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Book Title: Bean’s History And Directory Of Nevada County, California

COUNTY HOSPITAL.

  The Nevada County Hospital is situated three-quarters of a mile northeast of
the town proper, and was erected in the spring of 1860. Previous to that time, a
building had been rented in the town, where the indigent sick of the county were
cared for; but being compelled to pay a high rent for an inconvenient and
badly-arranged building, and there being much objection to having the hospital
in the immediate vicinity of residences, the Supervisors purchased the present
hospital lot in the outskirts of town. The cost of the original building, with
the kitchen and dining room, was $2,800, and including the amount paid for the
lot, the fencing, digging well, etc., the total cost was $2,600. It was
undoubtedly the cheapest job ever done for the county. Two or three years later
a wing, two stories high, was erected at a cost of $800. The cost of the
improvements and repairs has not exceeded $50 a year. The main building is
seventy by thirty feet; the kitchen and dining room forty by thirty feet, and
the wing twenty by thirty feet. The accommodations at the hospital are
sufficient for fifty patients. Dr. R. M. Hunt was appointed County Physician in
February, 1859, and has held the position ever since. During that time there
have been 967 indigent patients treated; and eighty-seven deaths in all—the
deaths averaging eleven in a year. Since the present hospital was erected, the
number of patients have ranged from fifteen to forty, the average being about
twenty-five. Among the patients are a number who have received incurable
injuries in the mines, disqualifying them from earning a living, and have become
objects of public charity. The hospital is supported by a tax levied on the
property of the county, and which is annually collected with the other taxes.
The supervisors are authorized to fix the tax as high as thirty cents on the
hundred dollars, but the levy for the present year is only eighteen cents. The
hospital building is insured against accidents by fire, in the sum of $3,000.


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Bean’s History and Directory of Nevada County, California

CONTAINING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, WITH
SKETCHES OF THE VARIOUS TOWNS AND MINING
CAMPS, THE NAMES AND OCCUPATION OF
RESIDENTS; ALSO, FULL STATISTICS
OF MINING AND ALL OTHER
INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES.

COMPILED BY EDWIN F. BEAN.

PRINTED AT THE DAILY GAZETTE BOOK AND JOB OFFICE,
1867.


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