Evening star., 1934-09-06
WELFARE BOARDS
MEDICAL SERVICE
EXPANSION ASKED
Increase Also Is Sought for
District Penal lnSti-
tutions.
GALLINGER HOSPITAL
INCLUDED IN PROGRAM
las Additional Employees Planned
to Take Care of Anticipated
Patient Increase.

Expansion Of medical services to
hospital patients here, under the
Board of Public Welfare, and inmates
of the District penal institutions, is
proposed in the 1886 estimate Of the
Welfare Department, now in the
hands Of the District Commissioners.
Public hearings on these and other
budget requests of District department
heads are to be held, beginning Sep
tember II, at the District Building.
The latest expansion program is
proposed for Gallinger Municipal Hos
pital. The Welfare Board proposes an
appropriation of $750,000 for con-
struction and equipment of an addi-
tional ward building to be used for
obstetrical services. Hospital officials
say this is needed to relieve over
crowding at the institution and would
make possible discontinuance of the
use of two old wooden structures,
which were termed potential fire
traps"
145 New Employees Sought.
One hundred and forty-five addi-
tional employees are sought for Gal
linger for the next fiscal year to take
care Of an expected increase in pa
tients. To meet this expansion, the
salary appropriation requested is
$537, ,042, as compared with s323,92
appropriated for the current year.
To handle the expected increase in
patients the Welfare Board seeks the
employment Of n additional workers,
including IS graduate nurses and rs
pupil nurses. To make possible an
8-hour day for nurses, orderlies and
other Gallinger employees, who have
been forced to work 12-hour shift in
the past, hospital authorities are seek
ing the employment of 46 additional
workers, including 20 graduate nurses.
A new ward building at Gallinger
to house contagious disease patients,
now being constructed, Is to be opened
by the beginning Of the next fiscal
year and the employment of addi-
tional graduate nurses and IL other
workers Is sought for the staff Of
that building.
Welfare officials are seeking an ex-
pansion Of the staff of the old Tuber-
culosis Hospital, Fourteenth and Up
shur streets, to provide better care of
patients there. Appropriations sought
are $129,000, as against $81, 500 for
the current year. New employees re-
quested include full-time dentist, 10
graduate nurses, 2 technical labora-
tory workers and funds are sought for
the engagement Of special consultants
Staff Increase Asked.
Enlargement of the staff of the
Children's tuberculosis Sanatorium,
scheduled to be opened this month at
Glenn Dale, Md, Is asked in an esti-
mate of $50, 400, an increase of $35, 200
over the current appropriation. The
Welfare Board also proposes that city
water connections be made to the sana-
torium to assure adequate water supply
as one of two wells at the institution
has gone dry.
For the District reformatory at
Lorton, Va, the Welfare Board asks
funds for the employment Of an as
sistant physician, an assistant dentist
an assistant pharmacist and three
nurses. An item of $4,000 is asked
for an additional building for the
reformatory hospital.
A heavy increase in the appropria-
ton for the care Of INDECENT persons
confined at st. Elizabeth's Hospital
also Is requested, $2,174,0 being asked
for the next year, as compared with
$1,874,000 for the current year.