Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
Iowa City Gets Hospital.

Iowa City Gets Hospital.
Des Moines-The state board OF
control has decided to locate the
state hospitals for consumptives at
Iowa City.
The site includes $50 acres Of land
five miles north Of Iowa City and the
Cedar Rapids and Iowa City interur-
ban passes through the site. So for
tunately situated is the property that
the depot of the interurban will be
located closely adjacent to the site
which the board of control has Sc.
lected for the main or administration
building Of the new institution.
While possession will be given the
state March 1, possession for build
ing purposes will be acquired i'm
mediately and the plans will be made
by State Architect Liebbe at once for
the buildings. The board of control
has decided upon the erection of a
main building to be used for admins
trative and kindred purposes, and
Will then erect large number of
mere shells for the open air living of
the patients under treatment.
1t is planned to open the institution
on July /, 1907. The funds for the
purchase of the site became available
last July l. In the last six months
the board of control has visited, in.
spected and considered perhaps $50
different sites.
The site selected was chosen by the
board Of control because it's members
believed that it possessed more Of
the essentials for the proposed insta
tuition and had more additional desir
able features than any other of the
immense number submitted for con
sideration.
The land is high. 1t is dry, having
sandy loan, so that even on the wet
test day the patient may walk ovel
it without being Inconvenience by
the mud. Yet the soil is sufficiently
good to grow fine crops; the present
owners are growing corn which gives
siXty-five bushels to the acre.
The site is on an interurban, ant
upon this the board insisted. The
Cedar Rapids-Iowa City line runs cars
every hour. These will pass the
main door of the institution. The
company has contracted to build
depot at the site selected by thu
board of control and to put in
switch to the institution coal houses
without cost to the state. The far,
from Iowa City will probably be flxet
at 20 cents for the round trip.
But an additional feature which APP
pealed to the board of control wa:
the fact that location of the hospita
near Iowa City would give the state
the benefit of the scientific equipment
of that institution.
The hospital is more or less educa
tional in character. 1t is a new thing
in the west. The open air Treatment
for the white plague has been demon
strated, but in Iowa it is something
unique. The medical department Of
the university will take deep inter
est in the development of the insti
tuition. The department will find al
vantage, also, in study of the diseas
at close range, an advantage whlcl
the people of the state will enjoy
eventually. The observation by tn
medical department will return tel
fold in value to the people.
Moreover, the medical faculty OF tn
institution has volunteered the SCI
vice of it's members, free of charge
in the treatment of all surgical case
which arise in the hospital. The
will give their time and labor for thl
state institution on account of bein
connected with the university.
The state meteorological laborator.
is located in connection with the stat
university This department will d
all of the tuberculosis hospital.
work free of charge to the state. Ihl
will save the board of control the ex
pense of establishing new bacteria
logical laboratory.