The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-12
ITS WORK.
Annual Meeting Of
ST. Vincents.
HOSPITAL GROWS
And Enlarges Field Of It's
Noble Labors.

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hospital showed that the success o
the past year has not only been be
yond all expectations, but far eclipseC
what is usually obtained in an insti
tuition of such magnitude.
The following staff for 1899 was cleo
ted, there being a sew resignation
from absolute necessity:
observation-disclosures u. Francis
Leonard Wheeler, Thomas A. O'Cal
laghan.
Surgical staff-Homer Gage, samue
B. Woodward, Charles D. Wheeler, M
j. Fallon.
Assistant surgeons-Roy~f P. Wat
l1ins, Thomas u. McEvoy, j. w. Nc
Koan, c. A. Lussier.
Medical staff-Mary " OCallaghan
John T. Duggan, William ]. Delehanty,
M. j. Halloran, John T. McGillicuddy,
| M. ]. O'Meara.
| AuriSts and oculists-David B. Low
ell, David Narrower.
Pathologist-F. II. Baker.
rthopedist--Lemuel F. Woodward.
Obstetrleian-T. j. Foley
Assistant obstetrician-Cla P. FitZ-
nsesald
me superintendent report was as
Follows:
Patients in hospital Dec Fl, 1897, IL;
admitted during the year 1885, 1886; adj
united to wards, 1892; admitted to pri-
vate rooms, 1914; total number admit
ted to hospital, 436; male, 237; female,
1893; discharged from hospital well, S21;
| relieved, 43; not relieved, I; patients
| remaining in hospital Dec. 81, 1898, IL:
| number of deaths during 1898, %.
The report of the Sisters of Provi-
dence who conduct the hospital was as
follows:
| Since the annual meeting held Jan.
! 26, 1898, the corporation of the St Vim
cent hospital has been formed and the
management has deepened and
| strengthened it's foundation and has
! continued without interruption, the
work whose growth you have watched
with fostering interest. 1t is now in a
stronger sense your own it is duly
! incorporated and the Sisters of Provi-
I Ience are your agents in carrying out
! the purposes of it's establishment. While
our solicitude for it's prosperity has not
lessened, the weight of responsibility
rests with the corporation, of which Il
IS true we form part, but we lay
stress upon your ownership, that youl
attention may be fixed upon the need OF
your active cooperation for the sue.
cessful management of so important E
work as the St. Vincent hospital is fast
iDeCOn1n5.
In our former reports we have beer
able to record a steady increase of pa.
tronage, and the year just CLOSING
proves no exception, as comparison
of numbers will show. For the year end.
ing Dec. 81, 1897, we had $40 patients
for the year '9S there were 436 or al
increase of 96 The income has not in
creased proportionately because there
are among those 1913 who have failed
to remunerate the hospital for the care
given and as much of the money will
never be paid, that number became
practically free patients, but stringent
measures in regard to the payment Of
hospital dues have never been enforced
as such would not be in keeping with
the spirit of the institution, and we be.
Ilieve we have your approval in the len.
.ency exercised towards those who d.
not pay, since the failure to meet theil
obligations is due rather to want Of
means than to any other cause.
Our ordinary income of the past veal
is about 1880 less than the preceding
one, and the shortage is on the pay.
ment of patients and income from resi-
dent inmates at the old peoples home
1t has fallen ON in the latter place be
cause of our inability to admit any
more than those in residence, but We
expect that the next annual report will
new building win be in operation, anG
the present one can be handed over
to the use of the aged and infirm. Oul
| gross receipts exceed other years, but
you will notice that the sum of 500 OOC
is on account of loan from the savings
bank, while voluntary contributions tC
| the building fund and the proceeds OF
the benefit given under the auspices OF
the Hospital Aid Association make Ut
the balance of extraordinary receipts
| Our executive committee saw the need
| Of increasing our income and fully ap-
! preciated the urgency of the case, but
| though different methods of raising
money by private subscription and 9th
| ar plans were discussed, they did moi
see The way clear to any positive &C
| ton, and all efforts of the kind were
! restricted to what was done by the
| Ladies Aid Society. 1t would seem
| however, very desirable that some
means be taken to attract the atten-
! ton of public benefactors of our cor
poration. Constant, persevering effort
to increase our funds must be made
until the hospital is so placed that its
| income may enable it to meet the eX-
penditure, and this cannot be expected
| in the erection Of buildings at this
| stage of our existence.
| The exterior proportions of the new
| buildings speak for themselves and an
nounce the progressive spirit that ami
lmates the corporation. We believe that
! the interior arrangements will be fully
up to the expectations formed from a
view Of the outside, but right here we
are confronted by a difficulty which
| should be fully explained and consi-
dered by the board, lest disappointment
might result from continuance of the
work as now projected.
| You are reminded that the delibera-
| of tG fp- too
sion to build the surgery complete; also
the laundry and boiler house; to erect
| 4 wooden building to be used tempo
| rarily as kitchen and chapel and to
| build the hospital but to leave unfln-
lshed the two upper stories. These in
structions are being carried out, but 1t
| IS foreseen that Inconvenience more or
| less serious will present themselves.
| We bear willing testimony to the eff
| ticiency Of our staff and state that the
| same relations as in the past have eX-
| listed during the year just closed. The
| resignation of DR. Thomas A. O'Callag-
han from the active to the consultant's
staff is submitted to you and we do re-
| ioice that since his personal convent
ence has suggested to him this trans
fer, he still continues his connection
with the hospital for we cannot but
| feel grateful for the warm interest and
practical assistance he has rendered
since the establishment Of our institu-
ton.
TOO much praise cannot be given to
! the Hospital Aid Association for the
zeal with which they have co-operated
with the sisters since their establish.
ment of their society. The calendar
party under their auspices was not only
very creditable affair socially. but Il
melted, with membership fees, the sun
Of 1884. The ladies intend giving prac.