Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-04
ST. THOMAS HOSPITAL
An Institution Ably Conducted


There is a very noticeable growing
tendency on the part of people of
means to be removed to hospitals III
cases of serious illness. and a mo-
ment's reelection will show that there
is abundant Justification for this
course Compare for example the
treatment patient will receive at a
we'll known hospital, such as St.
Thomas Hospital, with the treatment
in even the richest home. In the first
place a private physician cannot af-
ford to devote his entire time to one
patient, no matter how high his fee,
and there must be long periods when
he is absent from the sick bed; in the
hospital. on the other hand, there is
always within call the physician or
the nurse or the attendant There are
appliances necessary i'll cases of sud
den emergency. and there are the pre-
NentatiVes OF COntagion and infection
which a private home can never have.
The 81 Thomas Hospital is one OF
the most necessary institutions in this
city and county. for it may be truly
said that the civilization of a city can
he Judged by the efficiency of its hos
pitfalls These institutions are the out
come of the most generous human inn
pulses The desire of the strong and
prosperous TO care for and comfort
the suffering and needy. Under mod
ern progress with the wonderful
strides made in both medicine and sur
gerry; the advanced appliances with
which this modern hospital is equipped
and the asceptic conditions which ev-
erywhere prevail, and so far as hui
man comforts are applicable under
our advanced system they are utilized
for the benefit of both the suffering
and the convalescent
Through the we'll kept wards We
pass. where cleanliness and aseptc
sanitation are immediately noticeable.
The comfortable beds with their con-
valescent patients, the splendid oper-
ating room in which are gathered from
all the world the instruments and ap-
paratus for the treatment and care of
surgical conditions. Equally impress
i've is the discipline of the fine corps
OF nurses and attendants. The clock
like regularity which everywhere pre-
der the feeling soon changes TO awe,
as one grasps the magnitude and pre-
cision of this great system, devoted
and maintained for the benefit of Suf-
fering humanity.
1t is with pleasure that our citizens
here can boast of one of the best
equipped and modern institutions, an
institution which has established for
~. ion frnl or
and operated upon the same broad
minded and human plan which char
acterize the great hospitals OF the
world.
The St Thomas Hospital is thor
oughly equipped for any medical or
surgical case. Large artistic airy
rooms exclusively for maternity cases,
where the patient has all the comforts
and quiet OF home. combined with hos
pital conyeniences.
This hospital is housed in its own
commodious twO-story building with
spacious screened-in verandas sur
rounded by lawns and trees.
The hospital has 4O-bed capacity
with graduate nurses always in attend
ance, and particularly noticeable
throughout the entire institution is
the perfect sanitation and asceptic
conditions which everywhere prevail
The hospital and its administration is
gov erned by the Sisters OF Mercy,
with Mother Superior Gabriel i'll
charge.
St. Thomas Hospital is practically
a branch of the well known st. Jo-
sephs Hospital of San Diego, which is
conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, at
which institution they have training
school for nurses, which takes thor
ough cOuSe OF two years and three
months TO graduate and obtain dl-
ploma. and all of the nurses at the
ST. Thomas Hospital are graduates OF
the ST Joseph Institution.
The Press, on behalf OF the public,
takes this opportunity to express to-
Mother Superior Gabriel and her ca
pable staff OF assistants its most ear
nest gratitude for the liberal and ef-
fective manner in which she has al
ways conducted the St. Thomas Hos
pital.