Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-15

gary. 1t is therefore the largest sim
gle hospital in the world, so am
told. To give you some idea of it's
immensely. I will describe few de-
tails. The building, although old,
Quilt over hundred years ago a
new one is in process of erection) is
three and four stories high and is
built around the four sides of thir-
teen squares or blocks, thus enclosing
as many squares, gardens, of "hofs,"
as they are termed here, and which
are cultivated as parks or gardens for
patients able to be out of doors. On
a nice warm day it is really very
interesting sight to see these little
parks filled with convalescent patients
enjoying the fresh air and sunshine
in the shade of trees and of tents,
all of them being CARRIED in the reg
ular garb or uniform required for the
patients, and enjoying to the full the
opportunity and blessing of being out
of doors and in such pleasant
surroundings as flowers, birds, trees,
fountains, etc. Some are variously
bandaged. some walk alone and I'M
aided, some with cane or crutch or
the assistance of nurse, relative or
friend. There are about $500 pa
tients in the hospitals, besides the
many out patients that come daily
from their homes to be prescribed for
| in the ambulatory or out-patient de-
partment, thus making the total num-
Der cared for in a year run up into
| the hundreds of thousands.
| Then, besides, there is the obstet-
rical department where there is an av-
erage of over 80 births a day, 900 a
month. or 10000 year, thus giving
wonderful opportunity for the study
of obstetrics and complicated diseases
and to throw some light on the moral
ity of the city and country. | would
state that learn that in these particu-
lar lying-in wards over 80 per cent OF
the births are Legitimate and that OF
all the births reported to the authorities
40 to 60 per cent are likewise. The
country is not as bad as the city. but
even then it is appalling. l could
write you much about the probable
causes of these conditions and of the
results. also of the wide prevalence
of venereal diseases in these great
centers of vice, but will not take this
occasion.
In One Hospital.
In doing postgraduate study in
most other large cities Of the world
the patients and the various profes
study are generally in many different
hospitals scattered in widely separated
parts of the city and one loses much
valuable time in going to the differen
places, moreover, it requires consid
cradle investigation in order to ascer
tain where and when to find what ont
wants to see. While at Vienna it is
as heretofore implied, altogether il
one large hospital and one soon learn
where and how to find what on
wants Moreover, the American doc
tors pursuing graduate work here hav
organized themselves into societ
and appointed committees to look al
ter new men coming to the city an
inform them of the conditions exist
= ing and how best to begin the wor
they have come to do, which is, as 20
can we'll imagine, a very great hel
to the new arrival, particularly whe
he knows little or nothing Of tn
t German language, as is the case wit
. large number, for many come e.
t pecting to stay long enough to get
: working knowledge of the Language
4 even if they knew little or nothin
/. of it before
r Moreover the society, by includin
e all of the American doctors, and
: uniting them in their requests to an
J, demands from the professors, he
: been able to make more acceptable a
e engagements, financially and otherwis
S than was the case before the societ
a existed.
o The Americans comprise at lea
e one-half, possibly two-thirds of all IL
d foreign doctors studying medicine hel
e but there are representatives from g
n over the world. After the American
S come the English and the colonies,
S the Irish, Canadians, Australian
from Russia, Japan, Holland, Switze
land, Italy, South America, etc, et
e But the people generally cater mo
e the Americans, as I think they do
g most all the other countries we ha'
. been in, unless perchance their Wis
y or happens to be some illustrious Il
u = bleman, and even then, rich Anne
~ lean is often treated more obs
% quiously than the noble.
y Has All Departments.
~. AS Vienna thus has all department
or of medicine and surgery all togethe
v it offers special advantages to tho
W who are genera, practitioners al
u wish to study in all, lines, and in tt
N respect Vienna is the very best pla
Nv for such doctors to study; but, if sol
at one wishes to pursue some one p,
al ticular branch alone, there are tho
NJ who think that other places offer b
al ter facilities il that single line tn
ba Vienna does, although even that
A., debatable. However, there is no dot
"a but that the Vienna school notat
NV excels in some domains more than
-. others. Probably that department