Daily Republican., 1879-10-25
The City Hospital Again'

Al
ac,oss a benevolent institution, but
whao Il becomes the battle door and
shuttle cock Of political parIles-mere
lv a place in which TO stow away some
party-worker in pay for the corrupt
services be has rendered his party, then
it is high tine there were no City Hos
pital, and it were better that the un-
fortunate sick ard wounded should be
kept in the county hospital. When II
becomes a moral pest house subserVlent
TO the most immoral impulses of human
nature, then it were better a thousand
times that the city should lose all IL
has in the property and that it should
revert back again into private owner
shin. When the City Hospital was in-
s.ituted, it was intended to be an instl-
tutiou which would be an honor to the
city, and it was also expected that 1t
would be principally supported by the
voluntary contributions of the large
manufactures Of the city and the P.W.
& 8. Railroad company, for the sake Of
having a place where those wounded
nv accident, or sick from exposure,
in the employ of such manufao-
turing firms and companies could be
kent and treated properly without hav-
ing to undergo the humiliation OF be-
ing sent to the County Aims House.
Had this been carried out the City Hos
uital would to day have been bless
ing instead of a curse to the city OF
Wilmington, and it would have been
cherished as model humane institu-
tion such as but few cities OF the
aize of Wilmington could boast OF.
We know that this was the intention Of
those who were the strongest in sup
port of the establishment Of the Hosli-
tai in its incipiency, and We recollect
that the main argument of William Ii
Quinn, then a City Councilman, in favo
of l.. was that it would be maintained
by the railroad companies aud larger
manufacturing firms without any ex
pense to the city except the payment
the interest on the cost OF the ins,itu
ton, At that time there was stron
influence in favor Of placing tn
institution in tho hands G
an organization Of City Physician
and to allow them 10 have sxclusiv
control over everything connected will
it. Amongst the eminent physician
who were named at the time az beint
willing to assume the charge of it wer
the late Doctors Askew, Porter ant
Jones, together with Doctors Bullock
Bush and Kane, who are still amongs
the eminent practitioners Of our city
The institution in the hands Of sue
gentlemen would have be9n maintain
ed and kept up with honor and credit
themselves and also 20 the city and tn
distinctive name Of City Hospiti
would haye been preserved. |. seen
el visa however in the originators
the inst tution to reject tle offers OF th
physicians and to set up Hospital keel
ing on their own hook, and in the fai
urs which has followed we have the n
suit before US.
There is still the same need OK Git
Hospital tia! there has ever b'@n, an
the experience Of the past III the FAR
Of bad management shows tina! i! won
be well supported if in the right hand
The tims has come when ii real
seems necessary that some ehanl
should bs effected. The bad Immor
odor which surrounds the institute
and makes it stencil in the puol
nostrils, demands the change, whit
the "aaz:t tie" has been 10 long d
mandinc upon other grounds, BIT
whethet taat Change shoula be tt
abolition OF TIA institution or its col
yeyance to other and more conpetel
management ID 4 question yet to
decided. The Hospital itself is a mob
institution but it needs to be plac'
under management entirely free al
untrammeled by political influence
and it is not too late yet for this to
ACCOMPLISHED. No doubt the ply!
clans of the city would yet take t
hospital under their management
importuned to do SO, and il they wi
what voluntary help is received fr'
the public, can run it even with lit
outlay of money from the city, tn
that is the plan under which it shoa
be conducted. But if such arrani
ments cannot b3 made within reaso
able time then we say by all inca
abolish the institution as hospi
and giva the building to the Board
Education, or any thing which "
save it from becoming place wher'
the reports be- true, decency ia outr
cd and place for baochanalian rev
of city ohsia's of high and low des'
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