITAL. (Monitor, San Francisco.) We learn from the News of that town, that the people of Santa Barbara are asking themselves how the injured could be cared for there, In the event of a Bennington disaster or any similar mishap. The answer, says the News, is a hard one to frame. The best that could be done with the present equipment equip-ment would be to make impromptu hospitals out of private homes wherever possible. The situation calls attention to the need of a modern and adequate institution for a city of the size and wealth of Santa Barbara. And, according accord-ing to a prominent non-Catholic physician, physi-cian, it ought to be a Sisters' hospital. Even a? it is, without any extraordinary extraordi-nary demand for hospital accommodations, accommoda-tions, the Institutions already existing leave very much to be desired, A Sister's hospital would be the great solution of the problem in the opinion opin-ion of the authority previously mentioned. These says the doc-toor, doc-toor, "are magnificent institutions wherever I have known them, and I for one, although not a Catholic, would welcome the establishment of a Sisters' hospital in Santa Barbara." The news avers that the establishment of such an institution would be appreciated by the entire community and the "support extended to the enterprise would be universal, regardless of sect or religious opinion." The charitable and benevolent benevo-lent work of the Catholic orders is something that all non-Catholics, whatever what-ever their bias towards the faith of their membership, can readily understand. under-stand. If our separated brethren would exert themselves further to discover the connection between the unselfish labors of these religious and the faith which inspires lives of self-denial and practical prac-tical devotion to unfortunate humanity, they would get very close to the great heart of Christ's church. |