The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-28
STRANGER POINTS TO
BIRMINGHAM DUTY
Wonderful Work Is Being
Done at Hillman Hospital
DESERVES MORE AID
A. P. Thornton Says People Living
Where There Is no Such Institution
Appreciate Its Value More
Than Local Citizens

To the Editor of The Age Herald.
1t has been my good fortune to see
a good deal of the hospital which the
county of Jefferson maintains in this
city. and it is my opinion that properly
cared for, the EIillman is destined soon
to be in the front rank of hospitals In
the south. The management is splen-
did, and nurses most efficient the
service good, the equipment fair the
medical staff as good as any In the
country, but there are many handbags.
Too many. Handicaps that could be
easily done away with by the co-opera-
ton of the citizens of your city and
county with small cost to anyone and
great good to all.
As a prophet is not without honor
save in his own country so Is an in
stitution of this kind generally better
known to an observant stranger than
to those who pass 1t every day.
Through my association with rela-
| tive who is learning there to be a
| trained nurse, l have come to know
something of the work 1t is doing and
| of what 1t might do IL properly cared
for and 1t does seem to me that the
people of your city have in this In
stitution splendid opportunity for the
| exercise of their charitable instincts
given to none outside of the home of
such an institution.
| There Is at the head of the corps of
nurses a splendid woman who combines
with unusual strength of character
| MI her
sex and is well fitted 20 do a magnifi-
cent work, and Is doing 1t under han
dicaps which little tnouC t and con-
sideration would soon make the citi-
zens of your city and county set to
work to remove. Aside from the good
work 1t Is doing as a home for the
sick poor, you have here a most ex-
cellent school for the training of
nurses and this school ought to receive
| from all the strongest encouragement,
| for this noble profession is rapidly
coming into its own and IN its ranks
are to be found splendid women who
have chosen to take up a life work
which while providing them with a
| livelihood at the same time gives play
| to the sympathy and womanly tender
ness which other callings too often
stihe.
| You people OF Birmingham have a
good thing. Push II along. Help 1t.
Root for it. Send Them a Few dollars
every now and then. Send the sick
folks some flowers The poor have few
flowers In their lives. Go around and
| take the nurses out for an airing In
Iyour autos occasionally. lou will find
them delightful women and they work
harder than any of us and get less
pleasure than the poorest of us. Make
the sick bed softer and the way of the
doctors and nurses easier with SYM
patty and help. Tell them how YOU
appreciate the work they are doing
jolly them along. "Smoosh" the in
ternes. Tell them they are all right
doctors. They will be some day. Tell
/ the nurses they are good looking and
attractive. They are Sir Moses Monte
| fore never. with all his beautiful phil
anthrophy, had 1t in his power to do
more good with his gifts to the poor
and needy than you have in carrying
sympathy and encouragement to those
folks, sick and well. Make Birming-
hamnot only the best town In the south
for those who have money or are max
| ing 1t to be we'll In, but the best town
in the country for the poor to be sick
| in. Win the hospital pennant as well
as the baseball pennant. Aide parum
parvo, magnus acervus crit" DO your
part. A. T. THORNTON.
Birmingham, July rs, 1912.