Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 26, 1876, Page 3

THES CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER %, 18v-SIXTEEN PAGES. acions apartment, with took their breakfast in the dining-room on their re- | orrol - borate this statement, in refer ence to the | tion, and this interview naturally had a mdeni{ rigidity, and-a genial smile drive awa; the’grim ‘| titles. ‘Generally whea I was called npon to take turn swore that they WOULD NOT SWEEP THE FLOOR UNLESS THEY L IN AN N 3 ] i : ety NEGRO SUFFERING PROM PNEGMONIA my reach was bromide of potagsinm, which Kaal- What i the matter?” 1 asied. t 10 enable sume thirty per- h The first thing 1 no- THE GREAT CIANGE OF TEMPERATORE treatment of the Swede, i ede, in every respect. o further depress me. 'The only stimulant withi: ¢ and its depi- | my medicine there was just sufficient cod-tiver “oll in'the glass to give my draught a very fishy flavor, was tendered to me the oil a3 ‘Jook which contact with Newgats zens maturally engendered. | Not so with 08 mah neniored. . . ‘and once when Calloyy; hie never relaxes, not ‘even under the | yianging on the topin beads. Of course Ire- was brought into the ward one day about 2 o’cl v y 2 o'clock | man had added to his standard formul = m. The Doctor did not pay any attention to | matism, for the purpose’of m&'a‘flg“n',i".égfii molasses and | him antll he made e evening round. Then hg | (Pliere js no joke intended bere.) 1 {00k a dose of softeding influence of the' gentler ‘seX. “WBER | ‘fosed to swallow snch 3 bolus. and was accommo. ubjected in_going ¢ dining-room. o 80 degrees warm, the banqueting **I'made my breakfast of bread and while no at- “+WWas there no coffce or meat?" T inguired. rescribed for him. and shortly aftersards D) i o i E W 55 os ol ortl; r. | my medicine and thereby got a few grains of bro- heis round the patients arc miserable. He 3 . The gl e, hearing that an interesting case had arrived, | mide, which forthe moment relicved me. Now Iput | won't allow them to converse with each other or :]vaxff,% .',‘“'L“‘.’:S’ e:rhfi:!; hnv: ju n:c ‘R?é’i l‘l\?{; *¢There was some very toug s oy m T o e L inqUIred, e | Seciied oo Iniorove the opporiuaity aad delies & | 1% any ressonsble man, i the mind of & porson | move from shelr bedsides. —He, execciess s e 1o “fhat there are certain_discases which io made to Warm cognizant of the fact that bat ‘thees. was ot enaugh g0 &0 round, and I di B not even get any of that, t X i ] Bk o e to the colfee, 1 | the unfortanats man'a chiest, and appiied the steth- | supplying the disscciinz-room, in a normal condi- | morose and gloomy, owing to_their not being | if all the patients ha Another malcontent growled round for some | Process, was stripped to the buff,.anc de h me in Tnegnl ! i T time, and fi ke R 3 D e bulf,.and the studenta | will decide” with' me in the negative. . W L Hue, :::\ly!w.neund{eodr:ucgo in"u .u\\ecplu egative, . Who | Wy patlents should be subject to the vagaries ' oatism, and consumption. aud from these diseases § have scen t into the cold corridors and eit of meal-times in the chilling at- hers | When the examination was over, the poor fellow | these men? .If the statements of old-time lect ing e ure on a living corpse. 1le hammered away at | capable of conceiving such a diabolical scheme for | prison discipline which renders the patients Thould have their own medicile d o glass in which to take their medicine the expense would not be very d:lns};n -:rc:ltnunnrce lolthdnll‘lfirfl\vl)‘-flddba rlex' i ceil 25 mav ‘requently the cloth carried ronnd by the of & tharac in the.receiptof & salars of $253 LUy, vortiiny, and ratuer thin deini out of o Escope without ceasing, The subject, during this | tiont Nearly every oue, Twill nndertake to £y, | able to have any intercourse ith each otler. Tl | In rotation each took a hand at the steihescope. | then fs responsible for the marbd: condition of Who were able to wicld a broom were appealed to, | Was 80 exhausted as to be i i . 3 8 te "unable to put | patients arc troc the County Commission- month, is one of the numerous conundrums g X e e e | oa his shirts aguln. The murse. hnd to per- | Gra whodicker with the contraciars for supopies | In the maongement of _ the hospital S,'f:;',":'fifif'fiof!a?"fig.\“-fixv‘ehryofi’nldg:fl%?n;'f;& After Col. Clears's to be obtained outside hat it was considerably in- is concerned, to that dished T is o luxory with which molasses taking of the dining-room. and the compact was made, | the nurse came to one of the ringleaders of | form this oflice for him. I i yard, the woe g o im. He was then left to | are responsible. The contractors for supplies, be- which arise Bt ey e Tumiess tiog and directed bim 10 asslst in | bimself, and twenty minutes afterware he died, | cause ey stand in with the (i Y snonen inadigein Says the rebellious Epirit, not fo swecp until we get our breakfasts. tarc, Ofthe two evils T would choose the least. wsioners; | Hospital snueu'! should be allowed to indulge in Bié medicine arriving hulf an hour after hi P 2 r hisde. | the Warden, because be does mot aitend f0 very kind of amus ithin thei Wo hava resolved | gease, InTegard to e case, o gueations fremnt | business and trackles to the Commisaioners; S | e e cleele. ronna. e et suend THE HOSPITAL. - ges ue breaktaats. Somo | Hhemsclves o the ntelizen; ceides Wy Ui the | Bousekesper, becauso she i t00 young to know her | & few haury e ronvemation 1s catculatod to reliove TS DEPECTS. , ent reader: Why did the | Bousckecper, bethies 8 et they Sro nogngent, | them of the eamul which hospiial life induces. | Cook Comnty Hospital is spoken of by those Jts way into that apart- ward. In other r is_the same, disadvantage in din- ramps with very healthy us convalescents, abstinence dur- any of these men are enough bread We did not get a smellatthe | crowd of tyros in the medical i i 4 wo Bave combined topsther fo p 3 ical Pl‘olessx'on.