Isolation Hospital

CRAMER

Posted By: Nettie Mae (email)
Date: 12/31/2023 at 05:44:36

Source: The Clinton Daily Advertiser, Sept. 10, 1914

RECEIVE FIRST PATIENTS AT ISOLATION
The Isolation Hospital, built this summer to replace the "lazerette" received its first patients this morning. Mrs. W. L. Cramer and her little daughter, of 718 North Third street, were the patients. Both are suffering from severe cases of scarlet fever. The little girl developed an abscess in the neck and was operated on at the hospital this morning.
The child has been ill ten days. She developed infected glands and the abscess formed, making it necessary to operate. Mrs. Cramer was taken ill Monday and the disease took the form of a badly infected throat. It was seen that an operation was necessary of the little girl and word was telephone to Agatha hospital to prepare the Isolation hospital for patients. In half an hour all was in readiness and Miss Harrison assigned as nurse.
The contrast with the old conditions when the "lazarette" was the only place available stood out prominently. There would have been no place where the operating could have been done except at home or the pest house and both places would have been disadvantageous to the success of the operation. With the isolation hospital everything was convenient. The pest house, too, would have been a disagreeable place for the patients to have been taken to with a smaller chance for recovery. This first case, it was pointed out, was not that of some stranger or vagrant, but the wife and child of a citizen.
Mr. Cramer and another child are at home. Both mother and daughter are very ill, but are expected to recover.