The Elk Mountain pilot., 1921-01-06
COLORADO HAS A CHANCE
To Be Unique Center of Medical
Education and Public Health Service

To Be Unique Center of Medical
Education and Public Health Service
Colorado will eventually have one
of the foremost medical schools and
one of the finest state hospitals in
where citizens of the State may
avail themselves of every modern fa-
cility of medical and surgical skill
if the incoming State Legislature
sees fit to take advantage of the offer
recently made to the Board of Re
gents of the State University by the
Rockefeller Foundation.
By this offer, the only one ever
made by the Rockefeller trustees TO
state school, 100000 will be given
Colorado for its medical school and
$4,000 year toward it's mainte-
nance for period, provided Ss0o,000
is raised by the State itself. The Re-
gents, anxious to secure this valuable
asset for Colorado, will ask the next
state assembly for 100000 and will
depend on public subscription for
the remaining 100000.
1t is planned then to construct
with this S1,5OO,OoO state hospital
of $50 bed capacity for INDECENT sick,
nurses home, medical laboratories
and a central heating plant, all to be
equipped with the most up-to-date
appliances known to medical science.
The Psychopathic Hospital authorized
by the voters at the last general cleo
tion, to be built in Denver and ad-
ministered by the Board of Regents,
will be an important part of the
Medical School group.
This will give Colorado the best
medical plant between the Missouri
River and the Pacific Coast, all ply
sicians agree. 1t would provide the
most favorable clinical advantages to
medical students, and the general
public would benefit through the in
creased efficiency and skill of the
schools graduates. Each county's
burden of maintaining it's INDECENT
sick could be shifted to the State
Hospital where attention could be
given which it would be impossible
for any single ccunry to provide
Pres. George Norlin of the State
University gives some interesting
facts relating to the proposal in a re-
cent interview. excerpts from which
follow:
Colorado has the only four year
medical school between the Missouri
and Mississippi Rivers and the Pa
cific Coast, between Texas and Okla
homa and the Canadian border
"This territory furnishes about
1850 medical students year of whom
about 240 come from Colorado and
adjoining states. The advertising
value of attracting students from
this wide territory is great and more
over the better students are prone to
settle in the State where they grad
late.
in fact. one in every four persons
in the State and one in every three
persons in Denver are now cared for
by Colorado-trained physicians The
efficiency of their care is directly
proportional to the efficiency of the
State medical school, and it is there
fore important to the pubic to see
that its present standards are not
only maintained, but enlarged and
strengthened to keep pace with the
times.
'By the Rockefeller offer Colo
RADIO has chance to acquire $780,
900 plant by an investment of only
54 cents on the dollar, of which 40
cents is asked of the Legislature The
S600'000 asked of the State will cost
the taxpayers less than 20 cents on
each $1,000 of taxable property dur
ing this biennium only,
'The Medical School and Hospital
would be consulting center able to
discharge the same functions IN
health matters as the Agricultural,
Mining and Engineering Schools do in
their fields
"The hospital would make available
to the poorest citizen the expensive
facilities now denied to all but the
well-to-do. Denver is the logical site
for the plant" because of its easy
railroad accessibility for patients, its
large number of skilled physicians,
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