Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Highland Hospital Cook Book
Such was the beginning of the-highland Hospital, an institution that has for nearly thirty years been in our town, quietly and humbly doing the work for which it was established, namely, giving relief to the sick and injured, and ever ready to throw open its doors for all who are worthy of the care and attention that skillful physicians and faithful nursing can bestow.
In May, 1874. General Howland formally presented a deed of the Hos pital property for the use of the town, and from that time to this the little building under the shadow of the grand old Beacons has been the dispenser of help to the suffering.
There have been received within its doors over eleven hundred patients, representing men, women, and children of almost every known country, and every religious belief on the globe.
The Hospital is supported by the interest on the endowment fund, donations and subscriptions from the many charitable in the vicinity, col lections taken in the various churches on Hospital Sunday, board paid by the Board of Supervisors for such patients as are a charge upon the County, and from the patients themselves who are able to contribute something toward their own support while inmates of the institution.
Patients are admitted at any time, under direct-ion of the physicians on the medical staff, and, in cases of emergency, the matron can admit, subject to the approval later of the doctor in charge. Never is a patient refused admittance because of inability to pay, and as the printed reports published year after year plainly show, the paying patients are vastly in the minority?
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