The Washington times., 1895-04-06
OIIsT CHIN UHDAUHTED
VIII Continue Its Efforts for a
Contagious Disease Hospital.
MORE FUNDS TO BE RAISED
% - .sHsa
Over Ten Thousand Dollars Already in
Hsnd-Dr Woodward and Other Physi-
clans Take Counsel With the organiza-
tion As To the Best Means to Accomplish
the Opposition Sharply Criticised.

THE only hospital in the world which
OWLS ten Thousand dollars and has no
building" is the terse and graphic way
IN which Mrs. Archibald Hopkins de-
scribad tbe situation al a meeting yester-
day afternoon OF the Daisy Chain. Mrs.
Hopkins. who presided, was referring TO
the failure OF all the designs to erect a
hospital for contagious diseases, the pro-
sect for which the msmbers Of the Daisy
Chain have raised $lo 600.
The Daisy Chain once had $50 members,
vino took "a active interest in their beau
tiful work. Yesterday not more than
twenty .membeHs attended the meeting.
Mrs. Hopkins made an opening address
in which she stated the purpose OF the
meeting ts4- consider the affairs of the
organization, what to do with the funds,
ana whether il Is best that the society shall
continue or-ccase its work for the hospital.
She gave the amount at the disposal of
the society as $40 1852. Mrs. Hopkins
said that IL " az too good a thing to let
die, and hoped that the contingency would
not arrive when they would be obliged To
retnrn the money 10 the contributors, or
whom she had the names and amounts
given.
DR. WOODWARD's VIEWS.
Dr. womw ard, health officer. was called
upon to speak He SAID that ne could add
nothing stronger than the appeal made by
Mrs Hopkins, that the Daisy chain should
continne its work He felt, as they all
did, that the ISOLATION was greatdisappoint-
Inent. The sentiment against the hospital,
/ be SAID came in tie greatest measure from
! those who feared that their pockets wonld
be touched by its enction.
He said that only yesterday he eDdeavored
TO find room at the Emergency Hospital for
a patient with diphtheria at one OF the city
4 hotels, INT the private ward at the hospital
had already been pre-empted,- Another
case had also been reported 10 him which
was a case Of diphtheria- Both of these had
10 be removed to unoccupied houses here.
He referred also 10 the hardship of iso-
/ latHng families in which there are diph-
1 liberia patients. and noted cases in which
! two department clerks Were kept at home
because some one of the family had the
/ chicken-poX.
DIR. woodward criticised the 30O-feet
! safety limit as unnecessary
Mrs. Hopkins brought mp the subject OF
building the hospital and having it run
under the direction OF the Children's Hos
Isitsl.
Dr. johnson said that the law was
| clearly against such a proposition.
Then il seems 10 me" said Mrs. Hop.
kins. I'VE are seItineiy ia the hands OF the
real estate agents, and that they are ever
more powerful than the doctors or Congress
No wonder" she said, that of the Dais!
Chain. who once numbered $50. We have
only about eighteen in attendance.
SHOULD TREAT ALL DISEASES.
c,fd 1,af hos n
which does not treat all diseases which
come to it does not deserve support. Il
was The first time he had ever had an eX
perience or This kind. He thought that ever!
hospital in Washington called a genera
hospital ought TO be compelled to receive
patients with contagious diseases.
Dr. Woodward then proceeded TO give
some inside history about the congresSiona
committee, which had under discussion
lhe hisp!tal bin. he said that the Com
FRissi0ners ana he did all they could u
have the 800 feet limit reduced 20 40. The
real estate agents met Them before the sui
| committee OF The House and he efforts o.
1 the Commissioners were of no avail.
Mrs Hopkins then stated that she haC
been informed that the failure of the seIec
ton of the site purchased by the Commits
si0ners was due to the fact that Con
/ erressionai syndicate owned land ad5acen
I to the site.
GOOD WORK WILL GO ON
1 After the meeting, one Of those presen
said that Senator Mcmillan OF Michigan
stated that there was something very curl
GUS in the opposition to the hospital, a
developed on the floor of the Senate.
The argument then turned on the feast
/ bnity OF hiring a house in the suburbs, ol
even in the c.ty, inasInuch as the health OF
ffcer moved patients 10 gTloccupied houses
ana use that until Congress met again
II was said that they would be stopped b.
in5unctiOIs by the courts.
After some discussion on this line, an
without coming to q cefinite conclusion
the president desired to know the will of tht
Daisy Chair. They unanimously deter
mined 10 go on with the work.
They VIII give Spring Market, by tn
last of which they raised 81 800. Al
entertainment viii also be given under th
, management of Mr.. GuZman, on Apr
22d. at which Garland's opera, Isl
4 l,OQfah - viii be- gunE