New-York tribune., 1905-06-21
BELLEVUE STAFF In ARMS.
Declares Food Is Poor and Insuf-
fc;ent-BIanes Dietitian.

The ffty-one doctors, fifty clerks ana t"o
hundred and fifty orderles of Bellevue hospi.''i
are In revolt against what they declare 10 aA
moor quality and insufficient quantity Oh 'iio
food II is said that the facilities for serNins
II are also deficient. In the dining room oI '''
$50 orderlies there is room to seat at one "iiie
only l2S. Nearly half must wait. SAID one oi
the orderlies yesterday:
This would not be so bad If there were a SUM UNA
Gent quantity of food. But there never -, i +ba
frequently those of who GO not set 70 C,,r
tls+ he have 10 60 without that meal our
menu for dinner consists Of some klIld oL 20
but never enough potatoes, a;tSar sugar or
bread etc and coffee without ellnef sue' 80
roilk Formerly we had sugar. put even se snee
has been taken away. When we ran 70 - @ 80 -
the dining room @ iSS rS5 1ng nave finished we almost
Invariably find that the meat mas oeeI 60 Cd go 80
nm and we are compelled to make our , hieal o
of bread and butter and cofree anu PEI heat5a @ ~ :,
1-acsta HE practically the same as going away
from the table without anything at an 10 eat
The orderlies complained to Acting Superin-
.endent Gregory, so they say, several times, pu'
have been unable to get conditions bettereo- III
the Civil Service dining room, where tne MY
clerks stenographers and others eat' there -
49, Of ,oor, hut the employees, many of them
,,o,,re women. say the quantity OF the food IS
insufficient ard the quality poor Ihe Olli oA
fare is a little more elaborate than IN the oiue
lies, room. but the Civil Service employees III
sist that too little meat and TOO Inuch po'alo
is given them. They also say that the Vese'aDies
orc ,,e,,er as fresh as they should be and that
canned food constitutes by far the biggest par
Of the menu. They made formal complaint 10
Acting SUPERINTENDENT Gregory yesterday ana
,era toid bv him TO put their grievance in wit
inq addressed TO Dr. John ". Brannan, presi-
DENT of the board OF trustees Of the hospital
In the dining room of the physicians the same
state Of affairs is said exist. Said one physi-
clan:
TO- ins+enca AT breakfast one morning, forty
cbons were served fer f1fty-one hungry physi.
clans You may imagine that some OF US iaiIeo
10 connect with a chop. Ihen' Oh alio'hot "
coeion for dinner there were served TOUR aver
age sized roast chickens for the half hundred OF
Us No chicken for a good share OF US tnat Gay.
And as these days We're so were iiiaiiS o'Ao-
days.
Tho nbvsicisns made formal complafnf
about two weeks ago and conditions were I'M
proved somewhat but they not yet whaf
they should be- so the doctors declare. Miss
Harriet Gordon, the dietition, who is blamed
for the conditions denies that such conditions
exist or that there is any ground for the COM
plants. She said yesterday:
The food is of excellent quality. and there is
plenty OF it. It is true that the facilities for
distributing it are not what would like 10
have them. We are compelled in some instances
10 send the cooked food through the open air
TO reach some parts of the hospital, and 1t is
natural that il should deteoriate. I have ap-
pealed TO the board of trustees to remedy this,
and have strong hopes that the needed I'M
provements will be made soon; but for the
quality Of the food first purchased and as for
its quantity, neither could be improved.
Miss Gordon, before accepting her present 20
sition was dietitian of the Metropolitan Hospi-
tai on Wards Island. and bears a high reputa-
ton.