The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-04
ROEHL RESIGNATION
|. Final, SAYS Smith
President Of Queens Hospital
Trustees Replies To Dixie
DooIIttI9s Statements

Rumors that have been current re-
garding the Queen Is Hospital were
brought to a head yesterday by "Dixie
whose advertisement in
this paper contained number of mat
tiers which the advertisement said
should be brought TO the attention Of
the trustees. These items, as they ap-
peared, were: g'ts2 H.. Pr.
(a) That before his resigna-
ton as superintendent, Mr.. Roehl
) andihis family lived away from the
hospitali p Wiz,
" (b) That since the acceptance
of his resignation he and his family
have moved bag and baggage into
a cottage on the hospital groundsi
(c) That this is taken as IN
Indication Of insincerity on the
4 part of the trustees in announcing
Mr., Roehl's resignation and its ac-
ceptancef -. &c.,.
~. td) That Mr.. Roehl stated to
recent investigating committee
that IL it were not for the purchas-
ing system under which the trus-
e tees required him to work he could
save thousands OF dollars a year
for the hoepitalf -"..
A reply to these was sent to The Ad
.vertiser yesterday by George w. Smith
president Of the board of trustees oil
the hospital, who wrote IN his ofieia
capacity. Mr.. Smith says:
Editor Adyertiser-'fIn a paid adver
tisement In the Pacific Commercial AID
vertiser of the third instant, appeared
some references TO the Queen Hos
pital, and 10; that portion Of the adver
tisement alone thetwriter desires to re
ply: ~ 49,.
{a) Mr.. Roehl, on his arrival here
with the permission of the trustees
took up his residence across the street
from the Queens Hospital for the rea
son that the superintendent s cottag'
on the grounds was in a dilapidateC
condition. ..
(bl Early in the year the carpen
ter employed on the hospital grounds
was instructed by the trustees to re
pair and enlarge the cottage. Thi
work required time and was done n
intervals when tne carpenter was no
employed at other work.
As soon as completed aud prior h
his resignation Mr.. Roehl started b
move his furniture into the cottage
having given notice to his landlord o
his intention to vaeate the house h,
was then occupying.
(c), No insineerity has been indicat
ed or shown by the trustees. MI
dRoehI's resignation is final and was y
accepted by the trustees at his express
ed wish.
The trustees have written for a com
potent experienced hospital manager
The date Of bis arrival is unknown a
the moment. Competent itmeni for thi
work cannot be picked up on the street
90 Supplies for the hospital, in tn
larger quantities, are furnished unde
contract or on cost plus commission
basis. Where no contract exists tn
superintendent is not confined to an.
particular place or firm excepting tina
the trustees Gve preference to loca
houses rather than making purchases O
the mainland .4...
(el The legislature Of the Territor
of Hawaii makes no appropriation 70
the Queens Hospital and has made n
| appropriation since the session of 1901
H"A At that session, for government e1
| penditures, the sum Of $4,000 was al
propriated and distributed in month";
instruments among the following il
stitutions for the care of the indigen
sick, viz; Queens Hospital, Hilo Hot
pital, ,Lihue Hospital, Leah Home, K;
pioiani Maternity Home, Malulani Hot
pitai, waimea Hospital, EIeele Hospits
and Associated Charities (See Sessio
Laws 1907 Act. 81, folio 32O).
'eSinee that time the care of the il
digent sick has deVoITed on the couI
| ties. t@'.
"The County of Oahu pays to tn
Queen s Hospital two dollars per da
for each patient placed in the instit'
ton. No charge is made for operatin
room, operations, medicines, dressing
,seraHls or vaecines.
| 1.-THE cost to the hospital is mol
than the income.
GAN of the foregoing could haV
been learned by Dixie Doolittle' b
inquiry of any of the trustees.
r.ae GEO. W. SMITH.
President Board of Trustees Queen
-.s. '-",. Hospital