Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-02


eth century clinic. 1t Is
wv the WOman's Clinic Aux
Hilary. which opened Sep
TENDER 90. a clinic for white
working women and girls, sponsored
by some OF Washington's most prom
inent society women. and having for
its medical staff many of the capital S
woman physicians.
What is a twentieth century clinic?
The word clinic. in the dictionary, is
defined as "a place where diseases are
diagnosed before student physicians. "
That is what clinics have always been.
Patients know when they come TO this
kind of clinic that they are being
made the foundation of young physi-
clans experience. But the twentieth
century clinic Is place where the well
come. to learn how to keep healthy.
Such Is the definition of this modern
clinic as given by its superintendent.
DR.. Elnora c. Folkmar, and which
typifles what the new organization
stands for The Noman's Clinic Aux
iliary is the outcome of modern
thought along medical, sanitary and
eugenic lines. Also. as Its name i'm
plies. 1t is the offspring Of the Woman's
Clinic, but as different from 1t as the
modern girl is from the mother who
was belle of the late sixties.
The Womans Clinic has been In ex-
istence for more than twenty years.
and is a clinic along the dictionary
lines. 1t answered need in WASH
ington at the time OF its organization
aud still does. but one totally apart
from that work which the new clinic
is doing. This is primarily due to loca-
ton. Situated at 18th and T streets,
the Woman's Clinic Is open to children.
girls and women. regardless of race
and color. But on account of being IL
the heart of one of Washington col
ored settlements Its work has natural. y
come to deal largely with the colored
population.
One of the attending physicians esti-
mated that 80 per cent of it's patients
were colored. The two organizations will
not, therefore, conflict along those lines
The new organization was authorized by
the board of the Womans Clinic and will
report to that body monthly. Two OF
the members of the board Of the old
clinic will act as ex-off1cio members OF
the board of the auxiliary. There tho
connection stops. In its aims, work and
finances the new clinic is a distinct unit
ne WOlIldu SllIllC huAlltIS IL tt ~
18th street, within easy reach of practi-
cally all of Washington's working women
and girls. It is open from to every
day.
In speaking Of these two points DR.
Folkrnar said: "a clinic heretofore has
always been open at a time most con-
venient to the physicians, regardless OF
the fact that the patients might not be
able to come at that time. With the
auxiliary the patients are the first
thought, and the hours We're placed at a
time when the stores were closing and
the girls could come on their way home
Then. being downtown, there will be nc
car fare to pay. l know only too well
of cases where a car ticket stood be-
tween a sick girl and the other clinic"
But these two points are not the only
differences between the clinic of the die
tionary and the one of the twentieth
century. Bare benches set along the wall
are typical OF the ordinary clinic, with
the patients waiting. with ill-concea!ed
anxiety and embarrassment. for their
turn The reception room OF the auxil
larry Is such room as any one Nigh
wish for their home. If they had the
means to get it. Browns and greens.