Hope I'm not violating any privacy issues here in this blog. Hospital news from 1980.

I have no clue whether they did or not----not part of the paper that ever would have interested me most likely:)

Barbara,

Back when I was in radio news, 20 or so years back, we could actually call the hospital for updates on accident victims, well-known locals and they would tell us and we would air it. Really.

I don't want visitors if I'm sick at home let alone in the hospital. Glad they've given up the practice of putting peoples names in the paper.

Barbara - I do a little genealogy as a hobby.  A few years back I was helping a friend to research his family.  What follows here is the text taken from a published newspaper article, about a great uncle of his.  It's tragic, horrific, but hillarious in the way it is written.  Here goes:

WATERLOO MAN IS DEAD FROM WOUND

G.    B. Boggiano Dies From Self-Inflicted Shot Following a Murderous Attempt

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G.B. Boggiano, the Italian farmer, who lived on the Fairchild Lane road, near Waterloo, and who on Sunday night attempted to murder his wife, firing five shots at her, and then tried suicide by shooting himself through the head, died yesterday afternoon.

After treatment at the Emergency hospital, where for awhile his condi-tion was regarded as favorable, Boggiano was removed to St. Joseph's Home.  Complications set in and his death followed.

Boggiano, in attempting to murder his wife, following family trouble, failed to hit her, although he fired five shots.  One of the shots pierced his own hand as he grasped her about the waist.  His wife then broke from him and fled. Boggiano set fire to his home, drank a highly diluted solution of carbolic acid, and going out into the orchard, agan sent another bullet into his body, this time firing beneath the chin.  Deputies from the sheriff's office found him there when they arrived, following a call sent in for them.

Death was due principally to the bullet wound in the skull the poison having little effect.  His wife, Eurelia, and five children, survive him.  The body is now at the funeral parlors of De Young and Conklin.  The funeral date is to be announced later.

*** From the "Stockton Record" June 26, 1918

Barbara - I had tears rolling down my face laughing when it said that he fired 5 shots at his wife but missed, even though he was grasping her around the waist. 

Had this happened yesterday, it wouldn't have been funny.  But having it happen in 1918 made it removed enough in time to see a little humor in it all.

Mrs Barbara,

The time Mr Charles broke my leg, I was briefly hospitalized and they refused to tell all my friends that I was there. I did not want such privacy. As I recall, they did not even call you, my Godmother.

Nutsy

Holy cow, Barbara, 1980 wasn't all that long ago. I find it sort of disturbing that the paper printed admissions and releases from a hospital. I could see 1890 but not 1980. And did you notice all the women were identified with a Mrs. in front of their name?

Barbara, Where are you in this paper? Will you show that article? That is really cool to have saved it. Kate

That is amazing Barbara.  I cant imagine that they used to publish that information!

Barbara, so many of our agents have licenses that are older than al lot of the new agents!  And if the Washington Post published a list of folks in the hospital, somebody would sue!

Thing were so much different back then. I couldn't see the papers doing that now.