The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-08-11
HOSPITAL FOR HENDERSON,
Fund Started for the Building of This
rluch Needed Enterprise for Com
munity-The Doctors Take the lniti-
ative-Let's Give Them Hearty Sup
port and Have the Hospital.

EDITOR GOLD LEAF:-.At IL meeting OF
the Vance Comfy Medical Society held
Monday, August Sth. a fund was started
by the contributions Of physicians pres
ent to be called The Vance County Hos
pital Fund. Two classes, should rather
say three classes. of our citizens feel
acutely the need of a hospital in Ilender-
son. These three classes are the doctors,
the clergy and the Kings Daughters
Among the physicians there is scarcely a
week passes in which they do not feel
handicapped in the treatment OF patients
because of the great necessity OF IA hos
pital and trained nursing for the proper
care and treatment OF their sick. Hardly
month passes in which some patient
does not have to be sent off to hospital
for treatment, surgical or medical, which
so far as skill and ability goes, could, at
less expense and with equally good re-
suits, be treated hereif requisite and equal
facilities for treatment We're at hand
There are constantly occurring cases in
which the patient is from the country
and has no home, and who must depend
on the kind ministratiOns OF their already
over-burdened landlady, if in a boarding
house, or who, if occupying rooms, as
many do, over stores, and taking their
meals out. must rely on the uncertain,
even if willing care of comrades already
fully taxed to do the daily work allotted
to them
There are, again, many families whose
dwellings, are small and overcrowded,
where there is absolutely no room for
the sick member-where he can get no
rest, no quietness, and where cleanliness
is almost impossible. There are, again,
families, whose members have not the
slightest tact or knowledge of the man
agement of the sick The physician first
of all is brought face to face with these
conditions and feels often how precious
lives might be saved if there were only
some place where their treatment could
be made effectual, where cleanliness could
be secured. where medicines could he
strictly and intelligently administered
where proper diet could be enforced The
clergy who faithfully follow the physician
to look after the spiritual care OF the sick
and needy will bear witness to all that
has been said above. And the Kings
Daughters would hail with delight the
means of making their ministrations
more effectual
Feeling as acutely as we do this great
and pressing need of a hospital, not only
for Henderson, but for Vance county. We
the physicians Of the Vance County Medi-
cal Society, have started a Hospital
Fund, of which DR.. F. r. Harris is treas
urer. We believe that all classes of per-
sons. will be glad to help in this good
work, that the rich will give of their
abundance, and the poor will give their
mite. We believe that the clergy will
help us with all their influence in this
good work. Webelieve the King S Daugh-
tiers will help us We believe that the
subject has only to be properly presented
when the churches, the mill corporations,
the various secret orders, the town and
the county will all move forward gladly
to provide Vance county with such an in
stitution of charity and mercy for the
sick and injured as will be a credit and
an abiding honor and blessing to ALL
q. \. COGGESHALL,
Secretary