Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1917 — How Did We Do Without So Long? [ARTICLE]

How Did We Do Without So Long?

The new Jasper county hospital is no longer a mere dream. It is a reality. How the people of this city and Jasper county did without it so long seems unbelievable. This new institution right in the midst of our city is meeting with splendid success and is proving very beneficial to the citizenry ot Jasper county. Already there have been a great many cases handled, right here in our .own home, .which would have been taken to the city hospitals, had we. been less fortunate, or perhaps werhad better say less progressive. A capable force of nurese, under the direction of an equally capable superintendent is working wonders for all the patients. Local physicians are aided by these conditions, and are given a chance at much of the work which otherwise went to their more fortunate city contemporaries. Fresh air and less noise are other great things in favor of our own little hospital. The money for operations is spent at home in most cases with the local physicians who are thoroughly competent but

heretofore handicapped by the absence of an institution such as we now have. V-- - Rensselaer as well as many other cities had for, a long time talked a county hospital, but not until within the last year or so did the necessity for such an institution become so apparent. Most of the other cities are still talking such a project, and they are still talking. Rensselaer is through talking now about building a hospital; she is talking about the one she already has. That the success of this enterprise is permanent, there is not the least question. Every day will see this home for the sick, growing and progressing. Each day finds the place a little more settled and more efficiency shown. Yes, we believe that when the county commissioners voted an appropriation for this project, they did the greatest thing for Rensselaer that has happened -to her in a long time.