Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-25
DYING NALIME KILN
James Evans is the Victim of Some
Super-Oficial Charity.
MERCY HOSPITAL TAKES HIN IN.
Chief Brown Shows the Necessity for an
+, Emergency Hospital.
CORONER TDOWELL BEARS RIM OUT

The police authorities were notified yes
terday morning that man was very sick
at Robinson's lime kilus on Second avenue.
The patrol wagon was sent for the sufferer,
and he was taken to No. police station.
Bis name was found to be james Evans.
He is about q years of age, an English
man, and perfect stranger in the country.
ae was suffering from case of most malig-
nant diphtheria.
DR.. Meyer, the acting police surgeon, was
called and be tried to get the unfortunate
sufferer placed in some hospital. He was in
the Central station hospital rooms where lost
children are brought in every hour, especially
at this season of the year and the police officials
wished to place him where he could be cared
for. Hospital after hospital was tried. and DR..
Meyer gritted his teeth as he chewed the red
tape which was reeled to him over the wire.
Finally. the question was solved by Mercy
Hospital taking the case in and giving an OPP
pOrtunity to Pittsburg charities to reconsider
their ways of doing business.
The man was for some four days exposed to
the weather and to hunger in fact, and climbed
into the space above the kilns for warmth. if
nothing else. He comes from Aberdeen, Scot
land, and has been in the country not more
than year. The Mercy Hospital doctors see
but little hope for his recovery on account both
OF his exposure and the peculiar nature OF his
disease. They look with good deal OF placid
ity to being again. as in the case of Margaret
McGuaid, accused of having turned someone
out. When the investigation at the morKue is
concluded, in the language of Coroner McDow-
ell. there will be discovered the necessity OF
municipal or general hospital for such uses.
Chief Brown, Of the Public Safety Depart
meut is thoroughly in accord with the Coro-
ner on this subject. be said that one OF the
nall al
ing central station on some roomy ground
was to meet Just such contingencies he
thought hospital department could De de-
vised which would keep apart the lost chill
dren from contagious diseases, and the patrol
wagon knows no law except that OF the man at
the City Hall station and the one
as now necessity compels, the Central
station into a sort of general pathological
postufice into which is dumped anything from
scarlet fever TO a drunk, is not the right way of
doing business 1t is unfortunate that in such
a pOst-0fficial arrangement post mortem in
vestigation is liable to follow. as the disease
may not be properly directed in the hrst place
or stamped by the first alleged medical man
who fnds it 1t was absolutely necessary. he
thought to have a hospital for the cases
which are brought in, and the sooner it was
done the better.
Around the city good deal OF comment was
made op the refusal of the different hospitals
TO take in the patient as well as on the people
who lei poor unfortunate man stay for days
in a lime kiln for warmth and without food.
The fact that State appropriations are made
for the benefit of some of these institutions
while the one that took the wanderer in was
without such aid was freely spoken of and
Mercy Hospital was praised both in the police
stations and on the street while the question
opened was, What shall be done with the
pauper sick?' They have no friends. or if they
have are too poor to render aid to those in dis
tress, and the city as well as the county officials
are anxious to have a hospital where emer-
Rency cases can be placed without recourse to
red-tape proceedings.