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An estimated crowd of more than 500 persons yesterday afternoon at tended dedication services of Free man hospital at Twentieth street and Sergeant avenue, and it is expected as many will attend the public re ception from 3 o'clock this afternoon until 9 o'clock tonight. Everyone is invited to inspect the building. . Keys, deeds and abstracts of the home were delivered to Charles T. Orr, president of the board of trus tees of the new hospital, by J. W. Freeman, donor, and the manage ment of the hospital was formally and officially placed in charge of the St. Louis conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. ‘Today it was announced by Mr. Orr that osteopaths will not be barred from using the hospital. Any reputable medical practitioner recog nized by the American ‘College of Physicians and Surgeons will be eligible to use the institution. Stand ards governing this hospital will be those of the National Methodist Episcopal Board of Hospitals and Homes. These standards, Mr. Orr said, do not exclude osteopaths. In the program of dedication yesterday, the Rev. W. G. Beasley, pastor of the First Methodist Episcog pal church, South, gave the principal address. He commended the move ment that has culminated in estab lishment of this hospital and lauded the work of the church in caring for the sick. “It is the work of Christ,” he said, “who went out on the high ways and bywayds of Ufe and healed the sick.” = _ The Rev. Dr. N. E. Davis of Chi cago head of the Methodist hospital ization work, spoke upon the man agement of ‘the 170 hospitals oper ated by the church. Appointment of a superintendent as announced today. She is a Mrs. Kuebler, formerly superintend ent of a hospital at Guthrie, Oklo. She has been authorized to employ five nurses, two of whom she has already engaged. Sufficient applications have been made to fill the hospital with pat ients, Mr. Orr said. her patients will be taken tomorrow or as soon thereafter as the staff of purses is completed. , ee A meeting of the board of. (Continued on Page Eight)
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Mon, Nov 06, 1922
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