‘ or | they steal what little good food is sent up for the DENIES TUE PATIEN b pite ey nhuwfid e r the pur- | perzons tocorroborate this llist)emunl I give the oc- SRR EATIENT (Y T oTme e ity provende molasses for us. There 18 hcjme don’t,” said the nufee, with a significant glance at | numbers. tites, znd others a the refractory diseases they treat. got of checkers and a _checker-board, nts. o all that T am able to do,™ was the | stand or speak. And {,n & 1t condition to be mauled and overhauled by a | lazy, and overbearing;, the pantrymen, because | But Callopy . ol D interested as being one of the most complete and the resident doctors (%), who are only THELR COMPANIONS. institations of the kind in the country. It may ;ix‘;lnuon with him. He. ‘asked ‘me my me -a tetecram. Then he walked “ont “of ‘the ward, I haye never seen him stay longuoifx :L‘t ward than upon that occasion, orinake any morc important inquiries of the pati 1haye statid before, when he s requested b; % come to the ward an listén'to the ‘complaints of som satisfied, he neglects to do so. to be expected that the Hospital will be con- ducted in 8 proper mander when the head of the concern refuses to attend to his duties! He ought to see that the pantrymen, who have been told by -Callopy to look out for Number e and the ‘patients ‘afterwards, do not ‘stedl the patients’ food. Sucha recomme; ‘tion coming from a nurse means, “Rob the si ‘men of what you want, and let them bave what he Warden gives a good deal too He allows them to ticnts. Even, 03 . e of the dis- How, then, is it ‘much license to the nuraes. discharge patients, and conduct the wards in ac- cordace with the bent of his pecaliar inclina- Patients are therefore DEPENDENT ON THE CAPRICE OF TIIE NURSE ‘tions and tastes. e 0 Cupants of beds Nos. 8. 33, 20, 28, 26, and 22, g i X C3Wel, if- y ! ) 20, 23, 26, and 2. 1 | half:fiedsed stndents, who don't ‘the prop- ; 1 : o g - 2 I If yos dont want £ sweep the floor, | domot know thelr nemes, and therefors give thelr | ertics of the drugs they use or the e ame bfthg | Gardsdud checkery are Lbasent A, bat | be, but it has not s galvanic battery In Working | . E . order, glthough there are numerous cases in'the A man was brought in a f us e iy mu‘,;;‘,’;{“g’;pfig‘;"‘:gg}g; 8 e v{;fl%flgflssu TOUNG MEN MARE % in conscquence of the harsh mandate | hosplital which electricity wotild ‘materially o g haht re decudedly farcical, and | of Caltopy T had mo: opportunity of usiag them. | asslst and probably specdily cure. They have's reply; **but I don't want to be put on short com- | the matter with him, or give the history i Iy u: Whiich , or i istory of ms | would, / without doubt, be ve amus- T it b 8- | Some persons mizhit object to the use of playing- | gq), = i ion in whict: il § ) £ | malvanic batiers, but the condition i ot it iE RUDEST BOORS mons and half starved.” ‘march throueh Chey- e Y eune Kanlman, who {s not 4 diaduate, | Ing (6 any_ practitioner unacquninted with | cardson the ground that it mizht lead to camb. **1 will bring the Wi » i K in the Warden tip,” put in the nurse, | 4nd thereford not a doctor, directed that e should | the modus operandi of Cook County Liospitol | ling. But there e wbling takinz | 15, and the condition fn which it has been fora; pe found in s day's B n as the dishes con- and you ce y voq 24 tis dbes o, you can make your complaints to him. vbies aro_pla T | be taken to the Poor-House ¥ students, All T haveever soen them do is to ham- | place in Ward A, fornone of the patients have any | long time ‘past, renders it of no more use for | don't care if your meals hose AN OPEN WAQGOYN, ON A COLD, BLEAK DAY. | meraway at the chestof some poor consumplive | money, and if they do happen to Le hegled '’ % | gqlyanic purposes than an o dis coal-scuttle. ¥ g are a3 sUMDtuons as ¢} IN AN O N hest of L d if do h be ‘*heeled™ it al-scuttl & purposes rdinary ‘and supply themselves served up at the White I1 ashi ki in bl D toes Tave p ite Ilonse at Washington. It Mr. Skinner, seeinz him being conducted to the | hose condition ‘they know perfectly. 1am firmly | fs oniy to the extent of a few cents. In the Acci- makes no difference to me what meals you have.” | convey: i mpressed with the ‘velfef that this {s one of their | dent Ward of the Gencra ospital, _Bur- | It certainly o Ve £ i - nveyance, ordered him back azain to the ward, | impressed with t! il thbt this s f thel v : s . £ ,’fl T have gone short at breskfast for sovoral:| This proceeding was repeated a few days after- | Chicfamusements, ac from the erratic manner in miu[gnnm En;lnnlu. w\u:n:rll ‘p]nlt sln“ nl' couple n;d if it served n‘n other utrw e'nwonrld' Difllt’ d » purpos Lefore the meat xhausted, and the unsup- off bread. and butter if sscs if they cannof td with un empty stomach. s sent in the same grab-game is played. drat served. Under any circamstances cient to fve a spoon= refore, 4 number of the retiring men or; " remonstrated the irate And I, " exclaimed the nurse, o make 3 meal e et any, 3 *have bronght | House and Ski id ieve | 3 : n o daL] excls i 3 fiince sid ho should not. The man, | Tieve that whenever onc of them is ttacked with s s h‘?{;‘ In ‘::fi g e doveral times, and | hovever, was vary trouslesome, aud required & | ennuihe rushes to the nearest ward with a ham. o aeks which TR T ooy rery e , and buckbite, and talk of the institation | of the two nurses Ski ? i 3 o grambe, and buck he institntion €8 Shinnot gave way, and on o day | stethicscope, and goes n for tapping chests and ¢ 3 4 B aud ‘;}mfl‘ utyony CTfifim Sy inything to the War- | when the thermometer was very [ow the unfortu- | sounding langs in the same Warhet that a drowsy 3:::3-‘ “mn.ny‘!:; o ;fl‘lie:flh{rcel::n:??'\'::‘; low i ¢ comes t6 me, r more than sufll few spoonfuls each, wards Kanffman said he should go to the Poor- | Which they indulge in it, 1 am constrained to be: - - | of monihs _some fourteen years ato et B 0, | o fund of amusement to thestudents, who might which they used to sing regularly cvery | repair with it at any time to the Morzue and fo- any of the amusements induiged in there | gugurate o temporary resurrection on a ‘small " scale. From the foregoitig rémarks, it may be R Mmsvas conveved to the Boor-House in an | athlete would have recuurse to o hurizontal bur ot | condition, from ampuiatons and othor serions in- | presumed by the Intellizent reader that I, at g00d deal of nursing, and to the joint supplication | mer, piece of india rubber, and n complicated | da; ssid the spokesman, ** | open wazon. There aro several points fn regurd to | trapeze for thic parpore of ‘stimulating the circula- | Surles, no fatal result was ever known to follow | Jeast, do not consider that this Hospital is su G 3 a K pe- can piteh him a yarn, To complain The nurse went away mattering something, and | feelings of horror by those who posscss only s they complain of the too frequeéat use of t ¢ discontented offi- e_sufferers resolve thout, as they 0.te: to bring down upon b and, conscquentl Ot Of this man that will bo read with | tion of the bigod. 