Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-02
BIGGEST YEAR IN ITS HISTORY
SHOWN BY BOOKS OF pEA-
CONFESS HOSPITAL.
OVER 1900 PATIENTS ARE
CARED FOR DURING 1917
Majority 81 Thorn Ar Surgical Cases
I Business Done During Year
Amounted to $42,e27.1s, Increase Of
$12,423.27 Over 1s16-Advantages Of
Hospital Commercially Shown.

4he biggest year Of hospital work
has Just been closed by the Deaooness
hospital in this city, which begins with
Feb. the ffth year of its existence.
Superintendent Karl Rest is compiling
his annual report, which will be pub
lished in pamphlet form soon. The
greatest number Of patients ever cared
for in any year since the hospital open
ed took advantage of the accoanmoda-
tions afforded. and as a consequence
the hospitals income was the greatest
since it was opened.
Twelve hundred nifty patients were
cared for at the hospital during the
year and Of these LOLA were surgical
cases, in which operations were per-
formed. The number of deaths taking
place at the hospital was forty-three,
which includes victims Of accidents
brought to the hospital. The 1917 pa
tient record shows an increase of 1913
patients over 1916, $50 more surgical
cases, and only Ave more deaths than
in 1915.
All Nationalities Treated.
Almost all Of the nat1onalities and re-
ligious beliefs were represented in the
patients. American patients led, to the
number Of s95; Germans were second,
with 20s; Bohemians third, with nine
ty-tour; and Norwegians fourth. with
thirty-two Methodists led in religious
denomination Of patients, there having
been 231 so classified. One hundred
sixty-nine members of Christian
churches, 1913 members of the Evangel-
ical faith, ninety-on Lutherans. eigh-
ty-seven Presbyterians, seventy seven
Congregationalists and siXty-nine Bap-
lists were among the patients. Of the
patients entering the hospital 65s were
women and girls and 592 men and boys.
OF the 1880, $40 were children.
Business Increase Over $4,000
The hospitals business for 1917
shows an increase of s12,423.27 over the
year preceding, the comparison being
$42,62719 last year, as against $780,
203.s2 in 1916, as income from rooms,
donations, collections. etc. Hospital
service rendered the poor including
medicines and supplies furnished total
ed s1,7o4.s4. The hospital has s4,6O6.96
in outstanding accounts. and balance
OH udIu %. OIL $1joSf.iI.
Spends Much Money In City.
The value Of an institution Of this
kind commercially is shown by tho
superintendents books. The hospital
paid out $s,435.3e in wages, while its
grocery bill was s3,S5o.36 and It's meat
bill $2,4e9.90. For eggs the hospital
spent S577.22 during the year the but
ter bill was s939.43, and the milk bill
$1,7s2.2s. Bread cost $5s9.67 and ice
$322S4 For drugs the hospital spent
$1,s47fs. and for cotton surgical goods
$1,4s1.4s. Dry goods cost $1,SS7.51.
while s2,52s.23 was spent for coal and
$1.2762S for gas and light
These are only part Of tho general
expense of running the institution. OF
advantage commercially is another
item not shown by the hospital books,
and that Is the innumerable people who
are brought to the city as result Of
friends and relatives in the hospital.
These people come here and many Of
them remain during the entire time
their relatives are being cared for. This
means that hotels, restaurants, and
business generally benefit thru the
misfortunes Of those who are compelled
to seek hospital treatment.