The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-08-08
correspondent Talks-B. M. O.
Hampton. The News in Nut sI,sll

10 40 poihIeu as one or the con-.
spicluous "s 2 places" .of, the town. n
IL is ideal $ -nated In North WASH
: angton, Y rise of one Of the cau.t
1tals s hills, fitting sysnetrfa-.
eally s IN education and civic CEN,
ter q destined to become famous.
the ha'-on over. 1t faces the open-
grounds of Howard Park, with How V
ard University towering in the rear&l
Howard Medical School to the soubh-
ward, thanked by Mott School on the
Last and the site Of the new $3.50, ,OOOo
Normal School No. 2 to the westward.
surrounded by the homes and churches
or the representative colored citizens
OF the district. 1t is one of the pret
ltlest and most healthful spits to be
found anywhere. The structure is of
brick and is two stories high. so AR
ranged in a series of wings that,
maximum of hight and air Is obtained
Tor all of the rooms. 1t lis compara-
lively new, having been erected in
1914, and covers practically all of the
tract bounded by 4th and 9Th Trum-
DULL ana college streets. For the ap-
preparations that led to the new build
ing and its development, the hospital
authorities are very grateful to the
| good offices of Senators w. B, Allison 4
ana Benjamin Ryan Tillman Fos-
tered by humanitarians din Congress.
me growth. of the institution has been
rapid, but solid. 1t has now 278 beds
| Is provided with the most modern an
piances and apparatus for its surgi-
| cal, medical and chemical DEPART
nents, and has a corps of employees
numbering about 100 persons. Its Wis.,
lting and consulting staff =, enrbfaces'r u
ONE or the most noted men In the pre- I
tessfon, and it lis regarded as no small
honor to be member thereof The
operating expenses last year were $69.-
oOO, and this years estimates call for
$4,000. The hospital lis o govern
ment institution, buseau of THE In
ierlor Department., and Is for all the
people, but social conditions here are
such that lit come to be known as
colored institution. The bulk of its
patients are Of our race and the man J..
aging authorities are colored. 1900
patients were treated last year, United .
states and District; 1912 prescrip-
tlons were compounded; 1,767 opera
tlons were performed and 983 erner--
gency cases were handled. Some of
the most intricate operations known 20
the science have been performed here
The entire plant is valued at not less =
than O,OO0-three-quarters of a mill
llon-and 1T has not yet reached the
zenith of Its great possibilities. n
Beginning July i, "pay ward" was
established, for the accommodation of
persons able to pay, but previously
barred by the law restricting serWce +
to the indigent. Eventually a $50, 900 i
building will be erected especially for
the pay patients, If the recommends =
ton Of DR.. Warfield goes through. An
orthopedic ward is also one of the new
features asked for, along with an cleo
ditional employees, together with an
appropriation for the Identification of =
the grounds. Not long ago a. nurses
home was built on the grounds. at q
cost Of $4,000. The Nurses Training
School Is one Of the best branches of !
the institution. 1t has sent 230 train Z
ed women to various portions of the
country, and this year there were for
ty-two taking the three-year course. A
pathological building, to cost $25, 900,
IS one Of the possibilities Of the near
future. Great pride is taken by DR..
Warfeld in the new and well-worked-
out card index system, through
which the records Of the institution
are faithfully kept and from which
any fact can be CLEANED in d moments
lime.
Surgeon-in-Chief Warfield "a SELF
Mad<, Man." .,.v.
Dr.. William A. Warfeld, the pro-
gressive and ever-alert surgeon-fn-
chief Of Freedmen's Hospital has held
the office since 1901 He is self
made man in the truest sense Of the
term, rising steadily by dint of his
own efforts and fndomitable pluck
from obscurity to eminence. A native
of Montgomery county, Maryland, be
started out as farmers boy, work
ing from dawn until dark for the mu-
nif1cent salary Of twenty-fi cents per
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