Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-03

been source Of very considerable revenue
TO our funds but it Is now entirely cut of,
and the expense which this Board was un-
der some years past in fitting up ample ac-
commodations for the seating OF 200 is so
much money wasted; for the class Of the
Medical College Of Ohio is only about fifty
in actual attendance, while the other schools
number nearly four times as many, the sale
Of tickets 10 whom in former years would
increase the fund wherewith TO purchase
medicines for the Hospital. a. s
THE resident physicians have heretofore
been recent graduates, but now two Of the
three are mere students of medicine, while
the third, who is a graduate, is acting in q
position in the college that must necessarily
absorb largely his time. ,,
"A recent appointment made by the
faculty, predicted upon the letter of the char
ter, wherein it says that the faculty shall
appoint an apothecary OF house-surgeon,'
has been filed by three persons-one pro-
fessor and two medical students, while this
Board recognizes, and the law provides, that
it be one person. ... L
'There is now door open for large ex-
penditure on the part of the faculty and their
appointees, the house. students over whom
this Board can scarcely exercise any re-
straint
'"The City Council will understand tha
one of the greatest interests of our city, of a
purely local character is under the govern
ment of the Legislature of Ohio. The law
which has so united the college and the
hospital, was passed many years ago, under
q state of things which no longer exists, and
the most urgent public interest requires its
repeal, position in which we are sustained
by the urgent and long labors of the present
Dean of the faculty. The members of this
Board know full well that no one has ever
taken SO much interest and used so much
exertion as himself to effect this dissolution
of the partnership of the college aud hos
pital. The Board is not satisfied with the
present arrangement and management made
by the faculty of the Commercial Hospital
81. They have been debarred from selling
tickets to outside students, thereby dimin-
ishing the fund for hospital purposes.
". The faculty have appointed three per-
sons to attend to the duties of Hospital
apothecary, when the law says they shall
appoint an apothecary or house surgeon.
''3. Two of the appointees now acting as
house physicians are mere students of medi-
cine, while the third one a graduate, is em-
ployed in a capacity other than that of ply
sician.
"This Board is of the opinion that the pres-
ent arrangements for medical and surgical
treatment to patients at the Commercial Hos
pital, is very far from what it should be, nor
does it feel justified in remaining quiet while
SO important trust as the duties of resident
physician to an institution of this kind,
numbering nearly 200 patients, is entrusted
to medical students, or. even graduates de-
hcient in experience, whose stay is intended
as an introduction to the active duties of
their profession rather than as a benefit to
the patients. 1t is claimed by this Board
that resident physician is indispensable in
the hospital, and that it is equally important
that he should be physician of skill and
experience, and not medical student"
THE welfare OF the patients, as well as the
interests OF the city, requires such change
at this institution as shall secure skill aud
| experience, at the constant command of the
| suffering inmates of the hospital; and judg-
| ing from the past, we have but little reason
to hope this important reform can be effected,
except by such legislation as shall dissolve
| the unnatural and unmanageable relation
now existing between the Faculty of the
Ohio Medical College and the Commercial
Hospital.
''The Faculty seem to assume the position
that they can employ as many persons as they
think necessary to act as druggists or house
surgeons III the Commercial Hospital, and
the Directors must pay for their services,
which position we think entirely untenable
according to the spirit of the charter.
"By order of the Board.
JACOB B. WYMAN, Chairman"
The opinion of the City Solicitor having
been required, he gave it at some length, Of
which the following is the conclusion:
2. "What steps are necessary to give the
city complete control of said hospitai?"
The object referred to can only be OBJ
tanned by radical change in the laws cre-
ating and regulating the hospital, unless in
the contingency referred to in your third in
| quiry, the Medical College should lose its
right to the medical supervision of the hos
pital.
3. "Has not the Medical College of Ohio
! forfeited its right to the medical control of
the hospital by failure to perform its
duties under the law2"
If the Medical College shall refuse or
neglect to perform the services, in considera-
ton of which its Hospital powers were
granted, such refusal or neglect will work
forfeiture of said privileges. AS to the facts
in regard TO the conduct of the faculty of
said college, the officers in charge of the
hospital will probably be able to give you
the information you seek. have NO per-
sonal knowledge about it.
, Respectfully,
r. B. HAYES.
The resolution accompanying the above
was unanimously adopted.
Mr.. Noble then offered the following:
"ReSotved; That in the opinion of this
Board, it would he inexpedient in the city
10 proceed to build a new hospital until Il
obtains complete control over said institu-
tion." Adopted--ayes l6, nays IL.
The first special order being the subject OF
the Fire. alarm Telegraph, was taken up.
MIR. WeasneT moved that the subject be
postponed till the first Wednesday in Feb
ruary. Carried.
Mr.. Marsh called up the ordinance accept.
ing the dedication of Lock-street, from
Front-street TO the river. Laid over one
week. Adjourned.
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