Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-05-27
HOSPITAL STAFF SUBMITS RE.:
s PORT OF WORK CARRIED ON 4. /
n. DURING THREE YEARS.
INSTITUTION NOT sELF:sUPPeRT'lHdi I ] !
@sPhysicians Want Management Of Hos
pitsi5Placed in Hands Of
II ;.55s Lay.c Committee.

242 patients given medical and surg
I cal treatment. To this number woul
have been added many more II 1t ha1 a
Il not been for the crowded quarters q
Park View. In common with hospital
in cities the size of Manchester, an
frequently in larger cities, the hospi
tai here has not been 4 success finan
cially. It has cost ss,366.46 TO Operate
the institution since its organization llI
while the earnings during that tins 10
have been nearly 50 900 less. ss
az ,$S The staff which has conducted tht
\ affairs OF the hospital since its found
y ing, makes a plea for larger hosp1
.Etal, and also for management &C
I consist Of business and profess ssiona
men, aside from the physicians who
are. urged to bring their patients te
Z the, Institution for medical and sur
gical treatment. 533. si35
Our readers are asked to give The
following their careful consideration
\ and any suggestions as to plans TOT
operating the hospital In the future,
will be gratefully received by the
men who who have shouldered the
Sresponsi sibility in the past: s5$s8 \
About year ago there appeared q
article in our local newspapers upon
the subject OF Park View hospital or
rather the necessity Of e hospital ~
Manchester and DelaWare county i
we should attempt to 4 brief sur m y Ysy g
the hosp pital field ma it now appears
sas compared with the demand for hos
$pitais twenty years go, not only, I'm
Delaware county but throug the
world 1t would demand too much OF
your val luableE space. no. &c. !.a'
The American people have made
sadyancements In demand
ing the safety and convenience off,. q
hospital for their sick. Never In the
history OF America have there been
as many good spitals as now, and
many new ones are being erected ey-
gery year. In cities where for years ON:
sly!E one hospital Eexis ted there are now;
sevreal and all well patr0nixed
IN smaller towns and cities where
only ten years ago It was considered
impossible to establish and maintain
a hospital: there now stand splendid
buildings we'll equipped for the treat
sment and comfort Of the sick.
\ n The hospital field is the broadest.
tho most promising, the richest and
yet the least developed and the most
poorly organized OF any enterprise de-
;manding the attention OF suffering hu-
imanity. :,55
!. Twenty-Five years ago 1t was = very
rare occurrence to call. graduate
nurse to the bed aide Of a patient TN
Ia private home Nurses were then
considered necessary only In hospir
tails but today the average fanny Inn.
mediately on calling the family ply
sician also demand the presence OF, Q
competent nurse, even though the all
Sment is not Of a serious nature. IN.
evidence OF this demand there has
been at the rate of one graduate
nurse admitted to practice In the
State OF Iowa every Gay for the pasl
nine months, and the demand for
good nurses is even still greater now,
than year go. u n l jf 1ss ss n;
4. #. This. demand for more and better
hospitals, for more and better nurses
is one of the best evidences OF e the
self-propigating power Of Christianity
and the best indication Of the adj
svancement Of civilization.
Never in the history Of Manchester
or Of Delaware County have SO many
. people gone to hospitals as. in the
past four or five years. And since the
establishment of the Park View hos
pital in October, 1911, there have ev7
sen more gone to outside hospitals
than before that date. Since October,
1911, 242 patients have been car
ed for In Park View hospital, OF this
number 154 were surgical cases ana
4S8 emdical patients. Most OF these sur
tgical cases would have OF necessity
been sent to other hospitals and had
the accommodations of Park View
hospital been mere extensive many OF
those operated on elsewhere would
gladly have remained at home and OF
those In near by communities VINO
went to other hospitals would have
been sent to Park View instead OF
going elsewhere. 1t Is a we'll estaD-
slished VI fact that hospitals are not
!; paying institution and could not ex.
isl II slt were not TOT tle ~ pinite aanS,a
!. Hospitals always have and always VI
be dependent upon this good class
siof people. t:s sss ,5.;. Il 4!
The total expenditures OF Parh
1 View hospital to date has been 3d..
S366.46, and the total earnings have
been nearly $4,000 Jess, which def
cheney was contr1Du'ea Dy i've % In tne