The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-23
Howard University Plans to
Gain Full Control of
Freedmen'S.
MAKE FIGUREHEAD
OF SUPERINTENDENT
Those Backing Movement Would
Place Own Board in Charge.
Warm Meeting Tonight.

Fresdmen's Hospital. a Government
institution, according to some members
OF SIS visiting staff viii pass under the
virtual domination Of Howard Univer-
sity, a private corporation, II a PROPOSE
tiOn now before the hospital staff. which
meets tonight. is accepted.
There Is row a hard fight centerirg
about this proposition, and tOnlghts
session OF the committee. called for the
purpose Of prescribing regulations for
the hospi- ais reorganization, promIsas
10 be a heated one.
Should the university alliance plan
win out, It means that the policy ans
control Of the hospital will be directed
by an executive committee. the majority
Of whose members must hold professor
ships in the Howard University Medical
School
Has Large Staff
The hospital staff is composed OF thir-
ty-siX OF the most prominent physicians
Of the city, twenty-six OF whom arc
white and ten colored. The opinion was
expressed today that the friends OF the
Howard University proposition might
be in the majority. in which event. ow-
ing TO the peculiarly worded proposition
coming from certain sources in that fac
ton, the university will coltrol the fu-
ture Of the Government institution.
Has $4,000 Appropriation.
Freedmen's Hospital recently has been
completed at a cost Of nearly half mill
lion dollars. II requires an appropria-
ton Of $4,000 a year 10 maintain II.
Incidental 10 the university alliance
plan proposed, is a provision which
practically decapitates the official head
Of the present superintendent. DR..
William A Warield, and places the
policy and control Of the hospital in the
hands Of the executive committee.
The other proposition. supposed to
have minority support, merely provides
as is customary, control by the super
intsndent and the visiting STAFF. Under
the university alliance plan proposed,
the duties OF the superintendent are re-
duoed merely TO looking after the cIeri-
cal force. Iaborers, etc.
The salient features Of the plan which
is going TO cause a fight, and which
already has been before the stan with
out action being taken upon 1t, were
given exclusively to The Times today,
as follows
The hospital shall be divided into one
medical, one surgical. one genealogical
and one ObStetriCal division
Formation of Board.
There shall be one physician. one
surgeon, one gynecologist, and one OBJ
stetrician to the hospital They shall
hold the professOrship Of their respec-
tive departments in the medical school
Howard University
They shall have full control Of their
respective services in the hospital and
out-patient departments and nurses
training school. They shall exercise
supervision over the wards Of the hos
pitai, observe the behavior Of the nurses
and orderlies and report to the super
intendent of the hospital whatever they
deem wrong
The professor Of pathology in the
medical school shall be the patholOgiSt-
in-cnief to the hospital.
The executive committee of Freed
mans Hospital shall be composed of the
superintendent, the physician. the sur
geCn, the gynecOlOgiSt. the obstetrician,
End the pathOlOgfst 10 the hospital, and
the Secretary OF the Interior. ex of1cio
The executive committee shall super
wise and control the policy Of the hos
pital."
Plan Is Denounced.
OF this latter paragraph opponents of
the plan are especially denunciatory
Interpreted, it means that the executive
committee Is composed Of Howard Uni
versity professors, excepting the Secre-
tary of the Interior and the superin-
Sendent, a minority.
The proposition continues:
''AH acquisitions from the medical
STAFF shall be made to the superintend-
ent OF the hospital. and by him pre-
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