The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-26
ROOSEVELT HOSPITALS NEED.
AN ENDOWMENT or S5OO,OOO rs
REQUIRED NOW.
The Money wculd Bring the Institution
TO the Top Notch OF efficiency -Growth
OF Its Work since IL Was Opened Its
Present Income Less Than Its Expenses.

Present Income Less Than Its Expenses.
'The best and practically the only ground
on which a hospital may appeal 20 the pub
lie for financial aid.' said William Emlen
Roosevelt the other day Is that the constant
work Of the hospital is to restore sick ara
injured wagemakers to their normal wage
working capacity. That Is the true princi-
pie on which all charity medical work
worthy Of the name IL based
Mr.. Roosevelt is one Of the trustees OF
Roosevelt Hospital, al institution which
receives nothing from the State or city.
and his remark about public aid WAS made
In the course of n summary of the thirty
years work done in Roosevelt Hospital
In the year 1901 1t cost this hospital 10
do it's share in healing sick and injured
wage-workers sl55 900 or about 81? 100
more than its annual income. The income
Of Roosevelt Hospital in 1901 from it, in
vestments. principally real estate. was
sos. 900; from the inmates of the private
patient pavilion and from other patients
Ia the hospital who could afford TO pay
something for their treatment, s5s.00O.
and from the out patients 81 200.
The deficit was cut down some by the
Hospital Sunday collections and the balanoe
was made up by personal contribution
from the trustees and by drawing on the
gradually vanishing surplus which ac-
cumulated In the seven years between
1884, the year of the Incorporation, and
1871, the year that the hospital was opened.
The founder of the hospital, James IL.
Roosevelt. left practically his entire fortune
of about 81 600, 600 az the endowment fund
for the institution.
.The state Of affairs indicated by these
figures which show a lack of funds, sntd
Mr.. Roosevelt, sis not appreciated by the
public. Il Is taken for granted that be-
cause an institution Is generously endowed
at the outset IL can get along FOR all time
and grow richer instead Of poorer The
increased cost of maintaining a hospital
because Of its constantly widening : here
of service and because of the wonderful
and expensive improvements In medicine,
surgery and methdds Of nursing is not
taken into consideration by the public,
The boundaries Of the district TO which
Roosevelt directly ministers are Eighty
fifth street on the north. Central Park West
down 20 Fifty-ninth street. Sixth avenue
to Forty-second street and Seventh ave
nue. 70 Twenty-seventh street on the east
Twenty-seventh street on the south ana
the North River on the West. That terri
tory is all covered, day and night. by our
ambulance service.
O course it goes without saying hat
the population of that region has Increased
tremendously since Roosevelt Hospital
was opened in 1871. Our district includes
practically all Of the poor neighborhoods
md tenement blocks on the West Side.
"A COMPARISON OF the hospital statutes
for 1873. when the total annual expense
was about s68, 900, with those OF 1901 SHOWS
how the demands upon the institutloh
have increased. In 1873 the daily average
OF patients was i06; there were hve mouse
oeicers. six members of the medical stan
and thirty-one attendants.
I'm 1901 the daily average OF patients was
ia. there were 10 member oil the houSs
radical stan, 8s nurses. Is orderhes ana io'
other employees. There were &.llo am
bulance calls, Sis patients were treated
In the accident ward and we served 1851
ou, -pa,ients q. who made in the aggregate
81 4Ol visitors 20 the hospltaI'
THE out patient department ~ rhat
Generally known as the d~isIensaTy. flghty
Ter cent. OF the ward patients received Tree
Treatment. There are two autoinoole
aubulanccs and they are called out on ah
average Of once an hour, day and night
throughout the year.
There were but six wards and no ambu-
lanca srryice when the hospital vas opened
I'M 1871. The principal additions nave b"i
he accident ward, children's W'.iicdl "aid'
the out-patient department, training 7ci'po'
for nurses. private patient phNuluh, W.
McIAnr Operating room, the gyms ol"I"in's
building, the finest building OF ~" hlll ia
the [ nl,ed States, and the mOrtuary lmilY
red. hnve been endowed 10y ar many gHt'
Of o.. OOO Tor each h~'d
I'VE have received generous gi'H lut
the money has gone" into bricks ana hi'il"i
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