The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-24
HOSPITAL PLAN
STILL IN THE AIR
Council Sends Whole Matter
Back to Administrative Board
for Report.
WRANGLE OVER PHYSICIANS
Some Favor Selected Staff, and
Others Frce-for-All
Method.

Failing 10 accept Gilbert X. Pollock 8
challenge to settle the matter i'm "a
business way. and like business men
and so fool the public for once" the
common Council. in a called meeting
last night referred the whole matter
of accepting the offer of the Medical
College of Virginia to loan the Virginia
Hospital rs municipal hospital pend
ing the erection of such an institution
by the city, back to the Administrative
Board for consideration and report
This action was taken on the motion OF
T. Gray liaddon. after what appeared TO
be n general misunderstanding. and was
practically unanimous The question
came up on Il substitute motion offered
by Jacob Umlauf against the resolu-
uon sent over from the Board OF
Aldermen, tho substitute containing a
clause permitting any patient In the
proposed municipal hospital to call
IN ms family physician, provided he
met with the approval Of tho chief of
stan of tho medical corps of tho hos
pital' In the resolution sent over for
concurrence by the Board of Aldermen
entire charge OF tho hospital and the
disposition of Its patients was left to
the hospital staff, composed of tho
faculty Of the medical college
Wouid lie Entail to Institution.
MI umlauf, asserting that there was
n negro somewhere in the woodpilc
urged the adoption OF his substitute,
but Mr. Pollock opposed ii on The
ground that it would throw the hos
pital open as a free hospital for every
physician who wanted to use il. and
said that such Il provision would H.,
l"tal 10 the success of tho institu-
ton.
IN previous meeting. in which the
proposed municipal Institution had been
uiScusseu. reference had been made to
the manner III which Bellevue Hospital
III New YORK. is mana gcd and conduct
ed. and Nr. Atkinson presented a letter
from mat hospital stating that it was
not an open hospital. in the sense that
any patient could select his physician
Mr.. Fuller. while indorSing the general
plan providing for the hospital and
seeing in it an institution that would
he of great benefit TO the medical col
lcgc, and TO the poor of the city as we'll
thought that it's control should be in
the hands of the city, and urged that
patients should not We denied the priv
ileBe of calling in their family ply
clans If they 80 desired.
Cost Has Advanced.
He said that an appropriation OF
$4,000 had been thought sufficient at
first but that an additional appropria-
ton of $4,000 was being demanded
and that more serious consideration
should be given TO the matter Mr.
Scaton spoke in the same vein.
Mr.. lladdon moved that the whole
matter he referred back 10 the Admin
istrative Board. and more discussion
was provoked before the motion was
adopted.
Under suspension OF the rules a
resolution offered by Morgan r.. Mills
that the Council concur with the Board
of Aldermen In authorizing the City
Auditor 10 pay the city employees their
salary during Christmas week was
adopted The salaries have been paid
An ordinance reported from the
Board of Aldermen providing for an
exhibit in the Chamber of Commerce.
and Manufacturers Building, provided
that quarters be leased at sum pot
exceeding S1.5o0, was concurrcd in.