Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-19
HOSPITAL DISCHARGES
THIRTY MORE PATIENTS
Three Deaths Reported and Sixteer,
New Cases Admitted at John
Marshall School.
MEDICAL WORKERS. PRAISED
DR.. Stuart MichauN Believes Low
Mortality Figure Is Due to Energy
OF Physicians and Their Aids.
Many Specialists Lend Services.

With the thirty patients discharged
from the John Marshall emergency
VINO nave been able to leave the hos
p'tal has now reached l01. The total
number of admissions. with the sixteen
a"mitted yesterday, is 5i3. There were
ioNr deaths Thursday and three yes
terday. Tie four deaths Thursday
nere: Edgar. Hutch, 200 Carrington
owbridge Road: Mrs William New
some. 222I Chain street. and Miss OIL
nc Basket 1919 7 street. The three
deaths YESTERDAY We're: Miss virgini:.
hldridgc. i42j North Twentieth Street;
Harrison Bowen 1908 West Marshall
and Abe Fuller, colorcd.
II air convinced from close study OF
reports from other organizations whici,
other places" said Dr. stuart Michaux.
chief OF the medical STAFF. yesterday at
John Marshall emergency hospital is
que TO the interchangeable efforts OF ply
sicians, nurses and aids, and, in par
'iruiar' TO the splendid building, which
could not have been more ideal for our
purpose. If IL had been designed for
hospital. with it's facilities for heating
and ventilation"
SURGEONS AND SPECIALISTS
PRAISED BY DIR. MICIIXUX
DR.: MichauN had much TO say of the
PHYSICIANS. surgeons and specialists OF
the city who had given their time and
Skill to the activities OF the hospital
liz,
has been to have the medical special
lists and practitioners take care of the
various wards. making rounds twice a
day and giving the patients adequate
attention. The organization included a
house staff. composed mostly OF sur
Esons acting as internes. who would
admit patients. attend to emergency
5alls .pd give the necessary treatments
between the regular visits OF attendant
physicians"
we have had three special eye, car.
or three. who stay all night make
rounds. and subject to calls from
the head nurse: There has been
pathoiogist. DIR; Budd, who made analy-
fcii; consulting ncurologist, DIR. Bev-
GrleE Iuckcr. and consulting dentist
from the Medical College of Virginia.
tant, Dr. Hinchman. have been con-
stanty at work in tho laboratories.
Drs. Wander tIoof, Call and Alexan-
SIAN in charge of pneumonia cases. III
the simple flu wards have been Drs.
Grinnan, Terrell, Herbert Mann. Bright.
CT. Tally, Hodnctt and Houser In the
children's wards. Drs. Newton Rosebro
and Emmett have given their close at
eiaiisis in troubles OF the eye, ear, nose
and throat: Drs. Clifton Miller. Carl
blackwell, s. c. Bowen and W. +. Mcr-
Ger.
Erinkley, Bryan. Mclean. Horseley, A.
L. Gray and Il. T.. McGavock. DIR.
Charles r. Robbins gave four days ser
vice before becoming Ill himself Of the
disease. The house staff is on duty in
rotation from . o'clock in the morning
until O'Clock at night"
DR.. MichauX mentioned with much
appreciation, the help OF three lieutcn-
ants from the medical staff of the
United States Army: STROBE. Ziverling
and Jackson. Lieutenant Ziverling's
wife was i'll with influenza, with q
nurse in attendance. when the hospital
was opened.
REFUSES HUSBANDS HELP
To. AID OTHER PATIENTS
Learning of his wife's illness, DR..
discontinue his services at the hospi-
tai, but Mrs. Ziverlng would not hear
OF II. Il have nurse" she declared.
and those poor people need you more
than do. II was heroic sacrifice
for she died the next day.
DR.. MichauX spoke Of the precau-
lions which had been taken in the hos
pital TO prevent patients from further
infection after their admission to the
hospital we have been careful TO
use screens between the beds" DR.
MichauS stated, so that in tho wards
patients having only simple flu will not
be exposed 10 germs of mixed fu and
pneumonia. Experts have found that
in coughing patient can throw a
i erm-carryinE spray fifteen feet, which
shows the wisdom OF the screens"