A Hospital Greatly Needed

A HOSPITAL GREATLY NEEDED
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In This City for Contagious Diseases
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PLAN OF MEDICAL CLUB
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For the University and City to Build One Jointly for the Use of Both the City and University.
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The latest plan for a hospital for contagious diseases has been evolved by the Ann Arbor Medical club. It is to have one built jointly by the city and the University for the joint use of both. At the meeting of the club Saturday evening the following resolution was passed:

Whereas, Owing to the cosmopolitan nature of our community, students coming from far and near and from every clime, smallpox, on account of its widespread distribution, may at any time make an attack upon our citizens, and

Whereas, The prevalence of diphtheria and scarlet fever is also of sufficient frequency in our city to merit attention; and

Whereas, No adequate place exists in this city at present for the detention and treatment of diseases dangerous to the public health; therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Ann Arbor Medical club, assembled on this 18th day of April, 1903, do appoint a committee of three whose duty it shall be to recommend to the common council of this city an appropriation toward the construction of a hospital for dangerous contagious diseases, and that the said committee also confer with the board of regents of the University and ask of them a like appropriation as from the city; the two funds to be combined in the construction of said building; and that the city of Ann Arbor have perpetual rights in the use of said hospital: this committee to complete its work and report at the earliest possible moment.

The president appointed Doctors Vaughan and Dock, with Dr. Wessinger as chairman, to comprise this committee.