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Grafton and would be, unavailable
for SOME time.
Mr.. Mason said the unauthorized
admission of DR.. Blades patient
was "a clear violation Of the law"
which cost the District $270. He
said the patient, woman suffering
from tuberculosis, had been admit
ted through the apparent collu-
sionp of DIR. Sol Katz, head of the
tuberculosis department at Gal
linger.
Or. Katz is another of these
critics, too" Mr.. Mason asserted
He said he would take up i'm
mediately with the Health Depart
ment the question of disciplining
DR.. Katz.
Asked directly whether the action
to be taken against DR.. Blades had
anything to do with his blast last
week at the hospital administration
Mr.. Mason said, mo. OF course
not" -.
Sure of Marvin Support.
Mr.. Mason was not sure whether
DR.. Blades technically could con-
tinue at Gallinger despite the dis
approval of the Municipal govern
ment, but said he was confident
that DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, George
Washington presider =, would replace
the surgeon in the assignment when
he was requested to do SO.
He said the doctors supplied to
Gallinger by Georgetown and
George Washington Universities are
appointed each year by the Com
missioners on the hospitals recon-
mendation.
The next time that DR.. Blades
name would come up for consider
alton in the normal course Of events
is next January, Mr.. Mason said.
I'm sure DR.. Marvin will act on
the case Immediately, however" Mr.
Mason told reporters I'm just 60
ing to tell him I want another man
there"
Patient Remained One Month.
Mr.. Mason said DR.. Blades sent
his patient to Gallinger disguised
as an emergency case. This, he indl-
Gated, was because the hospital per-
nit bureau had ruled the admission
would be proper only under "emer-
gency" conditions.
Dr.. Seckinger had brought Mr.
Mason report on the case pre-
pared by Mrs. Hannah S. Norman
supervisor of medical social workers
for the permit bureau.
The report showed that Dr.
Blades patient was admitted to
Gallinger January 13, and was
transferred from the surgical to
The patient remained at the hospital
the patient remained at the hospital
until February 13.
Those in charge of the hospital
were not informed about this thing
at ALL Mr.. Mason said, adding that
the District Health Department was
kept equally in the dark.
Society to Probe Hospital.
Meanwhile. DR.. Raymond T.
Holden, president of the District
Medical Society, informed Commis-
sioner Mason he had assigned a
special committee of doctors to in
vestigate conditions at Gallinger
Hospital
Theodore Wiprud, the society's
executive secretary, said the action
was taken independently of re-
quest of Health Officer George G.
Ruhland that such study be made.
The committee will make a
lengthy investigation, it was said,
and will call its shots as 1t sees
them" without taking sides in per-
sonality feuds. 1t will act without
fanfare, and will make no announce
ments while the study is in pro-
gress, Mr.. Wiprud said.
When its work is done, according
to DR.. Holden, it will submit its
recommendation for any proposed
changes in the Gallinger admins
tration to the medical society's own
executive board. II they involve
matters of public policy, the men,
bership as whole will act on them.
Committee was Formed.
THE executive board has been
deeply perturbed by the inadequa-
cies said to exist at Gallinger Hos
pital," DR.. Holden stated in letter
to Mr.. Mason
Recent developments led it to
establish a Committee on Medical
Care in Public Institutions for the
purpose of making an objective