Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-02

cents pound and lass year it went
high as $3.50 pound, though the present
cost is not quite that high.
The hospita! uses about 1000 tons of
coal a month, for which it formerly paid
$3.50 ton, and it now is paying $3.50
a ton.
Must Make More Increases.
Including internes. nurses. laundresses,
office workers, elevator men. cleaners,
cooks and servants there are about 40
employees q, the hospital. Salaries of these
have averaged an increase of 10 per cent
and further increases must be made to
renlace some workers VINO recently have
left.
"ihe Emergency Hospital including
the ground and the nurses home. cost
about $500. 00C and now is worth close
to a million dollars" the committee
statement says.
ut is one of the best equipped insti-
tutions of it's kind in the country, and
one of which the capital should be
proud. To maintain the present high
character of its service these additional
fus,ds must be obtained, and Washing
tonians who examine the character and
extent of it's service. we believe. will
realize that no better community in
vestment could be made"
Demand Causes Waiting List.
In the hospital are forty private
rooms and eight private wards. with
four beds to a 'ward. So great has been
the demand for admission to this por-
ton of the hospital that throughout
the winter there usually has been a
the private rooms, and frequently adj
ditiona1 beds have been placed in the
private wards
There are four open wards-white
colored female. In each are sixteen
beds, but these. too. may be expanded.
and in one. last month, twenty-four
beds were required for the patients.
four beds; rest room, with four beds,
and three strong rooms. for deliriouS
and alcoholic cases.
There is a large waiting room for dis
emergency waiting room and operating
room on the first floor, and four OPP
Grating rooms on the eighth floor, with
necessary anesthetizing rooms. There
is a suite of rooms for X-ray work and
attached to the hospital Is home for
fifty nurses. The hospital has seven in
ternes, and there are fifty-two physi-
clans, including associates and assist
ants. working in the hospital.
For the Fast winter there has been an
average of 135 patients in the hospital
each day Like any well ordered and
modern hospital the employees exceed
the patients.
Hospital Pays Difference.
The hospital cares for some board of
ceives $3.50 a day. Formerly that
amount was adequate: now the cost
| is about So a day for these patients,
| the hospital paying the difference.
Before the present era of high prices
the amount received from patients in
private rooms. plus gifts and donations.
| enabled the hospital to meet its ex-
penses. 1t was found necessary to in
crease the prices to pay patients, but
\ the added income falls far short of the
increased expense.
The hospital has two ambulances on
| duty day and night. About twenty-five
patients day are treated in the acct
dent room, and of these about ten are
brought in by the ambulances. Others
come in by private conveyances or in
police automobiles.
| Some modern features of the hospi-
| tai are the twelve sun parlors and the
roof garden, partly under glass. There
| is an excellent laboratory, with a COM
| petent <pathologist in charge. and a
trained assistant always on duty, and
| an X-ray department under the super
vision of one of the foremost X-ray
experts of the world.
! The dispensary department now
treats about 1,400 patients a year. All
sorts of diseases, injuries and ailments
| are attended to there, and frequently
contagious diseases are found among
patients, and these patients are placed
\ in the contagious room until they are
sent to the proper hospital
The campaign headquarters now are
open at 1922 F street. Already a num-
Der of persons have called there with
contributions. in advance of the cam
paign. The campaign will open March
] IL with a luncheon at these headquar-
tiers.