Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-23
MATTERS.

ucT tuc luSheT ~ TluhertOn HululuistIa-
ton that wasteful time is past, never
return, and nothing may be gained
BY reference to it except rs n matter of
warning comparison. "Suficicnt for
the day is the evil thereof;" we cannot
recall the squaudered moneys Of tho
but bearing those reckless prodi-
fully in mind We may avoid
into tho same sinful error both
at present and in the future.
Quite recently our County Commits
sioners found it necessary to anew the
Hospital contract /; and the President Of
the Board advertised for sealed propo-
Last week the proposals were
opened by the Commissioners and on
due consideration, by the whole Board,
the following contract was accepted as
the best and most responsible for the
interests Of the county:
To the Hon. Board Of County Commit
sioners-GESTLENES: Iwilltake charge
Of Storey County Hospital for sixteen
months from the first day Of February,
1865, for the sum Of 500 per month,
for the carc and maintenance Of the
INDECENT sick Of Storey County, and
$500 per month for medical and surgi-
cal services, and all persons that may
be sent by order Of any member Of the
Board of County Commissioners ; but
where any person is sem by such Com
missioner, who is resident Of any other
county of this State, then | shall be
entitled to such pay as may be collected
from such counties; Storey County in no
Ease to be held for over $1,000 per
month. Patients who are non-residents
of the State Of Nevada to be considered
as County patients.
TSigned1 W. S. BRONSON.
Tho Commissioners-Messrs. Eddy,
Balch, Taylor, Morrill,, and Gamble
are all we'll known to the taxpayers Of
Storey county, and are known, too, to
be men of integrity and excellent bust
ness capacity, and whose every official
act, rs far as we have ever heard, has
been characterized by n spirit Of ecouo-
my and the welfare of the taxpayers Of
the county. This Board Of County Com
missiouers excepting Mr.. Morrill,, have
thought proper to give the Hospital
contract to DR.. Brouson-the terms be-
ing far more favorable to the county
than during any previous year-eighty
per cent. less than it cost the county
last year. So far, all right. But it is
difficult to please everybody. We recol-
lect, several years ago, when the Hos
pital cost the county two thousand dol
lars per month in coin, that the Gold
Hill NEWS was very vehement in its de-
nunciations of the County Commission
ors for perpe,rating what we then be-
licved and do yet believe was an infa-
nous and unjust contract. We now find
that our morning contemporary in Viz
giuia city, (Which was silent when the
Hospital cost $4,000 a month, is par
ticularly rampant on the Commissioners
and on DR.. Bronson, since the
Hospital expenses have been re-
duccd to $1,000 per month in currency.
It makes some very serious charges
against DR.. Bronson in his management
of the Hospital, but which are not sus-
tanned, in q single instance, by tho truth.
We paid a personal visi. yesterday after
noon to the County Hospital, and spent
about an hour there, in examining tho
premises, the beds and bedding, the
food, and in %couversing with the Hos
pital patients. We found seventeen
patients in the Hospital, and nearly all
of them certainly look rs contented and
as we'll to do as any Hospital patients
we have ever seen; and not one Of them,
in all the seventeen, but spoke well Of
the treatment received at the hands Of
DR.. Bronson and his excellent and hui
man assistant, Mr.. Crouch. Regard
ing the food they receive, they all but
one concurred that no fault could be
found rs to the quality, quantity, or
variety. The patient who d~issented
remarked that the food was tall good
enough for q healthy person, but for a
sick man it wanted something else"
He also remarked that he was not sick,
but having once had a broken leg,
which was yet weak, and being unable
to get work, he was allowed to remain
in the Hospital, through the kindness
of DR.. Bronson. We examined tho beds
and bedding, and found them nearly all
to consist of straw and pull mattresses,
pillows covered with clean pillow cases,
two sheets, and blankets enough to
make any one comfortable; and the
we'll ventilated, and warmed
with stoves. We also examined the
kitchen and eating department, and the
provisions are certainly as good rs the
majority of families in Virginia city and
Gold Hill would wish to use. We talked
with the Chinaman who cooks tho
meals, and he assured US that no made
excellent soups for the patients every
day-beefsoup rice soup, and bean soup.
The supply Of drugs and medicines, too,
is most abundant; large enough
to start a ountry-townapothecary-shop
MIR. Crouch, an experienced apothe-
cary, and who has been in the Hospital
for the last three or four years, having
of it. Regarding the scarcity Of
fuel during the late severe storm, we
on inquiry, that such was the
but that there was suffering
among the patients By reason thereof,
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