New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-11
DEATH AFTER AN OPERATION.
ALBERT LOUIS DIES At THE NETWORK
HOSPITAL
HIS sTEP.MOTHER TRIES TO PREVENT IT-wIT
THE OFFICIALS SAY.


HIS sTEP.MOTHER TRIES TO PREVENT IT-wiAT
TIE OFFICIALS SAY.
A fatal surgical operation for the removal OF Il
goiire from 10y twenty years old. at the New-lork
losrital II week ago, brings up the question Of
the right 10 operate surgically upon a minor with
out the consent Of parents guardian, ard the
limit OF a patients right stop such an opera
zion after it has been determined upon. The sub
jet OF the operation Albert Louis, the of the
assistant foreman OF Fire Engine Company No. 3s,
at n"-hundrcd- aud fifty -f0urthst and Amsterdam
ave The operating surgeon Dr. Frank Hartley,
OF the hospital surgical staf whose Office is at No.
: West Thirty -t!st-st.
Young Louis began to be afflicted with the goltre
about years ago, and 1t distressed him much
that he had been anxious TO have II removed
Ills father took him 10 several physicians, who ad-
vi>cd against operation, and IN December, 1871,
the boy. 81 his accord. went to It. Johns
Hospital in lonkc, bu; the physicians declined to
the some time h. went TO Bellevue
Hospital. WHERE he WIS treated for several weeks
for weakness Of the heart. The physicians drclinei
operate the g0iirr, however. and DR.. n. L.
Loomi,. NJ. 10 West Tnr'y-fourth-'t. took the
case II clinic at the Post-tiraduatc Medical school
and explained why operation would be fatal
Albert lcr his home in May, saying he had Sc
cured a place as elevator boy. and nothing further
was heard from him I'll June >, when his brother
Roland received a note from him. dated at the New
York Hospital. saying that an operation was 10 De
performed Oh him early the following morning.
Abcrl's Step-mothcr FASTENED to the hospital as
soon as the note was received reaching there about
. 80 II. m. When she made known her errand
Assistant superintendent Cox told her that the boy
already In the operating room.
stop it at once" Mis-, Louis cried. 1t VIII be
fatal, and forbid you to go Oh with it,
Mr.. Cox called down TO the operating room through
the speaking tube, and then told Mrs. Louis that
She WAS too Late, the operation already under
way. Albert died the following day.
Mr.. Cox told Tribune reporter yesterday that
when the boy applied for admission he gave his
age twenty
He WIS large, Well grown boy said he, and
rational you ar l. though now they talk about
his being predetermined. The only address he gaze
II, wa, that OF his brother | dozen applicants
day, and | cannot remember what questions asked
him. but / have a regular application blank, with
the question Il, To parent, and their address, and
suppos' asked it Of him. There would be reason
for my doing otherwise
".Mc minor, admitted ana operated on without
the consent OF parents guardian - asked.
We SIND word to parent, and relatives II We have
their addresses was the reply. In this east, |
suppose 1t IS unfortunate for rs that the boy was
under age. The operation under way when
Mrs. Louis called. when she first came, however
Size would not ,ay who sac was or why sre put mr.
That he did want that woman around
Then n" had mcntlancd some one besides ;he
brother p" sad the reporter.
mean he said that after the operatiOn,' was
ih" >lOn>c.
When Young Louis first TO the hospital he
was put IN The medical ward under DR.. Charles r..
llachlrv. OF No. III We; forly-fOurthNt. who was
mrorary in charge. DR.. lIachlcy expressed
pri., Yesterday when he learned that the operation
had been perform d and death hat rc>u'
| that medical treatment Mrlli avail nothing
and suggested that n b" turned over to the surgical
department." h. aid 81 thought the goi'r" might
be- In the nIturc II II cyst. which could De- relieved.
ID. Maps the hon,c physician told me afterwards
that III. Iiaul"y had determined to peri I'm an
cp,I.iflon asked II m" nature Of II had been
fully explained 70 tie boy. and Dr. Mapes sail It had.
I he removal 81 n goitic /, not unusual. but do
not know the pcrcrnta-, Of mortality
Thu, question rs the hour that Mrs. LOnis
reached m" hospital il important Mr. Cox says
that Dr. iIaTilcr arrived there n O'Clock. ana iha;
LOUIS was tlr. first - hr operated npon. The
operation WAS under WAY when Mrs Louis came.
h. ,ay, and tn. doctor through with his work
and away by ii 70. Mrs. Louis asserts that when
she saw kbcrt after the operation. he told her that
h. Wa taken 10 III. operating room between 30
and 10 O'Clock.