Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
CITY HOSPITAL
CLOSES BIGGEST
YEAR OF HISTORY
Many improvements Made
During Twelve Months at
the Big Institution

King Mars did not affect in the
least the amount of life-saving anC
body-healing work done at the Har
rtsburg Hospital during the pas
year, more patients being cared fol
at the institution than at any time IL
its history.
Twenty-one hundred and sixty
three persons were admitted ano
treated as free patients while the to-
tai number of patients cared fol
reached the 3.51S figure during the
year. The total number of days OF
treatment reached the 4S,622 figure
Statistics to this effect are contained
in the annual report of the board oi
managers of the hospital, just Is
sued. The above figures are all exclu-
Slve OF work done in the dispensary
To better serve the needs of Har-
riSburg and its people, extensive i'm
provements and changes have been
made during the year at the insti-
tuition. Their true magnitude of the
improvements Is revealed in the an
nual report.
During the year new genito-
urinary department has been in
stalled, a home for nurses was pur-
chased. medical. surgical and other
essential equipment modernized, a
new two-Story brick garage erected
and provisions made tor the employ
ment of an efficient dietitian.
War activities of physicians,
nurses and other employees occupied
a section of the report. Whole
hearted praise is given in the report
to employees who have seen fit to
enter their country's service against
the Hun.
The new genito-urinary depart
hn y
and DR.. John II. Eager, Jr., DIR. John
Oenslager, Jr. and DIR. 5. n. Traver
were selected to head the depart
ment. This new department was eS-
tabliShed in the local institution
after rules OF its management had
been abrogated and after a request
had been made by the State Health
Department that it be installed be-
cause OF the establishment OF only a
few institutions for the treatment OF
sexual diseases.
The resume shows that during the
year the old Hickok residence at lis
South Front street, has been pur-
chased for a nurses home and that
improvements and alterations are
now being made on it at the expense
of the Moman's Aid Society. The
present home at III North Front
street, will be abandoned and likely
be used as an isolation ward such as
has long been needed at the hospital
for the treatment of contagious
cases.
New medical equipment of the
most modern type has been added
TO the several departments of the
institution TO bring their efficiency
to the highest degree. A Collidge
tube has been secured for the de-
partment OF roentgenology through
the generosity OF Mrs. Lyman ID.
Gilbert. A new horizontal tiuoro-
scope has also been installed. A free
bed has been added to the equip
ment of the institution, the gi1t of
William 7. Hildrup, Jr., a new mem
ber of the board of managers. The
laundry equipment has been entirely
modernized by the addition of some
new equipment. This machinery was
donated by the Womans Aid So
ciety.
All private rooms of the building
and the reception room were re-
painted and decorated during the
year by the Womans Aid Society,
which also equipped the new ma
ternity ward long needed by the in
Stltution. To serve the needs of the
patients much better, provision has
Ueen made for the employment of a
skilled dietitian to perform the work
now being done by the matron.
\ two-story brick garage building
was completed during the year at the
rear of the hospital. 1t was erected
at the cost of $4,000, half of which
cost was contributed by the Bethle-
hem Steel Company.
The local institution has contribut-
ed many employees to the United
States service, the report shows.
Three staff physicians have entered
the service with several others en-
rolled in the Medical Reserve Corps
and ready to go. DR.. Henry A. Cor
man, chief resident physician; his
successor, DR.. Andrew ]. GeiSt, and
DR.. ]. c. Alexander, an interne,
have enrolled and are in active serv-
ice.
Nineteen nurses are now engaged
in active Red Cross work and no
less than dozen others are awaiting
the call to go.
Frank a. Robbins, Jr., manager of
the Steelton plant of the Bethlehem
Steel Company, and William T.
Hildrup, Jr., of the Harrisburg Pipe
and Pipe Bending Works, were elect
ed to the board of managers during
the year. Mr.. Robbins succeeded
Quincy Bent, who resigned when
transferred from Steelton to assume
the presidency of the company,
with offices at Bethlehem.
The complete personnel of the
board includes: Spencer C. Gilbert,
James NJ. Cameron, Andrew S. Nc
Creath, Haldeman O'Connor, Henry
b. Mccormick, Benjamin +. Burns,
David E. Tracy, Herman P. Miller,
William E. Bailey, Francis ]. Hall,
John Fox Weiss, Jackson Herr Boyd,
Ross A. Hickok, John T. Brady,
George A. Shreiner, William T.