Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-10-15

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ers TO get some instruction In these
things7 II we do not know, ought we
not 70 set ourselves to find out. to get
clesrer and more intelligent ideas that
we may worship God not with soul and
heart but with q satisfied conscience?
In closing the bishop spoke feelingly Of
the loss sustained by the parish and do
cese in the death Of Joseph d. Denison.
Good Hospital Ideas.
DR.. George l. Bates OF MorrisvilIe
urges upon the people Of bis town the es-
tablishment OF a small hospital and in
the Morrisviile News and Citizen sets
forth sound, practical ideas that have ex-
emplifcation in the Randolph sanatori-
nm. DIR. Bates says
81 have not in mind the erection of a
magnificent fre-proof building. a struc-
ture complete in every appointment, but
the nucleus for possibly the development
Of just such structure. have in mind
the establishing OF a place where few
patients could be well cared for. A place
where our emergency and other acute
cases could, when circumstances called
for it, be taken to receive logical treat
ment and the kind of care that it is inn
possible to give, very often. in private
home. The nursing being a very impor-
tant part in the treatment OF many cases,
ii must then appeal to all thinking peo-
pie that lives are sacrificed because
trained help cannot be procured, in many
of the cases in the rural districts where
we are frequently calied-and even then,
could there be g trained nurse put in
charge, the surroundings would defeat
all other effort.
81 would suggest q place where there
could be an operating room arranged and
where surgical work could be accom-
plished under circumstances and sur
roundings such as would insure greater
safety than when done in private dwell
ings, where it is, as we know, positively
unsafe. A place with sanitary surround
ings and as pleasantly situated as posi-
bic. A place where, through the gener-
osity Of the people and fraternaI orgapiz-
atoms, churches, ETC., free bed or tao
could be endowed and thereby some Of
the ever existing needy looked after in
more scientific manner, and the results be
made more satisfactory than when the
patient is exposed to the limitations of
poverty and remote distance.
1.-THE benefits to the physicians who
would have access to such an institution
though y De small ana rude IN appoint
ment. cannot be thought of too lightly
by the profession. II would give the
doctors each an opportunity to qualify
for higher class of medical and surgical
procedure. II would tend to unite them
in spirit in the individual and collective
strife of serving our patients, saving life,
assauging pain and perfecting their own
skin under more favorable circumstances,
which would all eliminate in the public
good. II would be . step toward human
ity and an advertisement tor our town. II
would be an attraction to the outside
public. In other words, an enterprise far
reaching in its benefits to the town and
surrounding community; its object Of the
highest moral significance. II would re-
ceive the deserved patronage OF all the
surrounding and neighboring towns. II
would serve ell. and all alike"
All this Randolph knows from three
years experience to be true.