1f the patients are any criterion, | the demonstrative ‘mirth of the convalescents. The oo, | e e merry us the participators, | FIOF to all other Institutions of the Kind in the the strik yeepis he strikers grumblingly set about sweeping out | modicam of eympathy for their fellow-creatures. turs sledse-hammer, and assert thut it makes their | and for the moment they forgot thelr pain and suf” | country: 1 believe that it is as illy appointed as enerally conceded, 1 be- cted to have vora- From the time Jeast, 1o the present, the unfor- uraged i _the per- .Scientists teach, and the Hospital d bear it. 1Lis ers are not expel dinary appetites. d. The Warden did not come u t = : platoie, Althoneh. the nurse ha 0 hear the com- | the first order was given for his bemng transferred | Of conrse, they are not professional men, and db | given'to the sufferer to brood over his Infrinit : notified him that | o the Poor-House, the handled bi Tot know what, is g0od 1 e ao, ] Soveral of fhe patients hd compluints to make- o , he urees Dmdied B o ow what js good for them. ‘+\We do, ' say | uniil he 1s ina fuir way of becoming & ypochon= fhe Warten b i . ool u:‘ersn.w:::;‘échml-:v zongaiyaste e e e iig by fo shpe | the students, *‘although we don't happen’to be | drizc of the worst Find. Ao enno change in regard to tho, supplies, and one | without breaking one of his arms, or otherwise Jieve, that paup Cions or even Or ‘have not been encot f gastronomic feals. In the first place, in dressing him, when | chestssore and unduly irritates their Jungs. Dut, e i el i S: ut, | ferinys. Dutin this hospital every nppnflnnl!{ués :"'_‘is mism\:lmnzed. Itnl;scons%ructed zln ‘pavilions, J ree wards to o pavilion. The wards are some "200 feet long by ‘thirty feet wide, and ‘are occu- Died by thirty-iwo beds, of which onfy two 02 three are generally vacaut. The mattresses are at they would not get all his clothes on gradnates.™ WIEN THE CAT'S AWAY, HOWEVER, THE MICE N s WILL-PLAY. or two of the growlers would have been seit to the | seriously injuring him. One of the patients who - SANITARY. One night, when the narse had left the ward to stuffed with new hay, which, aceording to the 2 this fuct, have wisely p il be a plentifal sup e5t0 feed the internal acnl diseasc and enforced fam- the embject require Toor-House because they vave too mach trouble. MEDICAL OFFICERS. ANOTIER CAUSE OF COMPLAINT sided hat_there had peen through e i S S ot A | s s orm ke w15 or ams o | Sl S I Uy e e | B e, G e i Piison. " “When he iwas Srougnt back again VITAL IMPORTANCE nied by & dozen or 80 of his satellites, to Whom he | time a death takes place. This, however, I am be was pat ina chatr from which b, 24, pot 92001 | 1 om o Ganltary point of view, fnasmuch ‘s | Safred -men mysteries of pousiogls oYl ar giren ho e e v aho Y oS Ve r more th venty- 4 = 4 fering from. is- | matress ken out for a short time ‘ai en or more thun twenty-four bours. All nisht lon {lie health of title hospital phtients, and fn fact | case. Te. left the ward | without tak- | brouunt back and placed on the Dot 1o which it be- he { and general dissatisfactic c of | was allowed t in in a sitting ! on is the neglect of O s allowadl 0 80 £o Ko | e e o acisisonn of Ghicago, s favolved. | 5, uih Mm tro lacie, uediscsppe, | lons 1 viands to etfcct 1 cannot get them. But even this means of \ the vitals s mot always | Patients by the medical offic ights afterwal Vi vi e crwards he was allowed to go to bed with of a'very modern pattern. A consalescent ‘of the THE TEMPERATURE OF THIS WARD These consist | nis clothe: i il sist son. Inthe course of the night he com- | W cami his ward i yEry | f of a youns student of Rush Medieal College of | mitied o nuisance. ILis nether garments were par- When I came Ipfo this ward it contained tvo | prastical-joking ordo ot dnce nopled ono of the | Jafradsent) o Bl el o patientia- typhoid fever paticnts. One was convalescent, Atcthescopestohis cars and entered upon snex- | toa profuse perspiration, and within an bour the fucky individuals who liave helter frow disease and starvation. 70 a number of men cawme into 2and complained that the Jodchisated to 4 fed hither for & effeminate appearance, named Kauffinan, who is known among the paticnts by the i = P ¥ cathartic | source of amusement to o snail, along the cold | had taken a tum for the better. He was still | Tne poor fellow did not know what to make of this | the conghs of the consumptives. ‘The fault In tially cieancd w ry tialy cieaned with o mop, and I his Bare foct 02 | ana with tho®othier the crisis was past, and 1 e £ the patlents in rotation, Hefrst | thermoneter frequentls’ falls tiventy to ihirty de. 3 pasty o | A Ohesto, whom hie Fequested to strip. | grees, giving colds to the patients and asgrvating is sobriquet of Pillsey. He i 1t zing q ¥ runsin s leash with | stone corridors to the freczing utmosphere of the | goyons and his pulse aboormelly rapid. I T Pl upon him, but he stripped ike a littte | respectTies witn the enginders, who, It da claimed, SUPPLY OF BREAD dining-rooms. 1 ick : i 5. If the man had not been sick such & ann. The operator struck, the subject several | pay more sttention to tue imbibation of alcoholic another youthful devolee at the shrine of med- 10 % it : H X % jonrney, with his feet anprotected, and with | must conf t i P 2 icine named Skinner, whose professional appel- & her St mot vet on,on o etsomely cold da ok L; ““e 50 th]:i utm;s‘wlm very sirong fecl- | s over the. fivs m proféssionnl manner, and | sumulants than lo thelr ST TN, L, the lation in the ward 35 Knock-"em-Stiff. These | would have been sulicient to brinz on o AT | ings—feelings akin o fear—thut I received the | then applied 'the stethescope, appearing to be | ward thermometets, A sigailicant fuct in connec- ich nédvs that I was in the vicinity of two deeply terested for a few moments. When he | tion with th.s matter is, that there are two contruct- { the staff of oom with empty stomachs. Fthree of them were standiug round el v youthful enthusiast: R ¢ pon tneir grievance, s are kept in check by the | SR AL Tave srought abouta ferions in- | typhoids. The allusions I am compelled | to'some dozen patients sathered aromnd toe bed: | gincs in thie two pavili , dwelling i ¥ bed, dwellin: