The San Francisco call., 1907-02-26
ENDOWMENT Of BEDS IN
ESTABLISHED HOSPITALS
IS MOST FAVORED PLAN
Building of State Insti-
tuition Would Exhaust
$I,oOO,0oO Fund
TO WIND UP AFFAIRS
Relief Workers Consider
Disposition of Their
Surplus Moneys
TO WIND UP AFFAIRS

At q meeting to be held this after
moan between the directors of the Re
lief and Red Cross Funds Corporation
and the rehabilitation committee of the
relief work, il is expected that def
rite action will be taken on the hnal
disposal OF the funds vet unappor-
toned and undistrib buted. There is now
reported to be available between two
millions and three millions Of dollars
snd tits the desire of the. relief work
ers TO have their plans in course Of
execution and ali funds accounted for
prior TO Thursday, April Is, 1907, the
first anniversary Of the San Francisco
disaster.
IN general. the relief workers are
of one opinion as TO the distribution
Of the funds, the plan, roughly, being
70 use SI000.0o0 for hospital work.
S50n. 900 for charity work to be carried
on by the various denominatiopal and
frsternal organizations under the SUI
pervision of the Associated Charities.
s15O.e00 for what is known as conf
dentfalR work among the needy and
the balance to meet outstanding obli-
cations of the reconstruction aad re-
habilitation committee. The business
Of the latter branches of relief is to
be finished up by April Is and the or
ganization of Red. Cross and Relief
apportioned but unapplied funds to
the care of q board of trustees to be
selected later.
MILLION FOR HOSPITAL
There is a difference of opinion
among the workers as to the hospital
proposition, though all have agreed
that sL0e0.0o0 should be used for the
care Of the sick. In its endeavor to
reach q solution Of this problem the
suggestions offered by the readers of
The Call and by others have been fully
considered by the committeeman.
The plan that has met with the
strongest support from the members
of the rehabilitation committee which
has been closest to the actual work of
relieving distress. is that the money
available be used 10 endow beds in
established hospitals. the foundation to
be in perpeBuity- One hundred beds
with an appropriation Of $4,000 for
each bed. Four hospitals would be
selected to accommodate twenty five
beds eachs
Opposed to this plan is the scheme
To build a hospital as a memorial to
the relief work The cost of the BUILD
ing and equipment would amount TO
approximately s1.0O0.0OO. leaving moth
ing for maintenance The friends OF
the scheme would have the hospital
supported by State aid in the form OF
annual or biannual appropriations.
Many physicians support this plan. but
il is feared by others that it would be
too dependent on politics.
Arguments for the simpler idea OF
endowinC beds are manifold. declare
the members of the committee. The
hospitals that would be selected al
ready have their administrative Off
GERS. buildings and equipment. A State
hospital would be largely experimental.
The money used under the bed-endow-
ment plan would go directly to the ben
eft Of the patients and not for buying
bricks and mortar The beds would be
absolutely free to the needy. The sta
bility Of the hospitals 10 be used as the
medium Of the charity would be as
sured-
WHERE BEDS MAY BE
Four hospitals would be selected
and they would be nonsectarian.
though not necessarily is this to be
taken to exclude from consideration
such hospitals as ST Luke's, which is
under the general control of the Epis-
copalian diocese; or Mary's Help. the
woman's hospital in course of con-
struction in Guerrero street, near
Thirteenth. which was founded through
the munihcence Of the late Mrs John
son Of Sonoma and is under the direc-
ton of a nonsectarian board of trus-
tees. of which the Catholic Archbishop
Of San Francisco is always to be the
president. Such hospitals are open to
the sick OF all denominations. Hospi-
tails which have been considered by
the committee are the Children's and
the projected University of California
Hospital, which is to be shortly opened
IN the Affiliated Colleges Medical
School. on Parnassus Heights, south Of
Golden Gate Park
Not & cent would have to be expend-
ed out Of the funds for the cost OF
construction IL the bed plan" were
carried out, yet fully as many patients
would be given succor as under the
hospital building scheme. All the money
would be applied directly to caring for
the sick, the friends of the scheme de-
clare, and the fund would be separated
from politics and free from all those
dangers which attend experiments
The result would be the same as IL the
State hospital plan succeeded ideally
and this would be accomplished with
out dollar being placed in jeopardy
IL is argued.