Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-09-08
IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY.
Since the Sd inst, the following adver-
tisement has appeared in the Union:


county hosplta OF storey county iof d
term Of one year, commencing on the lst
day Of October next. For terms and con-
ditlons apply at this office. By order.
LucIEN HERMANN,
Clerk Board County Commissioners.
As civilized people, it is our recognized
bounden duty, in communities in a
county associated, to make ample pro-.
vision for the care and, if possible, cure OF
the indiSen, sick in our midst. Not more
clear is the obligation in the premises
than is the manifested readiness OF the
people to submit to any reasonable tax for
the support and comfort Of the intirm
poor, by whatever cause reduced to help
less dependence upon their fellow crea-
lures. Our readers are well aware that at
the present time the county Of Storey has
saddled upon its treasury a swindling
contract for the conducting Of the County
Hospital. The extortionate terms OF the
"bond" against the county have been sub
mitted TO withou, strenuous legal contest,
more because Of the nature of the service
assumed TO be rendered for the $4,000
contract, than on accoun Of any other or
saving objection to a thorough test in
Court. But this Shylock contract is, we
hope, about to expire-not to be renewed
We call the attention of the public spe-
cially to this advertisement at this time,
that WEI may submit some general sug-
gestions, with the expressed hope
that there will be a fair opportunity for
competition in the submission Of pro-
posals. In a charitable institution Of the
character of the County Hospital, there
should be exhibited full as much kindness
toward the patient, as in Hospitals where
the rich can obtain superior medical ac-
commodation. The poor who are thrown
upon the charity of the County, should
have that degree of care which humanity
at all times demands for the bodily in6rm,
in proportion to the ailing, and so
much and not less is expected and paid for
by the citizens, usually with confidence in
the adequacy of the awarded appropria-
ton and the faithfulness OF those who pro-
cur the charge Of the institution.
When a man dies in the County
Hospital, who is known from his own
statement TO have friends in the Town of
Gold Hill or city Of Virginia, or in other
places close at hand, pains should be
taken to have them notified Of the mans
decease, by, at least, a publication of his
death in the daily papers OF the County.
He should not be boxed up in an hour or
two after he expires, and thrown down
into q three or four feet hole, amid the
sage brush, without monument Of any
kind to mark his resting place. And when
patients die in the hospital, who are known
10 have dear friends in the Eastern States
perhaps a wife and children-their ad-
dress should be carefully taken, and the
relatives properly informed. We are not
now complaining Of poor and insufficient
food, or unskillful or irregular medical at
teudance-we are noting this: that a man,
if he does die in our Hospital should not
be buried like a dog, especially when he
had, VIGOROUSLY, many warm friends in
the neighborhood. And his distant kin
should not be allowed TO remain in ignor-
ance Of his departure, by reason Of any
remissness in forwarding the printed no.
tice, and other suitable statements of the
circumstances Of his decease, direct from
the principal person in charge Of the Hos
pital TO the individual named as the near
est in relation or friendship, in other parts
Of this continent, or elsewhere. Common
decency, as it defines boundaries of "hu-
mainly" in this country, surely exact so
much Of prescribed duty on the death Of
a patient in the publicly provided sick
wards of the County. Something Of real,
heartfelt sympathy for the unfortunate
should be exhibited by the County-paid
ministers at the bedside of those who are
both disease and povertystricken. The
reputation of the County Hospital should
be such that when o person is compelled
to 90 there he will motif he be intelli-
gent and ~well-informed as to the opinions
that generally prevail in the vicinity-ab-
~solu,ely fear that he is on a straight and
short road to his grave.
The provision for the cure of sick
females should be complete and every way
c~ommendable. Female patients, for in
stance, sick with the erysipelas, should
not be left alone in a loathesome cell for
twelve hours at q time, without having
even a drink Of water, though crazed from
almost intolerable thirst, placed to their
ips,-not a single call by any attendant
from daylight to dark, or from sunset to
sunrise. The sick and the crazy, male
or female, should not be allowed to ira
verse our streets, apparently objects Of
to the authorized and employed
custodians of such unfortunstes.
In the name Of humanity, we call upon
our County Commissioners to "put it in
the bond" if it is possible to do so-who-
ever obtains the next contract-that occur
rences like those we have just specially
deprecated shall never take place under
the new administration Of Hospital affairs.
We care not who receives your award,
but for Heavens sake, as ye are men and
and these are not communities Of brutes,
do see to it that the contract is so explicit
ly worded to the end of enforcing rational
comfort to suffering humanity in the Hos
pital, that its conduct will under your
stipulated inspection be cause of pride
Of shame to our citizens, who come
to know Of its workings. And if il is
so arrange the giving of the con-
tract as to bring into the ministrations
upon the sick truly sympathetic and
emotions and desires.
STATE TREAsuRER.-John w. Greer is
,nrorpcpd as n candidate for the off "a NJ