The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-11-08
BrightlOOk IncOrpOratOrs
Have Dinner
(Continued from Pare i

tCOnJlnueQ HUH Cue II
ted the institution and of this
number 10 have died, eight of the
number are still living in st.
Johnsbury and three were present
tonight. The first hospital was the
Gov. Erastus Fairbanks house on
Western avenue and when the pro-
ject faced a debt OF $500 it was
soon raised under the energetic
efforts OF w. A. flicker,
The first gift for the new hos
pital was a dollar deposited by
I Mrs. Alexander Dunnett in the
Passumpsic Savings bank and the
new building was started when
Ms. Rebecca P. Fairbanks offered
to give $4,000 if $4,000 more
could be raised. The building was
dedicated March IA, 1908, with a
debt of $4,000. This was later lift
ed when the late 1heo. N. Vain Of
fered $4,000 if the people of st.
J%ohnsbury would raise the balance,
which was at thac time $1,000.
Mr.. Hazen said the hospital
building cost $4,000, the nurses
home $4,000, the laundry $4,000,
the heating plant $4,000, the eleva-
tor $1,000. The total valuation of
the plant is $4,000 and he was
sure it could not be duplicated for
$l25, 600.
Jonn f .Puffer ,as treasurer, re-
ported on the special funds which
were now over $4,000. Mr.. Puffer
SAID that the hospital had SO beds
a hospital staff o. 30 and the run
ming expenses fo- a year were
$4,000. He said the memorial
free bed fund, which was raised by
the ladies, now amounted to $4,000
and included the legacy of $500
left by Mrs. Celia Wells. There
was a balance of $1,000 in the
Northern Caledonia free bed fund.
Other invested funds were the fol-
lowing; Richardson $1,085; Carrie
A. Tisdale 1924; T. M. and Olive
W. Howard $4,000; Mary A.
Choate Of Peacnam $125; Nh. and
Mrs. A. H. Mcleod SLID; Gilmore
I. Ide $500; unknown lady $1,000.
Mr.. Puffer added that the ladies
also had $500 to DE used for the
care of worthy women.
DR.. Ross spoke of the present
workings of the nospital. He said
the cost to the patient ranged
from Sl4 a week in the wards to
$22 in the largest rooms. In 1912
the cost to the hospital per patient
per week was $11.94, in 1914 $40
50, in 1920 $20.86; in 1921 1892.
Since the hospital was opened o.
559 patients have been treated
and 1926 have been treated in the
| present building. OF these 2,215
nave been medical cases and 5,720
augical cases. There have also
been215 confinement cases. The
total deaths have 410, or 81 per
cent, a record which the speaker
said compared very ~favorably with
the larger institutions.
Dr.. koss said that the hospital
also maintained a training scnool
for nurses and Sc had graduated.
The institution had facilities for
training % nurses at a time. He
, said it was now affiliated with the
| Mt. Sinai hospital and nurses from
Brightlook could take a six months
course in one of the largest hospi-
tails in New YORK City.
Arthur f. Stone was introduced
to speak from the patients stand
point, but said he felt more like
referring to this banquet, as far as
he was concerned, as a patrons
banquet. He spoke briefly of his
own experience there so Soon af-
, ter the dedication of the new
building, told a few stories, and
closed with a poem on appended
I It's.
DR.. c. \. Cramton spoke of hos
p pitfalls in general, but IN opening
, paid a high tribute to Frank H.
! Brooks who recently resigned as
president of the institution, and
fsaid he hoped his successor would
remain at the head for a long time
to come.
He then briefly sHetched the de-
velopment of the hospitals in Eur
ope and the United States. declar-
ing there whenever a patient was
discharged from a hispital he came
out thanking God that there was
such an institution where doctors
and nurses were embued with the
spirit Of service.
DR.. John NJ. Allen followed with
a most informing resume of the
history of surgery from its earl
lest days down to the present time.
He said the Hindus thousands of
years before Christ had a good
knowledge of surgery and that 100
surgical instruments we're found
among the ruins of Greece, indlca-
ting that the Greeks had advanced
from the knowledge and practice
of the Hindus, Even the Egyptians
and Arabians gaze evidence OF
considerable knowledge of surgery
and some of their operations, with
rather crude instruments, were
very successful.
Dir. Allen said dissection was
first pIacticed about 700 years ago
and that the first medical school
was established IN Philadelphia
100 years ago. In praising the
work Of American surgeons he
said it was an American that dis
covered the use of ether for an
anesthetic rs years ago. He then
paid a high tribute to the discov-
/ cries of Pastenr. Lord Lister and