The Washington herald., 1912-03-22
LOBECK CAUSTIC
ON SALARY RAISE
con.,nuea from raE. One.

quired to look after themselves. He re-
counted the patients description OF the
cold storage eggs.
1t was then that Mr. Lobeck made his
criticism OF the economy OF the Com
| missioners. The statement was made
that they had authorized the purchase
of cold storage eggs.
Cold storage eggs" repeated Mr.. Lo-
| beck. ARE ordered by the Commissioners,
and see that they will receive a salary
Increase of $1,000 year for their eff
Client service"
At the conclusion of the meeting Mr.,
Lebeck was pressed for an explanation.
1T merely occurred to me-" he replied.
that 5000, the total amount of the in
crease in salary. will buy 1850 dozen
fresh eggs at 40 cents Dozen"
Trained Nurse On Stand.
Miss Clara Suntag,- trained nurse
whose brother had been in the Tubercu-
losis Hospital for six weeks during the
summer of 1871. denounced the conditions
in the place as execrabIe. She declared
that the tables were never clean and
she had frequently seen particles of
fun" expectorated by the patients on
the cloth. The bed In which her brother
had been kept was dirty, she said, and
the water pitchers were in worse condi-
ton.
She said that her brother had always
been a poor man, and was accustomed
to plain fare all his life. But he was un-
able to eat the food put before him at
the hospital. The meat, she said, had
caused her brother to complain. and she
Rad frequently been compelled to bring
him food. His condition. she concluded.
was like the patient described by Mr..
Skinner. who "ate ravenously when he
received a meal not cooked in the hos
p,taL" but who could not toleEate the
fare prepared in the kitchen there.
In this connection Representative Dyer
produced a letter written by the brother
in which he denounced the unclean con-
ditions. The letter described an occasion
when decayed fish was served to the pa
tients. Soap and water were never used,
the letter said.
In conclusion. 1t was stated that on
one occasion DR.. Kober and George Will
son. superintendent of the Board of Char
titles, had ordered a patient out of the
hospital because he had complained of
the service. The Suntag letter concluded
by completely eXonerating the hospital
physicians and stating the fault was
higher up
Mrs. Katherine S. Ashby. who explained
she had visited the hospital regularly.
made a strong defense OF the institution.
and concluded by the announcement that
an insufficient sum was appropriated 10
pay for sufficient number of employees.
Found Cook "Greasy."
She was reminded then by Representa-
tiveDyer that the hospital had returned
81. 600 to the Treasury as an unexpended
balance out Of the last appropriation.
Mrs. Ashby then described the cook as
greasy" Mrs. Mary B. Graves SUBJ
stantiated Mrs. Ashby's testimony, as did
a man introducing himself as Mr.. Strong.
Miss Mary Whalen described an aged
man who was put out of the tuberculosis
Hospital The occasion she described
occurred before the present officials were
put in power, and consequently did not
vitality bear on the present probe.
DR.. William ID. Tewksbury took the
stand in conclusion and expressed as
tonishment at the criticism of Suntag
and his sister. The patient had improved
under treatment at the hospital. said
the physician and had not complained
while there
The committee may hold another hear
ing next week.