Evening star., 1938-04-10
CASUALTY PLANS
5DTH ANNIVERSARY
Hospital Will Open House
Wednesday-PIaque to
Be Dedicated.


Casualty Hospital will be celebrated
with an open house, reception and
inspection of plant and equipment at
8 pm. Wednesday.
The program will include the dedi-
cation of a plaque and the marking
Of rooms provided or furnished by
contributors to the hospital fund. The
plaque, in the main lobby of the hos
pital, at Eighth street and Massachu-
sets avenue NE, will contain the
names of SO donors.
Senators Capper of Kansas and
Copeland of New York and Represent
ative Collins of Mississippi will be
among a group of members of the
Senate and House District and Appro-
priations Committee attending the
open house. Invitations have been
sent to all contributors to the hospital,
physicians and clergymen. Music will
be provided by section of the Marine
Band
New Apparatus on Display.
Visitors will inspect considerable
amount Of new equipment, among it
the most modern type of shockproof,
portable Horoscope and radiograph,
short-wave apparatus for applying
heat to deep tissues of the body with
out affecting the skin or outer tissues,
new anesthesia machine and ap-
paratus for the mechanical reduction
of fractures
The hospitals three new ambu-
lances, the first in this part of the
country to be equipped with short
wave radio, also will be on inspection.
During the past year the ambulances
responded to total of 1912 calls.
Incorporated April l3, 1888, and
first located in rented dwelling at
3l1 Third street NE, Casualty today
has accommodations for l20 adults
and 20 infants and children. 1t has
81 private rooms. semi-private rooms
three-bed rooms, Z four-bed rooms
l f1ve-bed ward, six-bed ward,
ten-bed ward. IL bassinets and 2
wards for colored patients, / with Is
beds and the other with IA.
During 1887. the total number of
patients admitted to the hospital was
2,307; the number of emergency cases
was 8,04l, the number of patients ex-
amined by the X-ray department.
2,l54, and the number of dispensary
visits, 7,107.
Increasing Services Rendered.
During the last five years there has
been a rapid and steady increase in
the development and amount of serv-
ice rendered by the hospital. During
this period, 1t was explained, there
has been more progress than during
the 20 years preceding.
Under the authority of an act ap-
proved April %, 1884, group of pub
lic-spirited citizens of the District
met to establish dispensary in East
Washington for the medical and
surgical treatment of diseases and in
juries and to provide medicines free
to poor and needy persons in the Dis
trict of Columbia"
The articles of incorporation we're
signed April 13, 1888, by Charles c.
Lancaster, DR.. Lachlan Tyler, DR..
James F. Hartigan, Dr. Frank T.
Chamberlin, Emmons S. Smith, DR..
Llewellyn Eliot, Dr.. George Byrd Har-
rison, DR.. T. Archibald Taylor, John
T. Winter, George Ryneal jr.; James
A. Hunter, Dr.. Charles G. Dulin,
John F. Waggaman, w. D. Peachy
and George F. Harbin. These signers
constituted the first Board of Trus-
tees and elected Mr. Lancaster as the
first president.
In the rented house on c street NE.
clinics were held, and persons suffer-
ing from diseases or minor injuries
were treated by physicians and sur
geons who gave their services with
out compensation.
After several years, due to increas-
Ing demands for service. the board
moved the dispensary to rooms over a
drug store at the southwest corner of
Pennsylvania avenue and Third street
Sc. and later to large brick house
at 2l7 Delaware avenue NE, for
which rental of S4O0 year was paid.
A room was equipped as an operating
room, and others were equipped with
six or eight beds for emergency pa
tients who we're not in condition to be
removed
Those on Medical Staff.
At that time. Dr. William P. Reeves
was resident physician and Mrs. Anna
S. Hullflsh matron. The medical staff
included DR.. Louis K. Beatty, DR.. D.
Olin Leech, DR.. Noble P. Barnes. DR..
Eliot, DR.. William Holland Wilmer
DR.. w. Sinclair Bowen and DR.. Will
liam Forrest Gatchell.
The number of cases treated in 1896
was 1922 and the income, including
a congressional appropriation of $3.50,
was 81 1897.
1t became necessary to reincorporate
the hospital April 13, 1898, and the
articles, providing for 20-year extern
sion. were signed March 26, 1898, by
Mr.. Lancaster, George r. Repetti, Dr.
Chester H. Beatty, Mr.. Hardin, Mi
chael I. Weller, DR.. Philip S. Roy, Dr.
F. F. Repetti, Silas A. Manuel, Abra-
ham D. Van Der Veer, Thomas w.
Smith, DR.. Beatty, DR.. Winter, DR..
Eliot, Tracy L. Jeffords, Henry K.
Simpson. Dr. w. P. c. Hazen and
Alonzo H. Stewart.
On April %, 1902, a group of wives
and sisters Of doctors connected with
tlie ulSpeIlSdTy met at tne nome OF
DR.. Beatty and organized a Board of
Lady Managers to furnish the insti-
tuition with gowns, bed linens, blan-
kets, supplies for the emergency room
and other articles of furniture and
equipment. Miss j. Estelle Nichols
was elected president After the death
of Miss Nichols in 1905 Mrs. Martha
J. Vaughan was elected president.
Leighton Home a Gift
When the entire square In which
the institution was located was ac-
quired by the Government as a site
for the Senate Office Building, the
home and property of Benjamin F..
Leighton, 708 Massachusetts, avenue
NE, was acquired as a gift from
Thomas W. Smith and Theodore T