Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-06-23

This Beneficent Institution
The Board of Directors of the
Emergency Hospital held their
annual meeting Monday, June
Is, at 2;45 p. NJ, M. E. Cox,
chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners, presiding. There
were present NJ. E. Cox, J. E.,
Peterson, E. A. Stevens, Rev. F.
W. FAIRIES, Mrs. FL. L., Grant
and Rev. F. D. Swindell.
The years work was reported
as follows:
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECU-
I COMMITTEE.
To the Directors of the Emer-
gency Hospital; Goldsboro.
Your ExecutiveC Committee were
fortunate in succeeding a COM
mittee who had placed the Emer-
gency Hospital upon a thorough
ly practical and efficient basis.
They inherited from their prede-
cessors in office a system OF rules
and regulations for the conduct
of its affairs, that are admirably
fitted to accomplish the beneh-
cent purposes for which the Hos
pital was founded. So that your
committe, even amid the changes
which time brings, and the new
demands which varying circum-
stances are eve making upon
such an institution, have had but
little occasion to add to, or to
modify or change any OF the
rules or relegulations which their
predecessors had framed, and I'M
der which they had, during their
term of Office, SO successfully con-
Quoted the affairs of the Hospital,
and it is a pleasure to US to re-
cord the fact, that the large meas
ure of success that has attended
the operations of the Hospital
during another year, has been Sc
cured along the lines which were
marked out for them by then
professors in Office.
During the year your commit
tee have held IA meetings, Il
regular, and 2 special. The com
position of the committee has, IL
some measure, been changed
Two Of the members appointed al
the last annual meeting and who
proved themselves to be very eff
fcient, were compelled, on account
of their removal from the city, te
resign their positions on the com
mittee. These we're the Revs
Stewart Mcqueen and r. B
John. Their places were happll.
filled by the election of the Rev
f.. D. Swindell, d. D. and Mrs
e. B. Dewey.
During the year % patient
have been admitted to the hospi
tai. Two of these when received
we're in a dying condition, an
soon passed away; % were dis
charged, either completely re
stored to health, u greatly re
lieyed and benefited by the treat
ment they received, and 3 al
now in the Hospital.
There were II white, and 1
colored patients admitted. TIL
aggregate number of days in IL
Hospital of all the patients wei
372; or an average for each {
Ii 2-7 days. Besides those &C
mitted to the Hospital quite
number received medical after
ton and medicines as out-doc
patients.
In addition to meeting the e:
penses of maintaining the Hosp
tai, your committee, as the meal
at their disposal permitted, al
necessity required, have sougl
to increase the equipment of Il
Hospital, and add to its comic
and it's efficiency. With TIL
view they made an addition
the stock of medicines that
kept in the hospital for the u
of patients, they purchased, tv
new cots, and six sets OF sprlnI
for other cots, they have placed
bath-tub in the Hospital for t
use of patients, and have proyid'
some of the surgical instrumen
that are most frequently require
by the attending physicians.
Pv these additions the patler