Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Feb 1939, p. 5

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* 1W Robert T. Shermnan President of the Eh'anston Hospital Association The Evanston, Hospital provides clinicat service for o u t patients. Men, womnen and children, who can- ntafford the services, Of. a physi- cian corne or are brought to the hospital for .examination, -treat- ment, medicines,, and other care, aànd then return to their homnes. Origifally, these visitors were expected to pay a fee. a nd the charge was fixed at tifty cents a visit, to cover - everything---nurses, examinations, bandages, medicines. or any klnd of treatmnent. As the service developed, the, charge could flot be imposed on those who just didn't have the money. 26,M00Visits In 1928 4Çcosquenc, inthe fisal year, of 1938 there were nearly 26,000 visits to this out patient departm*ent, and on 10,000 visits the patients paid nothing. A few paid ten cents, a very few paid a quarter, or half a dollar. Each visit costs the !ios- pital over a dollar. Doctors in the department - give their services without charge. As might be expected, a number of these out patients are found to be so 'seriously ill that tbey must be put. W bed in the hospltal and given eontinuing, attention. Th'ere were 890 patients hospit alized in this way during the past year. This is more than- 10 per cent of ail the patients admitted ta t h e - hospital during the year. Hait -Unable to Pay More than hall of ail the patients admitted to the hospital were un- able ta pay as much as it actually cos.t to take care of them. This huge volume of charity work Acloermann Photo Memibers of Theta Upsilon Rho, lnterdenominational fellowshlp club sponsored by the Wilmette Methodist clwTCh, met laat Monday evewMr&g to complete arrangements for their openi bouse to be held thia Surnday even:ng. The meeting will begin at 6 o'clock, and willi be held ini the cllLbroom In the church basement. AU North Shore Voung people of above high school age were invited. Shown above are (Left to 'right), Robert Maxwell, ice president; Binx Luthi, member; M'us V:rginia Brooks, secretary; and Mis BeverlIThVbony, member. Ma id A ids Police in Capture 0f Bmrglkw,.TMef- Confesses Reports Improve d Milk Standard in the TowNfship (Continued from Page 1) during th 'e. past few months.- Fàrrm8 are inspected at least every 6ô 4des and oftener if nevessary. 1-ea1iti of hér&4, cleaii1iness of barnis, and utensils~, and faclities and mnethods are points on which the dairy farms are graded. At the time of the be- ginning of. the work, only about 60 per cent compliancé was reported. At present, the dainies are inspect- ed et least every 30 days. Equiîp- ment, raw milk, washing and ster- ility of glass ware, refigeration and storage, and prope7r labeling are al >In an effort to appre*iend a br- lar who bas been operating li Wil-: mette on Saturday nights, Chief of Police Cloyd C. McGuire spread a dragnet Saturday night and caught the man, who was playing a lone gaMe. The entire department and the Amenican Legion Police reserves were put into action, exnploying eighteen autooiles, incilading the régular squBa cars. Cah11 Vs6m MlWid At 10:40 o'çIo*k Police Lieutenant Albert Borre, on duty in the station, rece-ived a guarded telephone cal from Naomi Dove, colored, stating that she is the maid at the home of S. E. Wherry,. 100 Woodbine av- enue, and that someone was trying to get into the house. Miss Dove said she was alone, and that the bouse was tully lighted. Lieutenant, nicipal, pariç, Hand 3ch £1rdof- fices. in the Kenilwort pril élec- tions will be made witn a lew days, it was revealed on MOndOY by John Nuveen, Jr., 5M0 Warwick road, president of the board of edu- cation and chaininsu of the Kenil- worth Advlsory committe.. .Threevillage trustees, two echool board members, and one Park corn- missioner are to be elècted this year. The advisory commlttee, wbich, for several, years, hau prepared a non-partisan alate for all village elections, la composed, of members o! al eommunlty organlzatlans and offcial bodies. The three village trustees wliose terms expire thls sprIîig are linry G. Zander, Jr.a, Richard Ç. Johnston~ and' Por -op* Tiny Isle's Ride r To Speak in City A womnan wbo is the world's only feudal lord, ruling ber people as an absolute monarch under iOtl cen-- tury law, will be guest o! honor at a tea to be glveii by the English- Speaking Union in thie Arts Club at, 4, o'cloek Wniday sfternoon. S h. is Mrs. Siibyl Hataay*, wl of an American, but renowlied as the Dame de Sark, feudal chie!, owuer, landlord and king of Sark, strange littie island lu the English channel. Dame de Sark, who recently lec- tured.before the National Geograph- ic society in Washington, D. C., will descnibe the customs in her tiny kingdom, where her tities and temporal power are still upheld by

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