The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-08-26

with any and All ~ our uear-o{ citiee
A hospital has become one Of the de
mands OF progressive civilization.
But OF the many why's. We win dis
cuss only one. Starting as our order
does for philanthropIc work We VIII
deal with it only from that viewpoint
though from an economic standpoint
we could easily prove to you that the
county could be saved more than hall
Of its annual appropriation for the In
digent in the proper care OF IT'S sick,
the treatment Of disease in its incip-
iency.
For the wage Garner, especially the
factory employee. we would be justified
in saying that four-ffths of actual pow
erty has its beginning in the illness
OF one Of the bread-winners. Where
father and mother both work in the
factory, as is frequently the case. one
is stricken, the other OF necessity be-
comes a nurse; the weekly stipend
ceases-debt is incurred; there is rare
ly anything for the ''rainy day; rents
accumulate and the first seeds OF pow
erty are sown. Hungry children must
be fed, at the same time that medical
care is provided for the ill;upon char
table organizations, the city and the
county devolves the support of the fam
lily; the ultimatum, the county poor
house.
If you could go with us, good friends,
into many homes that we enter week
ly, barely furnished with the neees-
stiles of life, none of the comforts;
two rooms often housing family Of
six or eight, poorly ventilated; htch-
en-, dining room, bed room all in enc;
if you could see the growing child
sleeping side by side with the tossing,
feyered patient; you would under
stand, why the sick die, and the child
grows into the stunted adult, with the
germs of disease lighting for mastery
with nature, dwarfed in mind and
body
These people have the kindest of
hearts. but their aabsolute lack OF
knowledge of every rule that governs
a well-regulated sick room is deplora-
Bile. |
Our physicians will tell you that
their services are frequently rendered
well-nightp useless, so poorly are
their directions carried out; often go
ing in direct opposition to their spe-
eiic ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and pre-
udice, hand-maidens of eontagion and I
disease II
When surgery is needed. for the
ack of proper environment, or money +
o defray the expense to a distant city,
he operation in most of the cases is
or If performed, is rarely h
for the very obvious reason ii
# the absenee Of Necessity of the |
modern operating, room "a limb lost, J..
earring impairedsfFight gone, life /
nuffed out-7and we have not over {
rawn in the least.p We could sight i
ou to case after case of actual oc- |
urrence; one only let US give you in {
ur own circle experience. A child's I
Dot through the charity of one of our
1cal physicians, was operated on; e
ne operation was successful--a 4
traight limb would have resulted I'M t
er proper care; but each visit the c
,ork of the previous one was found n
ndone, until the doctor gave up the S
Use and the child is cripple for life. r.
Go to our charity committees for n
N years back, and they will multiply G
ANY times the instances where had t;
e a hospital in our midst, the sick q
light have been restored, the wound v
| saved, and lives spared to helpless W
miles now orphaned. The truest, m
q most far-reaching charity, Is the il
larity that st, Peter gave to the beg A
IT, who asked for coin at the tenn vi
e gate, when he babe him arise and G.
ak, his crippled body made straight. til
lie charity that makes possible tn
rong body, senses intact and the lu
urage that comes with renewed
ysical vigor; that makes the depend ia
Independent, that puts ID, man on oil
ual footing physically with his fell ha
v man. TT
Such is the charity we are asking, di
lieving 1t to be our greatest need, ha
ZEN we petition you. our friends, to ha
Ike possible ''the Kings Daughters all
spital of Maury County" be
MRS. FRANK EVERETT,
ader of the Guided Circle Of the pls
Kings Daughters; Secretary for the of
county of Maury. WI