Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-24
BISHOP DENNY IN ROLE
OF BUTCHER At HOSPITAL
Versatile Prclatc Assists in Dict
Kitchen at John Marshall
Emergency Institution.
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION Goou
Commended by Former Secretary OF
New York Antitubcrculosis So
cicty-3OO Patients Still Being
Treated.

~, nerrss;n ,y In bishop Of, the Metho-
In Rishop Collins Denny i, is an as
sured fact. but the bishop himself was
surprised to discover that he made a
fairly good butcher at the John Mar
shal emergency hospital yesterday
"ncn strong armed man was needed
In the biz dict liitchen on the third
Eoor TO reduce refractory quarter of
lamb TO submission: lieh, nohly did
til" good bishop WELD the knife and
r,caver, and i, was orIy in answer to
inquiry from one OF the workers ,hu,
his Identity Mas disclosed.
I'm illustration Of the irony os fate
~ the case OF Granville Rirdwcil "a lad
o: sixteen. mailing from St Louis. who
had drifted into iiichmond in search of
SinpioEment and was swept into tho
noSpital with the first Influenza cases.
RE is now ready to be discharged. but
with his cap on. he sa, on the side o:
ms cot in ono OF the mems wards yes
terday afternoon. with no place on
earth to go to. no money. no job and
70 strength, as yet. 10 hold job il he
i naa s omS. tho This is where the minis
help said DR.. Miller.
There was letter on Dr. M!ller's
uesk from Harry +; Mason. an agent OF
the Mutual BENEFIT Life Insurance Com
pany. OF Newark. " j.. a transient i'm
Richmond at the outbreak OF the cpl
Ic,ntc who had been a patient in the
i..,,n Marshall emergency hospital The
ituer expressed his deep appreciation
OF the care and attention he had re
ceiycd In the hospital
Medical students continue to do -
mans service In the hospital u viii
be remembered that member. Of III.
faculty and students or tho Medical
,,ol.esc OF Virginia We're among the
iirst to man and equip John MARSHALL
Hospital before patients began to pour
IN, end with either the guidance or
inc assistance, as the ease nigh, be.
Oh lew trained women. made possible
soon subsequently operations on a large
scale.
lIeraldss from the sophomore class OF
ana carried news thereof back tn their
feilowclassmer. More than twenty-iiv.
strong. the sophomore mcdics rcspond-
sleeves and Joined the ranks of the
workers; pharmacy students organized
aruE rooms Win Neutrality-suspicious.
nifty the three dcpa rtments OF the
Medical College united 10 increase the
enicisncE OF the hosnital.
tween. As Miss Purcell expressed II,
IN speaking OF the two coIored order
IS s,i, ,eroE + With us YET, and Esau
nave expressed Willingness 10 do
orderly duty Il necessary, as they have
shown Willingness 10 i'll in whcr-
i'r. Miller moved all the men patients
who were on the third door to tho
sHGnnG ''@or Ess'e,r.hay' pu,ting the
derby problem more Satisfactorily. '"
recent ADDITION TO the staff OF the
ington. Mr. Jenkins. who was in Rich
mond in the interests OF the War
lamp community Service when lie read
Or. Miiler's appeal through the press
OF the city for janitors
Mr Jenkins went over 10 the hos
pital and volunteered his services. bu,
the director decided that he could use
the would-be janitor to better adj
vantage in his own Office.
An,tu5erHnloss sociey es New Of The
city for ten years. and has had a long
experience az hospital sapernten-
a close study OF hospitals Tor Years.
and that he considered the John Mar
bic achievement.
PLAN OF ORGANIZATIONS
The general plan of organization
w aiH H. stand the criticism Of experts"
Even as a wartime measure, tho
rapidity with which school was
transformed into hospital in twenty
Torrance.
''Richmond is lucky 10 have group
Of people competent TO handle situa-
ton which demanded not only medical
ana nursing SIKH and training in die |
tetics' put executive and admnistra-
thc a ably as well; In going through
serve that the patients we're ali well
cared for and well satisfied"
There are. about 300 patients still I'm |
day night, twentysix new patients had |
been admitted since 10 O'Clock that
morning, the majority of them being |
for the day had been reported ycster-
day at o'clock in the evening, bring
ing the total number of admissions up !
to CSC. Thirty-four had been dis
$50.
The two deaths reported yesterday
afternoon were Mrs. Johanna Ketchen. |
! South Elm Street. and ". j. Hughes. |
al6 North Twenty ninth Street. Mrs |
i>etchen was brought to the hospital |
Monday of this week.
Phflip Beecher Upr,r5