Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-07
Doctors Endorse Backus Hospital Drive

A vote that the executive committee of the William ". Backus hospital start drive for sufficient funds for a first class laboratory for the hospital was the culn1ination of the annual banquet given Thursday evening at the Wauregan house to the medical staff of the hospital by the hospital trustees
 This was passed upon motionsof Dr. W. K. Tingiey, seconded by Dr.. John s. Blackmar and followed comprehensive. statement of the need and. value of a | laboratory by Dr. c. J. Bartlett of New Haven, state pathologist, and general discussion by the physicians present at l the banquet.
 | pr. John T. Black, state health com- missioner, was also a guest at the ban quet. 4
 No definite amount was named to be 1 the objective of the drive, as this is to be | left to the executive committee and the 1 trustees, but amounts running up to | $100,000 were suggested as none too much to meet the needs of the hospital in 1 it's service to this community and the 1 surrounding territory.
 l Covers were laid for 30 at the tables arranged in an open square in the big l dining room, with baskets of flowers for decorations, and an excellent menu was
 served shortly after 8 o'clock Chairman H. A. Tirrell of the executive committee of the hospital presided as
 toastmaster after the banquet, speaking T of the banquet of a year ago, when the
 suggestion was raised that the hospital
 ought to develop a laboratory.
 Dr. c. J. Bartlett, state pathologist
 has visited the hospital during the day
 said MT. Tirrell, and he invited him to
 tell the gathering what ought to be done
 in the way of a laboratory for this com
 munity and the Backus hospital.
 In response, Dr. Bartlett said that h,
 considered no hospital was complet,
 without an up-to-date laboratory. Tn, hospital sets the standard for the 1nedi cal work of a community, a high grad, hospital means a high grade of medica 3 work, but it is impossible to practice r modern medicine without modern lab 7 oratory. Good as the Bacllus hospita [ laboratory is under Dr. Freeman, yo,
 need to have more done there and nor y men to do it. The laboratory at hom e can save many valuable hours, making e unnecessary to send out of town and in . cur the delays of transportation.
 Dr. Bartlett mentioned the variou e classes of work that the laborator
 should be equipped to do, such as bloo
 analysis, Wasserman tests, tissue worl
 nephritis and diabetes analysis and bac r teriological work in diphtheria and ty
 phoid cases. Until it can do this worl 'I it is not meeting the needs of the con Y munity. The doctor considered that the1 would be enough work for a laberator
 here to keep a man busy all time and als ', for part time assistant. A real lat q oratory building Is needed, completel
 equipped, and a place where the doctor a would like to go. Keen ability is neede |. in the man at the head of it. There
 nn nf l1a
 than the laboratory and no nose essenti
 part of the laboratory than thorough
 trained man at the head of it. Insist c
 a medical graduate, which means mol
 expense, but it is worth it.
 It The doctor said he believed the plat 'f used as a laboratory at the Backus ho n pital could be equipped for the presel T. for about s1,000 to s1,200, but he hoI ) ed it would not be done. He advocate