The Columbia evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-04
MAY Il WILL /,
BE NATIONAL
HOSPITAL DAY
Open House Will Be Held at
Parker Memorial Hospital
All That Day-Ap-
paratus Display.
X-RAY TO BE EXHIBITED
Boone County Hospital Board
and Medical Society Will
Both Participate in
the Affair.

National Hospital Dav will be held
/ in Columbia or May l2. This day is
observed by.hcspitals all over the United
I States.
Dr. Louis B. Birmingham, superiniend.
ent Of Barnes Hospital, St. Louis. state
chairman. has appointed Dean Guy L.
Noyes coUn,y chairman.
Open house viii be held in Parker
Memorial Hospital during the entire
day Of May u and all the apparatus in
the hospital will be on display. Steril.
ization methods will also be shown.
Special stress will be laid on the train-
ing Of nurses in Parker Memorial Hos.
pital and the x-ay aud x-ray plates-MiIl
be on exhibition. Since Parker Memoir
ial Hospital was first opened in 1901 it
has accommodated l0,cO0 patients. Dur
ing the first year from 1901 to 1902 onls
one hundred patients were received, but
since then ii has grown rapidly.
The Boone County hospital board and
the Boone County Medical Society Will
both contribute in some way TO Hospital
Day here this year.
Practically every city Of any size in
the United States and Canada will OBJ
serve National Hospital Day on MAY u.
A National Hospital Day committee has
been appointed consisting Of ten mem
bers. Most of these members are super.
intendents of large hospitals in the Unit.
ed States. Over forty state cbairmen.
including one from the District Of Col
umbia. have been appointed to manage
the. affairs for Hospital Day in their
state. Each one Of these chairmen has
appointed county chairman. -Four pro.
vincial chairmen from Canada have also
been appointed.
GOVERNORS VOICE APPROVAL
Various governors from a large num-
Der of States have voiced their approval
of the National Hospital Day and nave
offered their cooperation in calling lie
attention Of the public to the hospital
service.
Among some Of the features for Hos
pital Day in nearly every hospital IN the
Upited States viii be the inspection Il
the institution during the visiting hours
in the afternoon and evening and the in-
spection Of the nurses home. In some
hospitAls the graduation exercises for the
Nurses Training School will be held on
this day.
Pamphlets viii be given out by each |
hospital all over the United States end |
Canada concerning the work done ky
that hospital. An approximate estimate !
of the number of loaves Of bread and |
the pounds Of meat which are required |
to be bought for the hospital in one vcsr
will also be included in these pamphlets. |
Those hospitals which have nurses
homes will devote 4 great deal Of their
literature to the ideals of nursing. the
requirements for admission, and the ex-
pansion of nursing service along public
health, tuberculosis, and industrial lines.
Guides viii be provided in all Of .he
hospitals to show the visitors through |
the various hospital buildings and TO ex-
plain the various equipment.
ADVERTISED IN HIGH SCHOOLS
In many hospitals a public meeting
will be held on the night of May u.
These meetings will probably be held at
hospitals which are not holding gradua-