The herald., 1896-05-31

from the meals served In the ward. Here
may always be seen q plate OF crack
ers, bread and bowl of sugar. milk and
very often butter, with q ny or 30 In 1t.
Just beneath the food Is always to be
seen as well the little yellow delft COM
mode. Just think Of it-butter and milk
to be fed to sick and dying men kept In
IA hospital bath room, equivalent
to keeping It in the water
closet! The Los Angeles county hospi-
tai has inaugurated a training school
for nurses who will in due time receive
diplomas and go out to ply their avoca-
ton at $40 or SIS per month. Will they
then think 1t necessary to a private pa
tents recovery and comfort that the
china they eat from shall be washed in
the bath room wash bowl, and follow
many other precepts carried out, or per-
haps learned, at this "go as you please"
institution? Another little dereliction
showing mans injustice to man." that
it would be well for Mr.. Field, the chair
man of the hospital committee to inves-
tigate. is that men who have not typhoid
fever are put in the typhoid ward. Such
cases are in the ward now, and the hos
pital record will show that they have
not had typhoid fever. Then why should
men suffering from chronic disease or
after months spent in the surgical
wards be put. with systems depleted,
among class of men suffering with an
infectious disease? The abuses alluded
to have certainly not existed ever since
the present superintendent incum-
bency at the hospital without his konwl-
edge. The board of supervisors have
made and published a set of rules for
the direction of all hospital employees.
One rule Is that the superintendent shall
visit each ward daily and prescribe for
the patients. The present superinten-
dent is supposed to carry out this rule:
he must therefore know, or should know,
the management of each ward to its
most minute detail: The press is mighty:
now Its aid is asked to right a wrong.
During all the months when the hos
pital inmates were drinking mild
milk. and poor dying consumptives were
pleading for butter--but died without
getting it-while the hospital superin-
tendent was importuned and the milk's
vileness reported to the hospital COM
mittee of supervisors, all awaited moth
Ing till the press reported that the lac
tometre in the hands of the inspector
indicated the milk drunk by the patients
to be So per cent water, and cried
"Shame!" The Herald valiantly took
up the sick mans cause and the abuse
was stopped.
Then again. when the superintendent
few months ago moved his own fam
lily into the maternity ward built with
the county's money for the purpose it's
name implies while the poor frinedless
women We're turned from their rightful
domain to suffer the pangs OF mother
hood. huddled together like sheep in O
pen In small room where sanitary con-
dtions could not be maintained, The
Herald again came to the rescue and
forced the maintenance of ward where
women who are the charge of the county
shall still be the sole occupants of
room during the hour of parturitiou In :.
stead of dividing the space of twenty
feet with three or four others; so now
with one flash of the machinery that
brings into existence our Morning Her.
aid, sin can be blotted out and the al
legged abuses no longer have a present
tense. The boon is asked In the name
of God for sick men and women.
A TAXPAYER