The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-06
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
THE PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL
Annual Meeting of the Contributors to the In
stitutiOn- Report of the Board of Managers
Operations During the Past Year.

Annual Meeting of the Contributors to the In
stitutiOn- Report of the Board of Managers
Operations During the Past Year.
On Monday afternoon last, the 3D. inst, the annual
meeting OF the contributors to the Pennsylvania Hos
pital was held at the institution, on South Eighth
street. The proceedings full OF interest. ON
for the ensuing year were elected the names OF
whom have already been published in THE NTELE-
GRAPH The following report of the Board of Mana
gers, which We print IN toto will be found well worth
the reading:-
TO the Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospitat-
The want of variety afforded in the oversight of the
hospital, beyond the daily report OF admissions OF
casualties and sickness, affords but little oppor-
tuniy for report to the contributors that could ma
teTalIy interest them, further than the satisfaction
derived from knowing that all the patients who were
admitted within the walls OF the hospital received
prompt attention, combining the best medical aud
surgical skill with good nursing and kind treatment,
tending much TO their comfort and the restoration of
their health.
In these respects the hospital is unsurpassed, and
we would not withhold the need of praise justly due
to the physicians and surgeons composing the medi
cal stain as well as the resident physicians and the
| officers of the household, all Of whom appear to be
| Jealous in the good cause, and with ability and
lathfuness discharge their respective duties These
remarks are equally applicable to that branch Of the
institution where those aboring under mental dis
eases S are kindly and carefully treated.
| -, me success which has attended the efforts en-
| plOyed ON behalf Of that afcted portion of the
| human family under the care and immediate over
| slgnt OF Dr: Thomas s. Krkbrde, physican-in-chef
| ana SUPERINTENDENT, and his able assistants, has
| been satisfactory, and we would call your especial
uotoipiVh W lo pilnteu report giving much nfOrma-
tion in relation TO the very interesting class of ma
tients under his care, ~ - ="
| In TINS report the gratifying fact is announced of
| tne completion ana occupancy OF the ward erected
Dy the nOeral peques made for this especial object
by our Iate friend Joseph Fisher, whereby twenty
four addtlonai patients can be comfortably accommo
modated This increased ability to provide for the
suffering is not commensurate with the ncrrooin
demands upon the institution, but the managers ins
duge the hope that as in the past so NAV the future
prove that when funds may be REQUIRED 10 extend
the benefits OF either branch Of the hospital they viii
be generously provided. ' wan
While speaking of the department for the insane
the board cannot withhold the expression OF their
conviction that the high character which il has
always maintained has been Justly earned by faith
full application of all the means at its disposal and
by an earnest and unsehsh devotion on the part of
It's officers to the great objects Of its foundation
While thousands OF our own citizens and maly from
nearly every section OF the country have been the
recipients Of its benefits we fully believe, from per
| sOnal examination, never lntermtted single weeh
during the last twenty-eight years, and from fami
harity with all the cases received that no one has
ever been placed there but from sincere desire u
benefit the individual and that none nave ever beer
! detained a dag longer than was believed 10 be 10