Henderson daily dispatch., February 05, 1932, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

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KIBW FOOD MARKET RMiEIIOM
GIVES IMPRESSION
MJT HOSPITALS
CaUnl Rock In A Wetry
Land, And Shelter In
Time of Storm
By DOUGLASS HILL MOREHEAD.
"Speaking of operations 1 ’ is a fa
vorite pastime of poet-operatives, and
a conversation devoutly to be run
from, a play phrase of humorous
writers, and a time worn Joke. Well
then, why bring that up? Because I
wish to speak of operations and I
wish to add and discuss their com
plement. co-operation.
In tire matter of surgery and hos
pitalization. I have bpen merely an in
nocent bystander, an interested on
looker at the Ills that flesh is heir
to But through the ill of my own
"flesh tind blood” I have been a vi
carious suffer, and am a very' sensible
critic. I, personally, have never had
an ill day in my life, and am like
the old colored mammy, who asked
to namee her diseases, replied that she
had "never had nothing but smallpox
and Jim." I haven’t even had small
pox and "having Jim 1 ' was just a plea
sant rest, and a case where the end
more than justified the means. How
ever. I have a large family connec
tion who at one time or andther have
been “operatives, and I have learned
about hospitals from them.
Droll stories have been written by
eminent authors upo nthe subject of
operations, post-operatives have mini- ,
mixed the discomforts, and time has i
healed scars upon memories as well
as bodies, but If one would tell the ]
truth there Is no such thing as a:
minor operation and no operation Is 1
considered exactly the patient's idea
of a good timee.
I am all in favor of adding to. rath
‘ er than taking from, and hope to die
Intestate and with my boots on. but '
—if I should have the ill fortune to'
fall by the wayside I hope some con- t
venlent Samaritan will ring for tho |
Whitt Maria with the Red Cross on
It. and I shall mount to It's cabin and
give my orders to the man. and take ;
a sweet and easy ride to the hospital, j
For well beings there may be no place [
like home, but for the physical down- |
nnd-outers the hospital Is a rescue
house and it's staff a veritable sal- .
vation army.
Joking aside, there is nothing too!
good that I can say for the comforts j
of a good hospital, and there are no j
bad ones, only greater or lesser, for
all hospitals are efounded upon the j
same ideals and run along the same
lines and are superior to any home
in the treatment of disease. There are ■
hospitals larger than others, hospitals
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better equipped, hospitals which, be
cause of the human element of their
personnel, function more smoothly
than others, but even a small in
firmary has advantages over the
homeopathic ministrations of a color
ed midwife and any operating theatre
is better than a lantern lit kitchen.
For evary hospital holds cleanliness
to be almost equal in power and glory
with godliness; cleanliness is the god
of the hospice, the institutional way
of serving God. Not the soap and
water incorruption of mere mortals,
but sanitation disinfected, antiseptic,
sterile, "not touched by human
hands." To cleanliness is added sys-
I tern, schedule, order, but not immut
' able Median law; regulation temper
; ed by humanitarianism and justice by
; mercy.
i A hospital is all things to all men;
a life saving station; a public health
center; a health education school; a
physical reconstruction plant; and an
inspiration to physicians.
Hospitals study eternally the phy
-1 chology of neuresthenia (of both pa-
I tients and doctors! and the newest
j and best methods for the alleviation
of pain and the restoration of hope,
but amid such stupendous studies
take notlc of the tempting of cap
; ricious apptltles and amusements of
| brain children. However, in spite of
! all their studies, I have observed that
materia medica has found nothing to
equal the efficacy of a good old fash
ioned mustard plaster in the treat
ment of pulmonary diseases and cas
tor oil is still on many a diet chart-.
Belhg onty a layman, I cannot give
scientific information about institu
tions of healing, but merely as ap
preciation of the benefits derived.
Having fought sickaess at home are*
at hospitals I speak with authority
of the superiority afforded by the lat-
HENDERSON, (N. C.,j DAILY DISPATCH' FREDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1932
LJ. S. Consulate at Shanghai
Here is . photo of the American Consulate at Whangpoo Road
Shanghai, which is acting as a clearing house for the interchange ol
diplomatic note? .between our State Department and Other govern
ments interested in the Sino-Japanese crisis in the Far East. Th«.
Consulate has been one of the busiest places in Shanghai since tht
first Japanese threat to occupy the city. Inset is Consul General
Edwin S. Cunningham.
ter. When fever arises suddenly,
without apparent reason, the imme
diate availability of skilled physicians
and experienced nurses Is no small
consideration to an anxious mother.
When water is hot when it should be,
and the frigidalre never fails to make
ice, when room temperatures are even
though the patient's fluctuates, when
the supplies are inexhaustible and the
medicine chest fully equipped, and
the Curfew is rung at nine o’clock
and silence imposd for the benefit of
the nerve racked well, these are
some of the minor services a hospital
renders.
