Evening journal., 1897-04-20
TWO WOMEN DEFIANT.
Nurses Eisenhardt and ZelIner
Anxious to Testify
TO CHARGES AND AFFIDAvITs

AGAINST sUPT. HANCKER AND
DIR. HAMMOND, OF THE DELLA
WARE STATE HOSPITAL AT
FARNHURST - DIR. HAMMOND's
STATEMENT.
The charges recently made by Nurses
Eisenhardt and Zellner, discharged at
tendants at Farnhurst, seem to be
ripening into sufficient cause for in
vestigaticn. The following letter was
written to the Evening Journal to-day:
TO the Editor Of the Evening journal.
Sir: The statement made In the Phil
adelphia Record Of April 10 is net a
iact. We were not discharged from
The Delaware state Hospital at Farm
hurst We handed in our designations
on April $. because we determined to
expose the treatment used in the hos
pital and said so. Dr. Hancker sent
as away on April II. attendants are
obliged to stay two weeks after they
resign in order to secure their money!
We can swear to everything we put
in the paper and are willing to appear
at the next meeting OF the board OF
managers and report more yet. AS we
are experienced nurses, we can give the
best of references.
CHRISTINE EISENHARDT.
LENA zELLNER.
No 2269 Colorado St. Philadelphia.
I he paragraph referred to In the
Record as untrue Is as follows
These attendants said that Mrs E-
/ len Campbell died Of ill-treatment. The
records of the hospital show that the
woman. who was 81 years old, died Of
/ uaralytic shCcks. Mrs. Wingert. OF
! DagsborO, another woman alleged TO
have died OF ill-treatment. was In the
| hospital about two weeks. Her hus-
band was with her when she died
said Or. Hancker, and he afterward
thanked us for the good treatment
superintendent Hancker and DR..
Hammond, of the hospital, declare that
these former attaches of the hospital
have been influenced to make their bold
assertions by other discharged attend
ants, who are continually planning
some scheme to get square with the
physicians for the loss OF their jobs
AS far as the charge of my being in
The bathroom with one Of the nurses.
says DIR. Hammond. mo one familiar
With the situation would give a second
thought to brand it as an absurd lie
The bathroom Is on the public corrl-
dOi-as conspicuous a place as the
front door-and no man or woman In
i their right minds, no moiter how im-
moral. would think of such "a thing. es-
F, lpedally at 9 o'clock in the evening.
'ln answer TO the charge OF rough
and cOarae treatment OF patients. 7 viii
az fhAnl
T, with a little hospital experience, soon
think they know more than any ply
aician after fifteen years OF study and
many years of practice. II they saw
any improper treatment, then they are
guilty OF perjury, as both nurses swore
before our superintendent, as all must
do each month. that they had seen no
abuse or improper treatment.
This Zellner woman admitted 10
certain officials Of the hospital that
what she had said about me was wholly
untrue and meant entirely as "a joke,
and that she had nothing against Or.
, tlanckcr nor myself.
1.-The Eisenhardt and Zellner women
were reprimanded by DR.. Hancker for
going into each others wards at times
when that Is prohibited. and. to set his
reproof and rules at defiance, they re-
signed indignant and smartine
from their humiliation they began tt
make threats and to call DR.. Hanckei
bad names. resented this. and thes
Immediately turned upon me saying:
"I'li rip this whole place up Tho
- back, and you. too
" "f reported their threats TO DIR
Hancker, and they were at once dis
charged and ordered to clear out TO
{ good"