La Junta tribune., 1908-01-04
n JUNTA'S MtW HOSPITALS
Two New Modern Hospitals
Nearly Completed
WILL COST NEARLY :1Oo,oOO.oo
Best Equipped Institutions in West,
and Would be a Credit to A
City Twice the Size
WILL COST NEARLY :1oo,oOo.oo

Among the many improvements III
La Junta during the past year, lew
will add more to the permanent well
I Re OF the city. and none can equal,
from a benevolent and charitable
standpoint the new City Hospital.
which is now nearing completion.
In February. 1905. the physicians
OF the city realizing that some place
other than the home and unsanitary
room was needed for the proper
nursing and treatment of the SICK
and afflicted. with the. aid OF some
OF the business men opened the
present City Hospital on Cimmaron
avenue. Since then it has been clear
ly demonstrated mot only to the
physicians but we believe also TO
the people of the city and Otero
County. that the growing need OF
modern hospital building was increas-
ing every day. During the twenty
two months it has been running there
has been treated one hundred and
fifty-eight surgical cases, two hun
dred and forty-seven medical cases
and eight obstetrical cases. and
great many others who applied for
admission could not be accommodated.
1t has also been proven that there
are a great many worthy people VINO
when ill., are unable to contribute
but very little toward their nursing
and treatment and are to greater or
lesser extent thrown upon the char
ity OF the community.
Owing to the generosity OF Mr.. !
+. Woodruff, who donated U.s.
600 toward the building fund.
provided all equal amount be donat-
ed from other sources" and the gen
nf those lChn were
solicited in raising the other
$1,000 it was possible to begin the
erection OF the new modern building
which will be completed about FEB.
ruary. 1908. When completed II Will
be one of the most modern and best
equipped hospitals 'of its size IN the
Nest. 1t will contain seven private
rooms. one children's ward, one OBJ.
stetrical ward and four general
wards. will accommodate .'casiiy
twenty-seven patients and can be
made to accommodate thirty-four...
The hospital so far as is possible
10 do So will be conducted on
charitable basis. and not "at all Tor
pecuniary purposes
Article three, section mne OF the
bylaws. reads as follows; ne
house committee provided for in Sec
ton FOur OF EtTtiSiS WV 49,
shall as soon after the first day OF
each month as report has been
made to it by the Secretary OF the re-
ceipts and disbursements Tor the pre-
cecding thirty days, provide Tor the
maintenance of beds for charity
patients. not to exceed four in num-
Der. two for male and two for female
patients, and at cost, TO the asso-
citation" not to exceed $1,000
per month, per bed. In case the re-
port for any given month shows an
excess OF receipts over expenditure,
of an amount exceeding one hundred
dollars, said amount exceeding
S1oo is to be placed in a
sinking fund for the payment OF the
general indebtedness of the asso-
citation.
Our past experience. Of twenty-five
months. in managing the present
City Hospital. makes it clear that
the new hospital will be self-support-
ing. We have been paying, on an
average, 500 per month TOR
rent OF building and nurses rooms
required outside This will pay inter
est on the $1,000 borrowed and still
leave balance of $42o. We
thavc turned over to the new associa.
Mon, in real estate, furniture and
kpplics almost double, in value. what