The San Francisco call., 1896-11-20
TELLING SECRETS
OF THE HOSPITAL
War Between the MatrOn
and the Superin-
tendent.
Blankets, Sheets and Pillow
Cases Missing From the
Institution.
Mrs. Stables Large Tennis.Flanne
Account Night.Gowns and
Lounging Robes.

Mrs. Mary z. Black, the matron of the
City and County Hospital, came before
the Board of Health yesterday afternoon
to tell all she knew of the shrouds that
should have been used when the pauper
dead were laid out for burial. incidentally
she took occasion to expose some of the
secrets of the institution.
There were missing seven pairs of
blankets, six pillow-cases and ten sheets,
which she said she served out for the use
OF DR.. Stables family when they first
came to live at the hospital. When the
Stables moved into another residence
those articles, to her belief, went with
them.
She did not take an inventory of the
things before they went away because she
had been ordered not to do SO by Mrs.
Stable.
II told DR.. Stahle," said Mrs. Black to
DR.. Hart, sthat l must go into his rooms
and take a list of the City property there.
He at first said / might do So but after
consulting his wife he told me that she
would attend to that
"When did you first miss those blan-
kets, sheets and pillow -cases |" asked DIR.
Williamson.
when Mrs. Stable and her children
left the hospital" answered the matron.
'Soon after Mrs. Stable came she got hurt
and had to have two more pillows and
they were borrowed from the training
school. They are gone too.
'My attention was called to the short
age in the bed linen during the weekly
distribution of the wash. The reason 1
think DR.. Stable took the articles is that
this week l captured the ten sheets
among lis laundry
stW nat d0 Won rpaau hv tcorturaI
asked DR.. F1tzgibbons.
81 found them among his private linen
and knew them by the hospital mark
They came to me by the mistake of the
laundryman."
The witness stated in reply to question
that she had been forbidden to go into DR..
Sta HES rooms on any pretext, but lust
before the family left she found many
articles OF hospital bed linen lying among
their baggage.
She explained that there was consid er-
able friction between herself and the
Stables, and that it was caused by the
very official part taken by the superin-
tendent's wife. She then stated that Mrs.
Stable would make demands upon her for
muslin, flannel, safety-pins and other
articles which she had charge OF as ma
tron.
Mrs. Stable would use the things thus
procured from the hospital supplies for
her own use, the witness SAID.
'tAre you sure of this2' DR.. Hart asked
pointedly.
II saw the cloth cut and made and worn
by members of Mrs. Stables family." an
swered Mrs. Black. II saw Mrs. Stable
wearing dress made of tennis flannel
which she got OF me-"
The witness stated further that some
silk was ordered for use in the internes'
room and portion of it was used to NAL Ike
dress for DIR. Stable little girl.
Mrs. Black exhibited her books, espe.
cially the six pages of the accounts de.
voted to the requirements of Mrs. Stable
They run from October 21, 1895, to April
%. 1896.
i'Here is an item-'seventeen yards Can.
ton hannei,' said DR.. Hart. "What i.
that for?'
might clothes for little Roland Stable, y
| answered Mrs. Black.
"And here is fourteen yards tennis fan
mel. What is that for2"
"a lounging robe for Mrs. Stable"
"Here is fifteen and half yards tennis
| flannel. What is that for?"
ga lounging robe for Mrs. Stahle'
mother, / think"
So the long list runs through six page.
of large folio account-book-fannel linen
creton, thread, cotton, needles, pins, ETC.
all for Mrs. Stable. On one page are
number of articles marked, "Taken in M,
absence and not accounted for
| Mrs. Black stated that somebody ha.