The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-09

Plans for the erection, equipment
and maintenance Of a charity hospital
to be used. by both city and county La
tents were discussed at a meeting
held in the city council chamber yes
terday afternoon at o'clock, with the
result that committee was appoint
ed to appear before the board of county
commissioners at the meeting tonight
and before the meeting of the city
council tomorrow night to ascertain
what aid and encouragement these
bodies will give to the movement The
committee appointed will report back
to another meeting to be held in the
council chamber Saturday afternoon at
4 o'clock and in case 1t has met with
sufficient encouragement the members
of the committee will proceed to So
licit the sale of bonds for the carry
ing out of the plans.
REPRESENTATIVE GATHERING.
While only few people were pres
ent at the meeting yesterday after
noon, whi,h was presided over by
Mayor Reilly, those present were a
representative crowd. among them be-
ing Drs. Hutchinson, Kennedy and
Blocker, Aldermen DeSilva and Bear
and Messrs. w. X. Hyer, ST.. and
Robert A. Hyer, besides a number OF
ladies representing the various chart
table organizations Of the women of
Pensacola.
All of those present expressed
themselves as heartily in favor of the
establishment of a hospital and agreed
to work to that end and to do all in
their power to aid the movement.
INTERESTING TALKS.
A number Of interesting talks were
made by those who are interested and
who have made a close study OF the
conditions here and the meeting was
full of enthusiasm and deteruainstis1l.
DR.. Hutchinson opened the discussion,
calling attention to the fact that Pen
sacola IS the only city he knew of
with as large a population as this
city which did not have a charity hos
pital He told of the organization OF
the Pensacola Sanitarium and said
that while the promoters of this instf-
tuition would like to do so they were
unable to do much charity. He said
the demands at that institution were
fast outgrowing the facilities and that
recently a number Of private patients
had been turned down because they
were unable to accommodate them.
DR.. Hutchinson said that he did not
believe that either the city or the
county is able to build the kind OF hos
pital needed, but that he did believe
that both could arrange their budgets
so as to help build and maintain one
Lor CnarlLy patents.
He suggested that a hospital of
something like forty rooms should be
built, about thirty of them to be set
aside for private use, the revenue de-
rived from private patients being used
to help bear the expenses of the insti-
tuition. He also suggested the idea Of
floating bonds as a nucleus and said
that he believed that when once
started bequests, legacies and endow-
ments would rapidly add to the fund.
DR.. Hutchinson said that a building
such as he thought necessary could
be erected and furnished for about
$4,000 or $4,000. He said that he be-
lieved $4,000 worth Of bonds could
easily be scld and that he was of the
opinion that the physicians in the city
would purchase considerable portion
of the bonds
Mayor Reilly next addressed the
meeting, agreeing with DR.. Hutchinson
fully and said that he saw no reason
why this hospital should not be built
and maintained and that he believed II
would be.
DR.. Blocker said that the need for
such an institution is growing more
and more each year and that no one
realized It more thoroughly than the
physicians. He said that If the mat
ter was not attended to now II would
be forced upon the city later ana that
it might be harder then than now.
DR.. Blocker said that he realized that
the finances Of both the city and the
county are hard at this time, but that
it might be like a train on which he
was a passenger recently. He said he
was on one on which there was only
standing room, but that the train took
as