The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02
ELIZABETH CITY HOSPITAL WILL
OPEN ON OR BEFORE OCTOBER /
Miss Emily Allison of Charleston, Mich, Will Be
the Superintendent- An Efficient
Board of Directors

The Elizabeth City Hospital,
after three years of desuetude,
will be re-opened not later than
Oct. l, 1921. It is planned to op-
en- the hospital by Sept. 20, but
Oct. | is the most likely date.
The hospital will be opened un-
der the management of Miss
Emily c. Allison, of Clarkston,
Mich, a trained and capable SUI
perintendent.
Miss Allison is 81 years old and a
woman of marked business ability and
personal charm. She was for four years
superintendent of st. Peters Hospital
in Charlotte, n. c., and has for the past
six years been the superintendent of the
hospital at Pontiac, Mich. Miss Ali
son will select her own staff of nurses
and will in every other way have a free
hand in the management of the hospi-
tai She will be accountable only to the
board of directors.
The directors of the hospital will be
City Chamber of Commerce These
are W. P Duff, Geo. f. Seyffert, Tay-
Tor Grandy, J. B. Leigh, A. L. Pendle-
ton, J. G. B. Ehringhaus, Harry John
son, Roscoe Foreman and 81. G. Kra-
mer. These will have the active CO.
operation of an advisory board of three
physicians to be named by the Pasquo-
tank, Camden & Dare Medical Associa-
ton. The Medical Association will call
a meeting this week and name three of
its members for this advisory board.
With its board of directors composed
entirely of the directorate of the Cham
Der of Commerce the Elizabeth City
Hospital viii have behind it some of
the foremost and best business brains
in the community. A stronger board of
directors could hardly be selected for
any business organization in the city.
The hospital will be so conducted that
no one may call it a doctors hospital
and no physician or surgeon will have
any privileges-not accorded any other
physician and surgeon. The hospital
viii be open to the practice of all ac-
credited physicians.
One of the draw backs to a success
full hospital here in the past has been
the dearth of surgical ability. Eliza
beth City now has two surgeons whose
services are available for cases coming
to Elizabeth City. DIR. John Satiba,
founder of the Elizabeth City hospital
and owner of the property, will retain
his residence here, locating at the
Southern Hotel. DR.. Mora s. Bulla, Of
Richmond, Ind, another experienced
surgeon, has recently chosen Elizabeth
City as his home, with Offices in the
Hinton building Neither DR.. Saliba nor
Dr. Bulla will be located at the hospi-
tai. DIR. Saliba has leased the hospital
property to the Elizabeth City Munich
pal Hospital Association for a period
of two years and it is entirely out of
his hands.
IL the hospital is maintained on a
paving basis these next two years an
effort will be made to have the County
Commissioners renew the lease or buy
the property at the expiration of the
two years and continue the hospital as
a county health center, which is what
should be.
The Elizabeth City Municipal Hospi-
tai Association will begin business with
a capital of $4,000, represented by
shares of $40 each held by hundreds of
representative citizens, both white and
colored, in this city and vicinity. The
Chamber of Commerce started it and
the Chamber of Commerce put it over.
Most of the stock was, in fact, sold thru
the personal efforts of W. P. Duh,
president, and Richard G. Job, secre-
tary of the Chamber of Commerce. The'
stock is payable in ten monthly install
ments, the first payment being now due.
The largest stockholder is ChaR H.
Robinson, president of the First e. Git
izens National Bank. When it appeared
that it would be hard to raise the en-
tire $4,000 in small subscription, Mr..
Robinson subscribed for fifty shares OF
stock as an evidence of his faith in the
proposition and his desire to see the
hospital re-oponed.
Miss Allison, the superintendent, IS
expected to arrive in Elizabeth City on
or before Sept. 10, and put the hospital
in order for the opening. Three grad
uate nurses will be employed to start.
The superintendent is expected to have
her organization employed and on the
ground when she arrives.