The San Francisco call., 1896-12-13
Result of the Investigation Of
:. the City and County Hos
pital Scandal.
OTHER CHANGES WILL BE MADE
2: IF NEED BE.
No Successor to DR.. Stah'e Has Been
-: Decided UpoD-The Training
-. School May Go.

q: The Board of Health has begun its work
OF. turning the City and County Hospital
'ppside down" as one OF the mem bers of
fiat board a short time ago said it
suld do.
NIhe work has been very quietly begun
bshind closed doors and will be as quietly
continued, but it would appear that it is
none the less thorough.
1t has been decided to allow DR.. Stable
t5'resign his Office as Superintendent.
DR.. Gum, the inferno who tried to play
atihe game of wheeibarrow with one of
nurses up and down the main corridor of
the. hospital after midnight of November
27f'has been suspended, AMI will not be
given the certificate until next July that
otherwise would have been his with the
close.of this month.
AS for the four nurses who were parties
tp The midnight frolic, they have been
suspended under graduated sentences
rQade.:so as to fit the crime. The least
guilty will be allowed to return to her
duties IN one month, the next in degree of
ta!ltt Will do the same a month later, or
two months hence; the third is under
gentence for three months and the fourth,
PresImably the wheelbarrow IN the case,
HilI.fnd the doors of the hospital closed
tQ:heE for four months.
This say the members of the board, Is
the beginning OF the changes to be made
al. .a:.coptinued inquiry may discover the
need: The board proposes to look into
the methods and conduct of the hospital
thoroughly, and whatever changes may be
deemeq necessary to bring about proper
shd successful regime at the hospital will
certainly be made.
Ae successor OF DR.. Stable has not been
deteFmined upon, at least if he has the
boardkeeps the fact to itself. The mem
bers: say that no superintendent will be
named for some time.
.:Itis. altogether likely that movement
Will be started that will shortly dispense
altogether with the trainiRg-school for
nurses. attached to the City and County
Hospital.
A short time ago DR.. Morse was the
Tnly member of the board who was directly
Opposed to the school as conducted there.
He insisted that the wards or charges OF
the City-the INDECENT sick VINO were
taken there-had the same right to ex-
perienced nursing that the patients of
other hospitals were given; that the City
was responsible for their care and was GER
tainly rich enough to provide it.
The other members are rather disposed
to take this view OF it since the escapade
of the night of November % and the de-
velopnienls that have followed on the
heels OF the inquiry that it provoked.
"a bevy of very young women who may
hope 10 be nurses and corps of very
young men thrown together in the loose
. fashion that seems to ureVaiI out there
are pretty certain to frolic, and that won Il
do in any public institution, especially a
hospital" SAID one OF the members yes
terday.
THAT story about Miss Patton, the head
nurse, smoking cigarettes and that sort of
thing is so absurd on its face that IT
scarcely needs denying" said DR.. FiIzgib-
:. bon. There is nothing in the conduct of
the head nurse that lays her open to GEN.
sure at the hands of the board"