New-York tribune., 1911-01-05
70 EV|CT SAGE INSTITUTE
Drunnond Says He Will Do Sc
if Authority Is Ignored.
ANEWAY REVIEWS ATTACK
Dispute Regarding City Hospital
Grows More Acute-Laymen
Cause the Trouble.


Dr Theodore G.. Janeway. who resigned
from the attending stan Of the City Hos
rral TUESDAY. siCnalized his withdrawal
,ssferday by taking NJ the cudgels with
commissioner Drummond OF the Charities
r,erartment IN regard TO the work of the
Russeu SAGE Pathological Institute on
RlackwelTs Island
commissioner Drummond not TO be out
sone. responded TO Dr Janeway's resig-
ustorv blast with statement, in which he
Aaty called the veiled threat of with
arsWal from the island by the institute.
and minated that so far as Or. Janeway
Y,rsonaly was concerned his withdrawal
oom tho CRY Hospital would tend to ad-
atIonally safeguard the hospital from po-
itical influence.
In announcing his resignation on Tuesday
Dr Janeway explained that he had left
re city Hospital practically for the reason
mat such a step would leave MIN free to
oppose Commissioner Drummond on behalf
of the sage Institute
Ills supplementary statement last night,
which was given out in the form Of an open
letter 10 the Commissioner. signed not by
himself. but 10y Or. u. b. Delavan. presi-
a
Institute. was built largely around two
rbints-frst. the lack of cooperation be-
tween The city officials in charge of the
t-,v Hospital ana the directors Of the
s4ee Institute. and, second, the question OF
suovua the Sage Institute directors to eH-
anime Tire charges which Commissioner
1,~mmond said were contained IN a report
on the institute by tine Scientific Advisory
council or the City Hospital.
commissioner Drummond in his statement
t-rored the charges entirely, but went fully
h7lf Uav in meeting the directors on the
frs point.
The Russell Sage Institute occupies a
ct~ building" he said. rent free and re-
csives in addition between 5000 and $500
year from the city. which Or. JaneWay
has been spending without any adequate
Supervision by city officials. notified him
4hst this would have 10 stop, and the IN
stfute must be accountable To the medical
hoard Of the city Hospital for the way 1t
spends money received from the city.
"pr Janeways reply was TO resign. ]
have not yet heard whether or not the
sage Institute viii accept the city's SUI
nerysiou II 10 does not I shall promptly
disrossess them from the city building
According 10 the Commissioners view
the whole trouble arose because the direc-
tors OF the Institute aid not appreciate that
medical and pathological research, while Of
vast Importance, had TO yield precedence
10 the immediate and pressing needs OF
the citys hospital service.
Commissioner DrummOnd ropudiates Or.
p. Janewav's suggestion that politics Of any
kind entered into the trouble which has
arisen between khe department and the
Sage Institute. o. into the management Of
tho City Hospital
DR. Janewav Couteuded that the 5000
which the city paid TO the Sage institute
annually was fully repaid by the patho-
'ocica' work which the institute does for
The City Hospital and % prove his point
he cited tie case of Bellevue Hospital
where he said. the pathological work, car
red on by the city itself. costs nearer
$3.50 . year than 900
The agreement between the institute and
tae city, made by Commissioner Hebberd
and continued since, Or. Janeway said,
Lad been perfectly satisfactory, and under
Hebberd's administration there was hearty
cooperation between the two institutions
On BIackweWs Island. That cooperation,
continued the doctor through the medium
~ Or. peIavan' letter was lacking now.
and i'm view Of that status he wrote to
Mr.. Drummond;
"Our duty toward Mrs. Sage and 10 the
rubHC-tle true heuefciaries under this
noble gift-rcquires us 10 consider carefully
whether the greatest good Of the greatest
number is tein- served by existing ar
raucements
The scientific advisory council appointed
~ commissioner Hebnerd Dr. Janewav
.roipred out. was composed Of physicians
exclusively. and included such names as
that Of the late D~ William r. Bull and
Dr. Simon Flexnor. With that council. he
said the institute was in perfect accord,
hut when commissioner Drummond ap-
pointed a new council On which were
three Iavmen. Rudolph Block y. TAYLOR
Phillips and Warren Leslie, cooperation
became difficult
ON December TO- 1910 Commissioner
r~lmmord invited Tho directors Of the
sage institute to his Office 70 discuss
charges and recommendation filed I'm 2
report rv the new council on the insti-
tuta
This report was said 70 have been based
o. an investigation which covered several
months. but Dr. Janevay wrote that the
directors OF the institute felt that they
could not consider even q conference with
c.tv officials on the subject until the Com
missioner allowed them 20 examine this re-
por' and the testimony on which it was