The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-10
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dition is an erroneous one.
No other institutions of Walla Wal
Ia, have given a commercial asset to
our city as have our hospitals. Our
hospitals have been our first adver-
Using systems of this locality. In
fact antedating our era % years or
more by the surgical renown of DR.. N.
c. Blalock, necessitated the founding
of ST Mary's hospital. Then hospital
scope at that time comprised the en-
tire northwest, we still have a radius
of several hundred miles whittier pa
tients come and when cured return
to their respective homes. An investi-
Cation of the clinical records of both
st Mary's and the Walla Walla hos
pitfalls disclose the facts that during
the last year, patients came to our
city from the states of Washington
Oregon. wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Cali
fornia Montana, North and South Da-
xota, Nebraska. British Columbia, Ohio
Patients came to undergo surgical OPP
eratiens from the above states, be-
cause relatives and friends either had
received attention at our hands or be-
cause Of the fame and name of the
respective surgeons
From our own state we have right
now patients from Ritzville, Odessa,
Wenatchee, Pasco, Kennewick, Waits
burg, ST John, Dayton. Dixie, Hunts
vile, Conne,l. Prosser Toppenish,
Wallula, Prescott, Touchet, etc.
When we consider what it means
and usually a number Of relatives; our
city to feed. house, and provide for
them through our hospitals it seems
to be of Importance to study and con-
slider the hospital phase in all its de-
tails
Ideal Hospitals.
Every hospital under proper organi-
zation should be able to furnish suit
able facilities and conveniences at an
expense to make their service avail
abe to the large middle class of peo-
pie, which is the most important to
population will always be the produc-
ers and the worlds work is done by
them. Upon them depends our exis
tence as state and city. Hospitals
should be fireproof, for no one is so
helpless as the sick in case of fire.
Many a patient, or an heroic nurses
life has been lost for want of fire
proof hospitals, or hospitals equipped
with the useless fire escapes. Fire
drills by nurses and attendants in al
modern hospitals is regularly carried
out
Hospitals should be located in quiet
and cheerful localities of our city. AS
our city becomes more metropolitan
in character and noise and traffic in
crease, remote places should be sought,
yet sufficiently accessible to street cars
and ambulance.
Hospitals necessarily are adapted or
should be adapted to C imatic condi-
tons. Greater attention should be
given to the upper stories. The heat
story rooms into veritable ante-rOoms
of Hades Architectural beauty should
not be the criterian, but safety, con-
venience (to patient and attendants)
and comfort.
A hospital is not remunerative in
vestment in a commercial sense. For,
tunes have been lost in the operation
of such, and many a surgeon abandon
ed the conducting of such--a poorer
but wiser man. Should our hospitals
pay a dividend to the stockholders,
were there such, many years of fruit
less waiting would come and CO. ere
such would take place. Hospitals owe
their origin to the humanitarian in
stinct of our race. Founded upon
charity they are often left alone to
battle for existance. They are like
the doctor:
God and the doctor we like adore,
Just on the brink of danger, not
before,
The danger passed. both alike are
requited;
God is forgot, and the doctor
sighted
St. Mary's Hospital.
Modern medicine and surgery owe
their advancement to the progress of
modern hospitals and nursing. More
lives are saved by hospital regimen and
nursing than by physic. 1t may be of
interest to you to know that ST. Mary's
hospital during the last five years had
1854 patients for medical and surgical