The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-01
TREATED MANY PATIENTS
ANNUAL REPORT ON CITY AND
COUNTY HOSPITAL PRESENTED
By DIR. ANCKER
SHOWING Is MOST cREDITABLE
In Spite of Many Cases of IncurabIe
Ailments, the Institution Can
Boast of a Splendid
Record.

The annual report of the city AMI
county hospital was yesterday submitted
to the board of control by DR.. A. p.
Ancker. The report covers the affairs
OF the hospital until the end of last
year.
There were ass applications for admis-
sion, and the number admitted 1,765;
births at the hospital, 6S; patients under
treatment during the year, 1886. OF
this number 1913 were discharged as well,
COB reported improved, 30 unimprovcd,
III died, and 1877 were at the institution
Dec 81
There were "a deaths from consu up
ton, rs from Bright's disease and val
Nalar heart disease, 16 from malignant
and incurable tumors, IA from violence,
including railway accidents, burns and
gunshot wounds. from typhoid fever,
and each from diphtheria and suicide.
The average number of days stay of
patients was 81 daily average number Of
patients, 1e7; total number of days treat
ment given in the hospital, 6O,S57.
The total cost OF maintenance was
$3S, $50. IS, of which the cash expenditure
was $36,292, and the value of produce from
the poor farm $2,0SS. The receipts dur
Ing the year were $15,39S.39, leaving thu
total cost to the tax payers for niainten-
ance $2O,S93.S5
The cost per patient per week, based
on the gross cost of maintenance, less
cash receipts, was $2.64, and the cost per
patient and enploye, on the same basis,
$1.94 per week
The amount of money received by the
hospital from patients in 1880 was $117. Il; ;
IN 1899 IS, 1887, and for the last year. SIS
39S. SO.
In communication accompanying the
report, DR.. Ancker says in part:
1t is with considerable degree Of
prlue that the submission of these stati5-
Tics is made to your honorable BODY. a
pride which is eminently justified by ihe
Iacts disclosed. Under a careful perusaI
ana comparison 1t is believed that the
record and present condition of the ST
Faul city and County hospital will dem
onstrate that it stands second to no SINH :
lar institution in the country in point Of
equipment efficiency and economy
, ihe general hospital, the maternity
building, and the building occupied by the
department of crippled and deforn,e ed
children are in excellent condition much
haVire been done during the year in the
way OF painting and clustering, and
could lot reasonably suggest further i'm
proVementS at this time. 1t is most I'M
fortunate that our recent request for an
appropriation for the construction of a
new ane more modern building for the
care and treatmentsof conta gious diseases
was ignored. Ii is altogether likely that
II the public generally understood the
urgent need of This imp ovement there
WoIIo be no obstacle placed in the way
of its accomplishment
Last year we cared for 81 cases of
dlphthGr1a,7 II cases Of scarlet fever a.
cases OF measles, 1 of chickeupox and
apout Az cases OF erysipelas, all under the
same roof, in an old and badly arranged
building, saturated with the germs of
disease There are about a dozen rooms
IN TINS building, opening practically Que
into another, making the proper or eff
fective classification and isolation of the
patents impossible, the result being that
II mas not lnfrequently occurred that a
patent VINO has been admitted for the
fever, has not left the hospital without
having contracted both maladies A
modern structure of the necessary d.
m ano n6a would cost between $4,000 and
matter be brought before the proper alI-
thol1ties at an early date.
A plant for the proper disinfection OF
the bedding and clothing is badly need
ed: The most effectual means of dis
infection is most unquestionably heat,
and, as you know, we are without any
apparatus for this purpose.
Permit me again to recommend the es-
Enlistment of cooking school in CON
nectlon with the training school for
nurses. The education Of the nurse is
most incomplete without it, and the serv-
ices of an instructress in invalid cooking
could be secured at small expense. The
training school for nurses, under it's yery
efficient head Mrs Frances d. Cam pbeif
is doing excellent work and was never in
q more prosperous condition The -school
now. consists of twenty-eight pupiIs. ali
OF whom have been carefully selected
from numerous applicants Last year we
had 10 applications for admission to the
school. This number is largely in excess
of that of any preceding year. Of the
th1rty-dVe probatiOners received and
registered, only sixteen were accepted.
The school has attained to high stand
ard of excellence and it's reputation as
an educational institution has brought
US many applications from a very ac-
ceptable class of young women
during the latter part of the year a
meteorological and pathological labora-
tory fully equipped and prepared to do
the best kind of work has been added To
the hospital. Pathological and bacteriolig-
lcaL research play necessary and i'm
portant role in the successful diagnosis
and treatment of disease, and there can
be no doubt about the usefulness of this
add1tion to the hospital equipment DIR.
Hopkins University at Baltimore, was APP
pointed bacteriologist and pathoiogist ana
is doing most excellent work
During the year the visiting staff OF
physicians and surgeons has paid about
200 professional Visits to the hospital.
They have attended about 1900 patients
and performed $50 operations Its mem
pers nave been earnest and constant in
the performance of their many duties and
our grateful thanks are due them for The
effective service they have rendered US
The house staff, consisting of six grad
yates of the medical department of the
University of Minnesota, Mrs. j. w
Olson, III. c. Stuhr, P A. Hoff, r. S. X,
Nelson, P. B. Cook and C. C. Leck. has
rendered US most excellent service.
In pc, formance of my duties as CITY
and county physician I have oeen abIv
assisted by Drs. W. G. .Richeson, James
:: Gillian and Howard B. Weirick. DIR
Meirick resigned on the 1st of October
and efficient in the work assigned ~
them. 1t is doubtful that many of our
citizens have any idea Of the scope of the
service Of the department outside of the
hospital With two assistants we made
over ll lM visits and red for: ~