The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-22
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of Monday a week ago. The following
deaths were reported Monday:
MabIe Craig. Gle West Tenth.
Maria Ramos EOS Cline.
Romio Armo, 100 Adams.
Anna Burghart. $50 Sardou.
Pete Hoffman, 420 Emmett.
Louis Clark, 913 North Tyler.
Maria Agnigar, 1T North Madison.
Small daughter of c. H Dey. 456
Freeman.
Charles Bright. 1107 North Van
Buren,.
Mrs. Marguerite Krentz. 521 Sardou.
John krentz. 521 Sardou.
Victim Has Appendicitis.
When a man has hard luck he usu-
ally has a bunch of it all at once.
There lie a man in the emergency hos,
pital who started out with an attack
of influenza. 1t turned into pneu-
monia. But he had a strong consti-
tuition. which, with the skillful and
attentive care which was given him at
the hospital pulled him thru these
almost recovered hes has appendicitis.
In his weakened condition there is
very little chance that he will recover.
The other diseases have so weakened
his physical condition that it is only
a question of time as to how long he
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morning.
Form of Gratitude
Doctor Clark tells a story this morn
ing of the highest form of gratitude.
A member of a steel bridge construc-
ton gang was one of the first of his
outfit to succumb to influenza and was
sent to the emergency hospital. few
days after he was released as cured.
He left the hospital, but few days
later returned again and asked for
Mrs Guy, a head nurse, on duty in
the daytime. Mrs. Guy was unable to
see him as she was too busy. The man
went away. Later he made several
more attempts to see the nurse. He
finally came at the right opportunity.
He handed Mrs. Guy an envelope say
ing that he wished to contribute lit
tie money to be used for anything the
hospital authorities needed. He ex-
pressed his gratitude for the Red Cross
at the hospital. He was not apparent
ly the sort of a man who could afford
large financial contributiops-but, on
opening the envelope it was found to
contain $50.
Later on, the same bridge gang be-
came sick almost to a man. The Santa
Fe moved them into the emergen cy
hospital practically in a body, send
ing their own nurses along to take
care of them. With the gang there
was a man who had had influenza a
little earlier than the rest of the
bunch. He had been cared for at the
hospital. So he came to the hospital
and offered his assistance as a nurse.
He had had a little experience in car
ing for the other members of the
gang But he was most useful in do
ing the heavy work which required
greater physical strength than the
nurses possessed. He moved beds, pa
tients. he mopped up rooms, swept
and did all sorts of work around the
hospital that it was almost impossible
to hire anyone else to do. But he
was SO weak from his own sickness
that he only lasted two days. How
ever, today he put in his appearance
at the hopsital and said he was ready
to go to work again. Instances such
as these make the nurses feel as if
their work was being given the very
highest possible appreciation. Inva-
riably. every case that has left the
hospital has been most common la
tory in their expression of gratitude
for the treatment that was afforded
them at the hospital. ~
Among the Foreigners.
Among the Russian and Mexican
population, says DIR. H. L. Clark the
epidemic has been most disastrous.
Most of the older people adhere strict
ly to the things they learned in their
youth. Fresh air in the home is not
one of the things they were taught
They are inclined to De very clanny
and keep their troubles very much to
themselves. When member of the
| family became sick, says Doctor
Clark, the first thing they did was t.