The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-07-15

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hospital and hospital buildings; and for
the support of same; which said election
shall be held at the usual places in
such county for electing county officers,
the vote to be canvassed in the same
manner as that for county officers.
The law provides still further that if
majority of the votes cast at such
election on the proposition shall be in
favor of tax for bond issue then the
board of supervisors shall levy a tax SO
authorized which shall be collected in
the same manner as other taxes are
collected and shall be credited to the
hospital fund. And said supervisors
shall proceed at once to appoint seven
a. trustees chosen from the citizens at
large with reference to their fitness
for such office, three (3) of whom may
be women, all residents of the county;
not more than four (4 of whom may be
residents of the city, town or village in
which the hospital is to be located.
Those trustees shall within ten 00)
days after their appointment or election
qualify by taking the oath of civil
officers and organize as is usual in such
boards. The county treasurer shall be
the treasurer of the board of trustees
and shall serve without extra pay.
This law further provides that when
ever any county in this state shall
have provided for the appointment and
election of hospital trustees and has
voted tax for term not exceeding
twenty coy years for hospital purposes,
as authorized by law, the said county
may issue bonds in anticipation of the
collection of such tax in such sums and
amounts as the board of hospital trus-
tees shall certify to the board of super
visors of said county to be necessary
for the purposes contemplated by such
tax.
The full import of this law will be
seen in the provision that every hos
pital established under this act shall
be for the benefit of the inhabitants of
such county and of any person falling
sick or being injured or manned within
it's limits, and in the management OF
such public hospital no discrimination
shall be made against practitioners OF
any school of medicine recognized by
the laws of Iowa, and all practitioners
shall have equal privileges in treating
! patients in said hospital.
When hospital has been established
a board Of trustees are authorized to
provide, as department of said public
hospital, but not necessarily attached
thereto, suitable accommodations and
means for the care and treatment of
persons suffering from tuberculosis and
to formulate such laws and regulations
for the government of said persons, and
for the protection from infection OF
other patients and of nurses and at
tendants in such public hospital al
they may deem necessary.
Thus it will be seen that any county
may provide for its sick and injured
persons and make provision for those
who are suffering from the dread white
plague. A plea is made here that intel.
ligent men and women everywhere
shall see the great Importance of taking
immediate steps to provide not only for
those who may be suffering from tuber.
culosis but for it's sick in general. II
has been said by someone that "a life il
life.' There are however different con
ditions under which persons may be sicl
or die. Some maladies are not danger.
GUS to the general public, and persons
ill or dying of the same do not become
menace to the public health, but infec
tious disease like tuberculosis which
leaves its train OF death calls for the
immediate relief of the patient suffer
ing with it and the protection of the
community against it.
1t is . fact that throughout ths
United States at the end of last yea
there were over 60o, 900 patients suffer
i ing with consumption and only 1900,
4 beds, or 40 consumptives for every bed
This is of course for the entire country
4 but it is true that Iowa is painful;