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

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meet the demands of so progressive q
place as Union City has long been
recognized by many of the thoughtful
citizens. That this subject has not
earlier received the consideration which
its importance merited, has been due
no doubt to the many large and i'm
portant improvements which have been
considered and successfully carried out
in the past.
The citizens of Union City may Justly
pride themselves upon their fine public
and training schools, many of whose
graduates enter the leading universities
and colleges of the land on certificate
without examination, while others are
well fitted to take up the active duties
of life.
Well may they look with pride on its
system of sanitation and drainage, its
lighting and water plant, its library,
park, and municipal and government
buildings made possible by the energy
and brains of its leaders.
We can look with civic pride upon
all these evidences of progress which
places our little city we'll to the front
with all up-to-date communities. 1t is
safe to say that from the standpoint of
general advancement Union City is not
surpassed by any other place of its size
in the United States. But, while great
advancement has been and is being
made, it is now time for us to take a
still greater step forward, which, if
taken, will make of us a more useful
community.
A hospital at this stage of our civic
development is not only convenience
but an absolute necessity if the health
and life of our citizens are to be prop
erly safeguarded. The hospital is the
milestone of scientific and medical ad-
vancement, and no community however
enlightened can long stand in the front
rank of progress which denies its citi-
zens the benefits of this most beneficial
institution.
In the light of the great discoveries
made in recent years as to the caus-
alton of diseases and infections, it is
no longer justifable to deal with medi-
cal and surgical cases as they were for
merly dealt with. These important dis
coveries must be followed by more
thorough and scientific handling of the
patient, and this can only be done in a
thoroughly equipped and well regulated
hospital. No surgical and but few medi-
cal cases can be so successfully handled
at the home as at hospital where the
patient has the advantage of every mod |
ern appliance and the most careful at
tention. The hospital becomes an abso-
lutte necessity in all emergency cases
where an immediate operation is i'm
perative. 1t is only necessary to men
ton a few of the more common cases
to show the correctness of this state
ment. Such cases as general injuries,
stabs, cuts, gunshot wounds, burns,
scalds, typhoid perforations, obstruc-
lions of the bowels due to various
operative cases of appendicitis,
tumors, hemorrhages and stoppage of
the windpipe due to diphtheritic and
other causes; most of these cases de-
mand immediate attention. No time in
many of these cases could be given for
the preparation of suitable operating
place, nor could the fatiguing trip to a
distant hospital be borne, even if it was
possible to delay operative procedure.
Next in importance to skillful oper-
ators, with which our city is unusually
we'll supplied, the things most neces-
sary for safe and successful operation ,
ire % proper equipment, (2) we'll
rained assistants, (9) rapidity of oper-
ltion and (4) careful aftertreatment.
The hospital offers all of these.
1t is not possible to secure outside of
he modern hospital conditions of proper
fertilization and disinfection so neces-
airy in all operative work, nor is it pos
ible elsewhere to have at the command :,
# the surgeon the latest and most ap-
'roved instruments, operating tables,
appliances and skillful as
In all major and other seri- '
us operations where life is hanging
q the balance the patient is entitled to 9
very chance for his or her life, and that
peration is far more likely to meet
nth success which offers to the sur 9
con the great advantages of modern :
ospital.
Nor would we, in enumerating the