Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-01-26
SOUTHERN OREGON
HOSPITAL NOW OPEN
Appointments Are Perfect and
Equal to City Hospital-First
Patient Received.

The first patient to be received in
the Southern Oregon General Hospi-
tai was Mrs. W. NJ. Witt, of this city,
who was suffering from an abdominal
tumor. She was operated upon Satur-
day by the Hospital surgeons. While
the operation was a difficult one yet
it was highly successful and the
patient rallied in most satisfactory
manner During the week Mrs. Witt
has gained strength rapidly and there
is now every certainty that she will
soon be enjoying the best of health.
The furnishing of the Grants Pass
Hospital is now complete and not a
detail has been omitted that is essen
tial to the proper care of patients.
While not large like city hospital,
yet the operating room, the wards and
the culinary department contains every
appliance and essential that is required
So complete is the equipment that with
but little additional expense in putting
in more beds the capacity of the Hospi-
tai could be doubled Everything is
scrupulously clean and spotless white
and tidy as a Holland woman's home
Miss Webb, the matron, is proving as
a manager and a nurse all that the
officers of the Good Samaritan Hospital
and the surgeons of Portland recon-
mended her to be, and the initial
success that has come to the Hospital
is due largely to her executive ability
and skill Two young ladies, Miss
Frances johnson and Miss Bessie
Spielman, both of Grants Pass, have
entered the nurses training depart
ment They are bright young ladies
and are taking up G. elr new duties in
manner that gives assurance that
they will become creditable graduates
of the Southern Oregon General Hos
pital.
Visitors are welcome at the Hospi-
tai and Miss Webb will be pleased to
geet them and show them about
Physicians visiting Grants Pass are
especially requested to call and in
spect the Hospital, rs are mine and
mill owners and others employing
men. Miss Webb would also be glad
to ,,aat tho Iodiac of Grants Doec apJ
of Josephine county and show them how
fully equipped is the hospital for
then they will be the better able
to recommend it and to work for its
success, for the, Hospital management
anticipate that the cooperation of the
ladies of this city and of the county
will aid very materially in making a
success of the venture.
To finance a hospital in town the
size of Grants Pass is. an undertak-
ing of no small degree. To assist in
raising funds to buy needed conven-
fences for the Hospital the board of
lady managers have designed an en-
tertainment to be given on Tuesday
evening, February 6. 1t will be en-
titled, "A Trip Around the World, -
and the features will be representa-
tions of life in various counties
There will be six of these representa-
tons, to be held in the parlors OF
private houses. The visitor will buy
a ticket of admission and then make
the rounds of the various countries
Refreshments typical of the country
will be served at each place. The
travellers will be afforded delight.
full evenings entertainment and see
many interesting things pertaining tc
the lands they will visit, and at the
same time assist in aiding the Hospi,
tai to become fully established and tC
become the success that all citizens OF
| Grants Pass desire it to be.