F. BURNS, 1ST PATIENT RELEASED FROM DETENTION HOSPITAL 1902

BURNS, HANCOCK

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 2/13/2017 at 17:40:37

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, Jan 3, 1902

TREATED WELL
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FRANK BURNS, FIRST PATIENT
RELEASED FROM DENTITION
HOSPITAL, TALKS
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He Says Everything About the
Hospital is Neat and Clean –
Is Satisfied
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The treatment I received while I was at the detention hospital while I was sick was all that I desired. Everything was neat and clean and I began to improve immediately after I was taken to the hospital. The nurses were kind to me and did everything in their power to make my stay in the hospital comfortable. Dr. Hancock, the city health physician, called everyday and made the rounds of the ward and prescribed for each patient according to their needs. I would advise everyone suffering from a contagious disease to go to the hospital for treatment, because I believe they will receive better treatment there than he would at home.

This is the statement that Frank Burns, the transfer man from Elm and Sixteenth Streets, made to a reporter today when asked to as the treatment he received while he was confined in the new detention hospital suffering from a contagious disease or the “real thing” as some persons put it.

Mr. Burns was confined to the hospital five days and was dismissed last night. That he is competent to speak of the conditions at the hospital there is no doubt. Persons who in the future who may be stricken with the disease should not therefore hesitate to go to the hospital for treatment.

There are eight patients at present in the hospital, five men and three women. The last patient arrived last night. It is expected that two more patients will be released next Sunday.

In addition to the statements quoted above, Mr. Burns said that the hospital is well heated and that the food is clean and wholesome. Speaking of the suffering of the patients, Mr. Burns says the disease makes them very sick for three or four days and then for three or four days more they are bothered with an itching sensation, if the patient can overcome this is less likely to be marked. Some of the patients are stricken with the disease in a more virulent than the others. Nearly all are disfigured more or less by the postules.