Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-04
SOHO HOSPITAL
BOARD TO QUIZ 4
ON NIGHT REvEL
Two Internes and Two Pretty
Nurses Summoned to
Appear.
MUST EXPLAIN PARTY
HELD LATE IN EVENING
Nurses We're Suspended from
Isolation Institution by
DIR. Ricketts,.

Drs. r. j. Brown and w. B. Patter-
son. young internes at the City Hos
pital, and the Misses Ida Shute and
Claribel Pike. prepossessing young
rurses in the Isolation Hospital, have
been summoned TO- appear tomorrow
before the board OF of the
hospital to- tell what they know of "a
certain evening in May When DR.. Henry
E. Ricketts,, in charge of the hospital,
says he heard strange sounds Of rev.
elry in one of the young interne's
rooms.
1t is declared thai when the sound
of the heavy football of DR.. Ricketts,
was heard down the ward the laughter
and hilarity ceased and the nurses
stole softly {. anotherp part Of the ad-
m~inistration building, 1t is declared
that DIR. Ricketts, sought the young
women. that they We're greatly con-
fused, and that one OF them was tear
full when DIR. Ricketts, told them to ap-
pear before him the following morning
in his office. There the nurses were
told that they were under suspension.
That suspension has not been lifted
and the board OF managers are to hear
all about 1t tomorrow.
1t has been the custom of internes
TO get practical experience" in the
Isolation Hospital. When Drs. Brown
and Patterson presented themselves
last March at the Soho institution they
at once became popular, particularly
> with the nurses at the institution, it
is said. Their two months service was
nearing an end in May when the al
legged 'indiscretiony with the w
nurses occurred. Here is what DR..
Ricketts, had to say about the affair
today:
Dir. Ricketts's Story.
ST was in my office when I heard
laughter and hilarity from one of the
rooms in the administration building.
When I went there l found the two
young lnternes and the two nurses. I
reprimanded them at the time and told
the nurses they would have to appear
before me in the morning. The time
of the doctors was almost up, and 1
understand that since then they have
gone back to the City Hospital. I
have no control over them. 1t is up to
the City Hospital to take action in their
cases. I did nave control over the
girls, though, and l suspended them.
Then I notified the board of man
ayers of my action. There wasn't any
June meeting. At the meeting on the
first Friday in July the matter was
laid over. Now 1 understand 1t is to
come before the board tomorrow after
noon. / will not say that the charges
are serious. But all were guilty of in
discretion"
DIR. Brown, when seen at the city
Hospital today, was disposed to make
light of the affair. He said that he
had been asked to appear before the
beard Of managers OF the Isolation
Hospital tomorrow.
II a received a personal letter to
appear before the board" he said, but
I do not nov just what for. l know
Misses Shute and Pike. They are es-
Unable young women. I don't know
of any occurrence such as DR.. Ricketts,
refers to-"
DIR. Browns Version.
81 did have some words with Dr.
Ricketts,. The servants caused a great
deal of trouble. Then there was some
trouble caused by the circulation of a
petition asking that the nurses have
two hours instead of one hour re-
Taxation period in the afternoon. The
threat was made that sooner or later
all the nurses who signed this petition
would be fired. Seventeen nurses came
and went in my time at the hospital.
1t is a most desolate place, and / often
felt sorry for the young women there,
1t is but natural that occasionally
something was done to relieve rhe
monotony. Why, to show you how
ridiculous was the situation, one Of the
rules is that an inferno could moi talk
to a nurse"
DR.. Patterson said that he had re-
ceiVed an Invitation to appear be-
fore the board Of managers, but he
didn't know what it is all about.
The following compose the board Of
managers of the Soho hospital: John x
Adams, M D.. president, Orange; limo
thy f. Foyle, vice-president, Newark;
Roger H. Butterworth. East Orange;
Eugene w. Murray, NJ. D., Newark;
Edmund W. Bechtoldt, Belleyille;
Frank B. Meeker, M. D., Newark.