serene gravity of Prof. Ross. to bonds to run the en- ong. These men ore gentle- which might have resnited in his death, but whi Tose Trom his stoop'nz posture he sid, in effect, | ors wno have entered i The two youn i i ¢l young | disposition. There is, however, another resson | 4o make here are of o somewhat | **Gentlemen, you will find in alf cases of pueumo- | men of leisure, and walk sround —with hrongh the ward carrying three of bread 1or the table of the rooust & who were recovering their health 4 with nn unsatisficd desire for food. gentlemen make their rounds twico & day when | ¥by he should not have becn taken into the din- ’ hey foe so disposed, and when they feel Tndis: | 125 : : et atare, bt they e moesiaied by | B 5 gl T o tain functions had given to his upparel a disgueting | the fearful danger a continuance of the prac- | lunz. “In eases of consumption, where the lunzs e n pleurisy, the pul- | their bands in their pockets, ‘while their em- Tnohary respiration In the leftlovo of thoright | ployes attend to the boilers and, the ing-room: 1is want of that sbility to_control cer- citing apparatus. The engineers, however, alleze they | odor which can be more readily conceived of thad | gieeg involve. A man unable to move from | havebeen e o n plectarol variois éizes, that | that the Irrcuular temperature 1s due to the Reglic been notided of these things time posed to attend to their dutics ‘ident.y regards such matters The Warden bas 20 sgain, but he ex .described, . As ho was pushed into the room the Tebpiration censes altogcther 'hat cCrepitus | gence of the nurses, who do not work tae registors apartments, a . Y % ;. weak stomachs of the most sensitive patients turn- his bed requizes & number of offices periormed ‘3 3 ¢ stove, > : ¥ ; Waich you hear in this region (pointinz | wi i i o de- e, | T o hawscatod, and were compelled to | for him whith man less helpless does not. | to_the ToBL N ¥ peculiur to (poniins | with 1o ‘#fi'e'fl'fi{hflécgméf*ilfilsnalguc“fix‘i'{sd;fu Tie is_Eeenly sensitive of. nde on the part of o dssatis- ¢ base enougl o com- ine frequently changed doctors in their atlempt 2% beneath his notice. pu and devote their attention to dime novels. If in of having their m a patient is brougiit into the Hospital after they n them by young Jesve without_completing their repast. Anot 3 e ense b rererence to the iele ropast, AROUSE | [0.8.1.] ‘The first time Ibad oseasion to ‘aso | ease in ‘colored people. Now domt you | wholis toblume. B s vi18 CARELESSNESS OF TiIE NURSES | WidLin ibepital parlance Is termed bottla— | forset it The best formula for discises TUE WINDOWS IN TIE WARD forget \a, and it1s the bist remedy for diseases | are so badly wmade that whenever thereis wind have made their rounds in the moraing, he will i v ic = ent, | e 2, T i iapos.tion of many of the pa- | aiid which Is usodl by the paticns in the event | OF SIS K0t AN L urts of tiucture of Bourbon | plowins there is a draught uyon the beds. . Someof remedy for the discas d asto become discontente ins upon tnem, and 1w discover 8 EOO o have to wait until they go round,upon their | paticuts. From the tune he ivas first brought into s their ailment of tho operation of & diuretic, or when hc is ! i and one part of water, where the latter is desired, ;i i Pae Hospital the poor fellow sullered from an in- | moved by natural promptings,—the nurse | hat I nave the greatest faith in the tiricture undi- ;'fr:::;-‘e“gf:;:;}u‘”:}l“‘:g comiequently Al nocturnal beats, and sometimes untii the fol- y ordinate thirst: ile used to et up und search for | brought me tne utensil used vy the sick ty- | luted.” A muormur of approval broke forth simul- | are, is considerably less than in the middle of the for the most strengtheni . to sssist them in Their struggle death. But notwithstunding the Jowing morning. v : venty- i ing morning. It was nearly twenty-four | somethine to drink, and observing on the tables | phoid patient. It bore ample evideuce of hay- | tanevusly from ail the students, and thoy proceed- 1he pantry atford: ‘Last night the wind blew a hurricanc, and. hours aiter I entered the Hospital before Ire- | the small spittoons ‘nsed by the patients, which are | ing done hezvy duty for some time past, and ed to the nest ‘bed. ' Thus they went round the lthough the thermometer- stood at 76 dezrees, T with disease and abealute abscace in t of the generous_impul ¢ breasts of hospital patients e o s o Moanolders | ceivell auy mudicine. e S ame sbapt a3 ordmary de.mking: | ths futerior. was Leavily conted with & a6 Aok e stk Loe the : ciscly ¢ e shap o 24 | Svhole ward prescribing stimulants in lacge quanti- o o o B e woald. pick them upand drain them 10 | of something, the e oaeat part. of epasit | Nes to each pationt, whieh, it is needies 1o sa5, m“:.f,‘;;;;‘;:;“:-:,‘,’a::,“.‘.;,;’v‘z“k,“;e‘f‘T?E‘Z’,’,‘,?,‘,??I i Any pain?’ onc of the doctors asked, th i k cdical ud A 3 e 2 d, the 'drogs. On two occasions henicked up the | gro’jest known to medical men, It hud mot era ot admimstered by the nurse on his return. | ment of the wurds, and the abscnce of an éle- ‘moved, the Warden walks th his friends and strangers, 3 ignited emblem of Bumbl areso upmistakably found the bailding wi seli-complacent and d pight of the day I was admitted. “Not when I am lying still,” I responded, | &1 d i i in ying y , | tained nearly half a pint of pulmonary diecharge, which was emitted from the nozzle acted after o D ed % and ne passed on. The next morning he pre- | intermized B o ted blood . aud | the maoner of an emetic. This pic buen Speedily suppressed had tie murse beon at 18 | female, surgical ward 1s08, [, SPECIAL CASES. cuxpidores belonging 10 two ndividuals in& very.