New-York tribune., 1903-01-27
NURSE NOW GIVES NAMES
Bellevue Hospital attendant Makes
IS1COrR Statement.

John Santa Rosa the nurse vino maze The
charges Of neglect OF duty against other nurses.
cIoseted with Or. Mabon superintendent o.
Bellevue. Deputy Superintendent Rickard ard Miss
Jane DeIano superintendent Of nurses In SUpsr-
intendent Mabon's Office for about two hours last
night. He made deposition containing the
charges. which sworn to before a notary. The
statement in part follows
The nurse who used the hypodermic solution in
lection on the Polish patient was Musgrave. The
name CT the patient on the card was Christopher
about twenty-three years old. II was some time
Wbrb " f began or Novernber 70 The pafient w.
suffering from gas asphyxiation. and there were
time. Musgrave ana I eariy in the morning were
when We heard the death rattle IN the patients
throat. Musgrave 10 the drug closet and
bed ard injected the solution into the patients
arm After ne had done this. ne said: That will
keep him alive until We get on duty. and We won
The patient lived several days after that and
Musgrave repeated the treatment during the early
hours of each morning
There was a patient. young ITIshman He was
very nervous as il from drnk The EN-. medicine isfs
BY the doctor sRpaIehy n6 nc f egS bTs ana Tas
times in loud tones Ausgrave gave him some
bst Became 20 qaiat b Masgrsve said gave him enough
dope to knock out six men Musgrave was one
fakeG. EeG nSe fSe r p as the nurses called H.
Schultz was a nurse in surgical ward No. ? lie
roomed with Musgrave on the top floor in the Mills
School II was in the evening, ABOUT January .
q not sure Of the exact day) that I met him
and Musgrave in their room fasksd Schultz what
the drug used Dy the nurses 10 JdS 2 0ylnz
patient over their watch He gave me the formula.
which I wrote down at his dictation-I-30 strych-
nine. I-50 glonoin- he said u the pulse was too
quick an hour afterward 10 give I-50 Of dgitaline.
He added that atropne was TO DC gwen ior SHALLOW
respiration.
Rosa then told Of cases where nurses had slept
while on duty. giving the surnames Of few.
man named Muga, he said. had been reported and
advised 10 resign for sleeping duty. room
mate of Rosa had told him Of patient bleeding to
death from hemorrhage wnile Nuga had slept
Sleeping on duty became common that Miss
Bannister assistant superintendent Of nurses.
short time before New Years gave lecture against
it, Rosa said He asserted that he had never seen
nurses drink whiskey sherry in the wards Con-
tnuing. Rosa said: 80
My attention called to the SKINNED milk m
cident mentioned in my afhdaViL oE a PdIlsnL {
named Pitirka in Ward No. 26. He told me that
from his bed, which is the nearest the kltchen
he had seen Jennings conVaiesceiiI patel-l S
the patients milk diet Other patents, named
Spordeau and. BerkowitZ. told me the same tnlng
] reported to Miss Moore. and she dld nCtnlag
Then I reported to DR.. PeppenheInl ne ASKED lor
proof That afternoon / saw Jennings come
up with a of milk and go into the kltchen or
the ward He began skimming the milk, ana /
saw him. I reported all this to Dr.. Peppeanelnl-
but no action was taken. John Burke. a patient
four days later January 20) told Dr. SheaIer that
If Jennings not discharged ne would report
the case to Assistant Superintendent Rfckard- DR.
Shearer thereupon discharged both Burke and jen-
nings from the hospital
/ After giving out the statement Dr. Nabon said
/ that he had investigated the charge about the
patient skmnning milk. and found II 70 ne true
| He said that Miss Delano told him that she had
| learned of the night nurse Muga, sleeping while
The other charges will be stfted to the bottom
| said DR.. NIabon- That Is all can say tonight