The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-13
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HARRIS HAS GOOD
at $1,000 per year, while Mrs.
frances Harris, wife Of the super
intendent, is on the payroll as a
nurse at $50 to $3.50 per month.

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frances Harris, wife Of the super.
intendent, is on the payroll as a
nurse at $50 to $3.50 per month.
When business gets dull at the
hospital and it becomes necessary
20 reduce expenses the private
Eurses in the city's employ are
laid off, but Mrs. Harris continues
On the payroll. Harris fees for
hauling the patients to and from
the hospital are now cut off, as
the city has purchased an automo-
bile for the health department, in
which the patients are conveyed to
the hospital.
After a patient leaves there is
pretense made at collecting his
hoard bill. First statement for
the meals at 20 cents each is pre-
sented, which. if not paid, is turned
over to an attorney. But tie
amount that has been collected in
this manner will not add much to-
ward reimbursing the taxpayers
fer the immense board bills col
lected by Harris.
V. b. Harris has about as good a
thing with the city as w. M. Stat
ford or Dr. w. F. Morrison had
with the county. His bills may be
legal and all right so far as their
accuracy may be concerned, but it
looks like high charge for meals
when restaurants over the city are
setting as good grub" for 10 to
20 cents per meal. The prisoners
are boarded at the county Jail for
II IL cents per meal and at the
city Jail for IS cents per meal.
CASE OF RALPH HOPEVEER.
Ralph Hopeveer, real estate
dealer at $50 Riverside avenue,
who was released from the isolation
hospital in January after nearly
six weeks detention with scarlet
fever, is bitter in his denunciation
of the treatment of patients at the
isolation hospital. IF l couldn't
serve better meals for cents
apiece than are served by Harris
fer % cents ] would say that /
know nothing about prices. For
the first three weeks after l was
there he dished up lot of old cow,
wholly unfit for sick people. He
must have bought a job lot of the
stuff. for it took long time to
run it off.
After that we were fed on beef
steak that might have answered
for sole leather. it was so tough.
"ne patients are denied the COM
mCnest courtesies around the
place. There is a telephone on the
floor on which | was detained, but
we were not permitted to use 1t.
Our outbound letters were permit
ted to lie around open and un-
mailed, Notwithstanding the fact
that they might have contained
matters of Importance. While l
understand the city is paying Har-
ris' wife as a nurse. there was but
one nurse in our department to as
MANY as 16 patients at a time. This
nurse was given no relief and con-
tinued on duty night and day
There were at time periods of a
whole week in which doctor did
not visit us, although he was sup
posed to come every day One of
IT, male nurses passed from one
ward to another without disinfect-
ing or precautions.
Yet in the face Of all Of this
sort of treatment they had the
nerve to put a claim against me for
si2 in the hands of a lawyer for
collection, at 20 cents per meal.
told them that | would pay the
bin when h froze over, and he
has not bothered me since"