The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-10
George {. Wade Was Refused
Aid at County Infirmary,
ReiterateS Gotten.
DESCRIBES DIR. 0DELL'S
ACTION AS OUTRAGEOUS
Says Refused to Treat Dying
Man and Pauper Clerk
Showed Poor Memory.

w Gotten, when seen az his home at
81 Aberdeen avenue. Monday evening. by
n representative OF. The Tribune CONTRA
dicted tho story appearing in the Descrct
News Monday evening, TO the effect That
George Wade. the man who died al S..
Marks hospital Sunday evening OF
Brighrs disease was taken from the coun-
" lnhrmary at the request Of his father
Alexander Wade, and not turned ont by
the county commissioners and so forth
Mr., Gotten had this to say:
George &. Wade. who died nj ST.
Marks hospital Sunday evening was sen,
TO that institution after medical aid had
been refused him at the county innlm
AIRY The treatment which that man re-
ccived al the hands or County Physician
Dr. T. C.. Odcll Is outrageous. Not only
did i call no Dr. Odcll repeatedly about
the condition Of Mr.. Wade. but nlso
conferred with James Sabine. tho pauper
clerk. DR.. Odcll emphatlcally said uhat
hc would not treat the sick man. He also
said. after numerous calls by telephone.
the infirmary. and II he wns no better 10y
Monday (yostordaY) he would go down
and treat him. Mr.. Wade was taken 10
the county nfirmary by his father In the
the first place, Mr. Wade was In no con-
dition to be sent down TO the lniirmary-
He was dcathly SICK when sent there, and
had been so for weeks.
Ouou REFUSED AID.
81 want to say this much, and that is.
that Or. Odell positively refused to go
ana see Mr.. Wade. despite my repeated
calls | tclcphOncd DIR. Odell Sunday
morning and told him that DIR. \. y.
Kerr had been TO see the sick man. and
that 10 prolong the life Of Mr.. Wade
II would be necessary to send him 10 the
hospital Immediately, DR.. Odell then got
sarcastic. and said that it was none OF
DR.. Kerr's business as To how a patient
OF the county should be handled: he said
that he was county physician and would
do as he saw fit. DR. Kerr volunteered
his services, and we sent the sick man
To the hospital where he died.
while Mr.. Wade was confined al tho
hospital I got into communication with
Paupcr Clerk James Sabine. Mr.. Sabine
said that he would send physician sure.
He, however. must have had a lapse OF
memory. for nobody came.
THE story in the Deseret News is ali
wrong. for II is a certainty that DIR. Odell
was away OF when il came 10 prcscrib
county physician was really offensive in
his speech. While I was talking with
him Sunday, he would hardly wait long
enough TO allow me TO explain the facts
OF the case. Before I had finished he
hung up the receiver with bang.
Found Means Of Help.
at wns then that l found some means
OF helping 10 care for Mr.. Wade. That
weeks fee / paid al the hospital for the
care of the sick man give gladly. Wade
was despera tely III and needed medical
attention i'm the worst way.
1T is not the GTst time that | have
had occasion TO call the attention OF Dr.
Odell 20 sickness in this section" con
Cluded Mr.. Gotten. ~ short time ago
little boy was sick out here. I Informed
tho county physician about tho case. but
nothing ives ever done that know Of