Windham County Observer

Hospital's Fund For Its New Wing Steadily Mount: Trustees' Building Committee And Canvassers Report Public Realization Of Vital Need For Addition.

Favored by ideal weather for outdoor activity, canvassers active in helping raise the approximate $40,000 needed to assure, financially, the projected new wing of Day Kimball Hospital and housing space for the latest in modern facilities of medicine and surgery report an increased public interest and support. No definite financial report is obtainable, as yet, due to failure of canvassers to complete their campaign throughout the city. Canvassers report the public to be in a receptive mood. despite several other major drives in progress, toward clinching the modern addition and facilities for the local institution. They report that the recent notification of approval of the local institution by the American College of Surgeons, the highest authority in the institutional surgical field, has boosted substantially support of the drive in Putnam and the regional area.

Within a comparatively short time the hospital trustees' new wing fund committee hopes to be able to definitely tabulate returns, and report satisfactory progress toward clinching the addition. Many of the canvassers report that people in all walks of life contacted have expressed an intention of contributing generously, but have stated they will forward the sums direct to the hospital authorities, immediately or at some date in the near future.