| poo qenged Tor 2 long time, and the efiluvium This was the only piece of pleasantry that was | vator, constitute & gerious disadvantage. The Avanced sta zc of consumption. They each con- dulged in by the patients. and that would have [-male sargical ward is on the seconl floor and the e Y i v O e of carth- | post. Every man loughed heartily at the gro | aaics are so cobstructed thal it iu-‘finflfihm’fl{fi suliva of comsumptive consisteney. Every | cnware was the only one in the ward, and thic | tegue performance which partook of o grim Kinl'| carry an injured person up them on a stretcher. sm"‘lficfl for me, but I did not get my medicine | /7%, 2 oor besotted fool in his im O Mo Tused 1t jolnt) 1 until the sun had nearly reache fan. | poas: it ! n- | typhoid and Iuse jointly until T was ‘able | of bumor. The gas was turned down und the men % oul i T 1 its meridinn, | B5 0 P2 Vorongh 'this performance | tbzo perambulating afier otiier gods. Shortly | moved {hon Sietlthiy, afrald that the nurse {f,.;;:::,‘;“g;:fi51;‘:};1,';;:“;’;::5'3;3:;';‘“.;;:;:,% 1IN PROOF OF THE STATEMENT {hat the Warden and doctors are aware of the manner - in which patients are deprived of the s ordered for them, I beg to cite the fol- f which have come under And when I did gétit, faugh! whatstuff. I | someof the paticnts called the attention-of the | pesore thisocearrence, however, 2 paralytic was would break in knew it would not suit me. It was composed 08 Nlthongh it was known that the man was liable to of phosphate of soda and salycylic acid, and | repeat tne dose at any momeat uo precautions lowing cazes, many o tivo thev | were taken to place wuter by his side so that he 4 D suudeniy upon them, ‘OF | gtairs in the arms'of an uttendant. She, of coursc, B O ot 16,1t but tho nurses intertered not. | Proneht in and the pioce of furniture did treble | 16, doctor_ rotur _ for bis - instraments | would be ia fatense agony during the journey, aud duty. The odor ewitted from the interior in- $¥%hé ottier patients who joined in the tilatity | it is mot impossiiie that befure the ward was cased i tio corre: vi 3 H e andlertd us lizht-heirted us T was on socount | reached the siinple fracluce might be changed Into ! ] d o e amlo S“"{"{f?’““dy‘g “Lm the in- | of it, the, practical Jokers have reason lo congeutu- | a dangerous eompoanl O ated. . Fracture. ould queneh his thirst without emptying the con- | ¢ sefulness. e again there wasa | Iate themsclves upon the success of their drollery. | Then \7hen the surgeons were reauy to operute she added a large proportion of alcohol. I leaveit \C 5 1 ~ 3 tents of spittoons into his stomach thereby saving | paucity in the ward of those pieces of bed-room | Ialways feel like n mite at o ‘fane-al when Callopy | would have to be-cacried in the xame way downtwo my personal notice: Before the removal to any medical man whether such a prescription to the new building & | was calculated to doa man any govd suffering ot o ShMie tronble of emptying them into the | furpiture Which form s promiment . 2 B - | B o B e e ot thi dn’flpwhm Dy haa die | o prominent icature of | is around ‘He ought to be a sexton or the super- | fights of stairs "and along a long passuge to the am- -y well-rezalated toilet sarvice. TInfaut, there | intendentof an extensive charnel-house, or be | pintheatre, where the operation of reducing the out. Thelioked | B0t O Miiance driver to convey this man o | wis only oneat our end of thoward, and azain the Discad here he conld Giltivate the acquaintance | fruciure would ‘be porformed. The woman would man, around whose bed the angels were hover- | from sub-acute rheumatism d ine, waiting to bear him away upon dissolution taking place, complained to did not reccive the milk-punch ordered Mim. stomach. T asked for a chas It nest affected my ki me feel very weak. the Doctor that he me to take it, and_gave me a violent pain in the | {he C sont’ y it i e, DULIL WS o- | o wald ag fAF e o fellowmanased | tfphoid and tae rheumatic clasped s, and | Of some festive ghouls and roysteringbody-snatch- | have to b caraied back again, great care having to e and made | serivea at s destination abont V130 0 elock . m. | fucnurse dedared this One to_be our common | ¢7 be observed in order that the setting of the B eant “droppinis | Nine o'olock arcived and the man had not return: property. Having gotteh over a somewhat difiicult JOIN 1S THE COMPLETE ANTITHESIS bong might mot be distarbed. A man jBus constant droppng | N minatehand of tne clock describel two circles P jei to becsarions for & momicnt. In being | of his fellow nnrse. Tio has o Aoy, S lecs ap- | having a similar fracture would necessarily have to ko se. the. same utensls which the | pearance, and his appearance dogs RO e 2 | e put throngh the same tactics, but would suffer losy pain, 09 phe male surgical ward ia o floor lower Dr. Bellficld, the gentleman in attendance upon him, a young man overflowing with the milk of luman kindness, immediately got right up on Yisesr when he heard of the outrage. In an oatburet of honest indiemation he madea bee- Jine for the pantry and seized the eilprit by the collar, “Get out of here, you dirty, groveling wears away 4 stonc. sulted in their giving me c i'lg;: B?E["az‘ luOSPlTlAXL COMBINATION of iodide of potassium and wine of colehicum. X Tu was o peculiar fact that every patient dn the the water-oloset soms hours e camtmove 884/ | porfeotly ware that typhold fover i ait e | Eollopy's risnt bower isn consumptive patient, ward suffering from rhgmatisin was treated | ¢sThen let him ‘freez," 1 with the same ingredients and the same quan and still he had not returned. Ten minutes later by o ater | oo Saricnts naed, T fum o nunscessary iskof | characrer. We ke I o, G001 deal better than : e ay 1o, e arse aud. said, ** No. | PR BIAEL,*Cr adilion to tho one 1 wasal- | the ausicre G slthonshy 1Y, .700 O e s ambes | down. o order to do away with the cruclty this Pl e faaumber was, -*has beon in/| HIDE R LLEES 0L dissdvantage, Lain | getic. There s no love lost bebieey i o0 txen. | mode of conveyance entuila, i THERE SHOULD BE AN ELEVATOR ugh for the reception of a TO DEATILY ous rel| fous, butit is contugious through the exereluent Whors he will shield from any aitempt that may bé | in the bullding lares eng b | aoen 1ok M i aliowad to frecze generous 17| Thoiefore, thiouga the caipuole negloct of | O e and hit to the Poor-House, so long ushe | bed and two portets., 1o thia WAy PO seri- Tn | fhonse. Han drrived, when he was dragged out nurses, I was handed utensils coftaining the obeys his mandates, and does O eratderable por- | ously injared conld be taken fo the ward ona 1 e i 28 'GERMS OF TYPHOID, FEVER. tioy of his work for him. stretchor, and placed in bed, where he could re- Shhin until 3 surgeon was in attendance to operate only attrib- | fnto the cotd corridor, down a fiight of stairs, sud L swork f¢ ; 3 3 s . J 5 g That they were not scalded was patent from the " Both nuriies tike doyand night watches, and they expericnce | into the open air, but only to be ordered back dm,c.,.,yd;,,inn, and that mc,«.,},’:nm m‘;lm-ecf,:"{ ciange round. every week. Tnorder