The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-15
ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE HOSPITAL
is HELD FRIDAY EVENING AND
PROGRESS FOR THE YEAR
Is REPORTED
THE BOARD OF MANAGERS IS ELECTED
Report Of Miss Moore, the superintend.
ent, Shows Very Satisfactory
Progress During 1918

Progress During 1918
The annual meeting of the Dakota
Deaconess Hospital Association was
held on Friday evening. A commuIi.
cation vas received, signed by all but
two of the doctors Of the city, asking
that the board retain Miss Eleanor s.
Moore as superintendent. Miss Moore
has brought the institution to a high
state Of efficiency, and the board WISE
ly followed the suggestion of the
doctors.
The following board of managers
and officers were elected:
A. S. Harding, president; G. T. Not
son. d. D., first vice-president; H. B.
Mathews, second vice-president; F. w.
Cuckow, secretary; T. L. Chappell.
treasurer of endowment and building
fund; R. A. Larson, auditor; Eleanor
S. Moore, superintendent and treasurer
of current expenses; Winifred Crouch,
w. H. Leighty, w. M. Cheever. Rev. j.
J.. Gardner, l.. G. Borst, r. F. Kerr,
Rev. o. e. Boyce, Rev. G. f. Hoffman,
Mrs. N. e. Hansen, A. Hoover. M. G..
Carlisle, Mrs. Frank Sherwin, Rev. r.
A. Bruce, Rev. J. 8. Hardness.
The annual report of the superin-
tendent Is of so much interest to the
people of Brookings and the surround
ing country that the Register prints It
in full:
1.-THE report which I submit to you
tonight is from November 1, 1912.
when the Bookings Hospital became
the property of this association, and I,
a member of the Methodist Deaconess
tiles Of superintendent, took posses
sion Of the building and began definite
ly to organize the work, with the Da-
kota Deaconess Hospital as the main
interest, until December 81, 1913-four-
teen months in all.
1.-THE first six weeks were occupied
largely In finishing and e~Quipping the
building. 1t was not till December 16
that any attempt was made to are for
patients and not until March Is that
announcements were sent to physi-
clans outside the city. Our formal
opening was held April 8. To the un-
itiated the first few weeks Of cleaning,
repair, and re-furnishing seemed at
first to bring only chaos, but gradually
the chaotic state gave place to order
and now we can truly report a well
equipped hospital, modern in most Of
its appointments.
1.-The third floor, finished for a nurses
home, has six rooms and a bathroom
Portable, CHEEKY rooms these are. The
basement provides kitchen, dining
room, laundry, storage and furnace
rooms and one sleeping room These
are equally desirable for their particu-
lar uses as Is the rest Of the building.
The private rooms on first and second
fioor-the hospital proper-were re-
decorated and almost entirely re-fur-
nished, as were the reception oom and
Office. Several individuals have given
single pieces of furniture and various
equipment, while the Methodist
churches of Farwell, White, Henry,
Garden City. and the Methodist Sun
day school of Brookings have furnish
ed entirely four DON and the chill
dren's ward. This does not mean that
the furniture which was in the build
ing was not used, but that, with the en-
larged capacity, there was need Of
more 1t seemed wise. while purchas-
ing furniture to get that which would
give the best service, so new beds and
furniture were bought for these rooms,
the old beds, which are too low for hos
pital purposes being used in the wards
and the nurses home. 1t is the wish
of those who work owe our patients
that the time may loon come when
these low beds in the wards may be
replaced with those Of proper height.
"The financial statements submitted
will show the cost of what has been
done in the building. but while figures
tell much they do not usually pulsate
with life. It is the life of the institu-
ton of which I wish to speak here.
First in your mind must be that Of
the service Of the hospital proper
how we have responded to the need
for which the association was organ
lied. Here / must give you figures.
We told the home doctors that we
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