Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1912 — MEDICAL SOCIETY TAKES OVER HOSPITAL [ARTICLE]

MEDICAL SOCIETY TAKES OVER HOSPITAL

Physicians and Surrounding Towns Decide to Make the Hospital General and Incorporate It. At a meeting of the physicians last night it was decided to let the Medical Society assume responsibility for the hospital at Rensselaer and than make it a institution for Jasper and surrounding counties, and sell stock at a rather small figure to laymen and physicians alike. TElie society realized that a hospital would he of great benefit if it could he mamtained by the people in general,

rather than by physicians alone, so ~ those for whom the hospital is main-; tained would share in tbe responsibility as well as the benefit. In this manner it Is hoped to have the instltution first class, run in an economical way, be patronized by all physicians and thus placed on an equal footI ing of privilege, and controlled by a j hoard of directors who will be finally selected by the stockholders. In order to incorporate, the society selected five directors, one from Remington, i

one from Francesville and three from Rensselaer. These directors organ* lzed by electing a president, secretary and treasurer. The directors will proceed to incorporate and assume control in a short time. In the meantime, at least in a very few days, the situation will be presented to the public in a clear and tanglible form and it will become the public’s hospital, Pres, and Sec’y. Jasper Society, ,