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Show I ELKS GIVE MIR HOME AS i ' 1 EMERGENCY HOSPITAL I FOR INFLUENZA VICTIMS The difficulties met -with b the '( emergency health committee in the K search for a suitable emergency hos- 13K pital to take the place of that prof- tSm fered by the Ogden city school board Wim' on Friday afternoon, and turned down raw by the same body on Friday night, -IJjjlf came to a happy ending Sunday morn- beTBi in?. Khen jn resPnsc t0 an appeal by iSmJ jne Weber county chapter of the Red MWa Cross society, the Elks' club gave free 'mml and full permission for their splendid- mm I)" equipped building to be used in the vK dire necessity of the present epidemic. Uw 0n Sunday morning the executive committee of the Red Cross with May- Mm or T. S Browning, and Exalted Jlulor oimj, Kirkendall of the Elks, met at the Iff n home of the club and went over the ami premises to determine the practicabil- ? of building as an emergency yH hospital. The tour of inspection proved the place an excellent one for the mm needs of the moment. UK The P,an t0 nave tne hospital ready K today was postponed until tomorrow. About thirty-five patients can be ac- jB cepted Tuesday and, if the need arises, IK this will be expanded to seventy-five. Hit To carry out the work expeditiously, Mil chairmen were named to arrange for ' jl each department. Warren L. Wattis III anc n ratson De on the com- i I mittee to see that the carpets and tall ta-ll pestry are taken up and removed to a i l local furniture store for safekeeping. ftf The furniture will be taken to the ft! main lodge room and the entrances to 1 it will De sealed. Mayor Browning l j will see that bedsteads are forthcom-i; forthcom-i; ing, A. P Bigelow and Mrs. R. B. Por- i III ter will provide bedding, mattresses : Iff and linen, and P. F. Kirkendall is RU chairman in charge of other furnish- ; ings A committee composed of Rex. i ' John Edward Carver, Commissioner D. j II. Ensign and Mayor Browning -will . secure nurses, dietitian and office help. This morning at 11 o'clock, the fol-l fol-l lowing committee met in the office of i the mayor to go over the matter of the , detailed management and conduct of the hospital: Mayor T. S. Browning, the Rev. John Edward Carver, Commissioner Ensign, Nurse Swainston, and Dietitian Rae Woodcock. It was decided that there should be three trained nurses, in addition ad-dition to Nurse Swainston who "will "be in charge of the new building, and a number of aids, as circumstances may require. Thirty-five beds will be immediately im-mediately put up and made ready for patients coming from the emergency hospital in the First Congregational church which will now be disbanded, and other patients as the doctors of .the city order them in. Requisition has been made of the military, authorities authori-ties at Fort Douglas for one hundred and fifty beds and these will be ordered or-dered in numbers as they are needed. Meanwhile local concerns and friends will fit up the hospital for the immediate immedi-ate needs of its opening on Tuesday. In addition to the female nurses and their, aids, the committee is desirous of receiving, and hopeful of securing, the service of two male nurses, one for day duty, the other for night. The staff will be further increased by a male purchasing agent and steward who will have charge of the accounting and contracting con-tracting for the establishment. According to Mr. Carver, the fitting up of the new hospital under the joint administration of the Weber county chapter of the Red Cross, tho city and the county, will bo a material aid in reducing the epidemic. |