Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-20

rent. We were unable to pay that last
year and the kenduskeag Trust Co.
donated about all of it. We have about
! % patients there We charged IS per
week, but il December. 1916, put it up
to Sc. Even that does not pay the cost.
| We take all cases and it is the only
thing of the kind east Of Fairfield, SO
we have them mostly from outside
Bangor and Brewer which have but
| five. We have a long waiting list.
/ The patients pay what they can, but
/ we have to dig up the rest. With the
| increased cost of maintenance VIC need
! al least $500 20 get through. We are
now running behind about 5000 per
month.
! Maine Home for Frcnd.ess Boys
| Charles +. Flags Of Portland APP
pcared. asking the Same appropriation
as for tie past two Years, $500. The
! institution viii This year lose the bene-
| tit Of the Charity ball v hich has here
toforc brought in about $500, as others
| have entered The field. We pay no SAL
aries, only tho nGtron, assistant, cook
and janitor. etc, zee paid. We really
need the $500 asked for.
| We care for The homeless and
friendless little children. who have no
place 10 go. We care for them and Ia
ter find them foster homes, where they
! are well cared and provided for. We,
for instance, have the three Belfast
children, whose father in their pres
ence murdered their mother For
weeks those little ones wouldn't go out,
| shivering and shuddering in fear lest
! they meet their father who had threat
ened to kill them.
! We have averaged caring for 10
boys. They come from all over the
State. We refuse none and look for
more.
! Madisan Memorial Hospital
! The Madigan Memorial hospital of
Houlton was represented by Leonard
| A. Pierce Of Houlton, who was Demo-
cratic floor leader of the House of
Representatives in the 18th Legisla-
! ture and Democratic candidate for
representative to Congress in the last
election. in the Fourth District. The
original application for aid for the
next two years had been for $4,000 a
! year, compared with the 5000 a year
appropriated in 1915, but Mr.. Pierce
said he thought this was an error and
that $4,000 a year would be sufficient.
| The Madigan Memorial hospital. he
explained, is the only hospital taking
charity patients in large area in the
northeastern section of the State. He
told of it's founding, through the be-
quest of an old mansion, and the re-
| IaJfr IF ar hoe %o1
purposes. with the addition of brick
/ wing. Its value and the cost to fit it
up amounted to over $4,000. There is
a small mortgage on the property.
| In the few years since its founding
! the hospital has given 1924 days of
charity service; it gives charity hospi
tai service to a large area. The trus-
tees would like to be able TO do more
for the people of the district, which is
the reason they are asking for an in
creased appropriation.
/ MI. Pierce thought the figures for
average weekly per capita cost of
S10.28, as shown for the year ending
J Feb. 20, 1915, was misleading as the
cost of maintenance had gone up since
then. The report showed that the hos
ptal cared for a daily average num-
Der of IL patients. Its expenses for the
year were s67S9.34 and its receipts So
010.93, leaving a net loss of s778.41, ex-
! elusive Of the State appropriation of
$1,000.
! Rumford Hospital
+. The needs of the Rumford hospital
! of Rumford Falls were presented by
DR.. Eugene NJ. McCarty. He stated that
the hospital was the only one within
a radius of A miles and had staff OF
! four men. all from that locality. 1t had
given 1857 days free board the past
year. including 3SS for emergency
cases. The number of patients was rs
more than last year and the per capita
cost per week sl5.S7 maintenance
appropriation of $1,000 was asked for
each of the two years 1917 and 1918 in
place Of $500 for the two previous
| years, on account OF the increased cost
! of living and In order that more char
! ity work might be done.
! In answer to q query of Chairman
I higgins DR.. Mccarthy said that he,
Lucien Blanchard and Mrs. E. NJ. Nc
Carthy owned the stock of the hospi-
! tai. Many mill operatives were treat
: ed but the Oxford Paper Co. was the
only corporation that assisted the hos
pitai. The operating room was open to
all physicians. The hospital did not
take alcoholics or those suffering from
contagious diseases.
Northern Me. Gen. Hospital
Senator Burleigh of Aroostook pre-
sented the claims of the Northern
Maine General hospital Of Eagle Lake.
he said that daily average number Of
patients was Is and the average week.
Wy per capita cost was $7.41. The