Crippled Childrens' Hospital and School

Article from "A comprehensive history of Minnehaha County, South Dakota : its background, her pioneers, their record of achievement and development", 

Charles A. Smith, 1949

    A hospital and school for crippled children is being planned for the immediate future in Sioux Falls. A campaign for funds was launched May 15, 1949, in the amount of $500,000.
    The institution will provide medical and surgical care and education for the physically handicapped children east of the Missouri river. There is already such a hospital for the western
part of the state at Rapid City.
    This is to be a non-profit organization the directors of which are to serve without pay. The board has been selected from well over the eastern part of the state and include A. C. Hall
of Garretson, E. H. Noteboom of Selby, J. H. Shanard of Bridgewater, Jerry H. Lammers of Madison, Edwin R. Smith of Sioux Falls, Florence M. Lee of Estelline, Lucelle Dindott of Lennox,
Carl W. Pfeifer of Sioux Falls, Arthur L. Coleman of Redfield. C. A. Christopherson of Sioux Falls is general chairman, J. H. Shanard, area chairman, and Walter Burke of Pierre is campaign
treasurer.
    Much of the maintenance funds will be dervied from the "March of Dimes" campaign conducted annually for such victims. This hospital is necessitated by the increasing number of
polio victims of late years.
    What has been done in this direction in the past has been done largely in the Sioux Falls hospitals, the Sioux Valley hospital being especially equipped for the work, but it is not able
to meet the demands being made on it.
    Robert Peterson of the Peterson & Sons Realty Company has donated block 5, Hayward's addition to Sioux Falls on which to erect the building. It lays a short distance southeast
of the new Veterans' Hospital. Campaign headquarters have been established in the Fiske building in Sioux Falls.

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