, 1873-01-27

| 70 k1s Editor af 1Ae Chica1o Tribute:
SIh: 1tln fact, now pretty generally acknowl.
edged, that Cook County nluBt very soon build a
new public hospital It is woll known to those
practically conversant with hospital matters,
that this ought to have boon done years ago. In
truth it probably would have been done boforo
this, but for tho terrible calamity which laid 20
large part Of our city i'll ruins, and
entailcd upon the county such IN immense loas
in public buildings. Whom tho County Commits
sionors called for proposals for hospital lot,
they gave expression to their Judgment concern
ing tho necessity for bcttor hospital Tho
great FIRE has not 1cssoned. but Laa ralhor in
creased tho necessity for Immediate action. II,
therefore, the necessity existed before tho fire,
1t exists in grenter degree since tho fire.
Tho one great and all-potent argument in
favor of delay ID poverty--tho county is too
poor to bnila hospital now.' This iu
bad purpose; this time its purpose seems to
mo o bal ono but believe tho phantom may
bo "lald" without much trouble. III tho first
place, wish to propose to Messra. Commission
DO richer? Certainly not whilo tho Court
House and Jail are In process of orection, and
not for aomo timo thoroaftor. Meantime,
must ,I'a oals., tho sick poor patiently wait for
nsana rne coqniy aegv If t. get roh so
Of plain and imperative duty 1t means thae
kind Of miserly economy, which Is ponny wlao
and pound foolish and, worse than ill, itmeana
the aacrlace q; Of liyoa that ought to be saved
are weeping and wailing oyor their poverty
stricken constituency, real estate ownors arc
grinning; from car to chr over the fact
that. thas la land 3.x H. constantly advancing
and sufficiently near tic contro OF tho city to be
accessible from all parts thereof, aro not to bo
found in very great numbers. Moreover, a hos
ptal In tho suburbs, north, aoutl,, or west, would
eusea for which public general hospital is most
needed. viz, accidents or euadon INJURIES and
acute diseasos; other OF which would terminate
iaoa;sa IN dasth or recovery before reaching tho
intdp ih1spn tss II tho asr wore pushed out
a large lot, easily accessible from all parts Of
the city, ID what is noelod and while the co,,u-
Y Is waiting unt T. from its attack Of
til erssp II liz fIa rG Gf ns Land sre ga1g from
r'Ioason that q hospital building must nocesaa-
rily bo n terribly costly affair, IL q yery wrong
impression. and ought to be gotten rid Of. K
hosptnI i, 'aGy be built In an extravagant mannor
Hospital architecture has been comnletely
rovolutonizod suce the Arnold street man-tran
waa built. 1t ie no longer tho custom to stack
up immense rllea OF brick and atone aud NOR.
tar, with ward above ward, until three or four
stories aro reaclleo 1t is not necessary that tic
architect should worry himself and bother tho
atone-cuttor with costly but uaeeas ornamental.
ton. What Ia wanted III, first, largo,
neesyn feemy o tho win nuBes Rs' y Of %.rdsp dspA9s I
future yeara shall demand 1t, md at least little
chanco for cheerful outlook for patients; and
secondly, plain, but tasteful and substantial
center building fol. tho necessary ofllcos and
of and i'anklng this, aerioa Of plain one-story,
or at most two-atory "cottAge" wards, oacl,