Evening journal., 1912-11-19
HOSPITAL
EXTENSION
DR.. Morgan Says P. 6 5.
Staff Desires to Extend
Charity Work
ASK CITIZENS TO
"BUY THE BRICKS"

DR.. James II. Morgan, chairman Of
the Physicians and Surgeons Hospital
.Extension Fund. has issued the fol-
loving statement as to the objects OF
the hospital and the purpose for
which the hospital is now soliciting
public subscriptions:
"As chairman of the Physicians and
Surgeons Hospital Extension Fund,
present to the citizens of Wilmington
true statement of why we exist as
one of two hospitals OF the same
school The indisputable press COM
munications by interested friends and
physicians in the past for one instl-
tuition with open door availeth not.
That the first regular old school hos
pital to open its door to any good
reputable physician of that school re-
fused by the following answer We
maintain this institution and reserve
the right to manage it according TO
our own desires. The pubic opin-
ion I know to be as follows: Every
good physician should be allowed all
the benefits of an institution that
asks for public support. Consequent-
~ their persistent and emphatic re-
iusal prompted us to open this hos
pitai. and their flat refusal to discuss
II leads us to ask the public TO help
us extend our movement in buying a
home and building charity ward for
the deserving
I'VE know OF many cases that come
to our notice, without money, viz:
children with deformities OF limb,
body and eyes women with abnormal
growth and traumatisms; men with
respective Affections. and many per-
sons with durable blindness. What
grand act 80 make a cripple walk, the
blind see, to snatch n dear mother
from the ravages of a cancer. Did
il ever occur to you that there are
hundreds of such Inflicted ceratures
lust waiting in obscure homes until
death end their sufferings who ca be
comforted by the skill of surgery, but
whose finances prevent such help?
Kind friends. this is our aim in asking
for your help to extend our services
in behalf of humanity.
'But we have a greater object in
extending this hospital. We desire
that 1t shall be a school OF learning,
that its clinics shall offer every op-
\ portuny v for the family physician to
better himself professionally Don't
you know tbat i'm major cases the best
specialist fails in his first, second and
maybe his third operation on the same
kind of a case, but he soon learn. the
cause of his failure and success is
assure Just recall how the first
cases of appendicitis resulted fatally
whole now nearly everyone gets we'll
Let me ask you would il be agreeable
60 confront an uncertainty as the pa
tient of an inexperienced physician
In a major surgical operation Evi-
IDENTIFY YOU have good reasons for
wanting the most skillful operator to
De your surgeon, 10 is simply a Ques-
tor OF life and death Now you can
see the wisdom of a physician having
hospital opportunities. Some one
claim $4,000 cases at the Delaware
Hospital treated rii.s the past twen-
ty years, and | am prepared TO prove
that seventy per cent. Of Wilmington's
regular school physicians have never
even been invited to look in their oper-
ating room Among the forty-six ply
sicians connected with the Physicians
and Surgeons Hospital one may have
your utmost confidence as a family
physician. and let me ask even in SYM
pathy with his interests, will you Join
the army that proposes helping us get
a home?
Our plan and the amount we re-
Quire is as follows. To obtain $685.
600 and 100000 bricks through
solicitation and buy as many as you
choose If you can afford cash
donation. or a check or yearly dona-
tion if you would like to endow a
bed IN memory Of a dear one, or
create a memorial hospital in the
name Of the donor. we feel that this
is the most deserving movement that
citizens of Wilmington have ever been
askd to help. One of our committed
viii soon call on you and we will wei.
come any donation from the price OF
one brick up TO any amount you may
choose to give us. These donations
will pass through the hands of q
special committee whose duties shall
be TO acknowledge the same in a pub,
lie way. If desired A novel plan o
showing our progress may bo observed
by watching the mammoth ther
mometer TO be erected by CitQ Coun-
ellis permission on City Hall Place
The buy a brick campaign will clos,
January 1st. 1913, and we ask ever,
citizen for their little help by buyin,
one or more bricks for our new hos
pital