But even a hospital, though almost
infallible, cannot do the maximum
good if a patient insists on being a
Gandhi, a non co-operative. Even a
non violent opposition campaign is
detrimental to the efforts of the doc
I “M” System I
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3-pound QQ r
|jl RT, Coffee, JJ C bucket J .’ C I
I 98 lbs. FLOUR $1.99 I
Luzianne 99- Full Cream 17- I
Coffee _ 4,C Cheese, lb. 11C
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I 12 lbs. FLOUR I
0 ‘ & Fat Back Meat 7n
■ Sweet Sugar 2s c thick, per lb. /C
■ Corn, 3 cans
I Peanut But- IQ C
■ ter, 10-oz. jar w
Rib Side QVuc
I Duke’s Home Meat
Made IQp I
Mayonaise _. ——
I Full Line of Fruits I
I and Vegetables I
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tors and nurses. A patient must make
positive motions, /both mental and
physical, towards *• health, and learn,
preach and practice "Abandon fear
all ye who enter here.” In a hospital
doctors and nurses are at their best,
and if given a chance, a fighting
chance, they can effect a cure. Give
them a break! ”Lie still, Pat, the
\ doctor knows best” said the Irish wo
man to her reviving husband, just
pronounced dead. That’s the spirit'
Os course being in rude halth I
am noe qualifid to speak of the suf
fering of the sick, but many an in
valid, temporary or chronic, akes ad
vanage of heir horizonal posilon to
be querulous and dissatisfied, if not
downright disagreeable ,and abusive
of those who would help them. Pa
tient is a misnomer for many as hos
pital inmate,- impatient is the word.
An' old maiden lady, a charity neures
thenic chronic, once complained of
the tortures she had endured at the
hands of the nurses. Beaded to re
port the nature of the cruelites per
petrated upon her, she finally and
reluctantly, due to maidenly modesty
no doubt, said that some fleud had
administered an enema. Os such stuff
as complaints are made on.
Many a person, especially during
this late financial unpleasantness,
considers hospitalizations expensive.
Patients have been brought to the
hospital when it was too late, because
their families thought that they could
not meet the expenses incidental to
an operation o ra period of treat
You Can’t Have Your Cake
and Eat It Too
Neither can you have hot gp|ja[Bß| j Don’t waste enough fuel
weather and hot water. . . to heat your home (when
that is, if you are de- 1 li jfvK it isn’t necessary) just
pending upon your fur- * or sake of having hot
. . water. You will save
nace to do your water 9 IlflHi u
, -i. » x. I MH money by installing an
heating. It may be time iVlbm Automatic Storage Water
for winter, but there have 1‘ Heater, and at the same
been very few days cold jIB time solve the hot water
enough to keep the fur- IH problem for next sum
nace going full blast, con- j nl m J' r * Such an installation,
h» q , U h.P„ y thl ' h ?lf J■ i| dential Combination Serv
has been the result. Hot mflh mg
water is a necessity, and ||| .. ... f * .
can be had all the vear ill 14 P oSSlb!e for y° u t 0 use
’round with a General ; I IHI ' more elec ‘ ricity , fo . r •“
Electric Hotpoint Electric ! 1 purpoaes at a much lower
Water*..*,. • ... ‘ ... *
*;• I «A>nvincea.
GENERAL
HvlfugOt.
Electric Water Heaters
$lO 9Pp]3H 2 Tears
Down To Pay
■ UJWES I USHTING | COW »
RESIDENTIAL COMBINATION SERVICE RATE
One of the lowest rates offered in the Carolinas for combination
Residential Lighting, Cooking and Heating Seme*
CAROLINA
Power €l Light Company
ment. The pity of It. Truly an error
o fthe uninitiated.
No price is too great to pay for
health, but most hospitals, being ele
emosynary in practice, have a price
ra|ige without parallel among caran
vansarles. The minimum rate of
nothing in the charity wards supplies
ail the requisites of healing, and the
average maximum or ten dollars a
day, American plan .adds only the
luxury of privacy. In either case you
get the best the house affords in the
matter of bed and board. And. such
board. No nriother love nor natural
“cooking hand’’ can produce the
meals of trained dieticians. My cook
has been jealous ever since my last
sojourn in a hospital.
Tliiugh my hospital e*pcr>rn * e Y>s
not teen wide or proionred, [ j, avf
*r my capacity of sM
enough of these resorts of rs cu ♦ra-
M.n to ica'tz* that there Is n , Uw,'
for com f »*t. only comp.i -ent. an d
no truth in the legends we used to
hear of the inquisitional tortu.es of
institutions, netlorls. Gon» »re th*
days when w,= believe such storte*;
ail now realise that a hospi'e! is %
rock in a weaiy land, a shelter in t
time of ato»m,” and like the leaver o<
the tree of the Garden of Ebn ii
given to ».s for the hea'n;* of Hie
rations.