The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-16
MORE USEFUL
TO COMM
Barre City i ,pital Met In
cree = Demands in
IS 1913
NEW BUILDING
SHOULD BE STARTED
Annual Meeting Was Held
Last Evening-Balance
on Hand $2,199

The annual report of the executive
committee of the Barre City hospital,
presented at the annual meeting of the
corporation at the city court room last
evening, urges a concerted effort to raise
the funds necessary to erect one section
of the proposed new hospital buildings
the coming season. The hospital has
cared for more patients, has given more
days treatment, has given more days
treatment to free patients and has made
more district calls than in any previous
year. The report of the committee says:
again we record that in this, as in
previous years, the support given by the
public to the Barre City hospital has
been both generous and hearty. This
support has enabled the management to
continue the good work it is doing in and
out of the hospital. More patients have
been cared for at the hospital than in
any previous year The number of pa
tients admitted to the hospital was 227
in 1918 225 in 1912. Total patients
days treatment, 1857 in I9l3-3,775 in
1912 Average length of stay in the
hospital was l7-minus days. The total
udNs IItdlHltHI Vi Tree patients Was fld
days, as against 322 in 1913. There
were 100 operations. In district work,
S5l calls were made-in 1912, 207 calls.
The school for nurses has graduated
four during the year and has seven pu-
pills now in training.
From these figures it viii be seen
that the hospital has done an increasing
amount of work in 1918, in keeping with
the records of each previous year, and
the outlook is that the hospital will have
more to do next year than this.
"The need of new hospital buildings,
set forth in our report last year, is Of
the utmost Importance. AT the last an
nual meeting the trustees were instruct
ed to procure plans for such buildings
and considerable time has been put into
the study of what will be best suited to
the needs of Barre and vicinity. A
tentative set of plans is the result.
These embrace all that will be needed to
give us modern, up-to-date hospital,
but no more. To get this is going to
cost more than was at first anticipated,
but anything less would be but make
shift and this board does not believe it
wise to undertake less. While there
have been no special bequests during
the year, the hospital has accumulated
81 900, which is drawing interest, and
is to be considered as a nucleus of
building fund The ladies' aid has also
been accumulating a fund of their own
for this same purpose. Your committee
believes concerted effort should be
made be made this coming year to raise
a sufficient fund to warrant the build
ing of one section of the new hospital
before another winter"
The Financial Statement.
The report of the auditor shows the
financial condition to be as follows:
Barre, VT, Dec. S, 1913.
/ have examined the books of the mat
ron of the hospital and of the treasurer
and | find them correct as follows:
Matron had on hand Dec. |, 1912 $40
sIatron has received from Eliza
beth Smith fund .......... 60.7O
Matron has received from old
beds sold. .....,......,....... 3Z.Oo
Matron has received from pa
tients and nurses work. . 5.7l5.50
S5,sI5.60
All of this she has paid over to the
treasurer and holds his receipt Tor the
same.
The treasurer had on hand Dec.
/, 1912. .................... Ss5l.66
Treasurer received from Italian
club dance. ,...,............. 1910
Treasurer received from Fat and
Lean mems ball game, ...... 52.35 4
Treasurer received from Eliza
beth Smith fund. ... $3.50
Treasurer received from old beds
sold Observation-Disclosures. $500
Treasurer received from matron,
patients and nurses. ......... 5,722.90
$6,S7l.4l
Treasurer paid out, expenses and
salaries ..................,. S4,672,35,
Leaving cash on hand 80 S2,l99.06
OF this amount, there is $1,000 in in