New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1930, Page 13

'NEW BRITAIN HERALD Pages 13 to 22 NEW. BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930 Average Person’s Income Cannot | Meet Costs of Hospitalization, | Survey of Whole Nation Reveals' Average Person Spends? $5.81 a Day While in| Hospital, While Weekly | Salary Is Less Than $60‘ —Exf;‘a Costs Bring,]@x- penses Higher. New August 21 (UP)—The | average penson who goes to & hos- York pital pays $5.51 a day, according to | completed by the United | Press today in representative cities. | His costs camnot be h lower than that and the probability is that | they will be a great deal higher The $5.81-—representing an average of all types of service in various cities—does not include the ex- penses incurred by an operation or money paid out for special nursing privileges. Nor does it include the cost of medicines and the fees of physicians and surgeons The §5.51 estimate compares with which the American E Association of Chicago feund to be the average cost of hos pitalization 1n a survey of 30 insti- tutions. The same associatjon sur- veyed 2,716 hospitals in all parts of the United States and found. the| average income of the patients was $50.26 per week. | Thus, each patlent in a hosp spends on an average between § and $40 a week out of a sclary less than When “his special cost are figured, it is apparent that his salary cannct be expected to mest the costs of his illness, In Kansas City, Mo., it is possible for a patient to pay only § day | if he enters a d oc by three other persons. That is the minimum charge revealed by the survey. In some cities'the minimur cpst is $4 and the cities th survey i cost -private rooms “rang from 5. the av being $4.61. For private rooms in general hospitals, the cost from 37 $14.30 with an averaze of Some Have Sliding S Most of the hospitals ineluded in he survey will take charity patients and many of them have a sliding scale of prices based on the income | of the patient In a Cleveland hospital an inves tigator is kept busy determining the income of patients and apportionine ntage offhe full co question can & survey m al 5 1 of s that the person in fford to pay sds City, hospitals judge each The same method sen! Louis case on its meri prevails in a rey hospital In SanFrancisco @e tendency is to accept ch patients only on the recommendation of the com- munity cMest or the hospital's own social service 'department. One hos- pital in Columbus reports it accepts [all emergency c: s and investigates later their ahility to pay. About 25 per cent of, the emergency patier re capable of paying ed New York citv costs higher than in other ci fncrease is attributed to the ger higher living costs here rather 0 any policy of the hospitals. Extra Efpenses Run High Beyond the flat “room’ ‘or “ward” ate, it is difficult to compnte the ost of sickness, hospital authorities aid. Medicines vary too much in | ost and the fee of physicians and urgeons is not sufficiently standard- zed, they explained In cases where dn ope Pergone, there is inv harge 3 oom. That varies jith the ave o ear $10 me ive St ation is un- extra ating from $7 to 320 being somewhere Is whose rates are easonable enough to permit occu- bancy by the general public There is a general tendency, ac- ' ording to the committee on the ost of medical care at Washiggton, o plan hospitals se there will be mple accommodations for the per- on of moderate means Jne hundred and twenty-one ospitals out of 132 whose letters pll of future plans include #he pro- ision of special facilities for pa- ents of moderate means” says a amphlet issued by the committee Iwenty-one hospitals reported that heir contemplated on is to be p narily such patients.” NIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 10 CLOSE CONVENTION for the use new construc- for the use ardinal O’'Connell Pays Tribute to Order for its Interest in Na- tion's Welfare. Boston, ugust 1 th annual supreme convention of e Knights of Columbu. hs attracted more than 10,000 dele- tes to this city, was to end tonight ith the annial convetnion ball. | William Cardinal O'Connell, ad- | essing delegates yesterday after- | pon, paid tribute to the order, de- | aring: | “If we could get in America all e organizations like yours to in- | est themselves in the welfare of | e country # a Christian way, God buld bless this country a million hes more. At a business session, rroll of Lewiston, Me,, uteaux of Montpeal, and Heazel of Asheville, N. C. cted supreme directors, and D A. Tobin of Brooklyn, Y., | 4 William J. Guste of New Or- | ns, La., were re-elected supreme | ectors. = (UP)—The James H /Francis | Francis | {plans for a ne |the United States, COUNCIL PASSES ON. NEW ROAD PROJECT Engiyneer Ruthorized fo Plan‘ New Britain-Berlin Highway | Cify P to Engineer been authorized A proceed Merian has with | line highway | extending from the present terminal of ¥ | road in Berlin street A motion to this effect was pas non council at ameet- | ing last night. Although the council | did not go on record as supporting the project, it t nsus that the new highway would be material improvement and was worthy of | tion. Mayor QuiglewJas al- | ussed the idea with Jol Macdonald highway com.