New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-22
REFORM IN CITY HOSPITALS.
OLD CONSULTING AND MEDICAL BOARDS
TO BE ABOLISHED.

THE DECISION MADE YESTERDAY BY THE COM
MrssIoNERs OF CHARITIES AND coRREc-
TroN-MEpIcAI COLLEGES ASKED TO
NAME MEN FOR NEW BOARDS
The Commissioners OF Charities and CORRECTION
have abolished the consulting ana medicai ooa'"
OF the several hospitals under their chuse ""'
adopted a new system OF appointing physicians
and surgeons for the various hospitals co""eo''
with the Department The changes were proV'ued
for in resolutions requesting the College OF fhys'
clans and Surgeons the University Medical COZ
lege the Bellevue Hospital Medical College an"
the Fourth Division of Bellevue Hospital each 10
nominate physician and one surgeon VIM
shall constitute the consulting stan OF bene'ue
Hospltal and who shall be members OF the Meu'-
cal BOARD of Bellevue Hospital but without SER
vice in Bellevue Hospital proper. II was declueu W
abolish the consulting and medical boards OF '"e
Gouverneur Hospital. OF the Fordham Hospital OF
the CITY Hospitals OF the Maternity Hospital o.
the Hospital for Nervous Diseases of the WORK
house Almshouse and Incurable hospitals ana oi
the Randars Island Hospital after November l.
The College OF Physicians and Surgeons. the I'M
versity Medical College. the Bellevue Hospital Med
zeal College and the Fourth Division OF Bellevue
Hospital are requested each to make the following
nominations which. when confirmed, snail take
effect November ]:
+ For the Gouverneur Hospital. one physician
and one surgeon each. making a medical Doaru Oh
eight
. For the Fordham Hospital. one physician and
one surgeon EACH making medical board OF eight
g. For the City Hospital two physicians, one
surgeon. one genitourinary surgeon one synaecolo-
glst one ophthalmaogist and one dermatologist
each making a medical board or twenty-eieht.
T. For the Maternity Hospital. one obstetrician
each, making a medical board OF four.
). In the Hospital for Nervous Diseases, one neu-
roogist each, making IA medical board OF four.
g. For the Workhouse Amshouse and lncurabe
hospitals physician and one surgeon each,
making a medical board OF eight.
T. For the Randalls Island Hospital, one physi-
clan, one surgeon, one ophthalmalogist and one
derma toogist each, making a medical board OF SIX
The Medical Board OF Bellevue Hospital is con-
stituted consulting board for the other hosp tails
named.
It was said at the office OF the Commissioners OF
ing appointments would improve the medical SER
vice the hospitals. Commissioner Faure said
there had been friction at more than one hospital
because a majority OF the staff had been appon led
from one medical college. Under the new system OF
making appointments the mnssiorers expect 10
hear OF no more trouble such as they had to arbi-
trate a short time ago in the Harlem Hospital. The
system adopted yesterday by the Board has been in
effective force at Bellevue since 1852. Mr.. Faure
was merely the result of reform. The Commits
sioners he declared. have been looking through the
different parts OF the department and, recognizing
the thirteen years OF the ruling at Bellevue, de-
cided to apply 1t to the remainder OF the hospitals
under their jurisdiction.