The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-02

planned the nurses home win in
clude living Quarters for the nurses,
class rooms for the student nurses,
a sun parlor, recreation room,
library and assembly hall.
Has Big Training Class.
THE nurses nome is Of great
est Importance to the hospital, :"
said Alice ID McWhorter. superin.
tendent OF the hospital, today. 1T
win not only prove Of economic
value in the administration Of the
hospital, but will materially facili-
tate the training Of nurses now
taking the training course. AT
present these young women are
quartered wherever 1t has been
found possible to find space for
them. Even one Of the open wards
has been taken over and converted
into nurses quarters. Only those
knowing the work Of the hospital
can appreciate its worth and how
sorely the asked for improvements
are needed"
Included in the nursing detail
at the hospital are eighty-four
young women in training, includ-
ing thirty probationers and twelve
graduate nurses. With the growth
of the hospital training school, it
is declared. accommodations for not
less than, 100 nurses must be
provided.
Contrary to the belief expressed
in certain quarters the hospital
possesses no funds nor revenues it
can devote to building purposes.
NFN1. I'll
ords show, are hardly sufficient to
meet the expense of caring for the
patients.
Funds Are Inadequate.
Congressional financial support il
not given the hospital direct, al
though a certain sum is received
annually from the Board Of Char
tiles of the District of Columbia
for the care of charity patients.
This approximates $4,000 yearly.
The Board of Charities fixes a daily
rate of 50 for adult patients treat
ed at the hospital. An allowance
of fifty cents day is made by
the board for the treatment of in
fants. According to the hospital
records it costs $3.75 a day to care
for each adult patient. This leaves
a deficit of $1.75 a day to be made
up from other than Government
contributed funds.
In addition the hospital last year
received $4,000 to pay in part the
cost of treating minor contagious
diseases cared for in the annex.
This sum is received from the
board of health. During the cur
rent year the records show the ap-
preparation was approximately $4,-
500 less than the cost of treating
such cases.
These figures are pointed to as
illustrating the impossibility of the
hospital accommodating a building
fund from its fixed receipts. No
building foundation fund has ever
been, created for the benefit of the
institution.
In planning for the $500, 900 drive
organized to secure the funds re-
quired for the erection Of the two
buildings needed by the hospital it
was recently decided to organize
thirty teams each under the leader
ship of a well-known man. The
campaign, it was said today, will
last about ten days. Captains for
eighteen of the teams have been
named. They include John j.
Bartram, Arthur D. Call, H. F.
Cary, Franklin H. Ellis, Ernest D.
Hathaway, William Griffith, Ru-
dolph Jose, Barry Mohun, Roy L.
Neuhauser, Claude Owen, Earl
Mcintosh Baker Weaver, A.
Chester F'lather, Kenneth Wales,
Walter Leaman, James r. Mays,
Paul B. Lum and Spencer Gordon.
A woman's division Of the same
strength will be formed after the
organization Of the mems teams IL
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