The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-22
is OUT OF 27
DOCTORS FOR
CAR LINE SITE
twenty-five Physicians Agree
tuberculosis Hospital Ne
cessary Four Oppose
One Refuses Opinion.
II ADVOCATE Is BEDS

ally are unanimous in their opinion
that tuberculosis hospital should be
built in this county.
Thirty-one answers have been re-
ceived by The Palladium in response
to its QUESTIONABLE upon the need of
such an institution. where it should
| be located, and whether it would be
/ practicable to start the hospital with
as few as 25 beds.
| One physician has refused an opin-
ion upon all of the questions; 26 are
| in favor of hospital, and four believe
| such hospital is unnecessary. Letters
of inquiry have been sent to all physi-
| clans in Wayne county
| 1t appears, from the answers re-
turned, that the opinion of the ma
| jority favors the erection of the pro-
posed hospital upon a site accessible
| to a car line Twenty-seven physi-
clans already have given their advice
| in this particular. The vote stands
| 16 against the present location, south
| of the city, and II favorable TO the
present site.
| Claims inaccessitility
This question is the one attracting
| the most comment. Forceful argu-
ments are being presented for and
! against. One of the county's most
| able physicians writes concerning this
| question:
Il doubt the advisa bility of attempt
| ing to develop such a hospital on the
| site rendered and on which some i'm
provements already have been made.
1t is ina ccessible to patients, relatives,
officers and employees, and the cost
of maintenance will prove unavoid-
ably excessive. A new and better site
should be selected, and it is hoped
| that the generous donation can be
turned and applied for the purpose. -
| This same physician has the follow
ing to offer regarding the practicability
of starting a tuberculosis hospital
with % beds:
1T is not practicable to construct
and operate any hospital with as few
as % beds. 1t should have a capacity
of so to 100 beds, even if adjacent
counties must be called upon to sup
ply the patients"
Advises 40 Beds
Much enlightenment is thrown upor
the entire situation by another com
munication from a Richmond physi
clan whose judgment is not to be de
MED:
| Wayne county needs a tuberculo
sis hospital or some adequate mean:
of caring for both the curable and the
incurable. The county does not neeC
a large hospital, but one sufficient t,
accommodate 40 patients, both mel
and women, as maximum ca pacit,
: without crowding.
The present hospital site is suf
ficient and the gift outweighs its dis
: advantages of location Present plan
are visionary and not justified b.
county needs, and should not be con
sidered except on long time contrac
: with the government sufficient to cove
: the expense of a heavy governmen
retinue.
Keep the gift with its provisions o
: additional gifts as planned by tn
: donors and others. Add to the presen
residence at the farm wings adequat
: to house IA to 20 patients, each of mel
? and women, with sun parlors, and
rear for the accommodation of kitch
ems and help. This will be all the he'll
$ needed to the plant already built
y Urges Cottage Additions.
!. Il would build cottage additions fo
the men and women as demanded
1 these being built especially for cor
L valescents and for these | would Pre-
; vide an adequate original heating plan
:, to heat these small apartment col
j tages."
Those physicians who believe in til
+ erection of a % bed hospital at tn
+ start, as practical move, continue t
0 outnumber those who doubt tn
wisdom of such a course Of the .
. answers received upon this question
= II favor the % bed start 1t is inte1
u esting to note the comment attendin
the answers of several physicians.
p Il do not think the location selecte
L good on account of the expense of ge
ting there. Friends of patients wi
want to visit them often, and it i
necessary they should, so the patient
will be satisfied, which is to be desire
S in the treatment of the disease.
Advises IS Bed Start.
II think 25 beds would be a goo
A start as look on such an institutio
i as more of a place for the teaching {
i the tubercular patients how to liv,
: after they leave the institution"
! Another physician writes:
: II think the number of beds to b
provided would depend upon the loct
tion of the hospital. It probably coul
\ not be run on a basis of % beds
the southern site is selected. but if ru
at the inflrmary where the administr
J ton costs would be taken care of an
way, 25 bed building could be ru
very well. About Is years ago l CO..
o Quoted an institution with fewer tha
d % beds and made it pay"
Ic Summed up. additional remarks /
h those answering demand that action /
taken wisely and at once. Two ph
sicians have stated that had there bee
IS a hospital during the past year the
ID could have placed patients in the i
V stitution.
Let US shut off hot air, wake u
"A and do something worth while" CO
36 cludes the communication from OF