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HOSPITAL REPORT.
visanska Charges Acted on Yester.
day by Committee-RepOrt De-
clares Captain HandicOtt should
Have Been Admitted-Says
Holiness Diagnosis Was Wrong.
Atlanta Constitution.

Holiness Diagnosis Was Wrong.
Atlanta Constitution.
The charges brought against the Grady
Hospital by DR.. Visanska have been flnally
acted on by the hospital committee OF the city
council.
The committee met at the city hall yester
day afternoon and adopted the following
report to be submitted to the council next
On complaint ofDr. s. A. Visanska against
the Grady Hospital, the com mittee begs TO re-
port that in Its judgment the case OF Captain
Handicott was proper one ior hospltai treat
ment and should have been taken In. Under
the present rules OF the hospital and the
diagnosis of the m bulance surgeon be could
not have been taken. The committee be
ance surgeon. erred in his diagnosis Of the case
and think that when the authorities OF the
hospital had their attention called to the fact
they should have Investigated the matter be-
fore refusing the patient admission.
Those present at the committee meeting
were Chairman Roy, Councilman Pope
Adair, LaHatte. and Alderman Fitzpatrick
fought the report as framed, but the majority
voter on its passage.
When the meeting was called to order
Chairman Roy announced that the investiga.
tion would not be re.opened, but that the
com mmittee had been calledltogether merely to
frame a report 1t will be remembered thai
the committee conducted full Investigation
of the charges some time ago, and afterwards
found that II had no authority to proceed IN
Eeen referred To 1t by council. The formal
charges OF DR.. Visanska therefore went be
fore the council at its last meeting and were
referred to the hospital committee giving II
authority to Investigate. AS the investiga.
tion proper had already taken place. the com.
mittee agreed with Chairman Roy yesterday
afternoon that there was n need for further
evidence.
WANTED THE OTHER SIDE.
DR.. Visanska was present at the meeting
and made short statement. claiming that
the hospital authorities should have taken
The hospital was not represented. and
Alderman Fitzpatrick asked Chairman Roy II
the hospital authorities mad been notified oi
mo they have not" was the reply, 1T was
not the Intention to take ANY evidence this
afternoon. We have already done that
"WelI, move this matter be posponed un.
til the hospital people can be given chance
to be heard" said Mr.. Fitzpatrick with some
feeling"
There was no second to the motion and 1t
was theefore never put. Councilman Pope
was adopted.
The public is already familiar With the
grounds for the charges OF DR.. Visanska.
Of Captain Handioott. Of the Sal xation Army.
He diagnosed the case pulmonary
hemorrhage, and thought best to send the
patient to the hospital where he could receive
treatment that his surroundings at home
would not permit.
Dr.. Holmes, the ambulance surgeon.
answered the call with the ambulance, and
after examining the patient refused to take
him to the hospital on the grounds be had
tuberculosis, and that the hospital would not
take incurable cases. The hospital authori.
ties accepted the diagnosis Of DR.. Holmes and
refused to admit the patient, whereupon DR..
Visanska preferred charges against the
management OF the hospital. The case has
attracted much attention, and 1t Is probable
the hospital authorities will fight the report ol
the committee in the council Monday
afternoon.