to make the | upon him. Iie ‘béd conld then be taken to the e ehock Sunday | elevator and landed o the Hoor where the amphi, robber of the sick,” he voelferated, and forcibly each case different. the crestfallen scoundrel to tae d the nurse to appoint in his stead an honest patient who would do the Lidding of the doctors and give the patients all et was allowed them. Alittle uver, say, & week azo a man suffering from intermittent fever and affection of the lungs complained av least a dozen times to Mr. Kauffinan, 3 young man who walks the Hospi- tal, that he did not receive the food necessary for him in his condition. bread and butter, and did not reccive the more tastéful things which were gent. into the pantry. x of the yoting men or an inaptitude ward; when he.directe ceasi 3 ¢ pe 3 i o 0o one oceasion I told Rauffman | Vepe perpetrated on this AR T cannot toll, s his | TG00 g theurticles in question were often that I was very weal and nervous, which was | ({go " column _intervening betieen us. 700 c not, remazkable consilerlng. 1 was living on | g e fr O T oend hunded direatly to him. Ihave | be suppused thal read an utter, and not moving trrom m; el incipa ) S5 e, 1 cked m £ Pre- privcipally L du b iskrs that " he | Kpown them tobe et o waer-closet, and ‘be | Aboat & orclock Sunday seribe :‘cl;me bromide of p;tnsséiqm for me. he made an entiy in a preseription-book, he likea hoz, or in other words, like a county of- T e e O lect Ly s haich of youme | fcisl. Wile in the developneat.of this DEo: common water-cioset and thus_into the DRDIC o and iawll;oues,lnnd fu;x]slumifixly lsz\m: 4 This man Sovers, the health of the whole West Side, and iu | emPHY bedand as been through all the Enclish, and evi . 3 5 l&xostol ot L e o evidently | {0 TocTlarity had been highly euccessful. His he tricks by means of which he can obtiin ev- " espised hig] low and rich and . : e it meant that || oaett, despised of tho high and lo% 111G Bave broen out o ke Y e, > But whothor the | sturdy tramp, and with Dis ussistance removey the ) s e e ot o | fioor, and ufter thelr immediate nece He could not eat als, and knows thing he wants.” I was a hospt miserable existence s Shudont Siinner. What other cruelties ; e when called for by the typhiid I know ositive- | change, one. nurse gocs o 3 Tetites i ¢ > Shmde, O B Eot 2o oif ‘daty antil 6 o'clock | theatreis situsted. ~11i3bed conld thes be carried Yed' wos invisible to “me owing to & very | puifrom by bed underneatn which they stood for Monday morning, In this way it would matarally | inio the ‘amphitheatre, and the patient removed to ¢ he his @ twenty-four bours' | the operation-table. Fue u&zemlmn performed, he e iios of “the kind. | wonld he returned fo his bed, and his bed returncd e o 'ho. tnens down the | fo the ward ‘in the sime mauaer it had rncipally, e O or Whisky e hnd beon | OF the ward to, ey ORI N or all e | mis, snd it isull Uz usd, SO e on out | becn bronght down. This would be a T | o g Bourbon, down is thront | SERCRL LS., ol by throwing it down the | the medieines (07T e A b b that the | humane method of conveying sick patients 1o the 8}Tagand sick want for nothing more, he gocs to an | amphitiicatre, and no hgspital of e magnitudo bile in ! ro- S importante of the chief hospital In Chicaxo ;‘,fi.;‘:!}g;*gok;::‘,";::,;‘3;:",‘:;‘.“,::-‘,’;;21‘;';;,‘;;:i;;',, B e Whoo city, was jeopardined. Tt i dillicalt TAKES A QUIET SLEEP. P withont such elevators, in each pavilion & 3 to tell, in vlle: of this pructice h:;in‘gu owuned 5 until about a qnarter to 6 o'clock next morning. "Tnggmgg shonld be . i > vera ‘ 0sp.tal, how muny of the typhoid cases Wwaich | 1f any of the patients have died during the time he e mictottune drove him fowor and lower. until e | pave broken out o tho ity for yearspast ean be | hus i in the nrans of Morpheus he wikes up some A GENERAL WARD for the reception of all patients on 1l o Y bjected | o was | BOUS topet e rrled throu:mn the whole length | yatch. 1o, ROTERRE i bily persons he could find with whom t ¢ ! L i om | AUt b s ars maos to Blame i3 s question | corpse to tue Morgue, Tuenthe £1s Iy tarned o The only persons N cou) i beats, who | 2ures or doctars st Sk G, Leivs, The doctors | Bads made, etc., Gnd Tuen,the gis Is tarned 0% | heen atiended to ther, they should e remoted 1o the wards in_which they are to remain until they as by playing possum In | hene about the lowest'basement enlooms: when | For dhom to settic amon themselion, | THEIGS | BEel™ e 58" frooaa adaier, and cds e L3 e : Tecover. . Speaking-tubes are also required in The young sawbones took no motice of bis representations, and the fact that the complaint 1sd been made reached the cars of the pantrs: Tiie students reveived the comrse | heldoked at the heigut from which he had fullen “¢ lauzh, amid which I in- | 8.devaon possessed him. hat I had had the misfortunc to be in h ceraily O eard to which. disinfectants | .hia breakfust zocs dawn town, drops Into Jim 3o : s Prospects had been | L0 allimstances, 1 SR dmatger for the doc- | ‘Garry's and talks Tilden and Grops into Jim M¢- | trery ward connecting with the Wardew's ofice e e amphithcatre. They would savea great pwallowed up in the maelstrom ‘of drink. b y 2 3 fors and nurscs to ight out togethern. Upon. the cvils of - having militury ~des ‘ut thiat 1 was earried in_ almost uncon- | aud - to drnk he flow for the pelict A CASE OF SCARLET FEVER, 2P%%he head. ool aiaiies and" eltoe despot | Geal of time und labor, and e a source of greut re- (oves | Yiot to the nurses, who ace already shockingly over man, and from tuat time be was neglected B e ih. - From tho | froti the mental torture which drink tsclt bad | oo SR O\ ard tio wecks or dobefore | oo to mmother o eilgon O r aloon, | or JOra¢ | worked. and meed the active sympathy of every scions with 8 sn ew Worse; as a natural {3 et time I came into the oy shortly afterwards left the Hospl- ital up to the present created. Ile had reached the lowest round in_the S Mmained in the publicward | to the Tos ital to sleep benevolent ex-patient. L T it e | Tcame. How lonz v gout lias _continued | ladder of degradation and was ahout to touch bot- | § SHNE S 1V state, buv 1 presnme, judging | plcoliol he has imbibed. - An outsider would think y L we to narse | , There ure two fa.ngs which the pereons ranning tal for tue purpose of = obraimn g <0i same | tom when he was brought to _the Hospital by the o enstom, ¢t