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

the physician because tney are not Sc
we're enough.
Personally, I should much prefer to
have the city go without such hos
pital one year more, or even longer,
rather than have it located at such a
spot, for I feel sure we would all regret
such a choice.
I think that such hospital as is pro-
posed ought to be erected in New Ha-
ven and to be centrally located and
properly equipped,
Answering your favor of the Gath inst.
I would say that 1 do not know a single
valid reason for locating a contagious
disease hospital at Springside farm.
The place is SO inaccessible that the
parents and friends of patients would
so strongly object to their being taken
there that one of the chief objects of
the hospital would be defeated by the
concealment of cases. If it is impossi-
BILE to agree on any other. then it is my
opinion that a temporary and inexpen-
sive structure only should be erected.
A short use of it would, I believe, dem
onstrate the serious objections to per-
manent occupancy of the site.
Experience has demonstrated that
there Is no danger in fact from locating
properly constructed and properly
managed hospital of this character even
in the center of city. The objections
arise from the recognition of the institu-
ton as pest house. This idea it will
be difficult to associate from any indie
pendent building, but if the hospital
could be erected on the grounds of the
General Hospital society it would lose
it's distinctive character by being merg-
ed in a large group of hospital build
ings. No other site offers this happy
solution of the difficulty. Considera-
lions of location and of financial econo-
my in the management of the institu-
ton also urge this disposition OF the
question.
In frequent instances the removal to
patients recovery, if not Immediately
fatal. In others the fear of such result
would forbid the removal.
There is absolutely no danger to sur
rounding residents from such an institu-
ton properly conducted according to
modern principles.
I would state that in my opinion such
a hospital should be built at once on
such a site as would render it easy of
access so as not to endanger the lives
of those being transported in such
weather. for instance, as we are having
at present.
If possible the building should be near
the thickly settled tenement portion of
the city, since if it is from this class
that a large proportion of the patients
usually come-at the same time, it's ac-
Communications and advantages are sup
posed to be such that some of all classes
may at times be benefited thereby.
The location of the hospital on the site
proposed would seem a make-shift for
the temporary and most unsatisfactory
disposition of a matter of urgent neces-
sity to the public. It is to be sincerely
hoped that better counsele will prevail.
onin;on If tho suita bilitv of Sn,.inpside
Farn, az location for q bospitaI for
conta oious diseases 7 wouId saw that
considar Il daciaadlv unfit and undesira !
ble fo,, the following reasons.
The distance from orr center of
nonulation lie co eraat as To forbid the
! n nvine of MANY cases
| 2 The EXPENSE TO physicians in caring
| both in time and money.
8. The expense of running an institu-
ton so far removed from supplies of all
kinds will be unduly large
| a. There will always be connection,
| in the popular mind, between the hos
pital and poor house.
| 5. The appropriate place for such a
/ hospital is the ground now used as q
vegetable garden by the state hospital
| on the corner of Cedar street and DAY.
export avenue This is central and yet
removed from any large number of resi-
| dences. The hospital is an imperative
,,od ond if IL cannot he y,,,t IL, tho baet