The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-07-09
EVERYBODY BUSY
At COUNTY HOSPITAL
HAD APPEARANCE OF REAL
JOHNS HOPKINS THIS MORN
ING WHEN REPORTER DROP
PED BY FOR LATEST NEWS
FIRST REAL OPERATION PER
FORMED YESTERDAY.

The Abbeville County Memorial
hospital presented a scene OF hustle
and activity this morning when rep
resentative of The Press ana Banner
stopped in to get the latest news from
the Superintendent. Doctors in Klu
Klux costumes minus the flaming
cross and nurses in their immaculate
white were all astir and one wouk
have imagined that Mayo Brothers or
Johns Hopkins has been transplanted
on magic carpet and set down in the
city.
The scene presented at the hospi-
tai this morning was an entirely dill
ferent one from that presented at the
opening exercises last week. The hos
nital has assumed an air OF strictly
business this week and signs and no
tices tackled about tell you just what
hours visitors are welcome and what
hours they are not. Then it begins to
smell and feel like a Hospital. We
suppose that the distinctly ethereal
pungency-pertaining to the anaes-
thetic-not the celestial-is of a ne
cessity present at all "Houses of
Healing" as the pounding commit
tee" prefers to call hospitals. 1t may
be due to this ethereal saturation OF
, the air that gives the uncomfortable
feeling that is experienced by the
noyices when they first begin to visit
hospitals. Anyway it is present at the
County hospital just as much as it is
at Bellevue, New York City.
We were told that the first real
operation took place yesterday and
the first patient to undergo major
operation in the County Hospital was
colored woman, Bessie Frazier from
Greenwood county, who was operated
on for some abdominal trouble. One
of the doctors told US the name of
the operation and while we are sup
posed to be Al spoilers this techni-
cal name, foot long, was bit too
much for us. The patient was brought
over by DR.. Turner of Greenwood.
Unfortunately Greenwood is unable
to care for colored pat;en:s in the
city hospital there and it is falling to
the lot of the County Hospital here
to take care of the colored patients
from Greenwood and Mccormick
counties. This is going TO mean con
siderable crowding in the colored
ward but the hospital authorities de-
fnitely state that they are not going
to receive single patient more than
they can comfortably accommodate.
DR.. Nardin of Anderson was down
yesterday also and received a num-
Der of throat and nose patients. He
will return next Thursday wnen he
has, sufficient cases already TO keep
him busy all the afternoon.
DR.. Rakestraw, surgeon a: Pryor's
hospital, Chester, is in the city today
doing some major work at the hospi
tai.
The doctor to whom we talked at
the hospital this morning, speaking
for the directors of the hospital ask
eI US to state that there was no close
corporation about the management Of
the County Hospital and that any
doctor or surgeon in gooG standing
practicing within the radius of the
hospital was perfectly welcome to
bring or send patients to the Able
vile institution and each would be
accorded equal privileges.
The cook who was busy in the
clean kitchen says that the patients
haven't lost their appetites and that
the nurses also are not what she
would call small eaters and that some
fresh vegetables, chickens, eggs, but
ter, milk and the like would be ap-
preciated. The hospital is prepared
to pay for these things if you insist
but there is nothing in the bylaws
forbidding the cook accepting them
gratis.
Miss Sallie Gossett VINO has been