The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-16
Wa||a WaIa Hospital supePintehd-
ent Indignant at Action
MISS n. E. ELLIOT SENDS COMMUNICATION
PROTESTS AGAINST STATEMENT
THAT GULLIFORD PATRONAGE
WAS SOLICITED BY HER.

looked over their glasses at the re-
porters with sad, sorrowful, you
naughty oy-I-am-ashamed-of ex-
preston when a communication OF
Miss M. E. Elliott of the Walla Walla
hospital patronage, protesting against
a published remark made in a former
council meeting, was read at the meet
ing last night.
The remarks referred to was one
made by a member of the council at
the time the question of paying the
bill of J. A. Gulliford for medical at
tendance came up. The council
thought it would establish bad pre-
cedent to pay a bill which had not
been properly authorized and so re-
fused to pay it.
Miss Elliott took strong exceptions
to the insinuatiOn that the business
had been solicited.
Chief Brown made long explana-
ton concerning the bill saying that
Miss Elliott had not solicited the
case.
Nobody is to blame" he said. 1--WE
are not to blame altogether and neither
is the hospital. 1 think Miss Elliott
ought to have her money from some
source or other.
81 did not consider l had any right
to take Guilliford away from the hos
NIT FOL hn tho 90
of Dr. helms and it is nothing more
than just that-it should be paid
Did Not Solicit Patronage. .
The communication from Miss FL
lott, which was referred to the police
committee, is as follows:
To the honorable mayor and city
council of the city of Walla Walla:
A short time ago the following Ian
guage as the sense of your body, was
published in the papers of this city:
IF such institutions would not So
licit this kind of patronage they would
have fewer such bills"
When the bill for the care of w. J.
Gultiford was introduced in the city
my own behalf l think it proper to
make the following statement that
you and the public may know how the
patient came to us.
One of the policemen Of this city
brought the man in question to the
hospital and asked that we care for
him, making a statement to the effect
tat the city would see the bill paid.
We then interviewed your chief of
police Mr.. Brown and told him that,
such cases were undesirable, and l
should like to have the patient taken
away. Mr.. Brown then told me the
patient was anxious to remain in the
Walla Walla hospital and if l would
keep him, he would see that the bill
was paid, and under these circum-
stances We cared for the patient
| am the lessee of the Walla Walla
hospital and am solely responsible for
its conduct, and feel that you have
made an accusation against hospitals
which l assure you does not fit this
institution, at least; and while l am
not fighting other hospitals battles,
cannot bring myself to believe they
would engage in any such disreputable
practice as you impute to the hospi-
tails of this city.
Nor do believe there is in this city
any organization or class of people
that do more charitable work; not
once in a great while, but day by day,
than the hospitals; and usually their
charity is extended to those in des-
perate need, and of such character
that only hospitals can care for them.
l cannot allow such an accusation to
go unchallenged, and ask you in the
spirit OF justice to give my protest as
free and wide advertisement as your
remarkable accusation. Your body
has repudiated the bill for services
rendered subject of the city.
1 feel that the bill was a perfectly
just one for the city to pay, the pa
tient being forced upon us rather than
solicited by the institution. and fees
guaranteed by your chief of police.
MISS M. E. ELLIOTT,
Superintendent