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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Nov. 16, 1961
Watkins Hospital Lacks Space
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"WE HAVE a staff second to none and all are devoted to providing the best possible medical service to the student," he says.
The ASC student health committee has been charged with conducting the investigation and delivering a report to the ASC at the first meeting following the Thanksgiving holiday.
The committee, under the chairmanship of Lauren Ward, Ottawa junior, has only begun its inquiry into hospital services and facilities.
WARD, who says the committee has limited qualifications for conducting the inquiry, has said the committee's findings will not be released until they have been presented formally to the ASC.
AT THAT TIME, the committee recommended additional hospital space, but gave priority to expansion programs for the School of Engineering and Watson Library.
Whatever the report includes, it will probably recognize that a considerable part of Watkins Hospital's difficulties lie in a critical space shortage.
The space problem was recognized by another ASC committee which investigated University physical plant facilities in the spring of 1959.
In 1960, the Kansas State Board of Health, Division of Hospital Facilities, made an inspection of Watkins Hospital.
It issued a report which said hospital expansion was "indicated" as
early as 1947 and added "the need is now critical."
The state report, filled with two pages of statistics, diagrams a fundamental point:
A BUILDING constructed in 1921 which could adequately provide health services for a student enrollment of 4,500, is entirely inadequate for a student population of 10,000.
"The present Watkins Memoria Hospital has become obsolete from time and from expanding services brought about by a rapidly expanding student body," the report said in a summary.
For the past several years, KU's student enrollment has climbed an average of 600 students a year. According to popularly accepted estimates, the student body will grow to 16,000 by 1975.
The daily average number of outpatients treated in the years prior to 1944 was 75. In 1959-60 the hospital logged in a total of 46,650 outpatient calls for an average of more than 177 per day.
WHAT THAT will mean in terms of service that can be expected from a student health facility operating in the present unexpanded building is indicated in the following figures.
OF THE 8,771 students listed on the campus enrollment for the 1959-60 school year, a total of 6,493 sought some sort of outpatient treatment.
Use of the various aspects of the student health service over the years by individual students ranges from 75 to 85 per cent of the student body,
with the average number of clinic calls per student running between 6 and 8.
Because of the availability of better drugs and an apparent willingness of the students to use the health service promptly, a steady increase has been noted in the number of outpatients.
built on the edge of Bonham, a north Texas town of 10,000 population 90 miles northeast of Dallas.
"There is a surprising correlation between the space allowed for various departments and the workability and degree of care in a hospital. Hospitals deficient in too many areas are dangerous and unsuitable for patient care."
But elaborate respiratory equipment was necessary, and he was taken to Risser Hospital. a house converted into a 15-bed hospital by his doctor.
ON THE QUESTION of hospital space, the State Board of Health report said:
A team of specialists did all they could for the man known to millions of Americans as "Mr. Democrat." But the cancer was inoperable, and the final result of the widespread malignancy was never in doubt.
He became so weak Tuesday that Risser called in Rayburn's family. The relatives were with him to the end.
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Rayburn's grave will be a family plot about a half-mile west of the town's white marble Sam Rayburn Library.
The second of this three-part series will appear in the Kansas tomorrow.
Mr. Sam' Is Dead-
TO COMPLICATE MATTERS. Rayburn caught pneumonia and lapsed into a coma. A near-miraculous recovery allowed physicians to treat him with experimental drugs. They also administered radiation treatments with a six-million volt x-ray machine.
When Rayburn came home to Bonham for the last time Oct. 31, one of his sisters quoted him as saying he wanted to end his days among "those friends and neighbors who for so long have given me a love and loyalty unsurpassed in any annals."
JOE DENTON SR., owner of the Wise Funeral Home in Bonham and a life-long friend of Rayburn, took the Speaker's body from the hospital shortly after the family left.
Rayburn wanted to die in the two-story, white colonial home he had
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