Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-05-10
BsTER. DAY COUNTY. SOUTH DAKOTA. MAY 10. 1900
st. nary's Hospital.

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ca rned the favorable of the
stranger within our gates" that is des-
tined to become a useful feature of our
growth as well as a splendid advertise
nlent for the city, is ST. Mary's Hospital,
DIS Hash and Lull, projectors and pro-
prletors, the advertisement of which
appears i'll another column in this issue.
The new institution occupies the the old
I'rior House. 1t does seem strange that
his old Hosiery, where the indigestible
compounds of the the past failed to kill
the guests only because Of the
tive ozone of this climate, supplemented
with the force and energy of these people
made them capable of digesting a crow
bar, should now be devoted to the healing
art, but 50 it Is.
Where the guests used to meet and tell
fishing, hunting and Indian stories galore
is now the Office in which is a free dispen-
sary, only partially established, but which
will grow, calculated to furnish medicine
to people who happen TO be unable to buy
and yet who do not want to apply to the
county commissioners for help. At the
eight Of this the old parlors of the hotel
has been made a chapel for the use of the
patients. As we looked at this and
thought of the past, of the scenes enacted
in these rooms, W. telt in the language of
Gil Bla, The stride of years brings widest
change" Opening out from these is the
old dining room, where the light fantastic
toe measured the passing hours with fly
ing feet, the center of the hustle of society
in the old days, now converted into a ward
for the accommodation and treatment of
| the sons and Iat,gItarS .pf nc ,f1lfrfaI
with the diseases that flesh is heir to-12
patients may be cared for here, 16 if the
hospital is corwded, and the room is COM
Portable and airy, Just suited for the pur-
pose. Opening from these is the sleeping
md setting room of the old Landlords
fla mily, now occupied by the good sisters
of charity, of the order of st. Andrews
who have entire charge of the institution
whose silent sympathy and helpful
ness will make many a suffering one
deeply grateful for their presence.
Going back 10 the office we mount the
stairs and find the surgical operating
roous, the first TO the right, in which are
found a goodly supply of instruments
with which 10 draw and quarter suffering
humanity. The balance of the rooms are
used for the accommodation of patients
till you get 10 the west end Of the building
where there are four rooms, two for sleep
ing apartments and two for insane
paticntS. In II large north room is the
cage for insane, made according to the
most approved scientific methods, that
would make your flesh creep 80 look at, so
suggestive is il of stern resistance to the
highly wrought power of the nervous
system of the human body.
Back of the operating rooms mentioned
above is a room for the modern method
in the treatment Of women, by the appli-
cation of hot water and other appliances
com monty in use. Next to this room is
the hospital hot and cold bath rooms.
Down stairs at the back end of the build
ing,are n laundry rooms and the kitchen,
in the latter is the huge tank in which is
kept the hot water for the hospital.
The internal arrangements of the instr
tuition are such that patients of all classes
may be sure of the very best medical
J treatment and nursing, the last being an
especial feature of the treatment of all
cases consigned TO the care of the gentle
men who founded the hospital. In this
| connection it Is proper TO mention that
| they have a complete set of Y Ray instru-
m~ents-that wonderful discovery that
enables the surgeon to examine your
"inards,' and locate a pin or other foreign
substance in your liver or any other ofth
tender organs on IN proper care of
which life so often depends, AZ pre-
sent the hospital will accommodate about
30 patients. They give especially careful
attention to all surgical cases brought TO
them for treatment.
This is the beginning of an enterprise
that, considering the method adopted in
it's organization, is bound to be n big
advertisement to Webster and as we re-
marked I'm the opening of this article an
iuportant feature i'm the growth of our
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