Hospitalization and Death Costs
Fees for services if needed, to be charged by the Orofino Hospital to the Kooskia Internment Camp
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Service provided |
Per day |
Per week |
Fees |
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Hospital, private room |
$4.50 |
$31.50 |
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---, double room |
3.50 |
24.50 |
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---, ward |
3.50 |
24.50 |
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Operating room, major surgery |
$10.00 |
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---, minor surgery |
5.00 |
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Anaesthesia, major surgery |
10.00 |
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---, minor surgery |
5.00 |
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Laboratory work, blood count |
3.00 |
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---, urinalysis |
2.00 |
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X-ray of hand, wrist, foot, ankle, forearm, arm, shoulder, knee, thigh |
One plate, $2.50 Two plates, 5.00 |
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---, hip, chest, eyeball, head, spine, kidney, bladder |
One plate, $10.00 Two plates, 12.50 |
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---, gastro-intestinal, complete series |
At least three plates, $15.00 |
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Special nurses, 8-hour |
Prevailing rate |
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Day call at Kooskia Internment Camp |
First patient, $50.00 Each additional patient, $2.00 |
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Night call at Kooskia Internment Camp |
First patient, $75.00 Each additional patient, $2.00 |
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Call at hospital office by appointment |
$2.00 |
Information from IBA, Invitation No. 44-3K, BHF from RTH, June 12, 1943, together with "Conditions," "Instruction to Bidders," and "Instructions to Contracting Officers" on back of "Invitation, Bid, and Acceptance" form, no date; together with RTH, "Standard Government Form of Continuation Schedule for Standard Form 31 or 33 (Supplies)" for Invitation No. 44-3K, and "Conditions and Special Instructions," no date; AN85-58A734, FN56125/288, Box 2451, RG85, NARA I.
Comparable costs for providing funeral and ambulance services
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Shaw Funeral House |
Blake Funeral Home |
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Service provided |
Body at Kooskia |
Body at Orofino hospital |
Body at Kooskia |
Body at Orofino hospital |
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Removal of body |
.00 |
.00 |
24.00 |
24.00 |
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Transportation to mortuary |
30.50 |
.00 |
18.30 |
.00 |
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Shroud |
5.00 (not stated) |
5.00 |
4.00 (black regulation robe |
4.00 |
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Casket |
35.00 |
35.00 |
35.00 |
35.00 |
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Outer case |
10.00 |
10.00 |
8.00 |
8.00 |
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Removal to cemetery or railroad station |
.00 |
.00 |
2.00 |
2.00 |
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Grave |
5.00 |
5.00 |
10.00 |
10.00 |
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Opening and closing grave |
10.00 |
10.00 |
10.00 |
10.00 |
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Grave marker |
5.00 |
5.00 |
7.00 |
7.00 |
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Washing and embalming body |
25.00 |
25.00 |
20.00 |
20.00 |
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Total |
125.50 |
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138.30 |
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Ambulance service to Kooskia, per trip |
30.50 |
24.40 |
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Information from "Abstract of Bid No. 44-4K," [about June 14, 1943]; AN85-58A734, FN56125/288, Box 2451, RG85, NARA I.