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DR. LAKE DISCUSSES f HOSPITAL CHARGES , i BLACK SOIL , and ROTTED MANURE Ms That The) Are Reason. nhle (answering Time and “For! Imulu-d 1lt.MftUPs.u't JAS. H. OLIPHANTS CO. N THIS ttr'F'lt'F', t'o.NNF'.CT'Elr BY NEW Ytrllk ttr'Frllly' COMPLETE Commercial Fertilizers FRANK SILJESTROM ANNOUNCE . ' THE OPENING OF' AN OFFICE _ V . JULY 1, 1930 THE DEERPA TH INN - LAKE FOREST Phorur Highland Park 65 trvatrnent to make it rich in 1 MIN yAlyWAN N FAV Y( JRK wrl " KIM" and garden successful Just what is neededsto prepared under " who: it, are the chimes act- h, after all'? And even 1-4 that they are. the reducing them is not so tel, unu will pay tive or I day for the privilege. ll oust three to tive dol, wsides. Does seven or n ten or tweive--doOrs riulirulous as a hospital we remember that that MILoRGhNITF, 209 SOUTH LA SALLE STREET CHICAGO . merely me ty MR. JOHN H. HAMLINE .u-m PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH WITH CHICAGO AND BROKERAGE FACILITIES FOR DIRECT AND GIVE UP BUSINESS PHONE LAKE FOREST 522 :mfurtablu MEMBERS um ANltCUlCAGt; STUCK EXCHAM NF." YHRK cum EXCHANGE THE PRESS Ry.rmn'sNT MANAGER but also rourn tho expert attention of a trained i, the nurses are graduates, and the at- nurso l' i tention of the nurse on the floor is all Twrmty-five years ago. when auto-i that is really needed by nine out of mobiles were considered a rich nttut'tr', ten patients. A private nurse is gen- luxury and the output was small, one . erally an expensive and wholly unnec- hsul to pay about $1,000 for a Ford,essary luxury-even more so than the car, which today would look like a‘ swanky private room. rat-trap. Now we can buy a fari If the operating or delivery room more effieient and beautiful machineI charges seem high to you, go up for about half this sum. This has there some day and see the amount come about by producing a larger of time. and effort that is expended output with the same, or but slightly in preparing sterile dressings, sponges increased overhead. and things; the number of pieces of if this plan works in an industrial linen which must be laundered every plant, it ought to have some bearing throne of these rooms is used', and will a hospital, and it does. It a hos- the hours spent in preparing for and pital with one hundred beds has pa: cleaning up after such use. And the Hints in only fifty of them, it will time of a nurse costs money and is have to collect more from each of the worth it. fifty ul' "run into the red" and eall Do laboratory charges appeal- ex. ulmn its woll-wishers to make up the cessive'? Find out whnt the x-ray "'vt'wit, as has happened with our apparatus and the laboratory equip- Highlaml Park hospital. If we will ment cost; figure the expense of the thmk first of our own hospital, when education of the doctors and tech- ‘W trl' "UP friends need SUCh service, nicians; ascertain the prices‘of the Wt will be contributing largely to its supplies that are consumed in many trirulnyss and prosperity. of these examinations; then fitturts a Not Only Factor reasonable interest and depreciation Hut this isn't the only fBetor. Miuty on this investment and see how things or U.s have come to the point where look to you. wo wonder whether anything is good Those who become sufficiently in- wwuzh for us. When we go to I terested in our hospital to find out hospital, We demand the most eXpen-. some things about it will be able to NW r'wm in the place, and a special i think more clearly and talk more rea- mn-se. whether we need it or not, and‘ sonably when folks begin an outcry thew things cost plenty bf money. lam!“ the exorbitant costs of hos- As a matter of fact, the food tel pital service, and will gain a whole- sevritu. are just the same in a two- some respect, or even adm' tion, for bol room. at five or six dollars a day! the people who are maki g it possi- m- li-w, in they are in a 1eeel1t) ble for us to have, clos at hand, a n-Oy private room: and a good Perl cheerful, efficient and w lr.eondueted patients would be better " in try!) place in which to be ill, we should xi'mi-privatc room than they would _ need it; and that may ha en to any in the private one. - 10f us at a time when w least ex. those I As l wrvim Inn! my or loss in our Highland Park hospital, all 231) PARK AVENUE NEW YORK the nurses are graduates, and the nt- tention of the nurse on the floor in ttll that is renlly needed by nine out of Mn patients. A private nurse is gen- erally an expensive and wholly unnec- essary luxury-even more so than the swanky private room. If the operating or delivery room charges seem high to you. go up there some day and see the amount of timeand effort that is expended in preparing sterile dressings, sponge! and things; the number of pieces of linen which must be laundered every time~one of these rooms is used; and the hours spent in preparing for end cleaning up after such use. And the time of a nurse costs money and is worth it. Thnse who become sufficiently in- wasted in our hospital to Md out some things about it will be able to think more clearly and talk more rea- sonably when folks begin an outcry ahogt the exorbitant costs of hos- pital service, and will min a whole- some respect, or even Idm' tion, for the people who ire maki . it poiusi- ble for us to have, clos It hand, in cheerful, eitkienb and w lr.eondtteted place in which to be ill, we should need it; and that mny ha en to any of us at a time when w least ex- peel it. Thursdly, June M, 1930