The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-02-18
THE WALDO COUNTY HOSPITAL.

THE WALDO COUNTY HOSPITAL.
At an adjourned meeting of the incorporators
of the Waldo County General Hospital, held at
the court house last Saturday morning. the
committee to investigate the affairs of the
hospital, appointed at previous meeting,
made the following report:
We have had two meetings with the board
OF directors at which we thoroughly discussed
all matters pertaining to the welfare of the
hospital, its management and financial con-
dition, and have made outside enquiry as our
time and opportunity would permit We are
satisfied that all moneys have been expended
judiciously. The directors report deficiency
at the present time of about $500
This last statement was subsequently cor
rected as follows: "1n the above report the
amount of the deficit is Incorrect By error,
the bills receivable were omitted from the as
SETS The correct amount is 1916, instead of
about $500, as reported E. S. Pitcher, Secre-
tary of Committed
The committee made the following recon-
mendations:
l. That the rule for admission of patients be
amended to read as follows: "Any person wish
ing to enter the hospital for treatment or any
physician or surgeon, in good standing, wishing
to enter patients in the hospital for treatment,
A..e~J "PPAy W Vic SS<hil SuIScOH surgeon IN
charge, or to committee Of three physicians
appointed by the directors of which the sur
geon IN charge shall be chairman or the board
OF directors, and in all cases the decision of
the board of directors shall govern
2. That thorough and rigid oversight of
the ethical and moral conditions be established
by the directors, and that the physicians be re-
quired to be prompt with delivery of all lee
lures to the nurses.
3. That if the number of physicians and
surgeons available for such duty would so war
rant, that the term of service be reduced from
four to either two or three months, and that
all graduate physicians and surgeons in good
standing in Waldo county shall be eligible to
positions on the staff.
Your committee further recommend that all
criticism be suspended for the present and
that all work in harmony to ensure the placing
of our hospital on broad and permanent basis
that will assure equal rights and privileges to
all residents of our county.
JAMES P. BUTMAN
SELwYN THOMPSON,
NATHAN D. Ross,
ISAAC S. Hills
E. S. PITCHER.
Committee
The above recommendations met with the
hearty approval of the directors of the Waldo
County Hospital.
VIM. B. SWAN, President
DIR. g. c. kilgore stated that at the sugges-
tion of members of the above committee the
physicians of Waldo county had held a meeting
this forenoon, and had full discussion over a
copy of the above report and they suggested
the following amendment to Article L.
"That the rule for admission of patients be
amended to read as follows:
"Any person wishing to enter the hospital
for treatment, or any physician or surgeon in
good standing wishing to enter his patients for
treatment, by himself, the regular staff or any
physician or surgeon in good standing he NAV
designate, may do so on application to the
Superintendent of Nurses she to grant per-
mission If the operating room is not in use and
there is room for their accommodation.
On motion of Selwyn Thompson it was voted
to accept the amendment and on motion of A.
H. Miller it voted to accept the report as
amended
On motion of DR.. J. E. Cook it was voted
that the registered graduate physicians of
medical colleges in good standing, practicing
medicine in Waldo county, be made an Advis-
ory Board, whose advisory duties shall be to
designate the term of service of physicians
and surgeons, to advise the election of such
physicians and surgeons to the medical and
surgical staff as may be named by the Advis-
ory Board, to nominate the superintendent of
nurses and establish standard of medical
ethics for the hospital
All the city physicians We're present and
among those from out of town were DR.. C. R.
Hines and B. E. Larrabee of Searsport Dr. W.
l.. Watson of Monroe; DR.. Norman R. Cook
and A. E. Kilgore of Brooks; Dr. j. E. Cook of
Unity; Dr. A. M. Small of Freedom and Dr.
Adelbert Millett of Searsmont
The hearing on the resolve in favor of the
Waldo County General Hospital was held be-
fore the committee on appropriations in Au
gusta yesterday afternoon DR.. G. C. Kilgore
and Arthur Ritchie, ESQ.,, were present in the