Evening star., 1921-02-18
.A|DFOR EMERGENCY
HOSPITAL |SASKED
Report for the Last Fiscal
Year Shows a Deficit of
$28,169.O5.

The Emergency Hospital is your
hosptal-open for you, your family,
your friends or your employees every
hour of the day and night. Its pre-
parednesS and high standards must be
maintained. Subscribe to the main
tenance fund and help pay the yearly
deficit This legend. printed conspic-
uousiy on the cover of the annual re-
port of the Central Dispensary and
Emergency Hospital for the fiscal year
ending June 80 last, which has just
been printed. forms a message for the
public which is driven home con-
vincingly by the pages within the
pa amphlet.
The institution is called on to meet
Ia deficit incurred for maintenance and
overhead charges amounting to $2S.-
l69.o5. which, under existing condl-
tions, can conservatively be accepted
as the actual cost of operating over
and above all income earned by the
institution, according to the report or
woodbury. Blair, president OF the
hoard of directors. This, however, Mr..
Blair points out. is a comparatively
small sum when compared with the
expensive charity work done ana the
conditions under which most of the
patients are received and cared for,
because the institution has no discre-
ton as to selection of patients
Financing system Desired.
THE annual deficit is SO compara-
lively small" Mr.. Blair's report con-
cludeS. that it reflects greet credit
on the administration of the inst1-
tuition. l hope d system of financing
the hospital can be devised which
will relieve the board and the pub
lie from conducting an annual drive
or otherwise soliciting funds. l am
not prepared to recommend any par
ticular plan, but the question is so
important as to deserve your most
careful consideration
Il. b. Sandige. the superintendent,
informs the board that he cannot
commend too highly the splendid
spirit of cooperation and determine
ton exhibited by a nursing staff de-
pleted through war conditions and
by all other staffs. officials and de-
partments to maintain Il high stand
ard of efficiency. He announces also
his great encouragement during his
brief incumbency by the deep interest
and high regard manifested by the
general public for the institution.
Work of the Hospital.
The ambulance, outstanding evi-
dence to the man in the street of the
preparedness of the hospital to do it's
duty by the community, went whirl-
ing through the city a total of 2,003
trips during the year, many a dash
resulting in the saving of a life. The
total number of new cases in the dis
pensary service was 1927 and the to-
tai number treated nearly 5000. The
emergency department treated 5,715
cases. The total number of patients
admitted during the year by the hos
pital department was 3,211, of whom
about one-third were charity patients.
The smallest number of patients in
the hospital on any one day was sixty
n
performed totaled 2-160, while the
forty-nine deaths were partially Off
set by twelve births within its walls.
According to the report of Miss
Anna II. Ruftin. superintendent Of
nurses. sixteen were received during
the year and an even dozen We're
graduated The number of nurses
and probationers remaining on June
80 was thirtyfve. Tho ladies' aux
iliary board, besides other items. in
the late spring bought $500 worth
of new linen for the institution, ac-
cording to Miss Maud Harlow. its
secretary, while the usual appro-
priations were made for Christmas 8
dinners and the festivities incident
al to the graduation of nurses.
Receipts and Expenditures.
Total receipts for the year amount
cd to s227,73s95, the report of Ar
thur 7. Brice, the treasurer, states.
while total disbursements we're
S2y9.977.64. The appropriation made
for the benefit of the hospital by
the federal government was $27,500.
and S17,656.10 was received from the
Board of Charities.
William f. GUIDE is vice president
Of the hospital. which was incor-
pnrated in 1882, and DR.. A. r. Sands
is it's secretary. The board includes
d score and n half of men well known
in professional and business circles.
While the medical staffs are com
posed of the leaders in general prac-
tice and the various fpccia!ties. There
are eight resident physicians. a pa
thologist and dental surgeon. un-
der charge of DIR. y. y. Smiler, med
iCSl superintendent