The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-12
BENEFICIARIES OF THE DUKE
FOUNDATION in TWO STATES
KEEP TENTH ANNIVERSARY
Nearly s2O,OOO,OOO Has Been Spent on Education,
Hospitals, Orphanages and Ministerial Relief in
That Period Norman A. Cooke States in Address
Before Raleigh Gathering

similar amount has been paid to
Furman University, in Greenville.
S. c., and to Johnson c. Smith
University, the sum of $472,-
/ 1897.
eve, as trustees, have merely
followed the dictates of the trust
indenture in endeavoring to care
for the funds entrusted to us and
to pay the income to these insti-
buttons. Their work is known to
most of you and in all of them we
take pride.
"But the thing that was most
on Mr.. Dukes mind and probably
nearest to his heart was the care
of the sick. The endowment
provides 81 per day for each free
bed maintained in North Carolina
and South Carolina by qualifying
hospitals. 1t was Mr.. Dukes idea
! that by aiding the hospitals in
their charity cases that thousands,
yea hundreds of thousands. that
would suffer and die for the lack
of such facilities, would under his
endowment receive then,' and let
US see what has happened. In the
year 1925, the first year Of the
founding of the endowment,
there were in SO non-profit hos
pitfalls in North Carolina and South
Carolina applying for assistance
216,781 free bed days. In the
wear 1884, there will be approx
mately 100000 free bed days in
Ills non-profit hospitals, an in
crease of about 400 per cent.
Surely that is an accomplishment.
The total amount paid to the hos
pitfalls to enable them to make
this great increase for the ten
year period, including 1884, will
approximate $5,S37,000. Without
this aid, they could have render
ed no such service to humanity.
Take another phase of it. In the
year 1888, the average cost per
patient per day in the hospitals
in the states of North Carolina
and South Carolina was So and
the average sstay of the patient
was 10 ITO days. Using the aver
age cost in 1888, and the average
length of stayvin the hospital, the
contributions of the Duke Endow-
ment to the hospitals of the two
states in the past. ten years would
pay the full hospital bill of 49,
868 patients. "a 10y
&c. For the building of 20
new hospital units, the trustees
have contributed $94S, 500. For
the purchase of private hospitals
additions to, and equipment of,
community hospitals and the con;
struction of new plants, the en-
dowment has contributeaea total
of S2,319,272. In all of these COM
munities where. new hospital
plants were constructed. with two
exceptions, namely, Brunswick
county, North Carolina, and
Berkeley county, South Carolina,
Cnere eXlSteQl some SorC OF nOSpl-
tai facilities; In some cases old
residences and hotels were used
as hospitals and in other cases the
hospital plants were inadequate,
poorly designed or Anticipated.
They were replaced by hospitals
of modern design and construc-
ton.
81 cannot too highly praise the
cooperation which We have receiv-
ed in the local communities and
especially among the medical n"o
fession. Please bear in mind that
in this nearly one million free bee
days for the year 1884 provided
for charity, no account is taken
of the physicians services. He is
rendering that service free of
cost. No money from the Duke
Endowment or the local hospital
goes to pay him. 1t is his contri-