The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-04


to do so by law
The hospital ought to be so located
as to become familiar object to the
public, who, being certain that the in.
stitution is an attractive and well ap-
pointed institution, would be less apt
to oppose the removal of their children
than If the building were remote from
their homes and stigmatized by asso-
citation with the smallpox hospital and
the poorhouse Permit me to say fur
Their that the proposed hospital may, in
my opinion, be best located on the prop
erty of the New Haven hospital. The
| directors of the hospital society have
| taken steps to further such location,
| end are ready at any time to discuss
the matter with the proper persons.
Such location would allow Of the most
| economical maintenance of the institu-
| ton, would afford an ideally accessible
| place. and would at once bring to it's
service whatever of good there may be
in the results of years of experience in
| hospital management.
! I would advise against an isolation
1 hospital at Sprigside Farm. /. Because
of distance from center. 2. Because of
prejudice against having a hospital of
such universal utility for all classes,
| situated and run in connection with an
almshouse. 8. On account of expense re.
quired to run such hospital, as it
should be conducted, at such a distance
from the city.
In reply to your circular letter of De-
cember "a. I respectfully submit the
| following reasons why l am positively
opposed to locating a hospital for the
care of persons suffering from diph-
iberia, scarlet fever and measles at
Springside Farm.
/. The extreme distance which pa
tents would have to be carried to reach
such a hospital would subject them to
serious danger from exposure and ex-
haustion and would not only dimin-
ish the chances of all for recovery, but
would undoubtedly be directly RESPONSE
BILE for the deaths of a. consdera BILE
number of the patients taken there
9. The distance to Springside Farm is
far too great 10 admit of physicians
living in the city giving proper care
and attention to serious cases; and
therefore to properly care for the pa
tents in such a hospital, it would be
| necessary to maintain an expensive
staff which would be entirely unneces-
sary if the hospital were within a reas-
enable distance of the center of the
city.
3. The association with the name of
Springside Farm would so prejudice
many people against being taken, or
allowing their children to be taken
there, as to interfere with the utility of
such hospital
A. A hospital for the care of persons
suffering from diphtheria, scarlet fever
and measles, located at Springside
Farm would not meet the needs and
requirements of either patients or phys
sicians; and to place it there would
largely destroy Its utility and defeat
the purposes for which it is intended.
In reply to your circular letter of
the oath inst, I would say that the
great and I may say insuperable OBJ
lection to the proposed site (Springside)
for the hospital under consideration lies
in its remoteness and comparative in
accessibility; this objection being valid,
not only from medical and humane,
but from an economic standpoint. The
inadvisability of associating an institu-
ton, to which strangers falling ill in
our MIDST night at any time be taken,
with an almshouse, I need not consider
here. The speech of the people" taken
in this connection, is thing we, as a
community, could hardly afford to en-
tirely ignore.
l believe that it would be very I'M
wise to locate the proposed hospital for
contagious diseases (diphtheria, scarlet
fever and measles) at any place so far
distant as the Springside Farm, and
that such a plan should be abandoned.
Such hospital located nearer the
center of population is greatly needed
and would be the means of saving many
lives. If located at such distance the
transportation of patients seriously ii
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