The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-23
TO DISCUSS WAYS
AND MEANS FOR
A NEW HOSPITAL
Commercial Club Subcommlt.
tee Viii Meet Today to Con.
slider Plans for Providing
Smallpox Infirmary.


Plans for the raising of funds for the
erection of new detention hospital,
as recommended by the recent grand
jury, will be discussed at a meeting
OF subcommittee of the city develop
ment comI2ittee of the Commercial
club at the club rooms at l O'Clock this
afternoon. The members of the sub
committee are T. A. Abbott, F. S.
BlOdgett and w. B. Goery, all of whom
were members Of the grand jury which
investigated the conditions at the
present detention hospital. and strong
ly urged in their final report that i'm
mediate action be taken to relieve the
situation.
The subcommittee, which meets to-
DAY. VIII discuss the most feasible
plans for raising the money needed for
the erection of the new hospital. and
VIII report the result of their meeting
10 the board Of directors of the Com
merclal club Friday afternoon.
A number of plans have been sug-
Sested as a means of securing funds
with which to build a new hospital,
put the most popular one appears to
De 70 raise the money by popular sub
scrlpt1on, with the understanding that
the common council will include the
amount in the next budget and repay
those who advance the funds necessary
Tor the immediate erection Of such a
guiding.
Only Loan to City.
Owing to the fact that the budget is
already made up for the present wear.
no funds for such a purpose are avail
able from this source and would not
pe Tor another year, but it is believed
that the council, recognizing the ne
cessfty of new hospital, would guar
antee to those advancing the money
that the amount necessary to repay
them would be included in the next
budget, so that their subscriptions
would amount to nothing more than
loan to the city until the money in
clu9ed IN the next budget becomes
available.
This Is the same plan carried out in
some OF the Western states at the time
the volunteer soldiers returned from
the philippines. Private individuals
then advanced the money necessary to
pay the fares of the boys home from
San Francisco, being reimbursed by
the legislature later.
Inc present detention hospital,
known as the Dale street infirmary
and used as a hospital for smallpox
pauentS, is very Inadequate for the
present needs. The grand iury made
thorough investigation of the place.
ana found that, while it was sufficiently
large TO care for from fifteen to eigh-
Pe1tACAlto, There were at the time
OF the investigation more than forty
De1ng kept there, and as many as five
and six in one small room. The SAM
tary conditions were found to be bad
and the situation was one which called
Tor a scathing report by the grand Jury
ana the recommendation that a new
hospltaI be provided for immediately.
The grand jury suggested that the
new hospital be built on a ten-acre
strip OF ground owned by the city down
the river a few miles, and, after in
vestlgatlng the Minneapolis hospital,
recommended that a building To- cosf
In the neighborhood of $4,000 be
The overcrowded and unsanitarv
condition of the present detention hos
pltal is such that immediate action is
deemed necessary, and for this reason
the Commercial club has taken the
matter up, and will attempt to solve
the situation in one way or another.