The San Francisco call., 1904-02-23
EXPENSES NOW GREATER.


The medical requirements not adequate.
The expenses to-day are greater than they
were ive years ago. Surgery has advanced SO
lowed TO die, he is now operated on and sue
cessfuly cured Diphtheria is now treated with
anti-toxins so that the disease has been robbed
Of its danger. The anti-toxin is expensive and
If we are going to practice modern surgery we
must have funds
hospital not run at the expense of the city
the hospital are run at the expense of the city
benefit of their students and have maintained
them ever since. The colleges are doing
great deal for the city in this respect.
The present building is totally inadequate
for the number of patients confined In II.
Wards are overtaxed. Wards built for twenty
five patients are compelled TO house forty. Then
some one makes a howl that patient has been
refused admission to the hospital. The forty
beds in one ward are given but $50 cubic feet
of air 1t should not be less than 1900 cubic
feet ard do not know OF any modern buildlng
that does not give to each forty beds from
1900 to 1000 cubic feet
The site of the hospital is the best that can
be obtained. A city and county hospital should
be centrally located TO be of the greatest good
There is feeling that the management should
be entirely divorced from politics (applause)
Two of the trustees should be OF the stan OF
visiting physicians and be elected by members
~ the stan The trouble with the City and
County Hospital is that its management mas
been left too much to executive head, who
knows nothing of the wants or needs OF the
patient The management should be given 70
the who associate daily with the patients
SHARP CONTRAST MADE.
Dr. Clark of Alameda read a paper
on the improvements made in the
Public Hospital of Alameda County.
A vivid contrast with the condition Of
the Public Hospital of this city was
shown.
Charles A. Murdock, representing the
Merchants Association, gave brief
talk, comparing the San Francisco
hospital with those Of other cities. He
said:
man from the East. unprejudiced investi-
gated our hospital ard said IT was the worst
dangers from disease in Chinatown, in his
opinion, are not in 1t with those Of the City
and County Hospital.
The city pours out money lavishly for the
securing Of a convention of the knights Of
Pythias and for the building Of monument
our sick, what have done?
In the best hospital in the United States
the average cost per patient per day is 81 96.
In San Francisco the amount provided is but
6S cents Hospitals in the East have one
nurse to every three patients, while in San
Francisco we have but TO every ten pa
tients. We have no detention ward for pa
tients with infectious diseases. In other CIT
per patient is 50 cents; in this city II is
but II cents. These are the things we have
to think Of most.
John Chetwood made an address on
the legal aspect of the Hospital Site
Question" He said:
Some time prior to last falls bond election
the Board OF Supervisors passed ordinance
selecting the Almshouse Tract as the site OF
the new City and County Hospital. Just be-
fore the election information as to the i'm
provements to be voted for, their cost. char
acter, etc, was published in the press, and
in contemplation of law all voters ap-
prised Of the facts and figures thus published.
This publication did not however, directly