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Show hhh - r -- irrm!.. . .ji .. . "n . n ...j jw.. . , m , jiiihiii ii i H i . . I H L. D. S. Hospital, Salt Lake Gity. . '" f HflH iiq.q i REQUIREMENTS OF LOGAN . DEMAND A MODERN HOSPITAL HHH;) Hi pi- H Pros, i), A. Widtsoe Sets Forth the.Med of Such an Insti- HHH nKnifA ! tution For City HHH ' HflH Editor Republican flflB ; i Dear, Sir In the 'work of making JJH i our ,clty a moBt desirable place of B t .residence bo many things arise to HHHj 1 claim our Immedlato attention that PjB at times the community feels over- H i wholmod vflttviieeds. Yet It Is the law HHHJ i of progress for municipalities that K building and Improving must nevor PJH 1 cease. In that respect there may be a PJB j slight difference between the life or 1 nn Individual and that of a city. A H j man has the periods of jouth and ma- B'a turity and at last a tlmo comes when K! things move more slowly and the Ppfl ' needs nre fewor and simpler. A city, H on the other hand, though It also pan- H j ses through Its periods of youth, and approaching matiulty. never reaches PJH or should never reach, the period of B old ngcAVt miiB,t remain forever young? B forcver'nnxlous to Improve; forever B providing new things for Its citizens, PJH 60 that they may have all the ndvan- Amu toges lhat,modern progicss cau afford af-ford . , Logan has good cause to bo proud of Its advancement ns a city. The Improvements recently made have ghen us, a greater love for our home town, nid, wo cniry our heads with greater pijdo when wo speak- to the stranger of Logan. Our water sstom, our sewerage svstem, our municipal light plnnt .our pavements' and our street car system, also of a seihl-pub-lie natufr), all combine to give to our city a Jlgnlty and strength which will help It, materially In Its onward progress. pro-gress. " Thete aie, howeer .many things Mint nii pressing for attention. The p ei hlt'Tfolil'nlant Is yet to lw brought undei njjjvJgAJsm to make It of the greatest service; our water works must bejextended to connect with some sourgoj which can not be con-tamlnatedj,the con-tamlnatedj,the sewerage sstcm must be extended' to connect with all parts of the city' and Its outlet placed wheio it can do no possible harm; the pavements must be brought Into the remotest parts of the town; a car line must enchcle the valley and traverse socral Logan slieetsj and then wq need a hospital where the' sick of mir city and neighboring places can', be! (tared for according to the mdst 'ap- rroved methods of the day. It Is really of the hospital that, h wish to write. Medicine and surgery, nnrt nursing and all that pertains Jo the healing of bodily1 Ills have undcr,-gone undcr,-gone remaikable changes during .the Inst few decades. It begins to look 3 if the time Is not so far distant whtjn, by tho aid of the skilled students of the human body, man shall Indeed l)Q master of himself, so that his, llje may be made hoppy every day, and may bo prolongued until the fixed time of old age Is reached. Perhaps as knowledge increases tho day of old age may bo postponed for years, perhaps per-haps forever. Who knows? Meanwhile, tho sick are still with us and we aro oil anxious that they shall receive re-ceive the very best attention and tho most skillful treatment. Tho day Is past when the best can bo dono for tho invalid In tho ordinary bomd. The professions of nursing and medicine have been constructed so that thoso who are suffering may receive better care than even the gentlest love. It untrained, can give. Tho hospital In our day Is almost a necessity wher- ever loige numbeas of men and women nre living together. It seems to me that wo 'In Logan should, bend qur efforts to, secure a modern, up to-date hqspltal.-The poo-ple poo-ple of Logan need It;, tho people of. the surrounding .regions, need it and the students who assemble in our city by the thousands every yearneed (t. May I say a Jew words about the need of our coHees for a first class' hospital. The boarding situation In our city Is fairly 'good. The people generally gener-ally aro ready and willing,, tp open their houses to accommodate the student's stu-dent's who gather here. Yet, necessarily, necessar-ily, boarding oven In the best household house-hold Is far different from life at home, Tho caro of father and mother Is not present. Even the greatest watchfulness on the part of the Institutions Insti-tutions does not enable personal contact con-tact with all the young lives assembled assem-bled here nine months out of the year for tho purpose of study. When, as sometimes happens, a student U stricken with sickness It Is often difficult dif-ficult to give him the best of care, even though tho landlady may exercise exer-cise herself to the utmost, and the parents and relatives of the sick boy nro subjected to great worry. If a good hospital were here our educational Institutions would" undoubtedly un-doubtedly contract tor the use of certain cer-tain rooms or wards which would bo accessible at all times by the student bodies. In all probability, a student fund would bij established sufficient for tho care of'sUch cases of sickness as arise In the. schools 'from tlmo to tlmo. This would bo n dotlntto blessing bless-ing to thoso who aro 111, a comfort to their families and would be an excellent excel-lent advertisement for Logan as an educatlonnl center. As one connected with tho edutanddal work of this city I havo no hesIUny in saying that 1k-gan 1k-gan Is In grea Aoed of a first class hospital. Tho hospital facilities which wo already have, whllo good, aro usually us-ually Insufficient to meet our needs In tlmo of emergency. They arc, more-mor, more-mor, of a prlvato naturo and It would bo somowhat jilfflcult, oven If proper, pro-per, to set apart In tho rooms of wards, for tho special uso of our students. I havo heard it said nt times that a hospital docs not pay for Itself. Smco tho administration of hospitals lies outsldo of my experience, I am not prepared to contradict this statement However, a hospital Is In tho naturo of other public juytftlos something not constructed for personal gain, but for tho benefit of a community; and I bellevo tlmt1evcn If such a hospital hos-pital failed to pay interest on tho Investment In-vestment In buildings and grounds or oven showed a small deficit of maintenance main-tenance throughout tho year, thero would bo no dangor of closing it for such reasons. Throughout tho world men of wealth, resting tholr prnctlcos upon the oxperlcnci' of many generations, genera-tions, havo gladlnnd liberally given of their wcnlth to institutions having for their purposoho alleviation of the sufferings ocfmanklnd. Hospitals, orphanages and Imllar Institutions ; have been glvnipjiitr'ght In grcnt ; numbers over tho whole civilized ! world. Ab I say, I can only belloyo thnt If Logan &tfJ2H qstablisha.sult' ; nblo hospital .equipped in a modern ; way for the iipo jrf the .sick, funds ; w"dulii rc'ome ns needed to supply any ! deflclMTdy that 'might occur. Meanwhile, many Sit the physicians of our city, speaking no doubt from sufficient experience. Insist that a 'hospital, If eBtabmlld here, would be tself-supportlng TWagRouId have- no need to draw iipo&Ulie public for gifts. I am In heart' sympathy wlth'.al). movements having In lew the Improvement Im-provement of our city, I believe tha.t iii i i , ' tt Is right for us to establish conveniences conveni-ences that will be used not only by us of today, but by our children and grandchildren, even though wo leave a port of the debt tobo paid by thoso who come after us and who aro to bo partakers of tho benefits obtained. Let us havo our water works extended. ex-tended. Tho safety and other benefits that would come to our city frorrf Its establishment aro not to bo estimated In terms of money. Lot us extend our sower as best wo can. Let us Improvo 1 our streets nnd sidewalks and do all 1 other things that n modern city in a Vl modern ago should do. Whllo wo aro HWil, at It let us get busy early and cstab- b Jish a hospital worthy of this modern H day of tho Intelligent and progrosslvo B pcoplo who reside here. JOHN A. WIDTSOE. " I |