The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-24
HOSPITAL COMPLIMENTS
ELKHoRN VALLEY ME0lcs HAVE
BETTER APPRECIATION.
MIDSUMMER SESSION A SUCCESS

! Important Meeting OF Elkhorn valley
Medical society at Norfolk Hospital
Draws Record Attendance-Doctors
in Closer Touch With Hospital.
Buildings "spotless clean" modern
hospital equipment. evidence of sys.
| TEN and thorougNness ON every side,
! the big force of tCChniCally trained
nurses, the care and Cyuert attention
given the huuDital patients; these
! thinps together with the important
work witch DR. G. A. Young and his
assistants are doirr for the wards of
the state at the Norfolk hospital made
no little impression on the minds of
the Ncbra, kA physicians who TUESDAY
Afternoon aud evening attended the
midsummer meeting of the Elkhorn
Valley Medical society at the Norfolk
hospital.
The hospital meeting was an nova
ton and a very successful one. The
papers we're interesting and important,
the subjects being along the lines of
insanity. More than forty prominent
| physicians of the state attended the
meetings.
The social features Of the session
at the hospital were especially enjoy
able At a special invitation many of
the visiting doctors were accompanied
| by their wives, who were guests at an
informal reception during the after
noon. In the evening all the visitors
were the personal guests of DR.. Young
at supper.
Purpose Of Hospital Session.
The real reason for the invitation
extended to the medical society for
| a meeting at the hospital was de-
| sire to bring the doctors of northeast
Nebraska into closer touch with the
important institution which Nebraska
maintains in Norfolk. In this respect
the meetings were signally success
full. all of the doctors, save a few
who had been in touch with the in
stitution before, leaving Norfolk with
much clearer idea of the purpose
and work of the Norfolk hospital
Praise for the Hospital.
| The advanced methods at the hos
pital. the consideration given the
patients, the general tone" of the
whole institution won warm common
dalton from the members of the medi-
of men especially fitted to pass judg-
ment.
Prejudice Against the Hospital.
The prejudice against state hos
pital for the insane, which regards it
only as a court of the last resort, is
being combated by DR.. G. A. Young,
the superintendent of the Norfolk
hospital. Through the physicians, men
of trained Judgment, the management
of the hospital seeks to bring more
clearly before the people of the com
munities in which these doctors prac.
tice the fact that the Norfolk hospital
is hospital first, last and all the
| time, that the patients have individual
care, that the patients are treated as
| individuals would be treated in
general hospital, that the patients re-
Ceived the same medical attention and
|
that they would have in other than
state institutions, that each case re.
ceived is given careful examination
and individual study.
Need of Publicity.
DR.. Young in his discussion before
the doctors stated that he considered
it necessary that publicity be given
the inner workings of the state hos
pital in order to disabuse those who
hold it merely as an asylum, place of
detention, i'll treatment and abuse.
Much, he said, was to be gained by
encouraging the sending of patients
to the hospital just as soon as the
first symptoms of insanity are noted.
Delay means an increased severity of
the disease with less chance of re-
covery when brought at last to the
hospital.
The Training Course.
Possibly that which attracted the
most attention at the hospital from
the visiting physicians was the de.
velOpment of nurses training school
under the superntendency of DR..
Young. The school is now fully de
veloped, having nurses in the senior
year. Miss Sinclair as superintendent
of nurses has been very successful in
the department, having secured recog.
milton from the Methodist hospital in
Omaha, the Mercy hospital CT Council
Bluffs and the Wise Memorial hospital
of Omaha Nurses from the training
school at the Norfolk hospital spend
six months in these Omaha hospitals
; returning to Norfolk to graduate. In
Omaha the hospitals accept the
nurses from Norfolk on the same
footing as their own nurses. 1t is the
ambition of those directly interested
in the management to tuild up a
registered training school On a par
with any in the west.