The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-21
PREPARES FOR CHARITY BALL
Annual Event of St. Marks Hospital
Association to Take Place
in November.

will you please accept our most sin
cere and heartfelt thanks for the most
helpful assistance extended to US dur
ing mammals sojourn in the hospital?
We cannot find words TO express our
gratitude and appreciation of your
goodness, nor of the love and sympathy
that prompted the gift. May God
abundantly bless you for your kindness
to the strangers in their hour of need"
This is a portion of letter received
by st. Marks Hospital association a
few weeks ago from the daughter Of an
old lady who was i'll at st. Marks hos
pital for weeks, and a part of whose
expenses the association was able to
pay through the generosity of the good
people of Salt Lake at the Charity ball
a year ago. Another twelve months has
passed and again that association is
about TO come before the public in an
other Charity ball, that, it is hoped,
will be as great a success socially and
financially as was the last one. Indeed
larger things are hoped for, since the
women of the society have now a rec
ord of their stewardship to present. 1t
would not be wise or kind to give the
names of the patients cared for by this
fund. Indeed, so carefully has the work
been done that no one except the stWO
members of the committee in charge of
the work of investigation and auditing
have knowledge of identities. But some
general statement can be made and will
be of interest. There was particularly
interesting case of little colored child
who was terribly burned. Her mother
was a widow with two other children
and from her small wages as a char
woman she had paid all she could for
the care of the child. The physicians
said that further hospital care was nee
essary for her recovery, and then it was
that the association came forward with
means to keep the little girl until her
recovery was complete. Another case
was that of SedmstreSS deserted by
her husband at the birth of her second
child. She had taken care of her two
| little ones, and was so i'll that severe
| operation was necessary. For seven
weeks the good people of Salt Lake.
through its hospital associat ton, paid
the expenses of this woman at the hos
| pital.
| 1t must be borne in mind that there
| is no charge made, for the physicians
| services. The doctors give their atten-
ton TO these patients without charge,
and the expense borne by the associa-
! ton is the cost of the hospital care
| food, nursing, medicine and SO on.
There were a number of cases OF
typhoid fever where the patients We're
| not pauperS and had no wish to be
| charge on the city or county. They
paid all they could. often at a pitiful
sacrifice, and this fund was able TO keep
them until they were well enough to
| leave. The story might be continued
indefinitely-the tale might be told Of
poor telephone operator from one of
| the northern towns. the sole support of
a family, and undergoing severe alb
dOminal operation under the care of
this organization; an account could be
| given of a child whose appendix was
| ruptured, her father dead and her
mother working for a living, and for
whom the association Garcia Sst could
be presented OF several maternity cases,
| either emergency cases or ones author
lied by the committee after investiga-
tion and so the tale goes on.
At the Charity ball last year there
were net receipts of s2,342.50 Since the
organization of the association in May
1905. to May the 1st 1906. there was
expended for the care of the INDECENT
sick at st. Marks hospital, 81, 265. IS.
Since that time and through Septem-
Der the expense for this work has been
s639.37, making a total since the organ
ization of the society of s1,SO5.22. The
net receipts from dues and other
sources were S265. 33, leaving balance
on hand of s702.6l..
The Charity ball this year is to be
given early in November, and no pains
are to be spared to make it the event
of the year socially. Everybody is in
vited to help this time as generously
as before, more generously if possible.
The next regular meeting of the asso-
citation will be held in the Y. NJ. c. A
building next Wednesday morning at
half-past 10 O'Clock, and any ladies who
are interested and would like to help in
the work of preparation for this event
will be made very welcome, whether
they are members of the association or