The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-12


teal assistance in providing for the
furnishing of the new building, and
they hope by extending the member
ship to secure very considerable an
nual income to the hospital.
Referring you to the details of our re-
port for any information not given here,
and assuring you of our unwavering
interest and energy in promoting the
prosperity of the work of the corpora
ton, we enter on the new year in the
hope that its course may unfold to us
the plans, and present the means to do
all the good that divine providence de-
signs for our cherished institution.
Respectfully submitted FOR the Sisters
of Providence, by Mother Mary of
Providence, treasurer; Sister M. Ursula,
secretary.
The total receipts of the year were
sS8, 764.4S. This amount included $4,000
loan from the ' orcester County 1nsti-
tuition for Savings, $3754.S9 from the
calendar party and dues of aid asso-
citation, and $3.50 from resident inmates.
The total expenditures We're $37, 1879
| leaving a balance on hand of $l024.71,
| DR. John T. Duggan, chief of staff,
read a report as follows:
During the spring ground was broken
for the new hospital, and so energetic
ally and expeditiously was the work
carried on that 1t seemed as if the i'm
posing structure which now looks over
our fair city had sprung forth in a
single night.
| OF all the cities and large town in
| New England, where hospitals are
maintained, Worcester probably has
the most meagre and inadequate pro-
vision for the ordinary demands or the
community, and Is the least prepared
| to meet any emergency that may be
| thrust upon its hospitals by accident or
public calamity.
The seven largest cities in the coun-
try average one bed to every 800 Of the
| population. Boston has one for every
244 and for cities suburban to Boston
provide one bed TO every 600 inhabit-
ants Worcester, at a distance from
any other hospital facilities, furnishes
| only one bed to 700 people, ana taxing
into account the 10000 people in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the city it provides
only one bed to 800 inhabitants.
The hospital staff has held two meet
| ngs during tile year one in January,
the other in October At the latter
meeting Dr. r. A. OCallaghan asked
leave to Withdraw from the hospital
staff on account Of i'll health. His resig-
nation leaves vacancy to be filed.
| In the October meeting the vacant
position of pathologist was filled after
| the most careful consideration by the
appointment of Frederick Fl. Baker, NJ.
D. He holds this position on the city
hospital and is bacteriologist on the
| Worcester board of health. He has
manifested the most kindly feeling to
the new hospital and is believed to be
a most valuable acquisition to the work
ing force.
| In connection with the duties of the
| IL - t.,
be provided where pathological inves-
legations can be properly made. We are
of opinion that this should be done in
building outside of the hospital. The
old frame structure now used for q
laundry will soon no longer be used for
that purpose. We propose to move 1t
back, put q brick foundation under the
| first story and make an autopsy room
out Of it..
The position of orthopedist was for
merly distinct. But the calls on his time
were so slight that the office was final
| ly abolished and a member of the medi-
| cal staff assigned to do the work The
medical staff differs at the present time
as to the ACCESSIBILITY of reviving the
office. 1t therefore leaves the whole
matter to the trustees and mentions the
name of DR.. L. f. Woodward
The committee on lectures to nurses
have arranged a series Of lectures on
subjects that will prove OF the greategt
value to the nurses and the sick they
afterwards may tend. The lectures will
be given every Monday afternoon at q
quarter before five, from December rs,
| 1898, to April II, 1899.
| 1t Is but fitting that grateful ack-
noWledgement be made to the superin-
| tendent Of this institution for her ex-
| treme kindness and courtesy to the
members of the staff during the year.
| Her faithfulness and efficiency cannot
| be questioned. We are fully alive to the
fact that her responsible position has
been complicated by many arduous and
| trying duties, but when we tell her that
| our estimate Of her work has received
the highest endorsement, she may rest
assured that an expression of thanks
! IS not mere formal duty, but as q
mark of appreciation well deserved and
heartily rendered.
The fidelity of those who have been
associated with US at the bedside dur
| ing the year should receive something
more than passing word, Their gen
erous cooperation has made the air
of this hospital delightful and our
work less arduous. Moving about in
that quiet, unostentatious and useful
way, anxious to do everything that
might be conducive to the welfare OF
the sufferer, they may have taught a
| lesson that must have a holy and
| wholesome influence
During the months of September and
October when the wasted and ex-
hausted forms of Worcester soldiers in
the late war sought treatment within
| these walls, when the hospital was
taxed to its utmost capacity and every
available corner had to be utilized, no
! greater loyalty to the profession of
nursing could have been shown than
was manifested by these devoted wo-
men to the very exacting duties Of
their calling. And of the nearly fifty
soldiers whose wants were mlnistered
to by these tender hands, all live to
| speak words Of the highest eommenda-
ton Of the good sisters Of st. Vincents
| hospital.
| TO our co-laborers on the staff we
must return thanks for their kind as