The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-12-05
vi M'CARTHY MAKES
CRAVE CHARGES
At asst NIGHTS Meeting oi
the Health Board He Al
raigns the Conduct of tht
City + ospital.
ACCUSATIONS REJECTEL

STORY TO THE MAYOR FROM
WHOM HE WILL SEEK
REDREss.
Al last nights meeting of the Health
3o1,a. Commissioner George NJ. McCar-
ny ma le numerous sensational charges
concerning the manner in which the
City Hospital is conducted. The charges
arere made BY Mr. Mccarthy after an
i.syestigatiqn !. he made on complaint of
,yameaous persons The Board refused
I receive his accusations. Mr.. AIcCar
~ said he would present them to the
layer
Among the numerous accusations made
es Mr.. Mccarthy, all of which he said
* could prove but a third We're:
.-Tae City Hospital service is demoral-
i d and general houseeleaning should
tlerld commence at once. Poor souls
:.-ao are thrown upon the public charity
iaould not be left to take care of them
f,lves.
General lack of discipline reigns
throughout the institution. The Warden
nnd his subordinates have not been work
ing together in friendly manner for.
tFer a year. Jealousy and discord pre-
vail among nearly all the employees and
ehcials. : =
Zone of the ambulance drivers is an
sevalid and to quote the Warden, '.in a
NY nervous condition and unfit for
FORK He is liable at any time to take
lie ambulance out and not be able to
aing it back with the patient.
a newspaper report says they (the
.spial surgeons) go out lat night and
il any of the patients suffer a relapse
I are likely to die from some injury
ley leave it to US. (attendants.)
One of the female nurses has been
/ she habit Of retiring from the hospital
several hours at time to visit
c,iends, leaving her patients to the care
=. a domestic. Patients had to be fed by
rs domestic instead of by the nurse.
hlo should have been on duty. . .
There has been a sewing school at
he hospital presided over by nurse
fho pressed patients into service to help
I Ike shirts, underwear, etc., for the
b rses friends. Nurses during their
gular hour Of duty also do sewing for
rcetors and employees.
There are dozen or more nurses, at
iadants and attaches employed at the
tespital whose appointments were never
incurred in by the board as required in
3 rules.
Here is the statement Of DR.. Ham
'sett, one e the resident staff, when ask
Il how the nurses treat hospital pa
snts:
i think Mss is very dis
!. eable to the patients. If patient
les l.ere from respectable family
will treat her good, but if she is a
III t has fallen or under the influ-
+ cf alcohol, she will give her good
sifg to. She put screen around one
i aad kept it there while she was in
ward. she told the house physician
-he (the patient was always COM
ling. and as it was tubercular
,sunpt;ye) patient it is better to have
screened The other night DR..
hite brought in a patient. We started
lake her upstairsg She met Miss
= same nurse). She said. I will
=; go into the hospital. | want to go
me l will not stay here. This wo-
fan gave me too much of a tongue. iasn-
fg when l was heA. before The wo-
IN went home; she would not stay.
3eferring totthe same case. Warden Nc
lldrsw ST d that the nurse was very
trict and he did not think she was lik-
i by the patients. DR.. McNulty. of the
tsdqnt staff, said, She is the one the
aws talk about Miss
Fsted that she had twenty-five patients
flaer her supervision and was at times
tapelled TO neglect some Of them. DR..
IihcAett said regarding the nurses, I
ssnk more Of them could be improved
'ghe following cases were reported by
MINIS and their friends
Ernest De Larme shot himself in the
ssif side Of the head, the bullet coming
nf through the left eye. He was turned
il Of the hospital as cured ana died IN
ls county jail the following day.
trial Bust was IN the last stage of
rights disease and had what was sup
rsed to be fractured skull received in
fail. He was taken, covered with
SAT- rheum, with its burning. singing SEN
kion is due TO poor blood and. Is cured by
pad's Ezrsao oarilla, The grezt blood puriher.