The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-02-19

The Hilo hospital, while under
the direct supervision of board of
trustees, is a Territorial institution and
receives from the Treasury about $3.50
a month for support.
The trustees have written to the
Board of Health asking for power to
increase salaries and also to receive en-
dowments of beds from individuals
and corporations. 1t is believed that
some of the big companies and planta-
tons in and about Hilo would gladly
donate sums to the hospital for the en-
dowment of beds.
The trustees of the hospital have add
dressed the following letter to tre
Board, which was read at the meeting
yesterday:
AT Il meeting of the trustees Of the
Hilo Hospital this week. Miss Murphy
stated to the trustees that she ala not
feel that she ought to stay ana work
for the Hilo Hospital longer at II wage
of $25 per month, as she has received
an offer for another good position she
has been with US long enough TO
demonstrate that she is thoroughly
competent. She is large, strong,
healthy woman, and much liked by
both patients and physicians. she Is
willing to stay on indefinitely AT 500 Il
month. but not for less.
We feel that not only she should bc
paid this amount, but tEat 1t will be
an irreparable loss to our hospital to
lose her. especially as Miss Grub says
she does not care to remain II Miss
Murphy goes, for the work ana care
is more than she can stand without a
reliable assistant. Miss Grub has not
lately asked that her pay be raised,
and though she has heretofore said
that she intended to stay whether her
pay was raised or not, | know she con-
sders herself underpaid, but she is
sentimentally attached to the institu-
ton. We have felt all along that it
was an imposition to ask n nurse OF
her training and ability to work for
the pay she has.
We. the trustees. wish to raise the
pay of Miss Grub to $50 per month
and the pay of Miss Murphy to $50 per
month Miss Grub is a very careful
probably saves the amount OF her |
wages each month in the running eX-
pense of the hospital, and she uses |
very good judgment in her economy.
our HiIo physicians tell us that we |
cannot possibly get other nurses who |
will be as well suited to the work here. |
AS we have tried these ladies and |
found them in every way satisfactory, |
and they work together in harmony, |
we are satisfied that their services !
should be retained
The Hilo Hospital is not an lnstitu- |
ton suitable only for coolies and the |
lower grades of humanity but it is
popular and patronized by the very |
best of our people as well as the poor |
est, and | do not think that any other |
similar institution on the Hawaiian |
Islands is kept as well as this.
I wish to be informed If the Board |
of Health will approve of our getting |
nj a n
companies to support
by the year or endow beds in the hos
pital; also, if the Board of Health will |
allow the trustees to rearrange rates
of charge, with Il view of increasing |
the popularity and income of the hos
pital.
The trustees think it would be CON
ducive to the moral welfare of the
Hilo Hospital to have an honorary staff |
of physicians. to be composed of all |
the doctors within reasonable reach OF |
the town who are willing to serve on |
1t, and we wish to know If the Board |
will approve of our taking steps to this |
end
Hoping to receive a reply on the |
matter of the salaries of our two |
nurses as soon as possible | remain, |
Yours truly l.. A. ANDREWS.
Chairman Trustees Hilo Hospital
Member George w. Smith, after the
letter was read, said that endowed beds |
We're not in the province of the Terri |
tory. IF the hospital was semi-private. |
as the Queens, the question might be |
Dr. Cooper thought that the Board |
had nothing to say in the matter, as the
trustees regulated these things. DR..
Pratt said the hospital gets $3.50 n
month for it's support from the Terri