The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-03
YEARS WORK
AT HOSPITAL

Report of Miss Schumacher
Showed 434 Patients
Were Admitted
OFFICERS ELECTED
FOR COMING YEAR
Pronationers Received This Week BRING
Number of Capped Nurses Up to 10
Five VIII Graduate in Spring
Many Receive Degree.
The annual meeting Of the corno.
rators OF the Brattleboro Memorial
hospital was held at the bosDitaI Ias+
evening and the annual eorporation
dinner was served At the business
meeting reports of officers were givan
and the old board Of officers was ra-
elected. The officers are: President
| George Il. Dunham: vice president I
| cray Estey; treasurer W. IT. Rrack.
cit; secretary. c. L. Sticknev: auditor
T. L. Iildreth; directors. s. +. Law,
ton, {. L. Stiekney and E. l.. Hildretb.
lhe treasurer submitted his annual re.
port, which was as follows:
RECEIPTS.
Dee. ], 1912, bal on hand. 7I5l
Received from hospital, lo.4O4o2
Received from Thompson
fund 100000
ilSeeiiaheous, 667.9s
$29,I43.5l
DISBURSEMENTS.
Supt. and nurses, 47S2 ~
Labor, too--o
Equipment and repairs. 2341 5S
Medical and surg. supplies. 1q25.0s
Household supplies, s43s. .65
Fuel and light. 37o0 %
Grounds and garden. 36s. .65
Sundry, ice, water, tel. 56s II
Miscellaneous, 2oIs19
Dee. /. 1913. bal. on hand. n 90
$29,I43.51
In the item of miscellaneous EXPENSE
Il included the cost Of new diet
Kitchen the past year.
Miss Mary r. Schumacher. superin-
tendent, submitted an interestinp re-
port, IN which She said that She con
sidered that special advances had been
made. The hospital had affiliated with
the Children 5 hospital in Boston.
where each nurse in her second wear
takes three months course IN the
care and feeding Of children. also with
the Maternity hospital in Troy y. Y.
where three months course IS taken
by the nurses III their third wear.
During the past year new diet
kitchen has been provided. which was
long needed and which has reduced.
by half. the labor In that department
The wards, private rooms and admins
tration building have been painted.
At the recent examination in Novem-
ber for the degree of registered nurse
IL graduate nurses and one pupil nurse
appeared and all passed with credit.
\ new and modern X-ray machine is
needed
The total number of patients admit
tie the past year was 434. The largest
number present in any one dav was
- The daily average number of pa
tlents at the hospital was 10.
In the spring OF 1914 five Young
women will graduate from the institu-
tlon. Five probationers have come
this week and a sixth is expected in 4
few days. This brings the number or
capped nurses at the hospital up TO
l9, two of whom are in Boston for
special training and two are in Troy
Tor maternity work.
The five who will graduate next
spring and Marguerite Taylor of Graf
Ton, Mass, AdaIlne kochon and Rosalee
koehon OF Springfield, Mass, Catherine
Guyer of Peru, Mass, and Marjorie
hale Of Dalton, Mass.
he flve probationers who have come
this week are Mildred Woodward of
keene, \. H., Alice NJ Cronk of East
Swanzey, y. H., Alice MeKinnon of
Grafton, Mass, Susan Jones of Graf
ton, \. y, and Mary Pierce of Bellows
+ ais The sixth, who is expected. il
Abigail Guillow of Gilsnm, " H..
he graduates who received the req
lstered nurse degree were Myrtle Place.
who Is nursing in Mount Vernon. y
y; Mary Austin, Jennie Deane and
Nellie Butterfeld, who are doing pri-
vate nursing in Brattleboro; Ernestine
oaLlouette, night superintendent at the
Memorial hospital; Nora Smythe, who
IS doing district work for the Brat
tleboro Mutual Aid associations: Helen
Guild, who has taken a position as op-
Grating nurse at the Paul KimbalI hos
pital, Lakewood, y. j; Mary MeGin-
MS, who is doing private nursing in
Bellows Falls; Elizabeth Hennessev.
assistant superintendent at the Brat
tleboro Memorial hospital; AIyra Prout.
who Is doing private nursing in New
\ ork; and Luvia Burnett, who is doing
district work in the Henry street set
tlement in New York The student
nurse who received the degree is Mar
guerite Taylor of Grafton, Mass, who
IL In hnr +hirl .-on.