Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-07-20

MEssEs. EDTioEs :-Acting upon the hint OF
your correspondent K L, in the LntettigeHee7
Of Wednesday morning, viii give few facts in
relation TO the Wheeling Hospital" promising
1t the outset. that said Hospital IS model IN
stitution Of IT. EiHd-being wen regulated and
fully attended by eorEpeten: physicians and
surgeons.
1889 by the appointment OF the foiloxing
Baard Of Trtistees-Rt Rev. Bishop Whelan,
Rev. John Brasil, and Henry Moore, and was
opened in April, 1855.
During the first year the number Of patients
Eere I5S, o. which only died, and the average
numberof char y patients was O.
During the second year the number OF pa
tients received was 49, Ten deatas-charIty
patients S.
Tae third year 23g patients were received, Of
whom Only died, and the same number OF
charity patients were admitted. The reeeipts
Of the Hospital for the last year have not met
the outlay by something over one hundred dol
lars; the receipts being -, 4g7 IS, and the *
penditure in the sane time amounting u 81
500 81.
In the rules for the government Of the Ned.
ical Board we find the following Ihey shall
not sign permits for charity patients ghose DIS
eases they may deem irscursb!e, OF Of long con
tinuance and in no case shall they sign permits
for charity patients without the written consent
OF the superior OF the house.
SIN cases where application Is made by out
door charity patients for advice or medicine;
the GF5ics may be given tsits0at esargS; but al
pledieines .fisraisa>t gla2t Be pail for On a.
HyeTy.
t.The rates Of board vary from g to so per
week, according to the accommodation and at
tendance required the average rates being 3 90,
which price includes board nursing and (Then
paid in advance) washing. and in some cases
medical attendance In al e1sss the 9SeuTlty 81
asBas Tssp1Hsi5Ls psrsoH either IN eoHHtTy,
4 required, for the entire term Of the patients
stay at the Hospital, and no such security Is re-
ceived for iD.ilAI time
Such, gentlemen, are some Of the rules by
which this establishment IS governed, and your
correspondent Y. l." will perceive at glance
how absolutely impossible IS the admission 70
such an Institution, Of that class Of persons, TO
whom al0ns, in all my communications have
alluded, viz: The poor, and the helpless s'Fan-
/ cannot conclude this article, without most
respectfully submitting, for the serious consld-
Grafton Of ont City Fathers, the question, wheth-
er. all appearances ard moral influences aside
upon purely pecuniary considerations merely, II
would not Be cheaper to make arrangements With
the Hospital authorities for the reception Of our
unfortunate sick than tOssnd u to J1it? And
wonder that "X. L., who, il mistake not has,
at no very distant daY, occupIed IN IpnOLGOle
and enyiable position in the Councils OF the city,
has not brought this subject before his col
leagues at a mdcn earlier day.
When the cold and selfish chase after '.ten-
poraIities," shall have become obsolete in the
universal adoption of that sublime idea-"thou
shalt Iove thy neighbor al thyself when we
shall cease to regard every stranger, who visits
our borders, as thief and Tobber, whose only
object is plunder,-in a word, when we take a
more enlarged and liberal view Of the idea Of
human brotherhood, VIC shall look back upon
this practice Of sending misfortune to a cTimi-
nal Jail as We now look back upon the horrors
OF the Salem WitchcTaft, and at times be tempt
cd To rank it As the coinage Of disoTdered
brain. EYE WITHEss.