The herald., 1893-05-26

building.
DR.. Hagan replied by reading the
names Of Ia women who were the nurses
assistants.
1.-The food was the next subject investi
gated. The ladies said that the tea WAS
poor, the soup bad, the meat tough and
also that ducks eggs were given to the
patients instead of hens eggs.
THE TEA EPIs Ode.
Supervisor Forester here took an oar
himself. He said that he had been in
the grocery business himself for some
time and knew what tea was. He had
been in the habit of receiving bids for
the groceries supplied the hospital, and
had tasted the tea provided. He con-
sidered it as good as any he used him
self at home.
Doesn't it cost only Is cents pound,
Mr.. Forester ?' inquired Mrs. Landt.
mo, madam; it doesn't. 1t costs 25
cents q pound" answered the super
visor.
"Well, the cook must have made the
tea badly" said Mrs. Landt.
Or. Hagan' remarked that the same
cook had been employed for two years
and no complaints had ever been he rd
before. As to the duck eggs, the doctor
said few had been used in the eggnogg
given the patients, but only hens eggs
were served to patients for eating.
DIR. Murphy supported this statement,
and; said that hundreds of hens eggs
we're provided every month.
WINE AND WHISKY.
Mrs. Landt made the next effort, and
said that the patients had been cut off
their wine and whisky for days at
time. She was sure the poor sick people
must have felt it very much. They all
needed it.
DR.. Hagan, supported by Drs. Post
and Murphy, declared the statement
absolutely false, The whiekev at one
time ran out and for one day only none
was given out. DR.. Hsgan added that
he did not propose to give spirits to
every man or woman who asked for it,
The atimulant often did more harm than
good.
Supervis IT Forester then asked Mrs.
Landt If she could bring any witnesses
who would state that the sick had been
deprived of necessary stimulants.
Mrs. Landt thought hard, and at last
said that one man had told her go.
When asked to produce him she reluc-
family admitted that her witness was
dead.
Supervisor Forester suggested that
possibly the ladies had paid too much
attention to unfonnded rumors, and
said he thought it would have been
wiser to go to DR.. Hagsn in the frat
place, and then If they found he would
rot listen to reason to get their proofs,
and make their charges. Mrs. Landt
then lost her temper and began per-
sonsl discussion with DR.. Hagan She
accused him OF cal ing her elf and her
friends untruthful, and Supervisor For
roster once more chad to pour oil on the
| troubled waters. IAN Ito understand
you call us liars, DIR. Hsgsn?" asked
Mrs Lsndt.
esWell madame, will call in misrep-
resentation," said DR.. Hagan.
Oh ''ejaculated Mrs Hamilton.
Sand we are still liars" murmured
Mrs. Landt.
THE INVESTIGATION ENDED.
This concluded the investigation.
Supervisor Forester rose, and remarked
that he thought there was no need to go
good intentions Of the ladies who had
brought the charges, but he was OF the
opinion that they had placed to
| much faith in unreliable statements
made to them by dissatisfied patients
and other people. He thought that if
the ladies had the welfare of the hos
pital at heart, that it would have been
very much better to have told DR.. Hagan
of the complaints instead of doing as
they had done. He was sure Dr. Hagan
was doing and would do all that lay in
his power to promote the well being Of
the hospital. In regard to the state
,ment in an evening paper, purporting to
emanate from DIR Hagan, to the effect
that the ladies who brought the charges
we're untrutbful, he (Mr. Forrester) was
sure that DR.. Hagan had done no more
than characterize the statements only,
as lies. For that he could not blame
him. In conclusions Supervisor For
roster said that he thought the ladies
had better drop the matter; he would
| adyise shem in future to work with DIR
Hagan, who, he was certain, wonld al
WAYS meet them half way in any sug-
gestion which would tend to improve
ment.i
At the conclusion of his summary
the four ladies looked blankly at one
another, and Mrs. Hamilton remarked {:
81 think we had better CO." sugges-
tion which was Immediately acted upon.
THE BUILDING INSPECTION.
The supervisors, accompanied by the
reporter, then made thorough inspec-
ton of the building. The first places
visited were the various wards. The
reporter found everything clean as a
new pin, and on questioning the pa
tients was told that everything was per-
fectly satisfactory.
\ j.. B. Robb. an old man who has been
an inmate OF the hospital for come time,
said
''I don't know what there is to COM
plain about. | wouldn't tell q lie for
man nor devil, and / want to say that
we are thoroughly we'll treated. 1t amt
no Palace hotel, bat it's plenty good
enough for me, and darned sight bet.
ter than what most of us are used to-
Another man said that the food was
fret rate, and that he had more than
enough to eat.
The man next to him said he had gained
Is pounds since he came in few weeks
ago, and although the reporter ques-
toned over 20or 30 patients. it was inn
possible to find discontented man or
woman.
IN THE KITCHEN.
The kitchen was lhen visited, where
Ferry, the cook, gave the reporter some
Of the much abused soup to eat. The