Evening star., 1938-08-14

better grade Of professional and nurs-
ing work must be done, with the result
that there is demand for added
personnel to perform this service.
Newer methods of treatment have been
found practical and should be insti-
tuted, additional laboratory discov-
cries have been perfected and must
be used in order to further better
treatment, while increased nursing
service is demanded on all sides"
In discussing its hopes for P. w. A.
funds for a 200-bed addition to the
adult building at Glenn Dale, the
Health Department said:
1T is generally conceded that the
District does not have, at the present
time, sufficient beds to care for
patients suffering from tuberculosis.
In the District. under recognized
standards, approximately 1900 beds
should be available. At Glenn Dale
there are 700 beds available. and If a
unit is built at Gallinger Hospital to
replace the present unsatisfactory
wooden shacks that are now in use,
and If q unit is built at Freedmens
Hospital, these two units. together
with the beds available at Glenn Dale.
would give us approximately 1000
beds. This would leave the District
approximately 800 beds short and it
has been q question Of whether 200
or 400 beds should be built at Glenn
Dale.
The original plan for the adults
unit called for 800 beds. and the
building so arranged that two wings
OF 200 beds each easily could be add
ed at any time. or that one OF 100 beds
in each wing might be added at time
However, additional beds should be
added without question and it is be-
lieved that 200 beds rather than 400
beds should be added now. and at a
later date it would be determined if
the additional 200 beds were abso-
lutely essential"
80 New Employees Asked.
For the Glenn Dale Sanatoria the
Health Department asks salary ap-
preparations amounting to $47l 1852. an
increase Of sl2l,262 over this year.
which would permit the employment
Of 90 additional persons. including
three assistant medical officers. four
head nurses. 20 graduate nurses. two
playground directors and 40 minor
domestic attendants.
An increase Of 80 employees Of the
departments Nursing Bureau was re-
quested In q plea for an increase in
the salary item for this division from
$150.3s4 to 1921. 900. This would per-
NIT employment OF an assistant nurs-
ing director, 3 new supervisors, 80
nurses and 5 clerks, while granting
pay increases to IL OF the present
staff.
The administrative staff of the
Health Department also would be in
creased from l04 to 1873 and, in ad-
dition to these 2e new workers, pay
increases would be granted to A per-
sons, as the salary item was increased
by $59,l72.
Dr. Rutland announced he planned
to consolidate the bureaus Of food and
sanitary inspection, while giving an
increase in pay to the head of the
combined division from $4,000 to $5,-
600 year.
Serum Fund Sought.
In connection with q plan to in
crease the salary appropriations for
the contagious disease division from
$43,830 to s53.210, DR.. Rutland re-
quested provision Of fund of $1,000
for purchases of pneumonia serum for
treatment Of five different types Of
the disease. The serum costs about
$45 per person and has been found
efficacious in saving lives in specific
types of the disease.
For the maintenance OF dispensa-
ries, the department seeks an increase
from $53.220 to &l15.038. which would
permit the employment OF 81 addi-
tional persons, including 10 additional
part-time physicians.
In this connection, DR.. Ruhland
cited figures to show that the Dis
trict's tuberculosis death rate is 94.9
per 100000 population, whereas that
Of Minneapolis, which has the best