New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20
NOT WORRIED BY CENSURE.
APPARENT INDIFFERENCE MANIFESTED
pyNEw-YoRK HOSPITAL OFFICIALS.
IMPOSSIBLE TO LEARN WHETHER OR NOT THEY
WILL, CARRY OUT THE RECOMMENDA-
TONS OF THE CoRoNERs JURY


WILL CARRY OUT THE RECOMMEND
TONS OF THE coRoSER's JURY
CHANGES NECESSARY.
The censure Of the authorities Of the New
York Hospital by Coroner's jury in the case Of
Caleb Ford apparently has made no serious i'm
n-ession upon the managers of that institution.
inquiry at the hospital yesterday was met by
show Of Indifference and blunt refusal TO say
y the recommendations Of the jury would be
considered.
Ny Ford was the grocer who was injured in
jumping of an Eighth-ave. car He was carried
10 the New-York Hospital. only to be transferred
10 Bellevue Hospital. when the young sawbones
IN Fitteentn-st. thought he would die in the
former institution II he was allowed TO remain
there He died two days after being carried 70
Bellevue and his relatives have believed that
his death was fastened by his removal from the
Nev-York Hospital. His widow has declared
that the doctors at the New-Iork Hospital neg
,ec,ed him in the way Of treatment, and caused
his removal from the institution at time when
his condition made his removal TO another part
Of the city dangerous
Coroner's jury Friday condemned the au-
.horities of the New-York Hospital for removing
q patent while in a condition dangerous to his
life The Jury also recommended that physi-
Ran should be present at the transfer Of patients
from one hospital 10 another. superintendent
Indian Of the New-York Hospital yesterday
declined to give any information on the SUBJECT
when a Tribune reporter inquired what at'eh-
finn would he paid 70 the recommendation or the
mrv The only reply Of Mr.. Ludlam was i
hare no statement TO make on the subject.
AN ArrrAnANCE OF INDIFFERENCE.
Mr. Ludlarn spoke with appearance of in
difference as 20 the action Of the Coroner's jury
Indifference 10 public opinion and TO the com
plants about the outrageous treatment OF pa
tents has been shown by managers Of city hos
pitals on so many occasions that ii has caused
remark. Conservative New Workers have said
that something more than censure by juries Will
be necessary 10 put stop TO the practice of
transferring dying patients from hospitals. The
practice is understood TO be the result Of desire
N Keen down the death rate in hospitals which
are supported in great part by the money re-
ceved from patients who are able 70 pay well
for treatment. The practice has become 50 COM
mon that persons have been removed from such
hospitals when they near the point of
death that they have died in the am6ulances
which were carrying them TO Bellevue
The managers Of the hospitals are anxious TO
maintain an ambulance service and 10 receive
calls from the police stations in cases Of emer-
gency; but II often happens that persons who are
dangerously or mortally injured in the streets are
taken In the ambulances to those hospitals. only
TO be transferred in haste 10 Bellevue before their
friends can interfere to prevent their removal
Even in some cases in which the friends of dying
persons have made objections. the patients nave
bsen sent N BELLEVUE The practice of transfer
ring dying patients has caused many citizens 10
believe that the city authorities should interfere
Ealfa
oil patients in the hospitals until the removal of
such patients can be recommended by competent
,aysicans or 10 extend the system Of public
emergency hospitals and stop sending ambulance
calls to private hospitals. II has been said that
Xev-York ought 10 have enough public hospitals
70 take care of emergency cases In every part OF
the city II private hospitals cannot be mace 70
stop the practice of transferring patients VINO
Gre near the point Of death
THE CASE OF Mr.. wYCKOFF-
Much public Indignation was caused by the
treatment Of George H. Wyckoff, the president OF
the New-Amsterdam Bank, who was shot by a
mailman who also shot himself. In the bank al
No lab Broadway. Mr.. Wyckor and the assas-
rn were placed in the same ambulance by sur
gson from the New-York Hospital and carried TO
he institution when they were both conscious
enc aware Of the fact that they were traVeilihs
n company. After such a shocking experience
ar WyckofY was allowed TO lie in the Ne"-i yin
Hospital for hours practically without surgical
ud. and he lived 80 long after necessary opera
ton was at length performed that many people
Believed he would have recovered II he had re-
oeived proper treatment at the hospital Mr.
Wyckof was a M n OF wealth who could aford 10
pay for the best surgical aid, and the shocking
Treatment and neglect In his case were therefore,
az the more inexcusable at an institution Which
sargely supported by its patients.
The managers Of the New-York Hospital mace
N alleged investigation Of the case. but so far az
ae public knows nothing came OF the investlga-
Ton. Reporters Of The Tribune have made re-
Plated attempts 10 ascertain II the managers OF
ue Institution found fault with anybody con-
scted with the case. but II has been Impossible
uget information on the subject. A reporter yes
,,~day asked Superintendent Ludlam II there had
esn any report on the case or Mr. Wyckon as
neult Of the investigation. and he said there had
zen none Of which he had heard His reply IN
sMated that no information on the subject Is
"sny to be given 10 the public.
he reporter made efforts to get an interview
siu Merritt Trimble. the president OF the Society
VI ne NewYork Hospital. but failed 10 nnd MN
= us Office in Pine-st.. his Office In the bank IN
anouth-ave.. his home. IN East TweDty-hfth-st'
" a'the hospital.