he was given & bath and put to 3 & proper medi- treatment and grood food. ) itaver ifficult and a) une a very diflicnlt and ardgous nnde this Bospal meed to ve purticalarly guarde Y 3 ‘although it is a different olico. The man was despised merely-becaunse he i i T th T 0 s b I T the public ward until the sadents .came | thirty-iwo sick per:ons for twenty-four hours in | this bospial nced 1o, 00, Bl nce'taone of the ¢ once informed consin torheumatisin, was member of the family, and re- t. 1was given one kind Whtle 1 slowly got | ance of Epiritous liquors £ 2 treat rhemmatism, n emadsted consumptive iade several com- edical frienc i plaints of a similar r_h:u-‘;\m:rl e adinto sut. The pantry-man, learning had been grumbling, state. the beef-tea and milk ordered for the patients kgz);uld only have what the others would rot with the same re- o that the man ly that out of me that zont. thonzhfirs 3 more troubleson d different trentinen! dicine for two diseases. the better of the rheamati almost and T think I am ina fair every joint in my body, defined case of rh ‘The day that I came into the Hospital way 10 have a pretty ea- olie aed ton wrenter degree thun lis atfendants 3 4 s e 1 = bed in the BUOHC Weid come round, some hours | succession. But ol an experiencer ife has to o and ol BeROClLes, ies of Jonn themselves | 1ick the paticnss entrance, T think theg directed | do 10 o e o s bed, court sleep fora | public wards of ¥ are favorably inélmcd “towards 4 generous allow- | that he should be put in o private ward off th.s | while, submit to its influence, ond let the sick crv | PERSONS SUFFERING FROM INPECTIOUS DIS- i i B Snad there ten days, and was again | out for assistance until they are hoarse, and then EASES. Ninc-tenths of the | Ward- ¢ e ! i .2 & taken into the public ward. He Tind mot then fin- | they will drop off intoa sweet slamber much moré | The reason the other patients have escaped under that they huve been fon the gout grew worde, {gg'g&;‘n’;‘:’?‘fi‘;&mfl}’\-u'nf.': o liore to excess At | 3,00 olousbing his discased cuticte, or desouamat- e ro hem and mfniiely more refreshing | the existing mauagement le. e e reated while theother eight-tenths confess- ing, ns the medical frateenity will huve it than if it had been brought.on by & soporiflc. shielded by s speciil Providence. Men have been ing their sin escape? The treatment of theman to | 1 ~have frequently seen fm stand by THE MORYING BEFORE I LEFT, ‘brought into this ward ina dilirious condition, suf- @ia | whom I have devoted so much attention is my bed and scratch hig hands. The process of | an old man suffering from sa attack of consump- | fering irow unknown diseases, and have lain here i Qosqunmation would follow, and all that was | tion, nade n attempt to getup about 2 o'clock. | for Bours ‘before o medical examination was made, b0 gt D b and fell | and even then the man's discase became WOfS b i to_me thut they ve 3 ey thing about the disease, which sel- AN OUTRAGE AND & DISGRA Seensuary, in order to the developmentof another | He was too wed c; but is it not unrea- | toa Christian institntion such ns this professes to EElo L Cthiey would have rend the | be. If men sufferiny from diseases c:t\‘ns:d lé{g in- s ;{ E;‘;’: ::'r“fn‘}:xfi“ English ;’-fi'fif—fl:&:fi;m}; :{::; tomperance are to be exclud® Teo (AL IR () | L5 tnotion In allaying the irritution caneed by |l was one of the stormiest. and a cold, penetrating red a_formula which A MAN SCFFERING FROM BRIGHT'S DISEASE of the kidneys, and the drop: w15 taken very sick, and ding. He bad been'a pati pital” and was discuarged by Dr. went to his own puysician and was he had been discharged too svon, and ura fortmght more. before €Xposurs . Leen of material avantaze to him. Laid etatement soon forcibly manifeste }-\Gl'agnlmn}ed 1nto the new Hospital, and taken Ity the surgical ward presided over by Dr. ‘hen the buclor ssw that George McPartlin, aw's name, was _back again. he osentepped his official bounds, and aske ferer §1 he was able to 1N, was the response; il ave zone to a private hospital. ™ wardsthe man was transierred Wani 10 inis ward, but without the mecessary cre- at the narse would not ] abed, and be had to sit in a cliair for ¢lht hours until the Doctor cameround. Al- n the hospital neirly the uld not move from i o relieve this ¢ which it induces. was thought to be jent_inthe old hos- Dot know any Com breaks out in this clim: sonable to sappoe diseacc up only for thei had even turned to the Engl would readily bave disco Would have been more tried for a lon Lime to gt informed that lfective than notaing. ¢ t local npphc:\llonfltor all,h “{“hI“Mermx&u"t'hm)‘:dfimodr O ors | {0 help themselves in the hoar 3 - ! chh might be of some good | 1y oF l?xJircctly, through drimk. not be lmnenched‘gr“ grxo:stlo:c?{ ;\;1 3.‘3 ‘\g‘xcyi“s beolutely uscless in the | But to procced with the relation of my cases, N ARTLELM $ER OF STPULEIIC G SED Zow over two weeks since | AN OLD MAN IN AN ADVANCED STAGE OF CON- !; Ewflrmexx ing the vai Lgns lge ar ap o order {0 | s allowed beef tea, urucl, aud some other thinss o et Bearly, dropRirs o e ut. Without any | which ho docs ‘mot always get. ‘The other das, gnmon ing held tocether row guping wou e O 2ol ot tooks me nndor | Whon the pautryman took Iiim a basin ofbread 430 | oo tho joints posseas, the, D ieture _ that | Jong I slept I don't know. e would have The trath of ditseli to the deys ago Dr. ave me un anodyne whi clusion _that. to _the con: shall have to_get out. much was the m Teason whatever, A FOXY TOSPITAL BIRD i ‘Evory request that lmade | er ' than o whisper, veril times for ehalr B0 that, You refuse b e have miy bool ton and | ADSTCREC Glu o ime Wlcors, and are incrasted | but only to wake and hard asa rock. Itls %'fuy are killin 1 had to improvise dant, eStion of my hips—which | I can't mse it to sou." unt of_their being af- hewmmatism—out of my blan- | other push, and coms TREATED ME AS Some time after= 2 who was playing oI. from the surgical “The resalt was th: tress. because the hair m: they settle duwn, heco 2 cushion for the prol were unusually sore cted with articular 1 tiongh the Ducior was i Whole of the time, he coi comfortzble npartwment t matter of mystery than before. The students be- ing in a fog, the man wonid have to battle awu, with the discase until Dr. Ross came around and then the nature of his disease would be discovercd. Tt and was not 8o_liable to take