Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-07
NO. 3ss
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1910.
INCIDENT.

ANOTHER INCIDENT.
Once more, at the risk of being
termed an enemy of the hospital. the
EVENING NEWS calls attention to
the difficulty of getting victim of
an accident into the Institution un-
Tess the certain few men give their
official O. X. We have been informed
that a member of the managing
board of the hospital had equal privi-
leges with the medical staff in enter
ing patients. At least that is what
we were told the last time this ques-
ton was raised, when a little boy was
injured and lay for a long time on
the floor of a drug store suffering
greatly while the city was searched
for one of the few doctors who could
admit him. When this case was re-
ferred to as an instance showing the
necessity of enlarging the medical
staff 1t was stated that the five mem
bers of the managing board could act
&c we'll as the doctors.
But we think we can see why S. G.
Garretson was denied this privilege.
The EVENING NEWS has the same
experience every day. All who are
opposing the present regime at the
institution are, 1t seems, treated with
scant courtesy. The EVENING NEWS.
every day Is refused information at
the hospital. OF course, the NEWS
has taken a definite stand advocating
cestain changes and as those in CON
troll object to any change, the NEWS
lis black listed, SO to speak. But we
expected that. We have experienced
the same thing before. We did not
suppose, however, that the feeling
extended to members of the board OF
managers who dared to speak and
act as they think, even If they do not
always agree with the doctors, or
doctor, who seem to control.
1t is a pity that with one bed
vacant at the hospitaf man, a re-
spectacle business man of P~lainfeld,
who. while fishing, had been run
down by a tow of barges, and was
injured and nearly drowned, being
still half full OF water, and with his
clothing dripping wet, should be
allowed to lie in a police station
when what he needed was his wet
clothing removed, some medical care
and a warm bed.
Doubtless to call attention to
these things is, in the minds of some
people Ca very few. we believe) be-
ing an enemy of the hospital. All
that these few want is to be let alone
to run the institution to suit their
own purposes. But the EVENING
NEWS is willing to be called an
enemy to the hospital under such cir
cumstances. We believe, however,
hat we are more of a friend of the
institution than many who now APP
pear to take such an interest in it,
for our interest is not personal but
general.
incidentally, it is interesting to
note that the Smith Inirmary on
Staten Island has eight men on the
medical staff. We are also informed
by no less an authority than DR..
Washington. of TottenvilIe, that
while he is not a member of the stan
he can take any pay patient to the
inirmary that be desires and treat
that patient himself while at the in
stitution, and SO can any other phys
ician. He is not compelled to turn
some Of his best paying cases over to
one of the eight men on the staff in
order that the person ill might have
the advantages OF the hospital. Thus
anybody on Staten Island a be
taken to the Smith Infirmary and
stiii be treated BY their family
physician whether he is a member of
the medical STAFF or not. This does
not seem to be the case in Perth
Amboy. although the hospital here is
really more of a public institution
than the Smith Innfmary.
II was to be expected that some-