Show STATEMENT TO THE PUBLIC REGARDING rayment PAYMENT OF COUNTY HOSPITAL FEES on oil account or of financial conditions that have existed lor for thelast lie past several sc eral years many people have lieen been unable 0 to o pay for tion even in the lie face 0 of strangest string str ingest cst emergencies in ili oil an effort to grant eclief to the most argest cases tile the county coin ili is 1 l boners or 0 iron county have during the past tew few years vt arB allowed stich cases to po go to the county hospital arid and have paid pa ill their hospital tees fees from the county indigent pull fund allowing tho the le ie parties to execute ory notes lor for the amount 0 of the tha fl 05 payable at sonic sent ica later r late dale when they thought thoi ight they would be able to reimburse tile the county co anty for funds advanced if ir anost caps 1 I on cn note taken on oil this account Ier aroe due arid and payable the makers were still fit 1111 able to lo pay and tins this load has growitz to bucit proportions that it lias has rone kone belond the power of the curty under existing xi sting law to urt liei outi oue this practice the maxin maximum imn alevy allowed by law has been imposed on oil our cm is for cor many years essert and ad I 1 it I 1 li now very to meet tile the demands that have beert been made ade upon u an this fund the greatest of ins his been the payment ot of fees aa explained above although the county commissioners have ab nb no desire de ire to deprive any person of eutry euary medical care arid and hospital Iz atlon they have no birds from lorn which to pay hospital fees for ol at least the remainder or the current year hospital fes res imposed at the hospital are only lent to meet faw ex perses of abe in ili 1 if they are all collected lir lirette etre ir if they admit patients collecting their tees fees it would woold only be a short time until their financial condition would lie ba such that tile hospital would have hata to ti operations this 1 is therefore kiven given to the people that all persons Pe COlls eib to tile the hospital must be prepared to pay their hospital hospit nl tees fees becote leaving tile the hospital EY BY of TH THE I 1 B BOARD D OF COUNTY cob commissioners r S N RS by W CLAIR ROWLEY clerk of 0 the board |