The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-15
THE PUsTU| ] |. CLUB.
How q Mournful Patient Was Cured
Of "Cold Feet
"A CORPSE GAVE HIM THE LAUGH
Quarantine Patients Unite In COM
mending the Present Manage
ment of the Institution.

While recent "doings" at the quarantine
hospital have done much to dispel the
traditional horror attaching to the idea
| Of a pesthouse, some Of the new patients
who go there seem to+think that the sun
will never more shine for them. In
stead of tossing on feversh beds of pain
| and calling feebly for water, however,
the quarantine patients, with Two excep-,
TONS have been up and around and even
able: to peEpetrate a practical joke on oc-.
casion
One of the most recent arrivals at the
hospital was early spotted by the older
patients as having a pronounced case OF
"co1d feet He sat in the reception
room Hmournful almost to the verge OF
tears and cursing the day that had brought
out the red spots on him. Just about
the time the lump in his throat seemed
to assume the Size and consistency OF q
hard boiled ostrich egg, the horror OF
his situation was borne in upon him
afresh by the appearance Of a solemn pro-
cession Of long visaged men treading soft
ly. They bore a stretcher and upon the
stretcher lay form all sheeted and still:
So close to, him passed the bearers that
he could have reached out and touched the
cerements Of death. 1t was awful; the
ostrich egg suddenly swelled to the size
of punching bag and his feelings, long
depressed, broke out in a sob that shook
his frame. 81 ..~-.
Then the corpse sat up and gave him
the coarse, brutal horse laugh. The bear
ers of the bier set it down and held their
sides while they laughed. A great light
broke In upon the new patient and the
horror of quarantine faded away before
such startling evidence of good fellow
ship. So
''The patients out at the quarantine hos
pital are having the time of their lives"
says Emery Olmsted, a patient who has
just been dismissed from the institution.
In speaking of the situation which now
exists at the hospital Mr.. Olmsted says:
People who read the newspapers and see
the frequent illusions to unfortunates carried
off to the quarantine station would be sur
prised if they could see the conditions that
actually, exist .Intthe first place, the build
ings and entire plant are up to date In every
respect. The whole place is scrupulously
clean and everything is most comfortable.
There are three buildings, with total capa-
city of about fifty patients. AS soon as one
comes he is given clean bed and Is at once
made to feel entirely at home. The popular
idea that newcomers are at once out to BED
and for the next few weeks endure frightful
torment is entirely unfounded. In the whole
place there were but two cases severe nough
to keep the patients in bed The head nurse,
Miss Thompson has had long experience and
is most delightful woman She commands
the affection and respect Of all who have
come in contact with her. She has had long
experience with the disease, and between her
and DR.. Hall. there has not been a single
fatal case Every effort is made by those in
charge to give the inmates a good time.
Mock trials, debates, minstrel shows and
dances help to pass away the tune very
pleasantly. Friends of the afflicted can talk
with them at distance Of thirty feet at any
time.
AS for the disease itself, it is not bad at
ALL Very few persons who receive treatment
under the modern methods are left with any
scars at all. much less more serious Attic
tons. Of all the persons with whom talked
en- the subject there was not one who had
been properly vaccianted.
What Mr.. Olmsted saysis corroborated
by all of the other patients. Some OF
these felt SO strongly about the misleading
reports that have been current about the
condition Of the hospital that they have
place dtheir names ION record as being
delighted with the hospital and the treat
ment that they have received since they
have been confined there. These are:
William. Hoston, 60 Sixteenth street N;
Frank Williams, Parkersburg, w. Va; C.
J. Lisbon, 1920 New York Life; William
J. Cajunc 4O1 Sixth avenue S.; John o.
Connell, 720 Thirteenth avenue S; F. J.
Kassube, Wayzata, Mimi; Erik o. Skat-
terud, box A, Dawson, Mimi; ". H.
Crbnkhite, 41S Second avenue s.; n. ].
Bryant, 14O6 Twentieth avenue N; F.. R.
Leach, 116 Sixth street Sc; M. P.
Col1iton, 121 East Lake street; G. R.
Scott; 512 Seventh street S.; Mrs. Estella
Gottig, S5 Seventh street S: Lewis Law
son. 264 Twenty-frst avenue S; Mrs.
Sophia Warner, 1874 Laurel avenue; Lulu
M. McCabe, Richfield, Mimi; John A. Bun
ton, 210 Fourth avenue NE; Anna Ander-
ley, Nicollet avenue; Mrs. F. H. Gould,
41S Eleventh avenue N; Mrs. F. Frazer,
6 Twelfth street S; and Elvira Jernell,
400 Erie street Sc.