The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-04-11

claim the circuit court authorized the
trustees to place another mortgage
upon the property for that sum, which
was done in 1912. The average num-
Der of patients cared for in the hos
pital each day in 1910 was thrty-five,
of which number 10 were private
patients and fourteen public patients,
and the average number of patients
cared for in 1911, each day, was twen-
ty-seven, OF which number fourteen
were private patients and thirteen
were public patients. In the year 1910
the city of Dayton sent to the hospital
and paid for twenty-one patients, who
remained there an aggregate of three
hundred and fifty-eight days, and in
1911 it sen twenty-one patients to the
hospital, who remained an aggregate
of four hundred and thirty-two days.
Private patients are those who enter
the hospital and pay from their own
resources for their rooms, board, and
nursing, and pay the physician, for
| professional services rendered them,
directly. The profit, if any, derived
from the care of these private patients,
for their rooms, board, and nursing
goes into the general fund of the hos
pital, and is used for maintaining the
hospital. Public patients are describ-
ed as those who come of their own ac-
cord, or are sent by the authorities of
the city of Dayton, Bellevue, Newport
and Campbell county. All public pa
tients are received and treated in the
public wards. No patients are kept i'll
the hospital without charge, but some
patients, who come of their own ac-
cord, fail to pay their bills. All public
patients receive medical attention at
the hands of members of the hospital
staff, free of charge to them, and one
inferno is on duty at all times, and
his services are, also, given to the pa
tients. The hospital trustees serve and
have always served without compen-
sation. When the hospital first began
operation a number of rooms were
furnished by charitably inclined per-
sons and organizations, and since that
time other rooms have been furnished
| in similar manner The hospital
each year received from various
sources. charitable contributions in
the way of beds. towels, furniture
food supplies, and various necessities
which have heen used for the benefit
of all the patients in the operation of
the hospital. The hospital is located
in the central part of Dayton, and has
the benefit of the sewerage system Of
the city of Dayton, and such police
and fire protection as is furnished
any other building in the city. The
hospital pays the same for water, gas
and electric lights and power service
as is paid by consumers. Each year,
during its operation, the hospital has
received contributions of money,
which are used in the operation of the
hospital,
The agreed statement of facts fur
ther shows that for several years be-
fore the year 1910, the cities of Day
ton and Bellevue contributed annually
to the hospital the sum of 100000
and the city of Newport contributed
annually to the support of the hos
pital $4,000, and the county of Camp
bell contributed annually the sum
of 100000. These contributions we're
made to the hospital upon the condi-
ton that the INDECENT sick of the three
cities named and of the county were
to be received at the hospital and
treated there without charge to them.
This plan continued for several years,
when it was changed. so that the cities
of Dayton, Bellevue and Newport paid
son sent to the institution for that
year, but in the year 1913 the city of
Newport paid $3,50000 for that year,
while the county of Campbell contin-
ued to donate 100000 per year, as
heretofore. The hospital trustees
have given to the Cities of Dayton and
Bellevue notice that after March list,
1914, the rate to be paid for each pa
tient per day was to be S1.20. The
actual cost per day for caring for each
pi sient has been $1.2S per day During
the year 1910, in addition to the pub
| lie patients received from the three
cities named and Campbell county,
three persons came of their own ac-
cord, who remained an aggregate of
twenty days, and in 1911 three such
patients we're treated for an aggregate
of thirty-three days.
II was, also, agreed that the earn
ings of the hospital for the year end
ing August 31st, 1909, for board OPP
Grating, nursing. rents, donations, mis-
| n &c nf q nd
discounts earned, amounted to $751;
72069, while its expenses for the same
time for wages, provisions, fuel, wa
ter, light, and surgical supplies, drugs,
house supplies. repairs, interest. in
surance, and general expenses
amounted to $17,O32.S9, which after
deducting sS61.45 for persons treated
free of charge, left balance in favor
of the institution of $685. for the
year ending August S1st, 1910, the re-
ceipts of the hospital amounted to
$1S,O67.03, and deducting the expenses
for the same period from it, left a net
deficit for the same year Of S147.S7;
deducting the expenses from the earn
ings for the year ending August 31st,
1911, showed a net gain for the year of
$1S4.14. A statement of the earnings
and expenses for the year ending
August 31st, 1912. showed net bal
ance in favor of the institution of
s126.43.
This court, in Trustees of the Ken
lucky Female Orphans School VS.. City
Of Louisville, 100 Ky, 40, and in
Widows and Orphans Home of Odd
Fellows VS.. Commonwealth, 126 KY,
1856. quoted with approval from the
case of Episcopal Academy VS.. Phila-
delphia, $50 Pa. St., 565, where it I'D
down, among others, the following
rules by which to determine whether
an institution was one of purely pub
lie charity: