The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-07-08
HELP CRIPPLED CHILD.
Judge Maxwell Makes Appeal tor
People to Give Poor and Grip.
Dled Children the Benefit.

A law passed Dy our last general
assembly, providing for the free
medical and surgical treatment and
hospital care of poor and unfortunate
children, at the Hospital of the Medi-
cal College of the State University
at Iowa City, becomes operative on
July the 4th.
This law is one that every 1owan
may be proud of, and it Is hoped that
its general terms and provisions may
be given such publicity that every
poor crippled or diseased child In
the state may be benefited by the care
and treatment provided for, may pc
brought within it's beneficient pro.
vision. l will be pleased to be advls-
ed at any time of any child in this
Judicial District who falls within the
class of children provided for. Physi'
clans, teachers, ministers and county
township, city and town officers are
especially appealed to, in behal1 ol
these unfortunates. The Hospital OF
the State University is in the hands
of a staff of the greatest surgeons
and physicians of the country and is
otherwise equipped to give as good
service to these unfOrtunates gratult-
ously as could be obtained for the
children of the we'll to do. The gen.
eral features of the law are as fol-
lows:
/. The District Court or Judge
thereof, sitting or acting as juve-
nile court, may on his own motion. or
on a complaint filed by any proba-
ton officer, school teacher or officer,
superintendent of the poor or physi-
clan alleging that the child named
therein is under sixteen years of age
and is afflicted with some deformity,
or suffering from some malady that
can probably be remedied, and
that the parents or other person
chargeable with the support of such
child, are unable to provide means
for the surgical and medical treat
ment and hospital care of such child,
shall appoint some physician who
shall personally examine said child
with respect to it's malady or defor-
nation. N
2. Such physician shall make q
written report to the court or judge
in detail, and state whether or not in
mis- opinion, such deformity or NAL
aay can probably be remedfed.
g. Upon the filing of such report.
the court or Judge shall fix a day
for hearing, and cause the parent or
parents, or other person having Gus
tody of said child, to be served with
notice of such hearing, and upon
such hearing evidence may be intro
duced.
4. 1t the court or Judge finds that
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.ity or malady which can probably be
remedied by medical or surgical
treatment and hospital care, and that
the parents, or other person legally
chargeable with his support, are un-
able to pay the expenses thereof, then
the court or Judge WITH THE CON-
SENT. OF THE PARENT OR PAR
ENTS, GUARDIAN OR OTHER PER-
SON HAVING THE LEGAL GUS
TODY o. SUCH CHILD, shall enter
an order directing that said child
shall be taken or sent to the hospital
OF the medical college at the State
University of Iowa for free medical
and surgical treatment and hospital
care.
5. The court or judge may ap-
point some person to accompany such
child to and from the hospital, and
the expenses of such person, at the
discretion OF the superintendent of
the hospital, may be paid by the
state.
6. The medical faculty of the hos
pital are to prepare all necessary
blanks to be used in proceeding un-
der this law and supply the same to
the clerks of the district courts.
z. No child under the terms of the
law, shall be treated for any ailment
except such as arc described by the
order of the court unless permission
for such treatment is granted by the
parents or guardian, and it is express
ly forbidden that any child shall be
used for the purpose OF experimental
ton. !
In letter from the dean of the col
lege of medicine of the university,
under date of June oath am advised
that the necessary blanks would be
ready for distribution in few days.
Please pass this along in the interest
of the deformed and crippled chill
dren of the district.
THOS. L. MAXWELL,
Judge.
Creston, July 2, 1915.
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