The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-06-15
The COUNTY HOSPITAL.
An Investigation Into the Man.
agement to BE Held.
The Beard Of Health to Make Rigorous Ex-
animation Into the Affairs Of the
Institution.

The regular meeting of the Board Of
Health will be held this evening in the
Mayors office, and there promises to be
some very interesting developments outside
of the routine business. An investigation
will be commenced into the management of
the City and County Hospital aud before it
is finished the institution will fguratiVeIy
be turned upside down. at the Health
Office the bare fact that there was to be an
investigation was all that could be learned,
but it was ascertained that number of
subpenas had been issued, and the attend
ance tonight will be a large one. 1t is
claimed that no direct charges have been
made against any particular member OF the
management, but every one who has any
thing to do with the hospital in response
Bile position will be there.
DR.. Lefevre superintendent of .he hos
pital, and DR.. a. II. Mays, his chief assist
ant and resident physician, will be there,
and they will be submitted to a cross fire of
questions as TO certain things which have
taken place during their administration
which have been brought to the attention
of the board through the press and through
their own observation. The investigation
will be an interesting one from many
points and will last several sessions. 1t is
Sdiu Atidb Nilt WIZ VI AllC uihNA 4AA - itt'o
not been of the most satisfactory sort, and
the visiting physicians will be called uDon
TO tell what they know of the management.
All of the latter. consisting Of Drs Elm
wood, Devlin, Hirshfelder and Il. A. Nc
Lean, have been summoned. DrS Shiels,
Won II ffman, Kreu.zmann. Hoppams and
BaZet, representing tie different colleges
and clinics, have also been called upon.
NOT on DUTY.
Dr. Lefevre and Dr.. NAYS, il is claimed,
have been away from their posts of duty
when they should have been in the hospital,
and the entrance of Mrs. Freitas into the
institution will also be investigated.
young married woman who was discovered
10 be leper i'm Oakland. When the
authorities of the city across the bay made
the startling discovery that she had the
| awful disease of lepTOsy they were at loss
rs TO what to do with her. The unfortunate
creature suddenly disappeared and turned
up mySteriOuSly at the City and County
Hospital and the Oakland health officials
| have been chuckliDg over their deliyerance
ever since The woman was in one of the
hospital wards here several days before it
was discovered that she was a leper and her
identity was discovered. a reporter went
out 10 the hospital TO make inquiries into
the case and he was told that neither Dr.
LefeyTe nor DR.. Mays was in the building.
| lie telephOned 10 Health Officer keeny at
an early hour in the morning TO ask him
where the physicians were and received the
answer that they were supposed to be at the
hospital
Since then there has been an inquiry into
the whole affair." aud it has been discovered
that the woman came here from Honolulu.
How she was landed viii be a question for
the immigration officer to answer. An at
tempt has been made TO shift this response
bility onto the shoulders of the Quarantine
Officer, and this delicate distinction will no
doubt be defined.
STEWARD COUSINS.
In addition 10 the foregoing matters to be
investigated Steward J. c. Cousins has a
plant TO offer, and the inquiry into this viii
no doubt prove interesting Shortly before
the present Board of Health went into Of
fee their predecessors passed an ordinance
permitting the establishment of school in
the City and County Hospital for training
lady nurses. This school is under charge
of Miss Ida NJ. Forsyth and Miss f. X.
MOh1, who act as inspeCtresses. Tie young
ladies under their charge first enter the in
stitutiCn without remuneration until they
have developed sufficient ability 10 do the
! required work. They then receive $40
month, and this sum is IN creased as they
improve. They so through a regular course
ana are turned out as professional nurses
with a diploma signed by the Board of
Health on the recommendation Of the two
lady inspectors. Ii is claimed that the
system has not proved entirely satisfactory,
and before the investigation Is finished the
Young lady nurses viii mold Seanee with
the board. Steward Cousins complains that
his authority in the hospital has not been
treated with the proper consideration by
Miss Forsyth. who has continually usurped
il. In fact he hardly knew whether he was
steward or patient 1t Is not altogether
improbable that at the conclusion of the
investigation there will be several changes
in the establishment