Putnam patriot., 1908-12-04
Thanksgiving Donations.

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 Noman's Board shave moi appealed.t .to
 the public as urgently ss heretofore, re-
 tying on the generou friends who, have
 50 steadfastly stood by the Hospital in
 their regular solicitations.
 Among other things for which money
 is needed is the purchase Of siefiiizer
 for the hospital, which k most greatly
 needed. The price of one is Ss0, and but little more than half that amount
 was contributed, while usually .ist this
 season the cash contributions have been 1 quite generous.
 The list Of contributions will not be
 ready to make public for some time yet
 as friends Of the Hospital understand 1 that the donations asked for are for the i Hospitals winters supply mainly and not merely for Thanksgiving dinner. Therefore they are expected to keep l coming in for week CT two yet, at the convenience Of the donors.
 1t may as well be repeated, al this time, what has already been stated, as regards the means and methods Of
 maintaining the Day Kimball Hospital up to it's high standard of usefulness and efficiency There are some @fao are not aware just how the Hospital gets the funds fof its support, and they may A. we'll be informed al this time, and II will refresh the minds of those who have been told, and prompt them lo renewed diligence in extending any needed assistance.
 To get the exact figures of receipts and expenditures Of the Hospital, Il is necessary to get copy of one Of its annual reports, we can give merely a condensed statement.
 In the first place, we may say, the Hospital Is carefully and economically managed. The corps of physicians and surgeons--all able and experience gen. tlemen-give their valuable services 1 without charge; the Board of Manage 1 ment, en bracing citizens Of the high est character from this and surround l ing towns, voluntarily assume the re- i sponsiblity of caring for every interest connected with the management of the l Hospital; then there k the Woman < 1 Boafd, large body of ladies of this and other towns, who freely give their l services io help raise funds not only 10
 pay current expense out 10 supply the instruments and supplies required for l the work of the physicians and suf- geons and also for the general Use of 1 the Hospital We cannot give in de- 1 tail all they have obligated themselves
 to do, even to help getting improve ments and additions to the Hospital l buildings.
 The Woman's Board has heavy cares 1 throughout the year and labor to match Of various kinds. Without it's assist ance there would be n large deficiency 1 in receipts and no improvements could be made to add to the efficiency of the Hospital.
 From the State an appropriation k l annually received, which does not be- gin to meet the ordinary expenses, To say nothing of additions and improve | neuts to the building. In addition 1 there k small endowment fund, while gratifying help, is far from meeting the deficiency.
 The task of meeting the annual de- iicieney and adding improvements de wolves on the Woman's Board. How the Board does It We can explain but in part to reach the purpose of this ar ticle. The main reliance k on the pab- lie appeals made during the year-the main one being for Thanksgiving do- nations when the farming class are so- | licited to give of their superabundanee -everything given in their line count ing as cash, as what they fail to sup ply has to be pal for In cash. In ad dilion, those who are not ariners are | asked to donate whatever they can spare that any family needs In house. keeping-and the Hospital has stea- dy large family. Money, when il can be spared, Is thankfully accepted, as there are always outlays of money fe- quired for articles that must be pur- chased.
 It must be taken into account that the work of the Hospital Is constantly increasing, and contributions that sui. Heed ten years ago, or even five years,
 would be entirely inadequate at the | present time. There Is need of an ad- dition to the Hospital or a new build- gers of the Hospital propose petition ing the Legislature for an appropria- ton to pay or help pay the expense. 1 As the room is urgently needed, fl the
 Legislature fails to grant an appfopria-
 ton, the friends of the Hospital will be
 appealed to for the amount.
 All this we state to show that the
 needs of the Hospital for moaey or it's equivalent Is large and constantly in- creasing without any fixed funds be ing accessible until the Hospital is suf-
 Iieiently endowed for selt-supporl, as
 il may he some day.
 | IL is therefore unfortunate, and some
 what depressing, to the members of the Woman's Board, that the Thank offerings this years arc less than usual
 when they expected greater, and but
 little of the amount of money they re- Quirc was donated.
 We do not believe that the falling of