Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-12-05
HOSPITAL WORK
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President,a Rcnort.


The President Of the Board of Man
ayers submitted The following:
To the Board o. Managers of the An
napolis Emergency Hospital:
'Rich gift of God; a year Of time. /"
We come to our annual meeting with
gratitude to our Heavenly Father for
His loving care and overruling Prov
idenee.
This year has been strenuous with
its many activities. The days that
sped by so rapidly, came to US laden
with responsibilities and opportuni-
ties. When Alexander the Great was
asked how he conquered the world,
he answered quickly by not delay
ing" So the success attending the
work of the hospital has been the re-
sull of immediate and constant SER
vice, adding another year of splendid
achievement, constant growth, en-
larged usefulness and continued pros
perity to the hospital.
We claim first rank in all hospital
work, and the marvellous advances in
the healing art, by which suffering
has been alleviated and life prolonged,
have been due TO the conscientious
devotion of our physicians and sur
geons, who give their time without
charge. During the year a training
SCHOOL for nurses has been duly incor-
porated. The undersigned are the
incorporators DIR. Murphy, DR.. Welch,
DR.. Mcnamara, DR.. Purvis, DR.. Hop
kins, DR.. Russell. Mrs. Dashiell, Mrs.
Feldmeyer, Mrs. Tisdale, Miss An
drews, Miss Randall, Mrs. Martin
We also take pleasure in saying that
the ministration of superintendent and
nurses is worthy of the highest COM
mendation. The nurses, under the
thorough training of Miss Rosamond
MINIS, their superintendent, with
admirable zeal and tireless devotion,
administered to the wants of their pa
tients.
The specified course of lectures for
pupil nurses is being delivered by
members of the Medical Staff, and
they are receiving the required in
structions and training from. the su-
perintendent.
The training school for nurses per-
forms a function for the State, which
partly requites it for the favor of an
increased appropriation. There has
been cordial cooperation in the differ
ent departments of official supervision
and administration. The work of the
Medical and Surgical staff, Managers,
Superintendent, corps of nurses and
matron, has been earnest, devoted
and manifest, fully meriting the re-
ward which success confers, and the
generous approval which the commu-
nifty has exhibited in the institution.
During the year the staff has added
DR.. A. G. Webster to it's members,
and lost.a very valued member. The
resignation of DR.. George Wells was
a great loss to the staff and Board of
Managers. But his interest in its
success, his ready response to every
call of duty. his skill and cooperation
are still with the hospital. for the
establishment of which he labored so
arduously.
With regret the Board of Managers
accepted the resignation of Mrs.
Frank A. Munroe, the vacancy being
filled by the election of Mrs. Meade
Holiday.
1t has been necessary during the
year to equip and make several i'm
portant changes in the hospital at
cost of S55, 055.1S, thereby depicting
the appropriation for maintenance.
A brief comparison of last years
and this years work will show better
than any word of mine. the increased
possibilities, and gives assurance
of the overwhelming influence and
usefulness of the hospital, which, next
to the church, comes as a comfort
ing and ministering angel in time of
affection and suffering.
The magnitude of the work can best
be appreciated by referring to the
tabulated reports which follow:
Year ending December S, 1910
Total number of patients treat
ed 1878
Received from pay patients 81, 1925
Total cost of maintenance S9,166. rs
Year ending December 4, 1911
Total number of patients treat
ed 2,419
Received from pay patients S2,552.O5
Total cost of maintenance Sill, 403. 90
During the past year the Build
ing Commission has finished its work,
and we join with the public in express
ing our gratitude to the State and to
the generous philosophical men,
through whose efforts the New Emer-
gency Hospital has been established.
We solicited the cooperation of the
people of Annapolis and vicinity, the
response has been most generous.
Among the contributors may be found
business men, clergymen, physicians,
artisans, mechanics and working men.
To all of these and to the State, city,
county and press, and for other mani
festations of interest, sympathy and
support, the President expresses the
gratitude of the Board of Managers
and of all others officially connected
with the hospital.
Respectfully submitted,
OIIEDE