The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-05-07
Southeast Missouri Medical Asso-
citation Holds Successful Meeting

that they have been conducted thi
AFTERNOON in your own entertainment
hall Primarily, State Hospital No
II is a State Institution, built with
State money from the State treasury
II, however, there had not been an,
way to separate the money that fiowet
INTO the State treasury, then in real
ity, this institution was built will
Southeast Missouri money, was bull
by Southeast Missouri labor, con
structed largely of Southeast Missouri
material, built on Southeast Missouri
soil, and is supported and maintained
by thirty-one Southern Missouri coun,
| ties.
Your patients, gentlemen, who arr
mentally i'll, and whose reason is de.
throned, largely support and maintain
your institution. know of nothing q,
this time that in my Judgment would
be Of more interest to you than to re-
cite briefly the manner; in which your
patients. are received and treated al
your own institution. Two kinds OF
patients are received at State Hospi-
tai No. a, private and county. They
are placed on the receiving wards
where the sanitary condition on those
two wards, as we'll as on the twelve
others, is as good as we can make it
The ventilation is all that can be de-
sired, the steam heat conditions
throughout the winter months and
weeks is uniform, and assure you
that every kindness, courtesy and con-
sideration possible is shown your pa
tients. Kindness is one of the hob
bies of this institution.
1t is impressed upon the attendants
when they first make application for
a position, that kindness is expected
and required. In the lectures to the
training school for nurses and at
tendants each week by the Medical
Staff, the one idea of Kindness is i'm
pressed in each lecture. The more ex-
perieneed attendants and nurses dis
cnss with the new ones also, and i'm
press upon them the Importance Of
kindness, how contagious it is and how
susceptible to kindness and suggestion
are those afflicted ones, with, in a
way, child's mind, and how notice.
able it is upon each ward where kind
ness is actually practiced. If this in
stitution could always have the char
acter of attendants that we have to-
day-young people of good mentality,
of good families, goodlmorals, educat-
ed and refined in word, intelligent,
then we would suspect nothing but
kindness, as intelligence and kindness
are synonomous terms. If per chance,
we should employ an attendant of low
mentality, questionable morals, and
not of the best family, ignorant and
uncouth, unlettered and unlearned, in
a word ignorant, then we suspect un-
kindness and even brutality, as ignor-
ance and brutality are synonymous
terms; and when the first symptom Of
that is noticeable, we naturally come
to the parting of the ways.
Gentlemen, | desire to assure you
that the patients are we'll fed. By
that ! mean good wholesome diet,
well cooked and well seasoned. The
best matured vegetables are produced
on the 1850 acres that this institution
manages and controls. From two to
three vegetables are served each day
at the noon and evening meal. These
meals are changed each day, are well
thought out, and well balanced by a
matron and dietician of experience,
and the best cooks obtainable. The
bread is baked in our sanitary bakery,
and the corn bread for the noon meal
fifteen gallons of milk from
our tubercular-tested, accredited Hol-
stein herd, and six dozen fresh eggs
from our own poultry yards-a good,
palatable, digestible, nourishing corn
bread. The meat is produced on the
Institutions farms. Today we have
212 head of cattle. Steers three years
Of age that we raise and purchase are
placed on our blue grass pastures and
clover fields, fed a good wholesome
feed, and when they are rolling fat
from three to six go into our refrig-
orator each week for the use and bene-
fit of the institution. Today we have
554 head of hogs. From this accu-
mutation of immuniZed pigs, we pro-
duce our own lard. Not pound of
ard has been purchased for many
Last year we sold $500
worth of hogs in the st. Louis mar
ket; this year we will sell $4,000
worth of hogs on the same market,
and these checks go to the State
treasury to the credit of the support
fund of this institution. When these
pigs reach seven or eight months of
age and begin to weigh from 200 to
ESQ pounds, from four to six Of those
also go into our refrigerator eahc
week for the hospital use. This is
better meat than we can buy from
he packers, and is better than we can
secure from the surrounding country.
A greenhouse was erected last fall and
Turing the winter months produced
especially lettuce, radishes,
,tc. The lettuce and radishes were
served from trays to the bedrid-
len on the two inirmary wards, and
he two tuberculosis wards. 1t
nay be of interest to you, gentlemen,
% know that not one sprig of lettuce,
n single radish found its way to the
fficers' or employees table. The