New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
sYsONBY.
ACCUSE HOSPITAL HEADS.
PETITION STATE BOARD.
-Four Physicians Charge Selling Ap-
p0iMments and Many 4buses.

-Four Harlem physicians have filed charges
with the State Board of Charities against the
Sydenhan POSTGRADUATE Course and Hospital
az Nos. 339 to :}47 East Observation-Disclosures six
teenthst Levy & Unge- have been retained
TO prosecute the charges, and this firm received
an Acknowledgements of the receipt of a copy OF
the charges in Albany. No date for hearing
has been set
The charges are that members of the medical
staff paid 500 each fer their appointments. and
retained their places By payments of $40
month, that ceasumptive and other patients
are mixed; that a bathroom Is used for dead
house: that medical students administer chloro-
form at operations; that physicians sleep in the
same wards with women nurses. and that pa
tients of both sexes mingle in the same wards
The petition is signed by Dr. SaIo Cohn, No.
] S57 Madison-ave.; DIR. Louis Lichtschein. No
149 East Eighty -ninth-st.; Or. A. l.. Goldwater.
No 81 West -hundred-aud- -nineteenth-st
and DIT. b. NJ. Feldman. No. West One-hur-
drtd- td-and-twentieth-s:
Che president of the hospital is William l.
SpegeIberg. connected with a cotton dress
goods house at No. 14J Greene-st. He lives at
No. 134 West Seventy-eighth-s He is said to
be son-in-law of Meye- Guggenhein,, The
SECRETARY is Sanford Simmons. of No. 216 West
One,hundred and -thirty-seventh-st The score
tary OF the medical board is Ii. Jarecky. of No
11j Nest One-hundred and -twepty-fir Up
to a few months ago Samuel Boomingde.e OF
BIoomngdale Brothers. who lives at No. II
East Sxty-tnird-st, was secretary.
Thepetition sent to the State Board of Chari-
ties in part says:
That your petitioners are Informed and he
eve rom the tiine or us incorporation o VlsS-1 un
ton was not engaged in any hospital or dispensary
work as contemplated by its charte. and incorpora
IA limited membership consisting OF the following
o Beirne. Alexander Boiler W. ". Bell, 81; W.
w Bell jr.: Frak KessinS, Or. Frankie Soper
f. J. Pickworth and Or. J. J. T. Maher: that or
November % 1902, after negotiating for their pri
trolling the corporation DR.. Isaac T.evir Freder-
iek NJ West. NJ GouId Dr. l. G2ldSteim Cole rs. Samuel
the petitioners. DR.. Louis Lchtschein and DIR. Salo
cohn We're elected TO to mem6ershiD h1i1s s,o,
the result that the control and management of the
members and new Board of Trustees Was elect
cd a majority of whom were newly elected mem
Thereafter the newly elected Board of Trustees
sold to physicians POSITIONS ON the medleal staT
A. l.. GoIdwater from whom in December. 1905 the
in the Department of Surgery. II agreed that
he should pay $40 month thereafter for the ap-
ne peiitionsr Il Or ;5o B 4 Fsldmaa paid and the
pointment In the Department Of Gynecolosy.
age the trustees entered into negotiations with
Spegelberg that he should make d large contrfbu-
Iion of cash in return for the privilege OF re
designating the hospital and controlling appoint
ents the medical staff.
The petitioners observed that the hospital and dis
pesary were conducted in an uGsanitary unIa wful.
negligent and improper manner, among others, in
Cases of tuberculosis kept in wards with other
patients. contrary TO the rules of the Health De
partment.
Unlawful autopsles without consent of families of
dead.
other patients for twenty -four hours.
Occasional employment dead house Of bath
room used by patients ana nurses, by spreading a
large board in bathtub.
Failure to maintain proper space required by law
IN ohildren's and female wards.
Violation Of corporation ordinance In failure to
erect fire escapes.
Keeping combustibles and dressings taken from
wounds in cellar.
Coal gas constantly escaping by reason of i'm
rqrfect condition of heat apparatus.
Charging sos a week for trained nurses and Civ
ing to patients paying therefor the services Of an
ordinary pupi nurse at salary OF St0 month.
Taxing patients for use or 1ightgowns given Tor
Remon str5uces being made against this condition.
medical staff 10 to Spegelberg the privilege
Of making UP the said medical staff unfouuded
charges made against petitioners. VINO, Win
ont hearing. were removed
From November. 1902 until the present time there
had been made constant changes in the medical
stan after the trustees had received compensation
for "a onDointment thereto In some instances when
the physician who had been appointed would threat
en- 10 sue for the money obtained from him and
funded to him out cf the funds of the hospital
The petitioners pray that steps be taken to revoke
the charter and remedy the abuses complained or
w. I. Spiegelberg is at present at his summer
home at E,lberon n. ].
Az the hospital Dr. r. kunitzer the attending
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