The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-16
Mayor, Operated On for
Appendicitis, Doing Well
Rushed to Roosevelt Hospital After Sudden Attack
Had First Hint of Maady Last May Before Going
to the San Francisco Exposition
WILL BE OUT IN TWO WEEKS, DOCTORS SAY

went to bed and Mrs. Mitchell telephoned
DR.. Woodruff L. Post OF $40 West
Ntnety-third street. the family physician.
Ii did not take DR.. Post long to size up
his patients case as acute appendicitis
which probably would require an imme-
diate operation. lie sent at once for
DR.. Peck and for DR. George Emerson
Brewer OF IS East sixty fourth street.
II was then 3 o'clock. and the Mayors
pain was increasing momentarily. An
ambulance was summoned at once and
the patient was taken to Roosevelt Hos
pital. DR.. Peck riding with him. Mrs
Mitchell telephoned Mr.. Rousseau at City
Hall, telling him that the Mayor was t.
be operated upon for appendicitis a.
once.
Mr.. Rousseau first notified President
McAneny, who automatically becomes
Mayor during Mayor Mitchel's Illness.
and then with City Chamberlain Bruere
and Fire Commissioner Robert II. Adam
son hurried to the hospital. Soon after
ward they were Joined there by George
V. Mullan. the Mayors law partner.
Mrs. Mitchell. her mother. Mrs. John
Mitchell and the Mayors. aunt, Mrs.
Henry d. Purroy. had already arrived IN
the Mitchell automobile.
The party at once Joined Mayor Mitchell
and talked for "A short time while tie
u. I
was a little before ) o'clock when they
arrived. and at just 6 80 the Mayor
was wheeled from his room to the oper-
ating room.
The actual operation was performed
by Dr. Peck who was assisted by Drs
Post and Brewer. In all II took al
most half an hour. and at 6 :Oi tho
Mayor. still under the effects OF ether
was wheeled back to his room. All con.
every promise Of complete success Tho
Mayor came out Of the ether AT 7l;,
feeling sore and upset, but As we'll as one
could expect.
Doctors Optimistic.
How optimistic the physicians il
was shown when. fifteen minutes after
the operation had been completed, DR..
Peck and DR.. Post came down to talk
to newspaper men.
Everything looks very promising"
said DR.. Peck. while DR.. Post nodded
assent THE operation seems 90 have
been quite successful. Mayor Mitchell
came through finely. and 1t looks as II
he would rally just as finely"
In response to inquiries whether
Mayor Mitchell had had other attacks Of
appendicitis Dr. Peck and MIR. Rousseau
explained that the only time he had
reason to suspect anything wrong with
his appendix was last May.
Then for "A few days. they said. the
Mayor noticed a pain. not sharp or
alarming but sufficiently percep,ible to
move him to consult Dr. Peck. especially
as the pain was in his right side. about
the region Of the appendix The Mayor
was about to leave for San Francisco
to represent New York city at the open
ing of the Panama Pacific Exposition
and he didn't want to he taken i'll en-
route or away from home.
"Do you think I'd better have II
out ." ne asked the surgeon.
Dr. Peck looked him over and decided
that II was quite safe for Mayor Mitchell
to go to San Francisco. He went and
the little pain did not come back. so
until yesterday the Mayor all but forgot
about IL.