The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-08-23

night, be under the care and treatment
of the doctor and nurse.
What home in Union City, however
well provided, could offer the patient SO
many advantages, and are there not
scores of homes which could not furnish
the patient even the actual necessities
demanded, to say nothing OF the COM
forts afforded by superior hospital
equipment?
And this subject is not without its
economic phase. Under present con-
ditions, certain diseases breaking out
in home would work great hardship
upon the entire membership. For in
stance: Suppose this household was
depending on the support given it by
one or more of its members. To iso-
late the entire home might not only
deprive the members of this home of
the actual necessities of life, but it
would also unnecessarily expose the
we'll members to the disease. To turn
those who support the family loose on
the community and allow them to go
to their work would be both a danger
and an injustice to the city.
The hospital would fill an important
mission here; the patient could be sent
to the isolation ward for treatment,
while the other members of the family
could be held short time to make sure
of no new cases developing and then
released with no danger to the city or
hardship to themselves.
Furthermore, hospital treatment is
not as expensive as is generally sup
posed. The average case of pneumonia
can be treated just as cheaply at the
hospital and with far more safety to the
patient and convenience to the busy
home. Many confinement cases should
have hospital treatment. The prospect
i've mother nearing term could enter
the hospital and there receive treatment
with less danger of infection and with
just as much privacy. All cases where
difficult labor is apt to occur, particu-
larly in instrumental and operative
cases, there should be no hesitation
about entering the hospital, as unfavor-
able results often follow even the most
skillful treatment. In cases of this
character the hospital \ is an absolute
necessity, particularly in remote places
where a physician and nurse cannot
always be reached when required.
A hospital at Union City would en-
able our local physicians, if they de-
sired, to devote much of their time to
special branches of medicine, and as a
result the public would be greatly bene-
fitted thereby. Some of our physicians
could give special attention to one of the
following branches, as: General medi-
cine, diseases of children, surgery, skin
and diseases of the stomach.
A hospital at this place would abso-
lutely command the entire country
within a radius of 25 miles with a pop
ulation of some $4,000 people, while it
would probably draw from a radius of
10 miles with approximately 100000
people.
Situated as we are in this populous
section of our State, what moment do
We know that we will not have to face
some calamity, or wreck, cyclone,
explosion or fire in some of our public
buildings which will throw great num-
,ers of injured on our hands?
With proper hospital facilities in read
ness, we would not only be in posi-
ion to take care of any emergency of
his kind that might arise, but cases
which must now be sent away for oper-
ton and treatment could be dealt with
ere just as successfully by our local
physicians and surgeons.
1t is believed by many that small
nut well equipped and modern hospital
'hich would meet the demands made r
pom it could be erected for SIS, 900
nd, under proper administration, it is
robable that it would become self-sup-
orting within two years.
For the protection and safety of our
elves and those we hold dear it is highly I
ssential that our home city should
ave hospital at the earliest possible II
Let the public spirited men and
omen of Union City, the churches,
aides Aid Societies, newspapers, and
i benevolent and fraternal societies,
,gether with the medical profession,
mite, and with singleness of purpose
I'd determination of will, bring to on