The herald., 1896-06-22
THE HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT
fintchis0n Thinks Is Not All That II
Should Be
Pepper Trees Crowding the Street Cars Off
the Track In the Southwestern
Part Of the City

It may be that. in this country, the
when they have the bad taste to be sick
or become victims Of regulation Amer
lean accidents; still an unsophistocated
youth would imagine that such dis
tressed and unfortunate people might
in some way win the respect and soften
the ordinarily obduraote and adaman-
tine hearts Of the case-hardened indi-
viduals that usually attack the county
treasury for services rendered to them
selves at the county hospital.
The death rate at the hospital is
something altogether frlghtful. The sto-
ries told by many of those who have
survived a term Of Imprisonment there
In indicate that the medical services
rendered at the only free hospital in this
holy city would put to shame the most
ignorant OF country pill-mixers and the
carvers of unfortunate humanity.
1t is said that many of the most COM
plicated cases are operated upon by the
raw students of the local medical COL
lege, even without the direction Of an
instructor or superior. and that the feed
ing of the patient patients resembles the
dosing of the boys at Squeers' school.
1t is but few months since wrote
the first article in an extensive EXPOSE
tion Of the hospital practice of appro-
priating the clothing appertaining to the
dead and then burying the bodies stark
naked. There were also some side re-
marks concerning the carving Of such
bodies, the neglect and fly-blowing of
some Of them, and the careless appropri-
alton of jewelry and bank checks of the
deceased or eXterminated. But the cart
ing off and burying naked, after the
fashion of diseased deceased hogs, was
the most gruesome feature that caught
the attention Of the public-and the pub
lie still has a heart
As the management Of the hospital
has not been changed for a long time.
we must expect to hear very peculiar
and unsavory stories that we would
"fain not hear"
On some Of the streets in the south
western part of the city the pepper trees
are about to crowd the street cars off
the tracks. 1t is somewhat dangerous
for car passengers in that quarter to
look out to see where they are. We
may soon hear of some ones losing an
eye or two by striking a pepper bough.
Then a few trees will be trimmed, and
al but the eyes will be well.
Some of the good hotels in this quarter
Of the world are afflicted with the worst
system of baggy mattresses that ever
cursed decent man who wanted to
sleep.
No one has ever yet demonstrated
why a mattress should be allowed to
sink and sag in the middle until an
adult who should try to sleep in it would
break his back or dream all night of
trying to sleep in a chair that had once
owned cane bottom.
This city is sadly in need Of some reg
ulations concerning cab fares. At pres
ent one who rides in a cab must bar
gain with the driver before entering the
cab, or expect to pay anywhere from
two bits to two dollars per mile for his
cab journey.
Magazines and other public prints
have lately had quite range In the
nude pictorial line, but 1t has remained
for one of the alleged decent magazines
to publish as an art work one OF the
most vilely indecent pictures that ever
dsgraced a sheet of paper or caused a
blush of shame to incarnadine the face
of a decent person. The picture In ques-
tion represents some Japanese wrest-
lers who should be Gagged for season
with the publisher of the obnoxious pic
ture. Yours truly,
EDWARD L. HUTCHINSON.