- | ioner, and the plan to be drawn | v the city engineer will be forward- | ed to him | The council received and rred | to the claims committee claim | from Miss / ington avenu front of 46 slipped on a pe ed by the cor co nsidy a aim for reim- referred to 4 Nair and Council- | | uy presented a peti- commission nce to Walnut t the end of Vance d to the park b several commis: peet. | rd. | Reports of ere adopted 2 provements were sent to the board of public works for cons DEMOCRATS SEND 23 T0 STATE MEETING (hairman Walsh Rules Against . Tncrease in Delegation The expectation of loca delegation New Londor t the convention have 25 membe ruling of Ish of the by a W who ha city and town is entitled to delegate for each at the pre two delegates for eac tive in the general a local committee took t ator is a repre munity, but the ided that only r hou one cast embly. The | stand that a se members to ber | tain | sation of the civil | national control, and will make thi \in to the Boston post|N. J., is AL SMITH EXPECTS DEMOCRAT VICTORY Says People’s Party Will Bring Back U-§. Prosperity New York, August 21 (UP)— Alfred E.#mith predicts that the democratic party “wiil soon be in a ha as well as a prosperous | nation The former presidential ca a statement that sound the keynote for the coming state and national campaigns, is confident his party will overthrow | he republicans. The statement, | read before the Joel Parkep’ Asso- | iation yesterday at West Orafige, | nith's most important ut- | on national affairs in didate | is believed to| | terance | months. That the prospe issue will be used against the republican party in ! the coming congressional contests and in the presidential campaign in 1 A 8 a against the democrats in 19 s indicated by he tenor of the democratic leader's remarks. “To my mind the democratic party will soon be in national con- trol and will make this a happy as well as a prosperous nation Democrats People’s Choice “The democratic parly is still the of the people, not against lass, nor against creed. but always ooking for the common good, and oppressive laws and na-| al sumptuary acts. * “We stand with Tt Jeffer- son, our founder and or of the Declaration of Independence; ackson, who opposed con ating too much power with the federal government: your own Joel r, war-time governor of New who battled for a united s Associated Press United States Spanish war veterans met i ture below shows the flag raising ceremony on Admiral Dewey’ adelphia navy yard. Some of the veterans who served with Dewey on t of Manila bay are shown above. Shown in the inset are Arthur Reu (1 one of the six survivors of the battleship Maine and Michael Larkin, s flagship Olyn Park Jersey, ~ Spanish War Veterans Meet in Philadelphia Ploto Philadelphia for their annual encampme:; the battle | to be York. country; Groyer whose action the great Chicago strike emphasized that law and order must ail, and again your own Wood- | Wilson, whose ef for home and world is bear- |paign in connection wit nany hundreds of congre: eers now are in prisons through h which r distr] DOG BAN IN ME r A de communication conferences last mmercial city of 1 Nehru ¢ know we had the full |ar, ir s oldest political ¢ Joel Parker Asso- Inec., of Newark former New York governor is expected to follow up this decla- ration soon with addresses over na- ide hookups to his in the congessional cam- election nd t stituted the § t was made known today tkh of the Poona considered b ss workinz com next Tuesday. on, confere he SYSTEM OF FINES Logan, Utah, (UP)—A m of finding speeding naugurated ch on the follo assist Aridi in Retreat Simla, India. * government of India ed today with events upon tr western frontie and 13th of August Afridis by Augnst 12 we to Ti s secretly as they rty paigns. IRWIN IN REGEIPT OF GANDHI TERMS Mahatma Forwards Letter After Gonsulting Other Leaders 21 (P—Viceroy received a letter It a, India, Aug Irwin today 1 Mr. Jay- The viceroy | Mr. Jaya erstood to con- terms for ces- resistance cam- the Mahatm “Lieutenant” Robby Harris is which | second licutenant's commission is & enuine’ and signed by a major gen- eral. Camp Foster, Jacksonville, Fla. | Aug. 15 (P—He's just ‘a le brown dog,” of uncertain lineage, but he is an officer in th rmy ot | and n\g»nllp. man by act of congre: | “Lieutenant Bobby," | and he has a real commission, signed by a major general “by order | of the president ,of the United States.” ‘ True, his commission more or less of a master, Captain D. C. Har of Macon, Ga., commandjng officer of Company C, 121st Infantry, says it is none the less genuine So “Lieutenant Bobby recognized for This is his name, was signed in joke, but his Harris," rank and his ksew‘n years in the National Guard. | LITTLE DOG RATES SALUTE— HE'S “LIEUTENANT BOBBY” A modern Gas Range may be purchased at a material e pri reduction and on convenient monthly pa:yments. If you need a new Gas Range it will pay you to come in now, and see for yourself, how reasonably we have priced a few special ranges for immediate sale. “just a little brown dog,” but his . New Britain Gas ' City Hall Building He goes to dances, funerals, for- mal army formations, or in fact anywhere his' master goes. “He's just a little brown dog,"” Captain Harris smiles when asked about the pup's pedigree. Bobby got to be a real, honest to goodness second lieutenant when Captain Harris was at Ft. Benning. Ga, in 1927. 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