Evening journal., 1914-05-19


admissions were 1870, the total cost Of
maintenance ss7 7,4s07l and the average
per day cost was $l.S3. All these fig
ures show an increase almost every
year for several years back. lie told Of
the patients who are treated Tree, but
who are a cost 10 the hospital lie said
the Council could not find more de-
rrVing cause TO which to give assist
ance. and he said with help from Com.
ell the hospital could care for more of
the worthy poor, which would be a bet
ter thing for the city.
Miss Duncan said in 1918 in the dis
pensary there We're 34a3 visits and each
case costs, according 20 all hospital es-
Inmates, at least 10 cents She gave fg-
ures showing the days service TO the
city md State patients during 1913
Colonel Stoyer then asked for the
amount Of the hospitals receipts and
expenses, and Mr.. Bayard told him they
We're s56,45l for 1913 II developed
here that the hospital is not exempt
from water tax. .nc cost OF mRinte-
nance last year alone amounted 20
S37 4Os,7l, while the receipts were
S30. 49.ss. Miss Duncan said the
monthly accounts will run short and
sometimes it is necessary to make up
. difference Of $1,000 between the re-
ceipts and the expenses.
Colonel Stover said the actual amount
expended in the care Of the poor Of this
city was the question that concerned
Council the most. He said he had al
ways believed that the hospitals should
receive financial assistance from the
city, but there should be a definite uns
dorstanding between them that any
worthy case applying at the hospital
should bo cared for He mentioned some
cases which had come 10 his notice
where tho applicants could not get into
the hospitals, and he referred 70 con-
tagious diseases whinh are not admitted
to the hospitals.
Mr.. Bayard explained that contagious
disease patients cannot be admitted to
the hospitals as none Of the hospitals
have contagious disense ward, but he
believed the time Is coming when pro
vision will have 10 be made for such
cases. He mentioned some OF the dilii
culties that would arise should contag
ious diseases be admitted to the hos
pitfalls he said that some of them We're
really cases for the police surgeon.
Colonel Stover insisted that there
should be some understanding whereby
the poor Of the city should be cared
for and he declared that personal in
vcstigation had shown him that some
pitiful conditions existed in the city
A discussion arose as to what would
be the best scheme under which the city
could contract with the hospitals and
a suggestion was made by Mr. Bancroft
that an annual appropriation be made
hy the city and county based on the to-
tai days service. or on the total days
Of free hospital service Tor previous
years,
Mr.. GOnding said the county Is lib
eral to the hospitals and city institu-
tions. He detailed the various appro-
nriations the county makes to the
several institutions which nettea
$102.100 including the appropriations
to the workhouse, the reform schools,
Hope Farm. poor trustees and others.
He then stated that the county gives
the city $4,000 for Christiana Park
and $4,000 more to make a park Of 1t
where the city failed in making
park He referred to the expenditures
of the county in doing work along
the turnpikes leading into the city
and abollshing the grade crossing
at Concord, all of which he stated
reverts to the advantage Of the city.
Colonel Slower said the city pays
the county $275.000 annually in taxes
He deducted the total amount Mr..
Gooding said the county gives the
city, and said the county has the bal
ance to spend on good roads in the
rounty. He declared the $500 the
gives the hospitals each year
Is a "niggardlyn appropriation, and
hen said he was ready to vote to
have the city give the hospitals $5,-
700 each TO show that Council is not
lutte so mean as the Levy Court. He
said If he could not give more than
$500 he would not vote for such
small appropriation.
Mr.. Gooding said the Levy Court
would meet the city on such propo-
sition.
Dr.. Veasey. acting as spokesman
Tor the Physicians and Surgeons
Hospital spoke along the same line
as MIR. Bayard, except that the hos
pital was smaller and had not accom-.
olished as much as the Delaware Hos
pital.
DR. yeasey stated, however, that
The hospital has not received more