Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-08
FOR THE BENEFIT
Of THE CHILDREN
Number in Hamilton County Who
Should be Given the Laws
H.. HAP Advantages.

Senator Perkins of Delaware
county is responsible for an amend
ment of the law providing for med
ical and surgical treatment and hos
pital care Of children who are afflict-
ed with any malady or deformity
which can probably be remedied and
whose parents or other persons
chargeable with their care or support
are unable to provide such treat
Nment and care. s"""
This law went into effect July /,
1915, and so far this year there has
been no child for whom application
for care or treatment has been made
in Hamilton county. In Marshall
county two children have availed
themselves of their opportunity for
free treatment and one of these,
whom the parents never thought to
see walk again, was returned the
other day from the hospital at Iowa
City, walking as other children, not
even dependent upon crutch.
The law provides that any dis
trict or superior court or any judge
thereof sitting or acting as juven-
lie court may on complaint filed by
any probation officer, school teacher.
superintendent of the poor or ply
stefan, alleging that the child nam
ed is under 16 years of age and is
afflicted with some deformity or suf-
fering from some malady that can
probably be remedied, and that the
parents or guardians legally charge
able with the support of the child
are unable to provide means for the
surgical and medical treatment and
care of the child, shall personally ex-
anime the child. The physician
shall make a written report to the
court or Judge, giving the history
of the case, and his opinion as to
whether the malady can be rene
died. F
Upon the filing of the report the
court or judge shall fix day for the
hearing of the complaint and if the
court or Judge finds that the child
is suffering from a deformity or NAL
ady which can probably be remedied
by hospital care, and that the par
|ent or guardian or other person
legally chargeable with the child's
support are unable to pay the ex-
penses thereof, the court or judge
shall enter an order directing that
the child shall be taken or sent to
the hospital of the state for medical
and surgical treatment and care.
When the patient has been admit
ted for treatment, the physician or
surgeon in charge shall proceed with
all proper care to perform such oper-
alton and bestow such treatment as
in his Judgment is proper. The
treatment for the child is gratuitous.
The court may appoint some per-
son to accompany the child from his
home to the hospital of the medical
college at Iowa City or to accom-
pany the child home from the hos
pital, the parents or guardians con-
senting. Any person appointed by
the court to accompany the child to
or from the hospital or to make in
shall receive the sum
of SO per day for the time actually
spent, except in cases where the per-
son appointed by the court is par
ent or relative, or where the officer
appointed by the court is parent or
relative.
The university hospital may in the
discretion Of the superintendent or
other person designated by the au-
:horities in control thereof, pay the
actual expenses of returning the said
patient to his home and pay the at
,endant not to exceed So per day for
he time thus necessarily employed, |
Unless said attendant be parent or
,ther relative or be an officer or en-