San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-29

from February / to August 81
only 1871 GALLONS, costing $3S4.37
were used. This does not amount
to much, only about $56.40, or over
% gallons per month.
One warrant paid for 704 pounds
of dairy butter at 80 cents per
pound.
OF course, it took considerable
bread to go with all such delicacies
and one baker alone had a bill
for $50 in a single month.
Rich eating, that is, for Is cents
a meal.
"Imagine," said city official, ga
10 cents breakfast, as one might
judge from the warrants. For a
starter you could eat few bits OF
those refreshing $40 vegetables
Then you know, out could come
a steaming bowl Of Scotch oats,
accompanied by glass or two OF
that S5640 milk with a liberal
sized piece Of that $27 ice. l like
salt fish in the morning and we
could sample that keg mackerel.
A piece of substantial broiled steak
would not be too much for a good
appetite. Then that maple syrup
and 30-cent dairy butter ought to
go we'll with the hot cakes, while
gooseberries and hot cross buns
would be first. class stuff with
which to close the lucent rspast.
"Then just think OF the dinner I!
Oyster stew, mustard sardines,
lobster salad, veal roast, mixed
pickles, vegetables, canned corn
and canned tomatoes, table peaches,
strawberries, chocolate and hot
cross buns. Price, 10 cents.
"That would leave Goldfish, ham
and eggs, minced pies, jellies,
jams, maple syrup, hot cross buns
and coffee for a lucent supper.
Total, 40 cents for three meals.
"No wonder they've got man
there who belongs to two lodges,
and carries $4,000 paid-up life in
surance, and another man there
with $4,000 worth of land in sur
rounding counties. It's mighty
good place to go to, this Delmonico
hospital is"
While looking through the hos
pital yesterday, LIGHT represent
alive asked Mr.. Gerlach how it
came that the hospital served snch
dc licacies. Mr.. Gerlach at once
grew emphatic and interesting.
Said he:
"When l took this job, / was told
that beside my salary Of $50 per
month, 1 was to get as good board
as is served in the boarding houses.
You can't get decent man to work
for that salary and expect him to
feed on hash and beef and beef and
hash all the time"
DIR. Clavin amended or rather
supplemented that statement by
saying that the delicacies consist
ed of canned tomatoes, vegetables
and fruit that could be readily
used in emergency cases by the
patients.
ACCOUNTING FOR EXPENSES.
"Another thing" said DR.. Clavin,
''you must remember in consider
ing the hospital expenses, that we
have had an unusually large num-
Der of patients this summer. More
beds were in use than ever before !;
the patients. remained in the hos
pital a longer time. Beside this,
we had those morphine patients.
They require extra lunches.
Sometimes one OF them ate
whole loaf of bread by
himself, and if they are not
watched, they even steal something
to eat. A couple of snake bite cases
necessitated a larger liquor bill,
too"
In a recent message the Mayor,
referring to the city hospital, said
that meals cost the city per patient
Is cents, and pointed out the great
saving over the former method OF
having the patients cared for at
the Santa Rosa hospital by the Sis
ters Of Charity, but since looking
over the itemized hospital accounts
he considers that estimate some
what too low.
In the city auditors Office it is
said that trouble is experienced in
receiving the bills for the hospital
expenses. Bills are held back, it
is said, two and three months,
which leaves the impression that
the hospital expenses are lighter
than they really are. The milk
account from February l to Aug
ust 81, for 1894 80 is cited as an in
stance.
OF this matter DR.. Clavin says !:
'The itemized account for each
expense is sent to the city audi
tors office every month. II it does
not reach the auditor each month,
it is the fault of the merchant or
party holding the bill, and not the
fault of the hospital employees.
When the milk bill was presented
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