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RIPON
HOSPITAL
With but one thought in mind, the greatest good to the greatest number, Dr. N. B. Gould in 1920 established the Ripon Hospital, an institution that has increased in usefulness with each passing year. This institution is located one mile west of Ripon on the Ripon Road and is the former residence of Thomas Hughes, which has been completely remodeled at a cost of $20,000, with the most modern and up-to-date surgical department of any hospital in this section of the county. Beautiful and spacious grounds surround the buildings and the thirteen acres included in the hospital property is devoted to the raising of fruits, vegetables and poultry for use in the hospital; besides there are tested dairy cows that furnish milk and butter for the patrons of the institution. Paul L. Ness, a pharmacist of Ripon, is associated with Doctor Gould in this worthy undertaking. The efficiency with which the work of the hospital is carried on and the manner in which the patients are cared for were due to the capability of the head nurse, the late Mrs. Whitney, formerly of St. Helena, Napa County, who died in 1921, whose position was then taken by her sister, Miss Etta Evans, who came from the Emergency Hospital, Salt Lake City. Miss Evans has a corps of six able assistants, and the hospital is a model of sanitation and cleanliness, and the patient entering this hospital is assured of the most kindly and best of professional treatment. Those competent to speak with authority assert that Doctor Gould's knowledge of materia medica and surgery, backed by a broad general fund of information in every sphere of thought, bespeak for him many years of professional usefulness, and as head physician and surgeon of the Ripon Hospital he has found his greatest field for service to his fellow-man. Associated with Dr. Gould since 1919, is Dr. R. W. Brace, who was lately discharged from the army after overseas service as an army surgeon in France with the commission of major. He is a specialist in X-ray and a very successful practitioner.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham,
George H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page 1504. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
©
2012 V. Gerald
Iaquinta.
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