The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-01-31
INSIST ON FIRST
AID FACILITIES
Officers Of Queens Hospital Are
Emphatic for Emergency
Ward in City.

AANcAutht F. - hoWIeNf VI tue
Queen s Hospital Corporation, struck
the keynote of the present situation re.
garding the necessity for more hospital
facilities, at the annual meeting of the
membership of the hospital in the
rooms of the chamber of commerce yes
terday, when he declared that the city
should have an emergency hospital
where the victims of accidents and
emergency cases could be given first aid
and where il could be decided whether
TO or she should be sent to the Queen s
Hospital or the Leah Home.
This assertion was made in the course
of his remarks following the compile.
tion of the routine business of the
meeting, during which he stated that
an enlargement of the buildings Of the
Queens Hospital may be made neces-
sary, such as increasing the capacity of
the quarters of the nurses and addi-
tional rooms, especially if the business
of the hospital keeps on increasing as
rapidly as it has during the past year
or two. Then it was he referred to the
necessity for city emergency hos.
pital.
In conclusion, President Lowrey
stated that there had been some criti.
cism of the hospital in the papers at
various times, but that he did not
think it necessary to rush into print in
defense of the management.
w. II. McInerny went even further
than the president, asserting that the
trustees should take up the question of
establishing special building in the
hospital grounds for emergency cases,
where even tuberculosis cases could be
received temporarily, even though not,
what is called hospital case. He
held that the community demands some
care of such cases and as long as the
present conditions continue the hospital
will always be open to criticism.
McInerny Emphatic.
"We occupy, in way, semi.public
position and should be in condition
to act, and the new board should take
up this question. There is hardly a
month passing without criticism in the
papers due to some such case as that
of the old Hawaiian who was turned
away recently and died soon after. -
President Lowrey said this special
case had been taken up and investigat.
ed and n report made, and then he
called upon Superintendent Eckardt, of
the hospital, to make a statement.
Mr.. Eckardt reported that last Sat
urday the man was brought in the
police ambulance and he went into the
emergency room to see what the case
was and found he had just been laid
on the operating table in charge of
Doctor jackson and nurse, He
had an admission card signed by
| Doctor Wayson which said: ~ have
not seen this case as it is one of Doc
| tor Lii 's.'
The man was in filthy condition
and held between the stumps of his
arms a rag of towel in which he was
continually expectorating, said Mr.
Eckardt. Doctor Jackson examined him
with stethescope and discovered that
he was FAR gone with tuberculosis and
had large cavity in his right lung.
''We Immediately called up Doctor
! Wayson and told him of the condition
of the patient and he said for us tC
send him home in the ambulance an6
he would see that he was sent to the
Leah Home. 1t was then that we dis
covered the wound in his foot and Doc
tor jackson washed it out and dressed
it, and then the patient was sent to
his home as suggested by Doctor Way
son. / understand that the man dice
the next morning
~ wish to say,' added Superintend
emit Eckardt, "that that man did mo-
die of septic poisoning, as reported il
the papers, although l understand thi,
is the given cause of death. He dice
of tuberculosis. / believe he SHOULD
have been taken directly to the Leah
Home, as he was in condition to bt
taken there when he left the hospital
Speak for the People.
Then j. r. Gait spoke right out. HI
stated that for some time the peopl,
of Honolulu had been hearing of tn,
necessity for publicity in public affairs
and he thought that right here was {
case where there should be publicity
and where a statement of facts seemed
necessary. He asserted that the public
was interested in the Queen g Hospita
and had a right to know the true fact
in regard TO it.
Judge Robertson added another argu
ment in this regard. He said he agreed
with Mr.. McInerny as to the necessity
for an emergency building at the hos
pital, one, possibly, near the entrance
He said it was a fact that while the
Queen Is Hospital was one of the most
useful institutions in Honolulu il was
also one of the most disliked.
1t was here that Treasurer George
G. Potter asked Judge Robertson if he
meant contagious ward when h,
spoke of an emergency building foi
the hospital grounds.
"Call il what you like" answerel
the chief justice Of the supreme court
as long as II is place where some
emergency ease could be treated with
out being turned away"
Secretary George w. Smith explain
ed that the rules Of the hospital abso
lutely forbid the reception Of a patient
suffering from contagious disease and
thus endanger the lives and health OF
other patients being cared for.
Some Care Necessary.
hT. Melnopy called attention 10 tho
! iuet that thore was nowhere else h
take a patient at this time and that
when q man like the old Hawaiian
Vas taken there u was supposed that
pa soulf BIZ given such treatment aa
Was possible, oven II only elean rag
was substituted fGT ihG dirty ono
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