The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-15
PLANS OF OPERATIONS
And Details of the Regulations of
tho New City Hospital.
AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT MADE
by President Swopo on Behalf of tho
Board Of Directors Conditions on
which Patients will DO Received.
Rules as to FREQ and Pay Patients,
ctc,

which Patients will DO Received.
Rules as to FREQ and Pay Patients,
etc.
That tho purpose Of tho new City
Hospital and its rules and regulations
may DO fully understood by tho public
tho Board OF Directors has authorized
tho following publication:
THE HOSPITAL TO DE A PUBLIC CHARITY,
rs many free patients being received as
Its income and accommodations will
justify, and 1t Is hoped TINT tho volun-
tary memberships and contributions Of
tho benevolent will DO sufficiently
abundant to mako this number rs largo
rs tho capacity OF tho hospital
PAY PATIENTS
will be received either in tho wards or
furnished with private rooms at prices
given below. a'.
FREE PATIESTa g,.5..,
Applicants for free treatment must DO
residents OF the city and we'll recon-
mcndcd as deserving of tho caro- Of tho
hospital. Accident casos will be re-
celved without question according to
rule 5, printed below. a saSGS
TREATMENT OF PATIENTS. III
Free patients will DO treated by tho
members OF tho hospital staff on duty.
Pay patients can select their own
physician and any physician OF tho city
or elsewhere can send pationt to tho
hospital and attond him thore. Tho
naming OF staff has not been for the
purpose OF deprlving any physician OF
tho advantages OF tho hospital, but to
insure tho interest OF certain number
OF the medical profession and secure
thoir caro- tos those patients who may
be unable to recompenso their services.
CONTROL or FURNISHED ROOMS.
A number OF rooms have been fitted
up by individuals and societies and
placed at the disposal Of tho hospital
association as means OF securing rove
nue. These rooms will be occupied by
pay patients who desire better accom-
modations than arc furnished in tho
wards. And only in case Of the endow-
ment or annual support OF bed or
room will the person making tho gift
have the right to designate tho occu-
pant of II.
PRICES OF BOARD.
In the wards the prices will DO S. per
week. The rooms will BIO $40 and up
ward per week, according to location.
When tho association shall fix up tho
upper floor there will be some private
rooms at lower rates.
These charges Include such medicines
as may be prescribed, and on occasions
Of surgical operations the surgeons havo
the free use OF the fine collection Of in
strumonts and appliances belonging to
the hospital.
CARE OF PATIENTS.
Tho building has been renovated
throughout, and all the furniture and
appliances are now and OF the most ap-
proved pattern. Tho surgery has been
fitted with the best modern apparatus,
and will compare iavorably with any
thing to be found in tho hospitals OF
the larger cities.
The matron and her assistant are
graduates OF training schools for nurses
in Chicago, and have both had exper-
icnco in hospitals, as we'll as with
private patients.
PUPIL NURSES.
1t is intended to open training
school for nurses ct an early date. Ap-
plicants for this position must be be-
tween the ages OF twenty-five and thirty
years, and procure Recommendations
from their physician and Clergyman as
to health, ability and character. When
accepted they will receive q small COM
pensation for their services. Such ap-
plication may DO made either person.
ally or by letter to the matron, Miss
Haywood, at the hospital.
VISITING DAYS.
Persons havingfriends In the hospital
may call amy day betweon the hours OF
2 and 4 o'clock P. NJ, and on Wednes-
days the building will be open for the
inspection OF the general public between
tho same hours.
RULES OF ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE OF
PATIENTS.
No patient having an infectious or
contagious disease, as smallpox, scarlet
fever, diphtheria, erysipelas, measles,
whooping cough, ETC., shall DO admitted.
Persons applying for admission to the
hospital prepared TO pay for their sup
port shall be admitted at once BY the
matron and attended by their own ply
sicians.
All persons applying for admission to
tho FREQ service OF tho hospital shall do
so between the hours Of 10 and u a. M,
when possible, and shall DO examined
by the physician or surgeon OF the staff
then on duty, or by his authorized rep
resentative. In case of examination
elsewhere than at tho hospital, II tho
physician or surgeon be unable to ex-
anime promptly, his authorized reprc-
sentative, or, in case neither can bo had
some other member of tho staff shall
mako tho examination. All examine
tons shall DO subject to tho approval Of
the physician or surgeon on duty. II
tho case is decided proper one for adj
mission, q certificate to this effect shall
ha yivon nv thu ayominer and an W.