Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-01-04

the benefit and the drugs, and the store
manages 10 weather financial storms,
though it might not be able to keep its
head above water without the moro than
occasional donation of stocks of patent
medicines and prepared foods which
Chicago manufacturers donate to keep
the charity institution on its feet.
Tho drug store is part and parcel of
the Harvey Medical settlement, 20S,
2l0, 2l3 South Hulsted street, a portion
of Chicago INHABITED fer the greater part
by shabby genteel, Too proud to beg,
too honest to steal, and Il still lower
class rot affected by the aforementioned
pride.
The medical SC; !oiuent is constituted
of tho following named charitable i'll
stitutions: The Harvey hospital Harvey
Free diSpensary, Harvey Training School
For Nurses, Harvey out practice, Har-
vey Medical college and Harvey Dime
drug store
DR.. Marshall, Dr. Frances Dickinson
and DR.. Ellie Lobdell, assisted BY Miss
Amy Mace. a registered pharmacist III
charge Of the drug store, and such ply
sicians who may chance to have patients
in the Harvey hospital have entire
charge OF the community, from med
ical standpoint.
Other societies take an interest in the
poor of this neiehborhood; the Epworth
league looks to the preservation Of dis
eased and other souls, and Hull House
Christianity endeavors TO promote affairs
socially, but the Harvey settlement has
control from medicinal point of the
compass, and judging from its efficient
work since the inauguration of its efforts,
Jan. |, 1894, its labors have been
crowned with warranted success. Tho
Harvey he piral WIS opened on that date
and started; IN business With seven beds
and four pa.ien,s, and has since been
reconstructed SO as to accommodate 80
sufferers The services Of the best men
and women physicians and surgeons arc
accorded patients az Il nominal cost and
III cases Of extreme poverty or accident
are furnished free Of charge. The inten-
ticn If The management Of the hospital,
as Is The case III the government of tho
dime drug store. is TO provide Il proper
place for worthy poor, who do not like
the county hospital because of the al
most general aversion TO being classed
among paupers, resulting from being q
patient in free hospital. And there are
poor and sick able to afford the cost Of
treatment and nursing in hospital Of
this sort who could not pay the ordinary
cost attached to receiving proper medical
attendance. The income from patients
at the Harvey hospital does not cover
the expense of maintaining the institu-
ton. ANY physician of good standing IS
permitted to place patients in the hos
pital.
Harvey d:spensary is for immediate
attention to those who sustain acct
dents III fac. cries and others who become
suddenly iii, rs IS often the case, from
living il filth aid inspfIiciently venti-
lated quarters, from crowding into tene-
ments and such similar causes common
10 poorer districts Of large cities. j. A.
Clark, NJ. D., presides over the dispen-
sary and the place is kept open all day.
Treatment is furnished at cost which
brings it within the reach of even the
most poverty stricken, as the charge TO
sick and injured is necessarily so small
the dispensary is not self sustaining. 1t
is admitted this dispensary is one of the
most useful and carefully managed III
the city.
Harvey Training School For Nurses
furnishes practical and thorough course
Of instruction to women i'll the care OF
sick and wounded that they may become
skillful and efficient nurses in the home
and in hospital wards. Miss Westerberg
is superintendent of this branch of Har-
vey medical settlement and spares
neither time nor labor III teaching those
in attendance the art Of caring for the
sick. The school is prepared to furnish
trained nurses for service in Or out OF
town.
The superintendent of the hospital
answers all calls to attend people IN
their homes. She is frequently requested
to furnish her services to children and
looks to the comforts Of newborn babies
and graciously assists afflicted families
in times of death among their little
ones The Tout practice" consists Of ad-
ministering to children's wants such as
do not come III the medical category and
is often called upon to supply children
clothing. There are many cases among
people IL this immediate neighborhood
where no fit clothing is on hand for ba-
bies.
Harvey Medical college is coeduca-
tional and of the regular school of medi-
cine. Medical lectures are given even
ings, thus according an opportunity OF
attendance to those who are otherwise
employed during the day. The course of
instruction is made all the more prac-
tical because of the schools connection
with the hospital Among the students
are found persons of all callings, such
as teachers, druggists, clerks, nurses and
stenographe1s, who have become inter-
ested III the work.
Harvey Medical settlement is, i'll the
opinion of those who have investigated
1t, the right thing in the right place. 1t
is supplying Il long felt want in a long
wanting community.-Chicago Tribune.
Punishment.
Lucy-The wretch And SO he has
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