Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-29
WISCONSIN TAKES
Up AN IOWA IDEA
ESTABLISHING HOSPITAL FOR
FREE TREATMENT OF GRIP
PIED CHILDREN.
BOYD EXPLAINS LAW
TO STATE LEGISLATURE
Tells Wisconsin lawmakers Off Re-
markable Cures Effected Among
Both Children and Adults-Tims
and Skill Required in Correcting
lDeformities.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, July 29.--Iowa's ex.
ample in providing for the free treat.
ment at the state university medical
school of both children and adults
suffering from deformity or maladS
IL being followed by the state Of Wis.
constn. At a, special session of the
Wisconsin legislature law was
passed patterned after the Perkins
law OF Iowa making provision to un-
dertake the same class Of work In
that state at their university medical
school as has brought relief to thou
sands Of crippled children in Iowa
and, since the passage of the Haskell
Klaus bill two years ago, to hundreds
Of adults.
William r. Boyd, of Cedar Rapids
chairman of the financial committee
of the state board of education, ex-
planned the Perkins law to the Wis.
consin legislature at a Joint session
OF that body. He said that since the
law went into effect July /. 1915
$500, children have received benefits
under II and since the Haskell Klaus
statute was enacted GAS patients of
mature age have been taken care of
IN the year and a half the law has
been in effect y
Remarkable Cures Effected.
AS Is well known in Iowa medical
circles some remarkable cures of de-
formed children have been accom-
plished under this law at the state
university. SFor persons who cannot
afford to pay for the treatment no
charge is made the parents. The
hospital is reimbursed for the actual
cost of caring for the patient out OF
the state treasury on bills rendered
according to law.
Chairman Boyd, in presenting the
workings OF the law to the Wiscon-
sin Legislature. went into it's provi-
sions in detail. He explained tina,
any Judge of district orr superior
court. sitting as a juvenile court. may
cause hearing with reference to the
needs of medical treatment of any
child within his Jurisdiction and II
the facts show that the child needs
treatment, and the parents can not
afford to pay the cost. provision can
be made for sending the child to the
state university hospital for treat
tment. In the case Of correcting de-
formities. time not only is required
but skillful surgical and medical at
tention. Hence such cases are ex-
pensive, and not few parents are
entirely unable to pay for the treat
ment. So the state essays the task.
Chairman Boyd quoted from an ad-
dress recently mado by President
Jessup, OF the state university. In
which the university head declared
there has boen n steady flow OF de-
formed and suffering humanity
pouring into Iowa City week in and
week out since the first enactment
of the law. He also stated that prac-
'tically all of the infantile paralysis
patients in the state had come to the
hospital either as INDECENT or pay
cases and that the demand for ortho-
pedic service has been so large that
the state has undertaken the task of
manufacturing Its own braces and
casts. The speech defect cases have
been so numerous as to nScessitate a
special school for. training in speech
after re- nedia1 operations hasI been
performed Special tneS laboratory
facilities have been provided in con-
nection with, the infant feeding class
es, "A hospital school. under the au-
spices Of the college Of education. Is
maintained SO that the children con-
fined to the haspital and able to at
tend school may do so.