New-York tribune., 1889-12-21
ONE PATIENT DEAD.
CONDITION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN HOS
PITAL SUFFERERS.
ur WORK oF REBUILDING WILL BEGIN A
ONCE - HOW THE INvALIDs ARE


ONCE - HOW THE INvALIDs ARE
CARED FOR.
The great holes in the mansard roof OF the Presby
o.ian Hospital left by the fire OF Thursday night
royed attraction for hundreds of curious people
Yesterday. In many places especially on the seventy
fr-ts side, the roof entirely destroyed sno the
o,o,rcntal COMMENTATORS along the entire fron'
svc fallen TO pieces. The floors Of the building arc
covered with mud. composed Of ashes. cinders and
scr and the whole hospital is nteral, soaked with
,ve All parts OF the walls IN danger oi falling were
ION down yesterday, and the work OF cleaning up
,ro d4 in the various wards and private rooms was
c.yr;ed on with great energy.
.r, ,esjscut and nonresident medical and surgical
- =, the hospital busy all day visiting the
So" So. who had been removed to other Institutions.
Ia ooDsidcred necessary to watch carefully for
- .ros II reaction from shock, and in several cases
- medical interference prevented more serious
-, The ipvalds were all IN condition of eX-
-. durinc the morning, but the latest reports
~. ,.cp,pr announced a most admirable condition Of
- Al NJ, sinai Hospital, at Sixty -seventhst.
~. ov,pcton-ave. where forty patients had been
,d ON the night Of the fire, there occurred at
" .o,ock Yesterday morning the one death of the day
',,,r the Presbyterian Hospital patients. This was
william Hongh age thirty seven who was admitted
" .ho presbv+erIan Hospital on December IL 10 be
,eraed or for an abScess affecting his liver and KID
~ The case a serious one, and laparotomy
DprfOTmeG. i
..oyerv soou proved ont of the question The shock
~ the removal on Thursday night may have FASTENED
uopah,s death, but certainly rot more than few
DAYS.
Az O'Clock yesterday morning, to the surprise OF
ne Mt Sinai residents. forty first patient ap-
,eared This was DR.. j. d. Wilson, a private patient
r the Presbyterian Hospital. who had been entirely
To-, sight of during the excitement. Dr. Wilson Is con-
rcd with the Orthopaedic Dispensary in Fifty eighth
f,re comet time =
convaIssccnt and during the lire managed TO get on
hi clothes and gain the street unsided. He eventually
rss invited to the Freundschaft Club and
uss entertained there during the night.
The forty patients at Mt Sinai. twenty at the
serman. ten at St Lukes and seven at Roosevelt
hospitals were all reported comparatively we'll last
evening At the German Hospital superintendent
1udwic said that as soon he heard of tile fire
ne gave orders for sixty beds be prepared at once
and with his staff Of assistants hurried of to lend what
aid he could at the scene itself The twenty patients
tus rescued were received by Mrs. Fentje, chief OF
nurses and everything was done for their comfort
superintcndent Hadel, Of Mt Sinai, acted with the
ne forethought and contributed greatly to the good
results achieved
The injured fremen are as every one VIII De
plea,ed to hear getting along nicely. They were all
able to 60 to Mt. Sinai Hospital yesterday morning to
have their wounds dressed Three of them have been
placed on the sick-list, and are not on duty They
were little worse Yesterday afternoon than in the
morning. and were compelled 10 60 home Captain
Duanes injuries arc the most and last evening
he was in bed at No 3O7 East Fifty ysiXth-st Fireman
Levi scalded on the face and hands, at his home
in East seventy -ffth-st. and Fireman Dunbar, whose
ninries are like those of Levi, at his house Ill
HONEYWELL ave. in the Twenty fourth Ward. Firemen
Ever and Carney, nursed their scaded hands at the
sneine-ho of Company So in Sixty-seventh-st.
The Board Of Managers of the Presbyterian Hospital
held a meeting yesterday afternoon at O'Clock, III
the hospital There were present twenty five of the
thirty i've members. The present board Il composer
jo1n fayior Johnston. John r. Agnew. John s.
Kennedy Robert Schell. Frederick Sturges, the Rev
Dr. william NJ. Taylor,John 5 Bussing Heber r. Bishop
Walter LdwarCs. William X iinman John a. Harden,
bergh Ebert l} Monroe, Henry VI. Flager, FREDERICK
billings. John T. Terry, Henry &. Marquand, Henry
G. De Forest. George f. Dodge, William H. Jackson
John Crosby Brown, Henry Wilson, Frederick Baker,
William Moir Randolph ". Townsend, AeXander Matt
land Robert LenOx Beknap, Ebert A. Brlncaerhoii'
Donald Macbav the Rev. DE- Charles H. Parkhurst the
Rev DR.. Thomas Z. Vcrmilye the Kew heharu y:
Harlan. the Rev. l. NJ stephens. -
President John ) Kennedy presided, and the board
heard testimony of the superintendent residents, nur
OF the Gre. The Investigation resulted in the
tryins in Ward 6. on the top floor of the main
building. The closet used TO dry damp cloths
and contained coil of steam-plpes superintendent
" all thought there had been case OF spontaneous
combustlOn and this idea is now considered plausl-
ble one. The managers made arrangements AT me t
meeting for the continued care of the Patients lOr
whom the institution is responsible. They recognize
the danger Of another removal within tle mex. iew
days and have decided 20 leave where they are at
least those patients who to any degree seriously IL
lu the MEAN time however the dspensary build
Inc ard the wing adjoining il. at Seventeenth-s and
Madison-ave., will be put into shape for receiving
natients and on Monday will afford accommodations
Tor sixty The dispensary service will be continued
IN more limited quarters than Heretofore IRE re,
usjrs of the damage done by the fire will be begun at
once i'm fact orders for plans have already been de
cded upon The managers viii meet again at
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon.