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Executive Documents of the
State of Minnesota
For the Fiscal Year
Ending July 31, 1892

                         INSPECTION OF COUNTY POOR HOUSES.
                         
              POLK COUNTY HOSPITAL was visited March 2, 1893. This
            hospital had just been opened. The county commissioners
            purchased a house and lot in the city of Crookston at a
            cost of $3,000; the furniture cost about $800. The hospital
            has a capacity of 12 beds. The matron is Mrs. A. J. Streeter,
            who has a salary of $35 per month. The janitor receives $15
            per month and the servant girl $15 per month. The house has
            on the first floor a reception room, dining room, kitchen,
            matron's sitting room, etc. On the second floor janitor's
            room, linen closet, girl's room, bath room, operating room,
            matron's room, and a ward with two beds. On the third floor
            a single room 10 x 12, and three wards, containing respect-
            ively 2, 3 and 4 beds. The house is convenient and has
            plenty of air and light. The matron seems intelligent and
            efficient. Private patients are charged $6 per week for 
            board and nursing; they to pay for doctor's and washing
            bills. For pauper patients, the county charges back upon
            the towns $6 per week for board and nursing and doctor's
            bills. There was only one patient, the hospital having been
            recently opened.
              A hospital has long been needed in the northwestern part
            of the state and the action of the commissioners seems to
            be wise.
            
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