Crowded Hospitals

CROWDED HOSPITALS.

WHO ARE ENTITLED TO ADMISSION TO THEM?

The Eight Years' Use of the Hospitals Has Indicated That They Are Not Large Enough to Supply the Demand. 

The Grand Rapids Herald correspondent in Ann Arbor, has the following to say about the hospital facilities and general library of the university. He evidently believes that the institution belongs to the whole people of the state.

Eight years ago the newspaper correspondents were writing about the completion of the new hospitals of the University of Michigan; today they are writing about their crowded condition and the want of room. This shows how well the expenditure of the money has been appreciated by the people of the state. As the country becomes more enlightened, the more do the citizens of the state realize that a modern hospital is not only the best, but also the most comfortable place at which to be sick. Every citizen of the state, be he or she ever so poor, is entitled to admission to the hospitals, upon the order of the directors of the poor or supervisors. The district from which such patient comes has only the expense of transportation and board, which is $5 per week. This covers not only treatment but also surgical operations. At the present time, both the allopathic and homeopathic hospitals are so full that beds must be engaged in advance. The question of asking of the legislature by the university authorities for more buildings is not yet decided, as some other matters seem more important, but it would not be out of the way if the legislature insisted upon more hospital room.

The university bindery in charge of Will Hollands has proved a very good investment. There is a large amount of binding and all delays through sending books, files of newspapers and pamphlets away, is now avoided, and the binding is well done.

Some years ago at the meeting of the Michigan Editorial Association a resolution was passed that each editor present the general library with a file of his paper. Many editors have done so, but there are still many who have not. Sending files of papers, old books, pamphlets, etc, to the general library means that these donations are bound and placed in fire proof vaults, always accessible to the students and general public.