Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1917 — NOTES OF COUNTY HOSPITAL [ARTICLE]

NOTES OF COUNTY HOSPITAL

Charles W. Reed of Barkley township was operated on yesterday for obstruction of the bowels. Mrs. Ed Reeve entered the hospital for a major operation Thursday. However, a specialist came down from Chicago and after making an examination it was deemed best not to complete the operation as there were complications which made it unsafe. Mrs. Reeve is reported to have rested fairly well Thursday night. Emmet Eger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Eger, and Martha Grant, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Van Grant, are in the hospital suffering from typhoid fever. It is reported that the two children and their little cousin, Ruth Harriet Eger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Eg r, r, contracted the disease from a. surface well in the country. Miss Knock, a special nurse of Chicago, is caring for the two former children.