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had requested in his original 1910
estimates the employment of 1876 ad-
ditional employees of various kinds,
which would create an annual pay
roll cost of some $197, 600. The bud
get as forwarded to Congress by the
Budget Bureau provided for the
employment of 81 additional en-
ployes, with a pay roll cost of about
$75 500.
In support of testimony as to
needed personnel at Gallinger, DR..
Bocock called upon Miss Alfredo
Bourmark, a senior student nurse,
who said that she and one other
nurse were charged with the care
of 40 patients and that when she
finished her days work she was
pretty tired"
Miss Hall, who supervises female
medical ward. said she had on the
average about two head nurses and
five or six student nurses to care
for an average of some IS patients.
Asked by Mr.. Schultz what were her
duties. she said, I'VE do everything
from the work of charWoman to
supervisory activities, as well as
regular nursing duties" She said
sometimes she was left alone to
care for more than go patients for
certain periods because the helpers
were attending class.
DR.. Bocock said he had recon-
mended the addition of 40 more
graduate nurses and employment of
AZ more student nurses and said
these minimum requests were sup
ported by the findings of the United
States Public Health Service and
the local Board of Nurses Exam
iners, both of which made surveys
of operations conditions at CALI
ger.
Mr.. Bates said that lone of the
worse things at Gallinger was that
young girls, the student nurses. were
sacrificing their health. DR.. Bocock
said that 5 of the 10 nurses who
contracted tuberculosis had recov-
cred and that 5 others were still
under treatment.
DR.. Rutland inserted in the record
statements Of the experience and
training of the five full-time resi-
dent physicians who were placed in
charge of five Gallinger depart
ments last July /. He said he was
positive" that their employment
had improved the service and at
the same time had also improved
teaching facilities for the medical
schools.
DR.. Rutland said that during the
past six months there had been
600 more cases In the surgical di-
vision than in the six months pre-
ceding the employment of the five
full time resident physicians and
that the mortality rate for the past
six months was 3.6 per cent of the
cases, as against 40 per cent under
the previous plan.
Mortality Rate Drops.
DR.. Rutland already has approved
the present administrative setup at
the hospital in his testimony before
the subcommittee, and explained
that the controversy existing now is
due largely to some of the younger
doctors on the visiting staff who
felt they were not getting "a free
hand" in handling surgical cases.
DR.. Rutland also has told the
subcommittee that the service of
the volunteer doctors has been good,
and their work appreciated, but the
hospital has been handicapped at
times because the good men" on
the visiting staff were not available
when needed. Under the present
arrangement with five full-time res
ident physicians on duty, he said,
patients are receiving attention
more promptly and the mortality
rate has dropped in comparison with
the mortality rate of hospitals of
the type Of Gallinger in other cities.