The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1921-01-29
CLINIC FOR POOR WILL
MONDAY 9 A. N.

A live. modern medical clinic
served and managed by the entire ac-
tive medical profession of The Bay,
for the benefit of the needy sick of
the city and county, opens almost
without notice on Monday morning
in the little cottage just opposite the
postomce On Main street.
The whole clergy of the city, the
Mayor, and leading citizens both
men and women have given hearty
cooperation to the unheralded en-
terprise. The demand from all
sources foreshadows the develop
ment of hospital large enough to
take care of all ordinary emergen-
cies to- relieve most sufferers from
the added trouble and expense of
long trips to distant cities, and to
make everybody safe against sudden
demands for liberal surgical faclh-
ties that so frequently arise IN places
as populous as this.
The ST. Joseph's Clinic, opening
at nine o'clock on Monday morning,
will be open every week day between
nine and ten for the medical treat
ment and advice of all Hancock
countians unable to pay for such ser
vice. These physicians and surgeons
will be regularly in attendance.
DR.. c. L. Horton, obstetrics and
diseases of women.
DR.. II. S. Lewis, general surgery.
DR.. A. P. Smith, diseases OF chill
dren.
DR.. B. C. Rush, general medicine
and pathology.
DR.. Edith Loeber Ballard, alter
nate and assistant.
Mrs. Arthur B. Tipping, clinical
superintendent.
The whole development got it's
name and its start as the result of
chance conversation between two wo-
men. though it realizes the old de-
sires of the whole MEDICAL profession
in the Bay.
Mrs. Ballard, though no longer en-
gagged in professional practice, was
educated in medicine by Cornell
University, served several years in
the larger New York hospitals, was
one of the most active of the medl-
cal founders of the New Orleans Hos
pital and Dispensary for Women and
Children. and of the New Orleans
ng-in-Hospital, and she establish
ed successful practice in obstetrics
and surgery of female diseases be-
fore retiring from active medical
work.
Mrs. Tipping, the wife of A. B.
Tipping. long superintendent of the
Touro infirmary in New Orleans, is
ole 10 Of hn Ital
ing school conducted by the Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia and
served a substantial apprenticeship
in Philadelphia and in the Touro be-
fore her marriage.
Mrs. Ballard has latterly been
helping the Sisters of ST. Joseph or
ganize their alumnae into twenty or
more circles for reading, sewing and
other work. A casual chat between
her and Mrs. Tipping on that subject
gave rise to a suggestion that these
st. Joseph circles would make fine
feeders of supplies for little medi
them more interesting object for
work-but there was no medical
clinic-big or little. This was Sat
urday, January %.
Every physician and surgeon in
the Bay was enthusiastic for the en-
terprise by the following Tuesday.
All of them had been wishing for
clinic, come of them even had the
more pretentious picture of hospi-
tai in mind. DR.. Ballard volunteered
to take the first steps for organiza
ton, and to help out as assistant in
the work of the clinic, and undertook
to see other nurses who may be need
ed as the enterprise develops, of
whom there are number.
The program seemed to meet
everybody's interests. 1t gives the
sick regular assurance of the best
possible treatment from the best
qualified physicians at fixed time
in place better equipped than their
homes and easy Of access. It gives
the physicians an opportunity to di-