Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-27
NTERNES STANDING
CAUSES WARM DEBATE
AT HOSPITAL MEETING
Pennsylvania Requirements of
Extensive General Practice
Defended by Licensure
Head
PRAISES EMERGENCY WORK

~. second days session Of the annual
..nvnntion Of the American Hosp tai A7so-
.s.,lon in the Bellevue -Stratford ltnt'l '''s
le.",srened by a discussion over the require
s,snts OF hospitals in this State with regard
a. The training OF internes.
II answer TO the statement that the Penn
.,Ivanla law requires more patients n each
,ns,ltttlon than an inferno can adequately
serve made by Or, Charles Young super-
,.,srdent OF the Presbyterian Hospital New
xnrk cItv during the course of an address
~ I NJ Baldy. president ot the Penn
~-tvania state Beard OF Medical Education
"a Idcensure declared that tho paper was
~ritten on absolute mlscoucaption b. one
~ho does not know what he is talking about
.T-he law in this state Is very definite"
Seclared Doctor Badly. 1T does sny that
no lnterne she'll be admitted to a hospital
having less then twenty-five beds. This
aces not mean. however. trat they must be
allied every hour OF every day.
.'Where an interne is admitted TO n
smaller institution than this. as is done In
! number Of other States. Il causes him
10 specialize
.Pennsylvania does not want medical
men who have been educated along only one
line In a hospital. The drifting into spe-
lelalIzatlon without knowledge of medicine
"a one Of the greatest evils of the time. We
want 10 place men in large institutions be-
eause from seventy TO eighty per cent of
their cases are emergency ones.
.srhe whole salvation OF medicine les in
the matter OF hospitals furnishing proper
men 10 practice In public A hospital must
have twenty-five beds. a pathological labor
rtory, an %-ray department and an OBJ
stetrlcal department and some specialtles
10 qualify in this state.
Five years from now a great many hos
pItals in this State won't even be consid-
cred We aim now to get standardization"
CANDIDATES FOR NEXT MEETING
New Orleans, Cleveland, Chicago and
Cincinnati are striving to obtain the con.
vention for next year. New orleans has
sent a delegation from the Chamber OF
Commerce.
The afternoon session Will open at 2
o'clock, when DR.. Robert J. Wilson. super
ntendent of hospitals of the New York
Health Department. will talk to the large
hospital section on "Dfsinfection and Other
Practicable Methods of Preventing the
Spread of Infection in Hospitals" DR.
William H. Walsh, of Philadelphia, will
then begin discussion.
The So-called Diphthera Epdemics in
General Hospitals and Preventive Methods"
Will be the subject of address by Dr.
Clyde G. Guthrie. of Johns Hopkins Uni
yersity Doctor GuthrieS remarks will also
be followed by a discussion. to be opened
by Dr. r. r. Ross, of Buffalo. DR.. Milton
C. winternitz. associate professor Of pathol-
ogy at Johns Hopkins University, will speak
and Measures for Protecting the Hospital"
Another discussion is the final business OF
the section.
SMALL HOSPITAL SECTION
The small hospital section. conducted by
Miss Nettie b. Jordan, the second vice
President of the association, will discuss
THE Creation and Management OF a Com
munity Hospital From Varied Angles" Dr.
w 7. Graham. of Iowa City: +. +. Chap
man, Of Cleveland. o. Miss Ida Barrett, of
Grand Rapids, Mich. all of whom are SUI
perintendents of hospitals in their respec-
tive cities, and Ralph Stephenson. NJ. A.
b s.. OF Aurora, ILL.,. will be the speakers
The delegation will spend the evening
at a theatre party in Keith's Theater as the
guests of the entertainment committee.
With two most reliable physicians" of
this city as his authority. DIR. George
Walker, of the Maryland Vice Commission.
startled the delegates yesterday when he
charged that some hospitals physicians and
nurses in this city condoned practices that
resulted essentially in the murder of ille-
Ultimate children.