Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-16
ABDICATI0N'.0P CzAR|A CREDITABlE" RECORD
Report of Alexandria Hospital Shows
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That Much has Been Done to Ale
yiate Suffering During Past Year.

The report of Miss Fannie Carter,
superintendent of the Alexandra
Hospital for the past year, which
was made public yesterday with the
reports of the managers and other
officers, shows that total of Sl7
cases were treated there in that time.
The largest number received at the
hospital in any one day was 38 and
the smallest nGynber was Ii. The
total number of major operations
was 134 and of minor operations
1872. There were only 3S deaths in
the institution in the twelve months
There are ii nurses in the institution.
In the course of her report Miss
Carter takes occasion to highly COM
pliment the nurses and assistants in
attendance and says in that connection
Zone of my strongest impressions
has been Il feeling of intense respect
and admiration for those connected
with the institution for the good
work they have done and are doing.
under the hardest conditions.
The statistical part of the report
of the superintendent follows:
Number of Patients in the Hospital.
January 1st, 1916 ............ 80
Number of Patients Admitted :. 563
Dispensary Cases Treated ...... 254
Total Number of Cases Treated ..Sl7
Largest Number in One Day .... 50
Smallest Number in One Day -. l3
Number of Free Patients Regis
tered ..... LOO
Total Number of Days of Gratul-
tous Nursing ............ ia!
Number of Children Born ...... "a
Surgical Operations, Major -. 134
Surgical Operations, Minor -. 1872
Total Number Of Operations -. BIG
Average Number of Patients per
Day (not Including Dispensary) %
Number of Deaths ........... 50
Number of Free Cases from Alex
andria City ................ lpl
Number of Days Cared for -. 1876
Number of Free Cases from Fair
fax County >.......... ....'.. 10
Number of Free Cases from Alex
andria County .............
Regarding the new hospital build
ing the following information is
published at the request of the lady
managers:
The New Hospital.
In view of the proximity Of the
completion of our New Hospital ana
its early readiness for occupancy the
Board of Lady Managers, having tns
internal arrangements and manage
ment of it's affairs, have considered
with much careful thought the es-
tablishment of endowed and memorial
rooms in the New Hospital, with
conclusion as follows:
To endow room maintaining
free patient, $4,000.
To endow room maintaining
patient at half expense, $4,000.
To establish memorial room entlt-
ling donor to name the room, Sl,O0O,
and room furnished, costing about
$500 $
These endowed and memorial rooms
will thus be provided for in perpe-
tuity:
All money to create. these endowed
and memorial rooms shall De, placed
in the hands of the Treasurer OF the
Board of Lady Managers, in advance.
who will insure their safe investment
and the interest from the same be
economically used for the benefit of
these rooms by the. Snb berintendent.
with the advice and consent OF the
Board of Lady Managers.
; 4 room furnished by a churci. or
organization or individual will be
entitled to. a. name for the room, so
long as the room is supplied with all
things necessary, agreeable to the
views of the Superintendent, as IN
accordance with the regulations OF
I the Hospital, otherwise the church
or organization or individual loses
the right to the name and other DIS
Fposition can be made of the room.
To have named cot would be sub
Eiect to same as above, furnished,
supplied with alb necessities, agree
able to the advice of Superintendent.
= To make a eet1 free for a patient
would entail the expense OF sl:5D
day for adults and s1.m for children,
I, when occupied, - the cot to be at the
disposal of donor &or donors; but
when. vacantriin easeH9of Necessity,