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E PEOPLEWITH HOSPITALPeople of Seward Peninsula Want to Know How Fair-banksans Induced Department to Open Hospital.CtOFFICIALS UNABLE TO GET RESULTSFairbanks Hospital Will Bej Closed While There Are!■i*No Patients There-—Pa-jitients Go Out Todav. !IFrom Nome, the Times received a ■ , telegram yesterday, asking what ac- I9I f ^ - • « ' ' ' ; »~ f tion had been taken by the people of*5 I Fairbanks to brin*r about the open*•j Ing’ of the detention hospital here. . .wk! 'if,j|To date the Nome people havej been unable to induce the department ^1 to open the institution there, and j they are evidently discussing it as j fully as it was talked of here before iI| the department opened the hospital ; j When the department f.rst askedI the marshals of the Second and) :i Fourth divisions to make estimates,citis'tlVitl— {of the cost of maintaining the in-tvdojstitutions. Marsha! Erwin fixed the j amount at between $7,000 and $S,000,1 while the marshal of the Second di-: c I vision said that he would require,0 II j approximately $17,000. Both of these '1i -I estimates the attorney-general considered too high, and he refused ],! Ito open the hospitals. j| The opening of the Fairbanks hos-!' pital is history now, and the Nome' people, who were either not as re- jF sourceful or did not have as good *j arguments to present, are still work-1 j ; ing to have their hospital opened. i In reply to the wire from Nome, ^ thithe Times sent them all the infor-!tim j mation at hand.he; The Fairbanks hospital will be •;n-1 closed today and placed in the hands ! jet,: of the caretaker again until such!.'2, ■. time as there are more insane pa-:?m tients in custody here. ] .: *Ita. :• The Oid Reliant* Model—now nnpn.
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Fairbanks Daily Times
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Wed, Apr 14, 1915
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