Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-10
Presidents Report

Members or the Board and others:
According to custom, / now make
my second annual report before your
Honorable Body. Since making my
last report many changes have occurs
red in our hospital, some of which
will briefly state.
'The winters of 1917 and 1918 pass
ed without any unusual change, and
the first break in the order of things
occurred when three of our nurses
graduated, Miss Simmons, Miss Rand,
and Miss Safer. Then unfortunately
our superintendent, Miss .Welty. re-
signed
"At this time in our history, the
unrest among our employees became
apparent, the demand for larger
wages and the refusal to do cer.ain
work, and the engaging of a superin-
tendent, caused a new adjustment
among our force. Miss Hollinger
came to us from the Naval hospital,
we'll recommended. and she immedi-
ately began the reduc ion of our
force of servants and a new house
keeper was employed.
About the middle of August three of
our doctors answered the call of the
Red Cross for doc sors and surgeons
in the battle ground in France, and
left us for training lin camps, prior
to going abroad This crippled us
considerably leaving us without
sufficien. teaching force for our re-
naming nurses.
"Just at this time we began to feel
the necessity for a home for our
nurses, and the need of using the
rooms vacated by them for a Mater
nifty ward After some discussion we
rented the house on Franklin street,
owned by MIR. Joseph Duvall, and
found it quite commodious for the pur-
pose The idea being to have Miss
Kelly, our assistan. superintendent,
stay there at night with the nurses.
All this was changed by the hasty de-
parture of Miss Kelly, and by the cpl
demic of influenza which swep. over
the town and county Our hospital
was Immediately filled with these pa
tients, and it is difficult to see where
hey would have been accommodated
had it not been for the rooms vacated
by the nurses being placed at their
disposal.
Here let me again thank those who
so kindly helped us out in our need,
during this time of epidemic and dan
ger Too much credit cannot be given
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hospital staff for what they did for us
at that time, also we-cannot thank 100
much Dr. Spear. U. S. NJ, who by his
untiring zeal and assistance by lend
ing to us the use of orderlies from the
Naval hospital and in many other
ways helping the hospital to ge. along
in this trying time 1t must not be
omitted in this accoun. of our doings
of year past the kindness and gener-
osity of the citizens of Annapolis, and
the county, who by their contribu ions
have enabled us to purchase the land
contiguous to the hospital, thus rend-
ering it possible to build a Nurses
home, laundry and children's ward
all projects dear to the heart of the
members of the board. In speaking of
the obstetrics ward, we must mention
the ladies who for several years have
been collecting money for this pur-
pose. This money amounts to $4,000
and has been used for the furnishing
of Chest wards and rooms
II have now come to the end of my
report, which / feel will not be COM
plete without notice OF the dismissal
of our superintendent, Miss Hollinger.
We found on investigation that the
nurses were not getting the training
they should and many other things
needed readjustment.
We sincerely hope all these things
will be remedied, and certainly If it
is in the power of the doc sors, assist
ed by the board. they will be, so with
this assurance, will close my report !"