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Caption: Booklet - Research Hospitals (1929)
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I LT) THE ST 5 i >!' THE RES] \RCII AND EDI \ [lONAI HOSPE LLS Inasmuch - I w not a party to the i s -ion be en the Unive: " and the Departm * I Public Well hich led to the s ablishment of the search IE ional II Is and the arra ent with the 1 uv rsil conct oing ir man 2 men I e - .rched files of the President- Offit for inform on concerning this projec: :: its arly si ig» 8. This report therefon is ba- 1 on corre- mdence on file in th President- Office md on docui ^n*- referred o in the text My own p rt during the D of my presidency 0:' the University has been the - mewl, difficult I sk of getting the .. ment c. rried out. even in a limited - iv. Whi r credit is dv for originating :he plan must be given :o former President E mund J. Jamt- :'ormer Governor Frank 0. I !en. ai Honorable Char: - H. Thome, former direc ^r of the De; ment of Public Well ^re. In n opinion, the project was a si -manlike j n in the interest of the public welfare in the matters with which it dej I: - proposal 0 coordinate cen in S .te activities md agencies and to ins ute 1 plan loo" ng towards the reduction o: he _rov _ ber t wards the State, defective through dis» L . men 1 or physical, nc only b; S curing the individual patien- but by finding, through a stu ly oi th r illness 3, m iods of eliminating at k - me of the cans - of se dise ses and so le—ening the number subject to them. In a letter dated November 19. 1917. ldr« ss I to P: si J Director Thome wrote that the group h o d plan was I iy. I because he v -hed to confer with S] r Shanal 1. Evidently, therefore, he matter was under di- jussi »n as early late. On April 19. 191S. Director Thorne wrote P: James: "t: of Illinois under its present adminis tion KU u w has rm f exe itive management which will not only be eft tive but will endure, and thr S1 Department :' Pul Wei havii ; n ch he admini ration of State i itutioi. [uires in Chi< h s ;r hospitals for the ti ment of the indigent of the Si T e ill be. Eye, Ear, N 1 Thr 1 ital, Surgical Enstil Psychop hi II 1 and a ( il h. spital. All the e will I le av liable foi iching purpos " Others wen inch :rv as eh< 1 the aj. beta i th 1 ni\ itj id the Depa aent. [n the :u t< Mr. Th( mentioi the need for a I r nurses and a sch » of E 1 mi * the that manj \ 8
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