Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-12-16
ANNUAL MEETING
OF HOSPITAL MANAGERS
Reports Of Officers of the Emer-
gency Hospital for Year End
ing Dec. Is.
TRAINING SCHOOLS 4TH YEAR.
Chief of Staff Shows 3,429 Cases
Treated in Dispensary During
the Year.

The annual meeting of the Annapolis
Emergency Hospital Association. held
on Monday. December 13. the annual
reports of the several officers were
submitted. That of the Chief of STAFF.
DR. j. ]. Murphy, shows 3.429 dispen-
sary cases treated at the hospital dur
ing the present year
The report of DR.. J Oliver Purvis,
the Hospital Training School for Nurs-
es, is complete and comprehensive. and
shows the good work accomplished.
The Presidents Report.
The report of the president of the
Board of Managers. Mrs. ]. W. Martin,
is as follows:
"In compliance with the provisions
of the bylaws the president submits
the following report of the work and
conditions of the Hospital for the past
year. This year the State Treasury
has not been able to meet its obligation
as regularly as in other years. Yet we
are more fortunate than some other
institutions who, like ourselves. look
to this fund for maintenance and up
keep of the Hospital
I'VE. as a Board of Managers. wish
to express our gratitude to the Farm
ers National Bank, the constant and
unanimous support of which has made
it possible for the Emergency Hospital
to have accomplished so much toward
the relief of the sick and suffering.
The annual Hospital Sunday and Do
nation Day held on the last Saturday
and Sunday in October, was, as usual
success, and much appreciated by all
interested in the Hospital.
"The contributions of the community
aside from the donations, are set forth
in the supplementary pages of the an
nual report Patients who are too
poor to pay for care and treatment
shall secure the same gratuitously, but
such patients as are able to pay, are
expected to do So The magnitude of
the Out Patient Department can best
b appreciated by referring to the tab
ulated report.
"The Hospital has had its usual ex-
penses. an accident to the heating
plant having cost US nearly five hun
dred dollars and the operating room
has had to be repainted at consider.
able expense Added to this we have
had to buy quite few surgical in
struments and supplies The medical
and surgical staff was increased by the
election of DR.. Charles Bagley, DR. II.
Brent and Dr. A. NJ Shipley. DR. St
Clair Spruill, a member of the medical
and surgical staff, died in July last.
"Dr. Spruill gave the sum of his
knowledge and the climax of his skill
to the local Hospital as surgeon and
consultant His devotion to his call
ing, his progressive spirit and studious
habits made him one of the most eff
cient. After years of unselfish work
| he passed to his reward
Three nurses having completed the
| three-year course, were graduated from
| the Training School with public com
mencement exercises in the City Hall
| June Is. The required lectures on the
| subjects specified in the course were
delivered in the Training School by
| members of the staff These lectures
and the careful and intelligent instruc-
| tion by the superintendent Miss Alice
| T. Bell, who since has left US, and the
| practical training in the institutional
| work under her supervision, consti-
tute a thorough preparation for the
profession, and have given our grad
| uates deserved prestige.
"In September last. Miss Alice T
! Bell. for three years an efficient and
/ trustworthy superintendent, resigned
and on the first day of October Miss
/ Margaret Wohlgemuth succeeded her
/ as superintendent of the Hospital She
comes to US highly recommended, and
we feel we are indeed fortunate to Sc
| cure one of such sterling worth.
! In the name of the Board of Mana
gers. / want to thank each and every
] one who has helped us in this noble
work
s Respectfully submitted,
I PHOEBE f. MARTIN
Report OF Training School.
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