Evening star., 1941-03-05
Emergency
Hospital Put
On Tax Rolls
DC. Heads Also
Make Brookings
Assessuble

The Commissioners today ordered
Emergency Hospital and the Brook
ings Institution restored to the Dis
tricts realty tax rolls as they con-
sidered and approved six more cases
coming from their Real Estate Tax
Exemption Board which is investi-
eating the correctness OF tax ex-
emption for some 1000 privately
owned properties.
The assessed value of the Emer-
gency Hospital property, 170O block
of New York avenue NV, was given
as $1.O58, ,428, on which the annual
tax bill would be $18,522, and the
value for the Brookings Institution,
722 jackson place NV, as 1891, ,575,
on which the annual tax bill would
be $6,853.
The report on Emergency Hospital,
fled by Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci Walter L. Fowler and his two
o-committeemen, Benjamin F..
Adams, assistant assessor, and Sur
veyor F. F. Healy, recited that the
hospital, incorporated in 1882, SAID
its objective was to provide "a dis
pensary where all needy persons
without distinction may be provided
gratuitously with medical and sur
gical service and treatment ana
with medicines"
The Boards Report.
The investigating board, referring
to it's study, said:
THE hospital derives its income
from charges for room and board
of patients, special nurses, amou-
lance fees, emergency cases, labora-
tory examinations, drugs and mis-
cellaneous items. Certain bills sub
mitted by attending doctors and
collected by the hospital secure Tor
the hospital 10 per cent OF all
amounts collected. In addition, the
X-ray department is conducted as
a concession for which the hospital
receives $500 annually. AS lar
as we are able to ascertain, the
hospital receives no portion of any
of the fees obtained by surgeons
and doctors who have used It's ia
cilities.
The following contributions were
received by the hospital in 1910:
Community Chest, $27,443; Health
, ,curity Administration, S7,5O9;
{ .oup disqualification, Inc, $54, ,943;
-alth Department, $68,443, and
hers, $436,167.
Not Purely Public Charity"
THE District government con-
tributed $68, ,443 for emergency room
cases. dispensary cases, photographs,
ambulance runs and day ward cases
.. The income for the year
194O was S594,506 and the total
expenses for the same period appear
to be s593, ,788." -.---
The board said certainly we would
not be able to conclude that this
is a purely public charity, con-
Quoted without charge to inmates
even though it may be conducted
without private profit or income"
The Commissioners also reviewed
the status of the National Society of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution for its property at Seven
teenth and C streets NV, and
agreed with the investigating board
that partial tax exemption had
properly been granted, approving
the agreement with the society
under which an amount of taxes is
paid for Constitution Hall to cover
its commercial usage.
Properties Exempted.
The Commissioners found that
the following properties were prop
erly exempted from taxes:
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1700
block of New York avenue NV,
exempted by a special act OF Con-
greSs: the church and the parson-
age of the Gospel Spreading AsSo-
citation. Inc operated under the
leadership of Elder Lightfoot Solo,
mon Michaux, pastor of the Church
of God, for property at 2030 Georgia
avenue NV; the church and par
sonage of the Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church, 1419 Seventeenth
street NV, and 407 Hobart place
NV: the First Baptist Church,
southwest corner of Sixteenth and
o streets NV; and the Embassy
and chancery of the Kingdom OF the
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which
is the Yugoslav Legation, 1920 Six
teenth street NV.