The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16
OPEN new CLINIC
Eighth Free Health Center Es.
tabliShed by Topeka.
OrthOpedic Diseases Under
Direction DIR. w. NJ. Mills.
NEED OF A GENERAL HOSPITAL
Commissioner McGiffert Points
Out Advantages Here.
Great Progress in Health Work
in Capital City.
NEED OF A GENERAL HOSPITAL
TOPEKA FREE CLINICS.

Tuberculosis. ........-.....-F Friday. 8 to
Yenereal diseases. Daily, 1850 to Il
Maternity. .................T Tuesday. 8 to
Nervous and mental. Wednesday, to
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The opening of the eighth free
clinic for the city is announced today
by Commissioner Robert D. McGif-
fert. head of the city health depart
ment. The eighth clinic is for the
treatment of orthopedic cases and will
open Wednesday, April 20. DIR. w. NJ.
Mills will be in charge of the clinic
Doctor Mills Is the only orthopedlc
specialist in the city and the city
health department is fortunate in Sc
curing his skilled service in public
health work
The orthopedic clinic will be held
every Wednesday afternoon from 1880
to o'clock. The clinic will be par.
ticularly valuable in treating cases OF
deformity in children, altho it is to
be open to young and old alike. emil
dren afflicted with infantile paralysis
may often be helped greatly, if not
cured. providing their cases are treated
early enough. and the new clinic is
designed to meet such a need. Clup
feet and other deformities will receive
every effort toward correction.
A nurse wrom the staff of the Pub
lie Health Nursing association will as
Work OF Last Two Years.
The establishment and success OF
the free clinics in Topeka has meant
rapid growth of public health work
in Topeka. With the exception OF
the tuberculosis clinic, the free chnlcs
have been given to Topeka IN I me iasl
two years. The Public Health Nursing
association established the tubercu-
losis clinic several years ago. 1t was
first held in a room on Kansas ave
nue. and about two years ago was
moved to the city hall. The venereal
disease clinic work developed next,
and has grown to such an extent that
dozens of cases are treated every
month at the city board of health. DE-
Forrest L. Loveland is in charge OF
the tuberculosis clinic and DR.. Earle
G.. Brown. city health officer, heaos
the venereaI disease clinic.
Baby Clinics Popular. y
Mothers are becoming enthusiastic
over the Thursday afternoon baby
clinics. Often more than twenty-five
babies have been examined at tne
weekly baby clinic by DIR. PAU E.
advice is given for sick babies and wen
babies are kept well. Expert advice IN
prenatal cases is given at the mater
nifty clinic every Tuesday afternoon
in charge of DIR. Walter L. Wedding.
JTndcrnourished children and grown
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to health and strength at the nutrition
clinic Wednesday afternoon, conduct
ed by DIR. r. ]. Miller, city physician
Nervous and mental cases are CAREFUL
~ diagnosed by DR.. Karl A. Mennln-
g. in the clinic Wednesday after
,. Skin diseases are treated Mon
c afternoons by Dr. Homer Collins.
The nervous and mental clinic ana
the skin disease clinic are only a rev
weeks old. but are proving remarkably
e-e-fT4 Il
a nurse from the public health nurs-
ing staff or the city health department
is in attendance.
Need of General Hospital.
In discussing public health work
Commissioner McGiffert mentioned
something greatly needed in Topeka,
which he hoped to see established or
contemplated in the next two years.
That is a general hospital. Few cities
in the country of Topeka's size are
without a general hospital, he pointed
out.
IF we had a general hospital in
Topeka we could make a health CEN
ter of the city second to none" Com
missioner McGiffert said. I'D like to
see a movement started for the hos
pital within the next year or two.
With an adequate general hospital the
free clinics could be accommodated
in the hospital building, also the city
health officer and there would be no
limit to the growth or pubic health
work. The hospital probably would
have to be built by a bond issue. altho
there has been some discussion of a
subscription fund for the purpose"
Other Cities Doing 1t.
Il understand that several Kansas
towns, much smaller than Topeka, are
building general hospitals" DIR. Earle
G.. Brown, city health officer. said to-
day. 1T would not be great task for
Topeka to have such a hospital. 1t is
becoming a near necessity"
Contagious diseases and epidemics
could be checked more readily if the
city had a general hospital sufficient
ly large to have a contagion ward
where all contagious disease in the
city might be isolated.
Not only as a health need would
the contagion ward be advisable"
Doctor Brown said. Isolation of con-
tagious diseases has an economic val
ne. If the patients are taken to the
hospital, the wage earners are not
quarantined. may stay comfortably at
home. and the family finances are not
upset
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