Daily globe., 1883-08-18
SISTERS HOSPITAL INDICATED.

Board Ut Supervisors Of the Poor-Dr.
Gates Charges Groundless, and The Sis
ters' Conduct Trreproocha6te-The Report
Of the Committee to Iarcstsgr.e the
Charges 40ainst the Wercy Hospital.
An adjourned meeting of the board of
supervisors of the poor was held yester-
day at p. m. in the Office of the superin-
tendent, Mr.. Nelson Williams. The chair
man called the meeting to order. Present
His Honor Mayor Ames, Supervisors
Hangar, Parker, Comstock, CHANNEL,
Hashow and Noeremberg. The committee
appointed to investigate the charges made
by DR.. Gates against the Sisters of Mercy
hospital submitted the following report,
which was read and adopted:
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of
the Poor:
Gentlemen-Your special committee to
whom was referred the charges of DR..
Gates, the city physician, against the Sis
ters of Mercy hospital, beg leave to re-
port:
We gave the charges full and thorough
investigation and listened to ell the testi-
mony offered, and the same is herewith
submitted for your consideration. The
charges, though serious in their character,
were not substantiated by reliable evidence.
On the defense the Sisters produced
ample testimony that all city patients are
given kind and careful nursing and treat
ment; also, that they are now and have
been furnished
GOOD AND WHOLESOME FOOD
in quantities required by the attending
physician. Trif1ing mistakes we're proven
but of character that might have been
made in the best regulated institution of
the country. No bad results followed
these blunders because they were made by
thoroughly competent nurses whose errors
were dictated by intelligence. In sum-
ming up the case we have arrived at the
following
First-That DR.. Gates, the city physi-
clan, although we'll read in his profession,
is still somewhat inexperienced in those
professional requirements which only fol-
low years of practice.
Second-That the Sisters of Mercy are
accomplished and refined ladies, who,
through religious inclination are devoting
their lives to the care of suffering man
kind; whose whole thoughts are instrument
tai in alleviating the pains and anguish OF
the afflicted and to contribute
by kind words and acts to their comfort
and restoration to health; and who instil
hope and peace into the minds of those
who are about to 60 hence. All the testi-
mony goes to show that the sisters were
kind and obliging to patients.
Third-The sworn statement of the
sisters proves to US beyond a question of
doubt that DR.. Gates entered upon his duty
as city physician at this hospital in
naughty and austere manner, ignoring the
regulations and customs which prevail in
Sisters hospitals, and which are generally
known and respected by physicians. And
by his discourteous treatment of the ladies
who are the nurses-Sisters of Mercy-he
repelled them from him and called down
upon himself their modification and dis
gust. To be palmer, he treated these la
dies in the same rough and uncouth man
ner that some people shower upon unfort-
unate hirelings who are obliged from neces-
sity to quietly submit to their indignities
AS previously stated, a few trifling mis-
takes were made, as frequently happens
with the best of nurses in our houses.
Fourth-We find, without going over all
the grounds embraced in the charges, that
there was nothing in this case outside of
what would have been readily overlooked
by most any courteously disposed physi-
clan, sufficient to prompt the charges
made, and which could not have been dis
approved by DR.. Gates himself had he
not been disposed to quarrel with
this institution, and we recommend that
the charges presented by the city physician
be dismissed as groundless.
A. A. AMEs,
E. F. CoMsToCK,
CHAs. @. HAsHow,
A. G. HAUGAN,
S. P. CHANNELL,
Committee.
TO BE NOTIFIED.