The New York herald., 1921-12-06
GIFTS TO DR.. LORENZ|
DECLINED AT Clinic
Hospital Hastens to Allay
Any Suspicion of
Favoritism.
40 EXAMINED IN DAY
Visiting Surgeon Appears
Rested After Sojouln
in New Jersey.
vIENNEsE TO GET $4,000
Austrian to Take Outside
Cases, as Is Customary,
While in City.
vIENNEsE TO GET $4,000

DR.. Adolf Lorenz's clinics at the
Hospital for Joint Diseases, Madison
avenue and 1880 street, will be con-
tinued. The board Of trustees en-
phaticaly made plain yesterday that
DR.. Lorenz was welcome to carry on
his work Of treating crippled children
there as often as the viennese sur
geon's health and other engagements
permitted.
| Although the source of attacks on
| DR.. Lorenz was not mentioned Off
cially by the board, individual di-
rectors expressed their opinion of GER
tain medical men little known in the
profession, who. they say, have stirred
up feeling against the visiting sur
geon.
To allay complaints about prefer
ence for the wealthy" the board de-
cided that no money would be ac-
cepted at the hospital from grateful
patients for the starving children of
Vienna, whom DR.. Lorenz hopes to
aid. Denial was made that any money
collected at the hospital or at the
offices of physicians connected with it
had benefited the hospital or its en-
ployees.
Examines 11O I'm Day.
Although hurt and bewildered by the
attacks on him, DIR. Lorenz arrived from
the home Of DR.. Frederick III. Albee at
Colonia. N. T.. refreshed by rest and
plunged into the examination Of cases at
the Hospital for Joint Diseases. In
examining, diagnosing and recommend
ing treatment for ITO cripples. big and
little. he forgot both his troubles and his
poor health.
When he had painstakingly looked
over 100 cases of defotmity. his friend,
Anton Wedl, one Of the men who per-
suaded him to come to this country, de-
manded that he stop Although by this
time DR.. Lorenz's features and move
ments plainly indicated exhaustion and
approaching collapse. he shook his head
and. examined ten more.
Patients wishing to show their grati-
tude may make contributions only at DIR.
A<ci Ch1 ItSlucuCc. AZ tue nOSplIal
those applying for examination will re-
ceive numbered tickets and those not
reached one day will be taken in order
at the next clinic.
The hospital points out that it has no
concern with the fees received by DR..
Lorenz at private examinations else
where. but adds "in justice to DR.. Lorenz
it should be stated that if he has re-
ceived fees from private patients able to
NC. f,At, hA l.,.sx, 1,A feI
lowed a custom universal among eminent
physicians. and as matter of fact he
would have been violating the law had
ne given free treatment at the clinic to
patients well able to pay
"Injustice to Interfere,
The board says the public attention
directed by DR.. Lorenz to orthopedic
surgery has been Of tremendous public
service and 1t would be an injustice to
the public to interfere with the work. !
The statement Is signed by Charles
Kaye, acting chairman; Noise L. Err
stein, Samuel L. Feiber, Paul NJ. Her.
cog. Benno Levison. Samuel II. Levy, |
Franklin Simon, Louis J. Vorhaus and
Isaac Well.
According to Anton wedl about $4,000 |
has been contributed at the clinic for |
viennese children. Fees from private |
cases will be sent by DR.. Lorenz to his |
own family, which is in need owing to |
the financial collapse of Austria.
Charles f. Diehl, superintendent of |
the hospital, said that he knew DR.. |
Lorenz cared little for fees, because he
refused an offer from wealthy man up
State to treat private patient, naming
any fec, because he felt he could not !
spare the time from his work among
the crippled poor in this city.
DIR. Lorenz was pleased last night |
when he read the statement Of the hos
pital board. He Said he was in entire
accord with the regulations
DR.. Lorenz will operate to-day on
Marian De Roy, daughter Of a physician
OF Pittsburgh. for intra-articular re-
dressment. overstretchlng Of the knee
Joint The patient will be treated at Q
o'clock at st. Marks Hospital. Ninth
street and Second avenue. This Is one
OF the cases DR.. Jorenz had to forego
last week, owing to his illness.
Or. Walter !. Galland. medical assist
ant to DR.. Lorenz. announced that al
ready 1900 patients had applied for pri-
vate examination and treatment, many
OF them declaring that they would pay
any fee He said DR.. Lorenz was over
burdened with this work already, and
that people from out Of town should not
come here unless they had definite ap-
pointments Under the law people who
can afford to pay cannot be treated at
dispensaries or clinics, so to bar all these
because they are able 20 pay would be
an injustice.
Dr. Lorenz will devote most of his
time Mondays to the Hospital for Joint
| Diseases, Wednesdays to the Depart
ment of Health clinic and Saturdays 20
st. Marks Hospital. IL his strength
permits.