Arizona republican., 1917-01-15

Ine interesting reports or the preSi- dent superintendent and medical di- rector are as follows:
 Report of the Board of Trustees of St.
 Luke's Home
 The outstanding event in the history of the Home for the year 1916. has been the erection ot the Entertainment House, the gift of Mrs j. II. Brown ing of New York, as d thank offering for deliverance from sudden death.
 Hitherto the dining room has been used for a library, a living room. and place of entertainment, and at times for religious services. We now have a simple. attractive building to serve all of these purposes
 It is gratifying to record that our endowment funds have been material ly increased by the bequest of 5000 from the Estate of the late C. <. Moore. Esq. of Oregon. and by the setting aside from the general funds of S5I00. making the total endowments now amount to s30, 800. The income from these endOwments, well invested, amounting t0 over $2000. has been of the utmost help in making 1t possible for US to care for an unusually large number of patients unable to pay the actual cost of maintenance. This prob lem, always a hard one. has been more difficult than ever during the past year. Each year those seeking health in Ari- zona. seem to be persons of more lim- tied means than the previous year. SD the need becomes more imperative of increasing our endowment. especially as the cost of living increases.
 We have made our equipment more effective by the installation of q new heating plant. which it Is expected will greatly reduce the amount paid for fuel. This work has been done al q cost of little less than Sl000. We should be glad to have this sum con- tributed if possible. by some generous friend of the house.
 Other needs are furniture for the en- tertanment house. including q Inul table which would cost S40N or S5na. q new automobile. which might be bought for 5000 an N-Ray machine. the necessity of which is shown in the report of the medical director. which could be procured by an outlay di i {2500. While the report of the medical director will show that for the major | ity of our patients. more progress IS made in the dry summer months than | in the winter, yet the fact remains that some patients have done better by re- moving 10 the cooler altitude Of 'St ! Eukes in the mountains. connected with the Wilson Sanatorium ncar | Prescott
 We would call your attention to an other great need in Arizona, which might be secured by the extension oi i the work by St Lukes. or by the es- tahiishment of au entirely independent | new plant.
 The city of Tucson has probably 1 quite as larpe 8 number Of consuInp- l iives of limited or no means at all coming there each winter. as Phoenix ] A year ago the president of yoai ! board found poor fellow entirely des- tiute. cared for in q small boarding ! house. from which hc was about to b' ! ejected lt was with the utmost diff culty. after q long search. that proVis- ion could be made for him. Only th' other day poor eonsnmptive wal found dead in one Of the ditches ne1i that city
 It would serve a great and pressing need if we could establish. uoi sana tprinm. bat small tent colony with { simple administration building ana kitchen attached where food could h' obtained and which could be watched over by physicians Cf Tucson whs 1 would visit the camp without charge | Here we coul6 taNe care. with sinal expense comparatively speaking. @ sick people. wApm it is impossible a
 the present time to care for in an in
 stitptiou like St Lukes
 Your president already has at ht disposal small sum which might a used for this purpose. IT the propcse' expansion of the work among fhc tu
 bcrcuiar people who come tu Southcri Arizona was started. more none
 would undoubtedly come in for it's sup
 port. not only from Southern Arizona
 but from all parts of the country Tn
 beneficent work of ministering to th
 forgotten and neglected uf Gods unfor
 tunate children would be greatly cn
 largcd and we could appeal more conii
 dently for increased offerings iron
 friends of our work.
 We regret that there is not time t
 present in detail in this report som concrete examples of the past work c
 the year Here IS clergyman from a
 eastern state. apparently with few O
 no friends to aid him, who IS hrough
 to St Lukes 10 pass the winter. con
 fined entirely to his bed, but withou
 any expense to himself. Here is mother and wife. who in critca
 stage of the disease. comes to enjo
 the hospitality of St. Lukes. and afte
 many months is restored to her famil life in improved health Here is
 young man. who after two or three re
 lapses comes to us. and his health is g
 fully restored that he is able to tsk
 up an important position in the gov cinment service in Arizona. The If
 of n valuable citizen is thus saved. q
 the cheer and comfort. of the consola
 ton that has been brought to the sic
 and dying. and the hope and uplift c : character that have come during th , nine years of it's existence, to man who have now taken their place , among the workers of our country an
 who have found courage and health |
 our institution, which Is both hos
 pital and n home, there Is no time
 speak.
 The average cost of maintaining pa
 tieffts per week for the year has bee :, $15.24, in comparison with $li-5G las , year.
 The average paid by each batter per week has been $9.l2 compared wit / $f1.14 paid last wear. which explain
 the unusually large deficit of this yea
 of more than 5000.
 F The number of patients treated ha
 been SS.
 , The average number of patients dur : ing the year. including the sumrne . months, has been 25 to 26. little lars : CT average than last year.
 r About one-fourth of the nnmht now in the home are free patients. v Tn conclusion, the Board of Trusted z must record the severe losses that ] has sustained in the death of two val ' uable members during the past sltm r mer: Dr John W. Foss and the Hoi Edward Kent. from the beginning. hay o served the interests of St. I.uSes Hem !, with rare fidelity, keen interest an