The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
A PLAY FOR
ALL SOULS
Most Pleasing Entertainment
by the Dramatic Club Of
Spaulding Associa n.
GOOD WORK AT THE HOSPITAL


The Dramatic Club of the Spauld-
ing Association of st. Paul's Church,
New York, presented the Irish play,
"Miles Aroon, 2 before large audience
at the Lyceum on Wednesday evening
for the benefit of All Souls Hospital.
The large cast presented the play in
admirable manner and in addition J.
w. Gilliland rendered several songs 70
the pleasure Of the audience.
Programs included advertisements
of local business men and also the fol-
lowing statement of the hospital work.
In submitting the fifteenth annual
report Of All Souls Hospital the Board
of Directors think it wise to present
to the public brief outline of what
has been accomplish since its opening.
There have been received from various
points in Morris and Sussex Counties
three thousand nine hundred and
twenty-nine patients for medical and
surgical treatment: of this number B.
742 were discharged cured or improved,
and $50 died. Moreover, hundreds OF
cases were treated in the Eye and Ear,
Nose and Throat clinics, of which no
record was kept until 1903 and from
that day until the present l,753 pa
tients have been treated. Mention,
likewise, should be made Of the num-
bers of discharged convalescent pa
tients who returned to the Hospital
for additional treatment. dressing OF
wounds consequent upon surgical oper-
ations. and of the meals served to the
poor, ranging about twenty IN the
week. Although moderate charge
is made, proportionate to the means OF
the patients, in order to meet the
necessary expenses, yet it is safe to say
that more than one-third OF whom
were kept for months, and some OF
them years, in the Hospital have been
unable to pay anything.
1t is in no boastful spirit that these
facts are presented, but rather in the
line of a businesslik statement to the
supporters and friends of this beneyo-
lent institution, that they may be con-
yinced that their benefactionS have
been properly expended 1t is just, also,
that the devotion and zeal of the Medi-
cal Staff, together with the tender care
and skill Of the good Sisters, be noted,
who are and always have been unre-
hitting in their attention to the pa
tients, and who have never failed at
any hour of the day or night to respond
to duties voluntarily assumed.
The Board of Directors take this &C.
casion of expressing their appreciation
of the sacrifices which have been made
by the generous patrons of All Souls
HOSPITAL, who have been the efficient
| instruments of all the good accomp-
| lished.
The pledges given when the Hospital
was opened have been sacredly kept.
The services of religion have not been
forced on anyone; and non-Catholics
have not only been free, but have been
induced and encouraged to receive the
ministers of their respective churches,
! who have always had free access to the
members of their fiocks.
The necessity presses on US to ex-
tend the field of usefulness to accom-
modate the increasing numbers OF
those who seek relief from their physi-
cal ills, and to be enabled to assume
the important duties of their domestic
and civic life. This report shows that
the number of patients treated this
year-437-is almost double that of the
first year-221.
Stimulated by what has been done in
the past, confident of continued sup
port in the future, the Board is encour-
aged to make every provision for the
pressing need, and to secure the most
effective results in the work of All
Souls Hospital.
JOHN J. O'CoNNER, DID,,
FRANCIS S. KLUXEN,
JOHN A. SHEPPARD,
SIMON j. FLANAGAN,
JOSEPH M. FLYNN,
LOUIS A. THEBARD,
EUGENE S. BURKE,
ROBERT d. FooTE,
FERNANDO G. ECHEvERRIA.