Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-07-16
HOSPITAL MIDDLE.
A REFUSAL OF NURSE
PUSEY
TO RESI6M HER POSITION At THE EMER-
GENCY HOSPITAL
Stirs Up Trouble At The Insti-
tution-Chief of Staff Claude
Opposes Board of
Managers.
COURT TO DECIDE THE QUESTION.

When matter, personal or otherwise.
gets into Court, it becomes public prop
erty and the press. eager for news. gives
the case an airing. For the good OF the
parties concerned, the CAPITAL has here
tofore retrained from giving publicity to
the hospital muddle. although in possess.
ion Of all the facts. but since ii has be.
come public property, the CAPITAL' will
no longer withhold the news.
The Board OF Managers of the Emer-
gency Hospital held a meeting at the
hospital last night and discussed the situ-
alton affairs had taken with four gentle
men OF the medical staff. The board
decided TO vacaie the hospital, inasmuch
as the injunction papers had been filed,
and to await the Courts decision.
The excitement that had prevailed all
day at the hospital subsidized last night
when the Board, after its meeting, ad-
journed and, in digni6ed manner, left
the hospital with the nurse, a Johns
Hopkins graduate the Board had attempt
ed to install. To have remained would
have meant night vigil, as all doors
had been closed against the Board, and
the nurses luggage placed on the out
side OF a bedroom door.
All keys, dishes and everything per-
tanning to the internal management OF the
hospital had been denied the Board, and
choosing to withdraw rather than antag
onize the Chief OF Staff and Mrs. Isabella
]. Thomas, who charged interference,
the board left them and the superintendent
in possession OF the field.
The story of the hospital, which is but
a year old, is long one, and was brought
to issue by the appointment of Miss
Katherine Emory,of Baltimore, as special
nurse or temporary superintendent OF the
Emergency hospital, to succeed Miss
Nellie M. Pusey, the former superintend-
ent. This caused some confusion between
the Board of Managers aud DR.. w. C..
Claude. the chief of the medical staff,
who returned from Camp Saunders on
Monday, where he is major OF the First
Regiment. and is still on the scene. The
Appointment was made at a special meet
ing OF the Board OF Managers OF the
hospi al, held Tuesday night.
Miss Pusey's appointment was made
tor one year. and her term expired on
tuesday. Sometime ago the Board of
Managers asked Miss Pusey to resign
the position, but she refused to do SO,
and when Miss Emory the new appointee,
was placed in charge of the affairs of the
hospital yesterday, she met decided oppo.
sion and was threatened with ejectment.
Mrs. James c. Cresap, president, and
several other ladies of the Board OF Man
ayers, were at the hospital all day with
Miss Emory. This action on the part of
the ladies was objected to by DR.. Claude
and Mrs, Isabella ]. Thomas, whose
daug hter IS the only patient at present in
the hospital, whose attending physician,
DIR George Wells, had given the Board
OF Managers written statement that his
patents temperature was normal. her
condition favorable and that she might
be removed from the hospital yesterday.
Miss Thomas mother was unwilling
for her removal to her home, a short
distance from the city limits, and the
Chief OF Staff, another physician and an
attorney for same, met in the mother 5
room at the hospital to discuss the situ-
alton. DR.. Claude supports Miss Pusey
in the position she has taken, and said
that the presence of the ladies interiered
greatly with the former superintendent,
Miss Pusey, and Mrs. Thomas declared
that il disturbed her sick child.
DIR. Claude and Mrs. Thomas, through
Robert Moss, acting as solicitor, fl, d a
bill for Injunction In the Circuit Court
yesterday against Mrs. James c. Cresap
and others, asking that the ladies be re-
strained from interfering on the hospital
premises. The defendants are required to
answer the bill by next Tuesday. The
reasons given as TO why the injunction
should issue are IN that since the entry
OF the defendants 10 the hospital this
morning ''they have interfered in every
possible way with the medical staff and
the superintendent of said hospital by re-
fusing admission TO all persons having
business there and by refusing and at
tempting to prevent the entrance to said
hospital OF the attorney Of the medical
staff, the said superintendent and the
SAID Mrs. Isabella ]. Thomas"
(zl That the said superintendent, Miss
Pusey, and Mrs. Thomas, were unable,
up " tnC NanG Va uuuk tutS pegtlo0S 10
give the patient. Agnes Thomas. any
food. the superintendent having prepared
the same and the defendants having
promptly converted it to their own use. .
(3l That the life OF the patient, Agnes
Incmas. was endangered by the conduct
OF the defendants and the work of the
medical staff and the superintendent
thereby seriously inierfered with. The
attending physicians certificate noiwith-
standing. Judge RevelI granted the in
junction as prayed and Miss Pusey may
continue legally in charge until motion
20 dissolve i, is favcrably acted upon by
the Court, or unless she is forced out
by mandamus proceedings.
4gThe constitution of the Emergency
Hospital Association provides that su-
pcSinten lent shall be appointed by the
Board OF Managers upon the recommen-
dation Of the medical staff OF the hospital.
In the present case the medical staff
refuses TO TecoInmend successor 70 Miss
Pnsey, in accordance with the urgent
request Of the Board Of Managers, and