Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-03-17

That Notwithstanding Pas
Year, l,lS3 Patients Were Treate
at That Institution.
The forty-sixth annual report o
the Alexandria Hospital, with re
ports of managers, treasurer, superin
tendent and auxiliary societies, ha
just been compiled.
The report of the treasurer of th'
board of lady managers, Miss K. I
klipstein, shows that sum cf S4,407.l!
was received for furnishing the hos
pital and miscellaneous money receiv'
ed was $994.45 making total of S3,.
4O1.64 and the expenditure on the
nurses home S5,359,10 leaving bal.
ance on hand of S42.54.
According to the report of Julian
7. Burke, treasurer, the receipts dur
ing the year were S26,114.69 and ex-
penditures, s24,947.S9 leaving bal
ance on hand of S1,166.s0
Miss Fanny Carter, superinten-
dent of the hospital, reports that the
total number of patients treated were
1888 and number of days of gratuit-
Gus nursing 2,253. Other items in her
report follow: Number of patents in
the hospital January 81. 81; number
of patients admitted during the year.
S43; dispensary cases treated. 7G5;
new cases, $40; cases redressed in dis
pensary, 424; number of free patients
admitted, 179; number of births, l22:
average number of patients per day,
39.5; number of deaths, 90; surgical
operations, major, n: surgical opera
tons, minor, 1877; total operations,
274.
Mrs. L. Wilbur Reid, president of
the board of lady managers makes
the following report.
Seventeen months have passed since
the Alexandria Hospital opened to
new life and hard work. Strenuous
months they have been. Months
freighted with sickness, death and
sorrow for our dear people bereft of
their loved ones. who have entered
into "rest." The work of these months
has been a severe rtrain both on our
Hospital force of workers and our
physicians. The sincerest thanks of
our Board OF Managers is due to our
most efficient Superintendent and her
faithful staff of helpers, and to our
untiring staff of physicians, who amid
all their multiplicity of calls, never
failed the Hospital in its need.
Great anxiety was felt owing to the
unprecedented prices of food and
wages, as to our ability to meet eX-
penses, but we have very much for
which to be thankful, for as our needs
increased, so means was providential-
ly provided. In the most strenuous
hours of the hospital, sickness, from
the scourage of influenza Frustrated
MANY of our nurses thus causing
shortage Of help. The prompt, efficient
aid from outside friends was great
relief and was sincerely appreciated
by all interested IN the work Of the
Hospital.
Many necessary comforts have been
added both to the Nurzes' Home and
the Hospital, made possible by the
generous gifts of friends. The Hos
pital work is still suffering for an
up!to-date laundry. The one installed
in the Hospital when Euilt was soon,
by the hard usage necessary, put en-
tirely out of commission, which en-
tails our resorting to the public laun-
dries for help, thereby mourning
great additional expense.
Our high aspiration is to have an
X-ray outfit, for which we have the
room ready and waiting and which
would greatly facilitate in many
cases the work Of the physicians.
Now that we are experiencing a
more quiet though still busy life
we wish to express our qualification
that we have a most complete, etfi'
cient staff for the working of the Hos
pital. Miss Carter, Superintendent
with her assistant, Miss Giles; Mis-:
Tinsley Dietician: Miss More and Mis-:
Makeley in the office, with fifteer
nurses, five Of whom have been re
Gently taken as probationers.
I most thankfully add that efficl
ency and faithfulness to duty witt
peace and harmony are the keynote
of all work done in the name Of tn
Hospital. l cannot close without eX
pressing regret in the resignation o
Mr.. Worth Hulfsh as President o
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