East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-06-28
idea of the cost of maintenance since
the institution opened:

4btd u Nlic SpSN VI maintenance SluCe
the Institution opened:
January and February .....$21.57
March OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1891
April ................... 1889
May '''''.'' '.''''''.''. 1855
The above are the per capita cost
with the salaries of the attendants as
well as the physicians and the super
intendent included.
A good deal of expense is saved at
the hospital through the women pa
tiehts making their own clothing.
Clothing for the men has to be pur-
chased and competitive bids for these
are always asked The institution
makes its own bread and pastry. But
ter, eggs milk and other incidentals
are purchased from local farmers
and from the local stores.
Pendleton Benefits.
One may be surprised to know that
figuring from the present basis OF
expenditure, the hospital will place
in circulation in Pendleton in the
neighborhood of $4,000 this year.
This is indeed goodly sum for the
local merchant DR.. McNary figures
this money will be spent either direct
ly or indirectly during the present
year For instance, the employees will
spend considerable with the business
men of Pendleton. The hospital has
need of outside labor from time to
time, and this year particularly when
the grounds are being improved ana
parked, and this will create large
! payroll. AS all butter and eggs and
the like, which are needed from time
to time are purchased in this city, this
/ will increase the revenue of the mer>
chants and the farmers, and all told
( the institution means considerable to
Pendleton from business standpoint.
/ The last legislature appropriated
$1ST200 for maintenance of the hos
rital. At the present time, the insti-
tuition is we'll within this amount.
( Whether there will be necessity in the
/ future to draw upon the appropriation
| heavily, is of course not known, but
Dr. McNary positively declares there
will be no deficiency. This will GER
| tainly be a record for an institution
in the first year of its existence.
Although there are no figures avail
able here to show the comparative
cost of the Salem hospital and the
Eastern Oregon hospital, it is safe to
! say, from at least one months fig
ures which Dr. McNary happens to
F, have knowledge, that this institution
makes flattering comparison.
auic a
maintenance fund for the local hos
pital to start from January /, but as
the institution was not ready to be
opened at that time. the patients
were kept at Salem until the 26th. The
local hospital, however, turned over
to the Salem institution a per capita
cost for the % days on the basis of
S16.S1, which would indicate that this
latter sum was what the Salem
hospital was paying for the month of
January A glance at the figures
again, will show that the local hos
pital has not reached those figures as
yet, with the exception of the month
and a half combined and would tend
to show that the Eastern Oregon hos
pital is maintaining a lower cost pei
capita than the institution at salem
An Ice Plant.
A new refrigerator plant has been
recently installed which is going tc
mean a good deal to che institution
The plant manufactures ice and cir
culates water through the building
for drinking purposes The coils are
: run through the big tank, and by
-;r,, ,l,;,
to the various parts of the building
where from sanitary drinking fount
aims it is available for the use of th'
patients.
Eddie Corbin, former third base
man on the La Grande team, left oil
the early morning train to join on
oe the Union association teams.