New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-06
FOR A HOSPITAL.
Plans on Foot to Establish One an
Westchester County.

At Sherrys yesterday afternoon a meeting
was held for the purpose OF promoting the cree
tion Of a hospital for northern Westminster
County. Colonel William Jay presided. ana ths
speakers were Mrs Henry Marquand, james
Wood. president of the State Reformatory al
Bedford; DR.. NJ. Allen Starr and Seth Low In
the audience which was composed largely OF
members OF the summer colony Of Westehester'
were Mr. and Mrs. J. Borden Hartman. Mrs
william Jay Mrs. William II. Schieheln' MIS-
NJ Allen Starr. Henry Marquand Mrs Wiiilam
c. Casey Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Leonard Mrs
Lea Luouer, Miss Luquer, Mr.. and Mrs Iheo-
dore L. Van Norden. Mrs. Arthur lsehn' MISS
Dens W. Marble, Mrs. William B. Franklin
Mrs. Ashbei Greene. Mrs. Walter Large and Miss
Chamberlain.
Already the interior equipment Of the pros
pective hospital and between two and three
thousand dollars have been promised IL Is
thought that about Sl2,J00 viii be required Tor
the purchase Of property, and at least sS'oco a
year for its maintenance.
The movement for a hospital grows out Of the
District Nursing Association Of northern west
chester County. Mrs Henry Marquano' the
president OF that organization. told Of It's erau-
flying growth. 1t started during the spanish
war as an auxiliary of the Red Cross, with SUD-
committees in fourteen different villages
Immediately after the war" said Mrs Mar
ouand. 1T was determined 10 make the organiza-
zion a permanent means of ministering 10 the
sick of our neghborhood. During the last year
we have had two nurses, who have mace ABOUT
$500 visits in eighteen different villages,
hospital will in way supplant TINS WORK Oh
district nursing. The establishment or even d
email hospital would be beyond the means OF our
association, but If 1t shah be begun Dy enllstiis
the support OF a larger public, the women OF
northern Westchester County pledge you thelr
time, their labor and their devotion to MAINTAIN
and promote it and make its blessings secure
" smoke in praise OF the DlSulCL NUTS
ing Association. which. in addition 10 It's nurs-
ing has maintained courses Of lectures, placed
forty emergency rolls in schools and trained am
steur nurses.
terrain and St. Lukes hospitals have been placed
at the disposal of the association, said MI
Wood 1.-THE time has come when northern west
chester County should be provided with hos
initial of its own. All that is proposed is little
modest practical hospital but the association
will not undertake a hospital at all unless
enough money is pledged TO start it.
No district as large as northern Westchester
County and no town as large as Mount klsco
should be without hospital said DR.. Starr,
ito care for accidents for which aseptic or anti
septic treatment is imperative, as well as for
emergency cases, such as strangulated hernia or
appendicitis, which must be met on the spot
There are certain examinations which can be
made far more eXpeditiously az q hospital than
an physicians Office. A hospital would also be a
distributing centre for entitoXins. But would
not organize hospital for Westchester as hos
pitfalls are organized in New-York, with visiting
physicians duty for term Of three months.
Every doctor in the district should have the
privilege OF putting his patient into the hos
pital and there taking care Of him.
Mr.. Low made the audience laugh by quoting
Joseph Choate's quip comparing the urbanity OF
Lord Chesterfield with the suburbanity of West
chester County. Il neVersslept night in West
chester County, he went on. but I suppose the
chairman appreciates the fact that no public
man is ever so much at home when speaking
on q subject of which he knows nothing"
Then, referring to the exodus 10 the city from
the country, What IS the attraction he asked
Some think il IS the communism of the city:
some. the excellent schooling. The best way TO
keep people in the country is TO place in the
country the things that make the city attractive.
SO In building hospital shall be helping TO
solve the larger problem how TO make the coun-
try attractive: for. however desirable the city
may be, IL is worth while that the countryside
should be peopled with a vigorous, powerful
people"
Mr. Low wrote out a check for Mr. Mar
Quand before he left. but all that Mrs Mar
ouand would say about it was that II was sub
stantial' II VIII not be known for several days
what financial response the meeting has evoked