Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1911 — Rensselaer Physician Favors Hospital For Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Physician Favors Hospital For Rensselaer.

The suggestion by a contributor to The Republican that Rensselaer needs a hospital has met with favor by at ieaßt one Rensselaer physician and it is probable that they are all of the same mind. One physician has expressed himself willing to give personal aid to the foundation of a hospital and he believes the others will do the same thing. There are frequently from two to eight 6r ten persons in Chicago hospitals from the immediate vicinity of Rensselaer and the majority of them go there for -orations that Rensselaer surgeons could perform equally as well at home if they had the properly equipped operating room and surgical instruments and a quiet place where capable ,curses could' administer to the patients. In addition to the patients here it is possible that surrounding towns and country would send their patients here as soon as it was demonstrated that they could be treated here just as satisfactorily. And if cases arose where the local physicians decided it necessary to call a surgeon from the city this could bp done as cheaply as the patient could be operated on by the same surgeon in a Chicago hospital. This would not only mean a considerable saving to the patients, owing to the fact that travel expense would be avoided, but the maintainance exposes would be cheaper here and the money would go to local practitioners instead of going to Chicago. * A hospital would be a big thing for Rensselaer and would doubtless provq, self-supporting, but If It did not prove so, the law provides for a maintainance tax that would not be burdensome. . Probably large dwelling property could be procured that could be remodeled into an ideal hospital at no great cost and it cduld be equipped and furnished in a way that would be much more .attractive than the large city hospitals. The physician with whom The Republican editor talked spoke of the beautiful Simon Thompson residence. This would probably not be available but it would be ideal in respect to arrangement, location and environment. ' , .