The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-11
CHARITIES BOARD VOTES EMERGENCY
 HOSPITAL NURSE
Will Leave It To Tax Board To Find Money For
 Salary.

Deciding there. is urgent need of a trained nurse at the emergency hos pita1, the charities commissioners voted to add one to the staff at their August meeting yesterday afternoon and leave it to the board of appor- tionment to find the needed funds, This action was taken following a motion by Commissioner Matthew Judge after he had voiced the result of his observations at the hospital. He mentioned the boards having asked for the appointment of 9 nurse for several years, the periodical turn ing down of the request and the UT gent need of such an acquisition. He cited having seen 10 patients waiting at times, in one particular where five victims of an automobile accident were unable to secure immediate at tention because the surgeon was out on the ambulance. It was reported that already there have been 12 ap- pIications tor the position and Super intendent Spencer R. Gordon was se- 1 1ected to investigate and secure the most capable.
 The action followed the opinions that the commissioners have the au- thority under the city charter to se- cure what help is considered to be necessary to keep the hospital ser vice up to the highest grade. Super intendent Gordon reported on the
  down the request for extra funds. He
 said he was disappointed because of additions made to the apparatus of the | hospital. He mentioned the women and children coming to the institution, as well as men, injured and needing l immediate treatment but unable to get it. sometimes for over an hour, 1 because the surgeon was busy on the ambulance or with other patients. His
 advice was that the commissioners
 exercise their right in making ap- l pointments.
 l to consider the peculiar case of John Foehrenback, now of Boston avenue ! but for some time inmate of Lake 1 view. It was reported that, he has 1 become entitled to $460 insurance on
 his sisters life. Although out of the institution for about a, year. he has
 received a. bill tor about $500 from the
 city for care at Lakeview and the re- 1 port says that he owes a, similar 1 amount for board since he left the | home. The city's claim is that, as | long as he has the money now, he | should pay the bill. Foehrenback says that he worked as a carpenteT 1 at the city institution and was self 1 supporting He also calls attention to 1 a large bill he has received from a
 hospital for treatment of injuries re-
 ceiyed while he was working at Lake 1 V1eW. JNeT d' H1OnLn ago Inv l Morrissey of the department was ap- l pointed conservator over him. Foeh-
 renback has been unable to get the
 insurance money, which he desires i1
 order to start in business for him l self.
 The commissioners voted the city I has no right to take money from him
 inasmueh as he had none when he
 entered the institution.
 Investigator Morrissey was elected as acting superintendent during the l vacation of Superintendent Gordon 1 who leaves Thursday. N
 The automobile ambulance will be put in the repair shop for attention
 to minor details during the vacation | of Chauffeur Burlison, and Rolrke &
 RourlSes private ambulance will bt
 engaged in it's place. It will cost S1! gl a, day for the ambulance and $3 a day
 for a chauffeur during two weeks
 Repairs on the ambulance will in. | cIude the addition of a muff1er fol l lowing complaints from St. Vincent'S I and Bridgeport hospitals that the ab l sence of one causes a noise that if l disturbing to patients at the institu ! tionS.