The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-01-20
GOVERNMENT May TAKE
ISOLATION HOSPITAL
USELESS TO COUNTY BUT IDEAL
LY ADAPTED FOR TUBER-
CULAR HOSPITAL.

, The business session of the board OF
6 trade last Monday was largely given
over to the discussion of the estab-
. lishment of a tubercular hospital here
for ex-service men. The question
came up through the report OF the
committee appointed last week to
consider action regarding the estab-
hshment of a tubercular hospital by
the government at Walla Walla, it
having been proposed by the CONNER
cial club of that city to use the old
Fort Walla Walla barracks. The COM
mittee appointed last week consisted
of DR.. f. L. Quigley, John H. McEvers
and Herman J. Rossi. The chairman
of the committee. Dr. Quigley re-
ported that the committee recommend
no action be taken by the board of
trade on the Walla Walla proposition
for two reasons. First, because the
buildings proposed to be used at Walla
Walla were frame. very old and I'M
suited for a modern hospital even if
they were repaired. which would be a
costly and unsatisfactory operation;
second, the committee was of the opin-
ion that the board of trade should take
up the proposition to turn the isola-
ton hospital owned by Shoshone
county over to the government to be
used as a tubercular hospital for ex-
service men.
An Ideal Hospital.
Discussing in some detail the isola-
ton hospital proposition, Dr. Quigley /
who is connected with the government
bureau of public health and is also an
eN-service man, stated that the gov
eminent is now short 10000 beds for |
the accommodation of soldiers of the /
world war who required hospital ser
vice on account of tubercular or other
disease. The Shoshone county isola-
ton hospital, he said, had ideal accom-
modations for IS patients. and that the
matter of securing it had been brought n
10 the attention of the public health 1
department.. He believed that the
county commissioners would be glad I
o turn the building over for such d
purpose. DR.. Quigley said the isola- q
ion hospital had been used only once ]
md that was three years ago during D.
he flu epidemic. The cost of heating ID
md maintaining it is prohibitive com d
Jared with the number of patients the G
county has to care for, and in fact all o
diseases that require isol-
tion are now placed on the third
loor of the infrmary and the isola-
ion hospital is not used at all =.
Committee Continued -
Mr.. Rossi also spoke of the desira- O.
'ility Of turning the building over to y,
he government and emphasized what "a
)r. Quigley had said regarding the ii
inc construction and ideal facilities "
or tubercular hospital It's con- u
truction was a mistake, as no such p,
uilding was ever needed by the coun- a
v, and to turn it over to the govern
nent would not only help to take care n
f the ex- soldiers. but it would also be p
good stroke of business for the &
ounty. d.
The committee was continued with r,
Instructions to determine the attitude o.
f the county commissioners and to al
onfer with the public health depart N
lent
Hull Introduces Harding.
The entertainment feature of the
leeting was conducted by H. J. Hull. q,
lie had found it difficult to devise an -
riginal entertainment feature be-
ause the field had been so thoroughly Ct,
overed by those who had preceded 49,
i'm. However, as one Of the victims
+ the recent Solemn referendum" at l.,
asst so far as his party aniliation is ~
Mr.. Hull showed himself to
e a good loser by introducing Presi-
Warren G. Harding, who
poke on "Americanism' through the
ledium of a Columbia photograph y"
ecord supplied by the Turner Music
)mpany.