Arizona republican., 1897-11-17
afternoons oonvalescent patients may

afternoons convalescent patients may drink in health.
 The charges for residence at the hospital vary from $10 ito $14 week according to the room occupied. These figures comprise the cost of every thing, food and the most careful and skillful attendance
 But the want of money excludes no one, nor dlces money secure ito any patient superior attendance. It is the same to all and no panniiess p.r- son is made to feel that he is an in truder. From January, 1895, until the beginning of this month 220 patients were cared for. Altogether iHhese pa tients resided at the hospital 4,746 days. Of these 3,407 days were paid for anh 1889 were not paid for. That is the same as if the Sisters had SUD- ported and mursad one sick man more than four years for nothing. Nearly fCnty per csnt of their Icndeavors for nearly two years were made in char dty. There is man at the hospi al now who was taken there with broken leg and without a dcllar or a prospect of one ten weoiks ago. That made no difference to the iS.slers. He has wanted for nothing conducive to his comfort or his recovery. There is a coloFed patient sick of typhoid fev5r, from whom tihe hospital will probably receive nothing
 Last summer a man was taken there with enough money to pay for two weeks residence. He remained sev- eral weeks and was at length dis charged as cured. He went back to a coTulal and his illness recu-rad in a violent form and when The Sisters heard of it they directed a physic an to return him to the institution. These are only three of many char itable incidents.
 The hospital is not a sectarian ins.i- tuition except in so far as it is owned and controlled by a religious order The only thing suggestive of the Cath ollie church is the garb of the Sisters WIhan a patient is brought in an unob- trusive effort is made ito asce1Itain his religion, if he has any. If he is a Protestant and a time comes when he is in need of religious consolation, the Sisters send for any minister he may dIsisire. If he is not a member of any church he will probably elect priest of hhe Catholic church, for the kindness shown him has disposed him favorably to that religion.
 Nor does the hospital in any way derive amy support from the Catholic church. The church in Phoenix is itself poor and struggling though comparatively strong in numbers 1t is true that a considerable part of the original contribution was furnished by members of the Catholic church, but the church itself has been able to fur nish nothing. Protestants and Jews are represented in the original gift.
 The Sisters are endeavoring to dis charge the indebtedness upon the building and when that is done they will increase their facilities for use fulness by beginning the erection of a new and larger building west of the present one. It will contain larger rooms, which may be more inv iting Ito a class of patients upon whom the hospital necessarily dspemds for a sue cessful existence. Even if the present ratio between paying and non+paying patients should not be lessensd by the attraction of wealthier patients, i.he experience of the last two years has shown that the extension of facilities would increase tha hospitals field for both charitable and profitable work. It should have been stated also that the alttitude of the Sisters toward physicians is as undiscriminating as is their attention to the sick. Any phy- sician may send his patients there if there is room to receive them, and when patients are taken in unattended by a physician, whichever one he de- sires is sent for. It sometimes hap pens thal4 the patient is without a choice and leaves the selection to his nurse. She neWer maKes it, but sug- gests to lhim a list of physicians With the schools ito which they belong and the patient is at last compelled ito name one.
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