Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-11
f[RFECT ARRANGEMENTS
FOR BOOSTING BANQUET
''"air at Jefferson on Tuesday Night
VIII Launch Memorial Hos
pital Campaign.
MONTAGUE AS POSTMASTER
n'i'f Talks Will Be Made by,I,romi-
: heht CitiZcns-Dr. Stuart NIcGuire
ieils OF Need OF Larger Institution
TO Care for Negro Patients.

arrangements were perfected yester-
way afternoon for the boosting ban |
f"t 10 be given in Jefferson Hotel |
on Tuesday night in the interest of |
~ CitS-wide campaign to raise $780, |
~ Tor needed additions to Memorial |
Hospital
Congressman a j. Montague will act |
- 'oastnIaster. and Mrs. Stuart Nil |
'A!ux Will be chairman of the woman's |
p.'hii'tee. which is assisting Dr. j. !
'H'Hson Hodges in preparing for the
|, n'hiuet' Mrs. Michaux will employ |
''"''ous subcommittces to canvass the |
'ment houses and hotels for the
A'c OF .tiokets TO the banquet. The |
g"arSe will be only nominal. and will |
"e out a small part of the expense in |
utfed by the general committee. The |
cahVassine viii begin Monday morning |
ana as tables Will be spread for 500 !
~ is hoped that every ticket will be !
L. soiH: The banquet will be an Informal |
DhHair and women expected TO at
toad. The gallery will be- open to the !
goneral public.
Hrtef talks will be made by prom
i"eh' citizens, the names OF those Sc
ltc'ed TO make special appeals to be
announced later
~ is earnestly hoped said Dr. |
lodges yesterday afternoon, that
everybody Interested In the movement
VII! be present. for il Is the intention
o, me committee to inaugurate Il great
civic movement for the welfare of the
community. There will he no request
ior subscriptions at the banquet. but
me progress of the campaign will be
announced. The whole purpose of the
meeting is to make effective the slogan
adopted by the Memorial Hospital
cam paign Committee. Make Memorial
Hospital worther, rally for Rich
mOnd."
Dr, Hodges, who has taken deep in
ierest in the movement said he felt
assured that there would be a large
gathering Of men and women who will J
~ devote the next two weeks toward
\ raising the amount which the general
committee believes will make Memo !
rial Hospital the greatest Institution
OF It's kind In the South and doubly |
effective In Richmond 3! 4
The charitable enterprise. which Is
row entering upon it's c!imnctic stage. .
has aroused interest in every section
| ~ tho city and among every class and
BNrced, The doors Of Memorial Hos |
pi,a! are open 10 the TWO races. and
10 the followers Of ali faiths. An In
scrpt!on in its main hall states TO the
visitor and 10 the patient that the In !
stitution is devoted TO God, that the
present campaign makes especial ap- (
zeal to none, but a communal appeal
10 all None Is turned away unless the d.
| hospital is crowded 10 more than its !
apacity. which frequently occurs.
itvorcrowding OF the colored ward in
th- exception, for save in one instance, |
Memorial Hospital is the only general
nor Pital In Richmond watch makes
i provision for the negro race. And in
\ All Richmond there are only fftyscven
), hedf for negro patients. and forty-sx
of .hcse are In Memorial Hospital.
rE!: CAMPAIGN HAS
THREEFoED PURPOSE
The campaign has three main pur-
! poses in view--to raise money for the
i erection Of Il modern and adequate hos
pital for the negroes for the erection
| II a building for contagious diseases,
| and Cor the erection OF a home III which
| the nurses. after their vigil by the bed
: Side OF a dying child or broken down
1 mother. may have something more
where they may md surcease from the
days long labor. In the upbuldinG
%; q great hospital. the proper care
I and comfort OF the nurses is sometimes
forgotten. Their life is not easy. and
III. general committee in charG. OF this
i campaign does not wish TO neglect
hose without whose service hospital
would be a futile thing.
As 70 the need Of greater hospital
none. perhaps. has placed greater
stress on IL than Or. Stuart Mcclure.
dean OF the Medical College Of Nir-
GINA Recently Or. Mcclure said:
1T has been n source OF great re-
gret for many years 10 the citizens OF
Y to command the same facilities for
hospital treatment as afforded by Bal
,imore. washington and other of Rich
mond's civic rivals throughout this
section. With the erection OF the pro-
posed new buildings. Richmond will
ne on parity with other cities of
higher rank
.'The proposed negro hospital will
ne "a modern, tire-proof siX-story struc
lure. devoted to the exclusive care of
no Ant rp{n
pital will afford every comfort and
convenience for those OF our loved
ones who may be so unfortunate as to
fall victims to such diseases. The
need OF this contagious hospital is
so evident in this particular commun-
,ity that its Importance is hardly worthy
of discussion
NEGRO CONTACTED
PNEUMONIA IN WARD
The ward for negro patients in Me-
mortal Hospital is in the basement,
ten feet below ground. The rooms are
dark damp and badly ventilated. DIR.
Mcclure recalls that negro died be-
cause he contracted pneumonia in this
basement He has been called upon by
rolored patients to operate on them,
hut too often there was no hospital
room to which they could go. Life that
might have been saved TO the COM
,nunity has been quenched out be-
cause there was not hospital facility for
the negro sufferer. And TO show the
.7Isinterestedness of the physicians who
aye urging the movement forward. DR..
Mcclure has said that the doctors are
- no, objects Of charity, that hospitals
10 not help doctors, that rather the
81 coctors help hospitals. In summing up, !
pr Mcclure says, I've have spent mill |
lions of dollars for the negro on his
eouI. we have spent millions of dol
lgrs OH his mind, but we have spent
practically nothing on his body" Yet
/, is known that, because OF his re-
ricted circumstances, the narrow
quarters in which often he is forced
4 to live through no fault of his own and
because he is peculiar heir to certain
diseases, the negro Is IL carrier OF
i disease.
And as the negro hospital is neces-
slry, so. physicians say, a hospital for
ronta gious disease is necessary. There