Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1911 — Suggests Building Hospital; Great Benefit to All People. [ARTICLE]

Suggests Building Hospital; Great Benefit to All People.

(Contributed.) __ • Editor Republican: By. an act of the legislature (1907) provision was made for the maintenance of hospitals in cities where a hospital had been established at a cost of $75,000 as a gift and for benevolent purposes and not for private gain, by the levying of a tax, not exceeding 7 cents on the SIOO.OO valuation and providing further that the board of commissioners may make appropriations where there is no pub lie hospital in the county? This act was amended by the last legislature to the effect that where there is a hospital as above provided not less than $15,000 in cost, such tax may be levied for its support as above stated. The above tax is to be provided only where the revenues from the management of the hospital are insufficient to maintain it Why can’t Rensselaer have a hospital? Rensselaer and surrounding country could easily build a at a cost of 15 or 20 thousand dollars and in case the revenues would not sustain it, the tax mentioned could be levied. There is little doubt that it would be self-sustaining and Rensselaer could not have an institution that would be of greater benefit to all the people.