Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1911 — HOSPITAL RULES. [ARTICLE]

HOSPITAL RULES.

Explanation of Conditions Governing Admission of Tuberculosis Patients. Of thirty persons who have applied for admission to the State Tuberculosis hospital, at Rockville, the board of trustees and the superintendent have found one-third without the necessary papers or credentials. In the cases of one-third more the disease was so far advanced as to make them ineligible for admission, the law providing that only persons who haye the disease in the first, or curable, stage shall be eligible for admission. . The board has distributed among all the township trustees of the state blank forms for filling out when admission is sought. By following the forms, which will be adhered to in all cases, there will be little excuse for an examining physician to send persons to the hospital who ‘may not be admitted, “We have placed the application blanks with the township trustees so they can be obtained by any one,” said Dr. Henry Moore, president of the board of trustees. “By making use of them persons in whom the disease is so far advanced that they can »not be admitted nee * not spend money in going to the hospital, only to be disappointed after arriving there. The physicians, too, can help on th* . score if they will give the matter of examination their conscientious attention. ;“Therp are scores of persons

in the state who are eligible f.*r admission. We have the teds for them, and the problem is now to get them. The physicians of the state can help us on this, too, if they will give their attention to it."