it again | dows, and threw a dragght upon The beds 1mme- | is possible that s man sudering from scarlet-fever diately beneath them. 1was unable to walk across inits inc.pient_stages, or some. other contagious ety e e ola man's assiatance, and tried | disease n.t suliciently developed to be recogmiz- e T e Ob wakoup some of the patients | Bblc at sight. but well noGED advanced to spread near_me. Where ihe nurse was 1 don't know. infection, might be udmitted. The medical men e tut bed with 1wy covering over me, aud | at the Houpitul uid the Warden will Taugl this suz- gostion to scorn, but will the solld men of the 1 tricd to imagine what mnst be the emperatare of } i 8\e Lical profess o4 of this city do g0, in the face of tnc old_ man, without a sheet to protect him. I shouted for the nurse two or three times, but re- the careless manner in which all patients who cume ot e arer. At lst I fell nsleep, but bow | are ut once hartied Info & public ward, and allowed e monwas siill | to remain thece until a student or a doctor ¢o0ses b ; SiTatabl s ani tiomsed | sores, | Inthe condition that Noah found himself og one tolook at him?* 3 id, in ‘s veice —considombly 10N | aud. attord undoabiel B0 lies Tor _contagion: | occasion after B debsach—uncovered. = Eity- If the surg cal wards are conducted in the samo 3 o s wiiose offensive_dischargeshave | ing e old fellow, | 1 OV aslecp, | careless manner that thia one is, an outbreak of hos- by Saeies Wk e 10" Jaon | pital sangrene shoulu not b regarded as at all aur- clittingme Ly inchs ) o Lo | in loyers atound Lo e ors’ of tho crators like | was lying without any covering on Gl Beising. 1t bas been a mutterof wonderment to Jon by inches,” replied the atten: | joyn‘nround Vesnvius, until they oad out inn | It was apparent that from the gray mist ‘ontside | me, and always will remain so, that any (he old ms talant) that Jt would not be long before the sun would be | patiént who _has been really sick S he ol T ey | werd S¥ith just sucls an evidence of this loathsome | pzeping over et oirie > At lnsta blast of wind, | has recovered sufficiently_to_leave the institation gave the basin containing the bread and wCLCth” | disease upon bis arins, Wiplug, after washing | more furious and chilling than it prodecessors, | alive. A careful diaznosis of u case is not tiken T e Soushing In o topul- | Simense HRCE evof the mountainous ond rugyed | burst throush the {iaparfeetly-made window at the | before the prescription T3 made, and in any insti- bed and woke him up. He | tution where u recipe practice prevails, as 1 main- ¢, ‘wasa judcious inhala- | back ~on to . bis bed. Mo was ‘unable noparticles which ho had | to covel himself over, aithouh the uiht % :‘:i:r{ég:r;i«::r“fitv‘\"i’il“l:;l\!;lfi;o?xll:'?\‘}er o Ietacas. the disease. 1had mo faus for I eIf, a1 bad had || wind forced, its way throngh_the badly made win- Ppe! cek refug e disease, 1 | Tho persors who seck FUOE, “““223‘1‘;?3&‘ ’.‘.‘,’ffl‘ffi 59 those who had mot. There are witncsses to ot Tacts now n the ward, whose evidence can- when the pantiied 2t away from him, and | Dotaing o raw T iamaot set the beef tea and gruel | gilbisting basrelief. ' 1 ave seen @ man in this ) o ot biomkct | chralbey. 1t wos a couzh fo imitite which “cPuls | around the edzes o the MECINATS fukia 15 a | Boadof the'old manx +\as necossary fo leave this | maie a ventriloquists fortanc, Tt scemed us | SOPONES, (O Swith which to perform my ablu- | strugsled bard for & e kst got intoan | tain it dogs here, Raullman 1o the conteacy not- T e on 10 the floor, he | withstanding, a high rate of mortality must neces- cet, and all my attemp 2 futile. A8 18aw) i cliarnelshotse. Tmade a persist gh)m from hus tortare. Jnst before 1 came iuto e Hospital, on the same day, he 5 FELL INTO A CONVULSIVE CONDITION. Thenure and convalescents dlocked around his ‘iL andall thouzht ht was dyins. uuwnvxneed that he had only & ive, and between his ep: Jrom—eglect can be imphciti Tould ou such a Being accas 0ge assembled around his bed. He, howerer befo demmc‘-lan;grmo ave s | S h the internal agitation was taking DIOCe | yions, and was glven the same i perform iy ablu | SerEAC powiton, and, ‘A PAIR OF CRUTCHES, e bilding for such sup- | tne w.nd through an = CPeL e oty of tavo odd ones of | pavilion No. 2. & fewalternooty prev % <led that the carpenter migt | oceurrence the Je me 2 pur, but my request | by the nur At last 1 sent o maninto the | gether. Lot o only meaus 1 foundof | was brought back, but only t anda earch through ports resulted in uneven lenuth. be instructed to_ mal was disregarded. city to purchse a féw moments to s lie asped. ** I—am— A deuth-bed statement relied upon, 83 Bo man jon proclaim a lie 10 thon g e astof amon in pavilion No. 1. and | piflsel. Thero is o communism wh.ch Ladmie i Fo et from one bed to another until he | arily result. Woke ip & man smferns fromn inflammatory rheu- THERE IS ANOTHER PECULTARITY Tt tne sound was bome on the ings of | and vencrate, but when the Jevelng principle | ; A 45“ to this | carmed to this estent it becomes dun- | mutism. He res juested this man- to go and cover in relation to the treatment of paticnts here. Ir e e Py o tho ward | EeT0US 10 t Mommanity, ot lsrge. There | him over, which the rheumutic ‘i with great | the doctors do not_understand the case, and the Fhbre e e O v altg- | Sfe, drom thirty to thirty-two vatients | digiculty, 83 nis® hands and _arms were | patfent persists in livingin spite of their treatment, ¢ 1ud not thot losl bis ¥0 CE 411D | i the ward, fox whom some e ffdogon towels iro | nearly puralyzed with to disease The mas wio Dy ot disgosted and send him to the Poor-Tiouse ne two or three lionrs snbscquently he | 1r)vided, and there are s many ayphilitic patients | bad done the work of 5 good Sumatitan returnedto | asun incorrigible. e cactied out uzain | DIOYIded s St o e rosult is thmt it is muhly | his own bed, and the enueer e fhe wardat | - Althoush some efforts are made to secare the ad- Do, A fested by him o call the | dress of the friends of some of the patoqte, Ty e Oy e e kind | half an hour afterwards. Within an bols ions | 83 there e Lokl TOF fhe towels for foar that | this fu : i s e facer et in search of the nurse, | die without thelr relatives belng ‘notifid of their d not die thut day, ana 1 subsequently became We had many conver- b and_medical attendance, 41b of wh ch he denounced in stronz langoa: he sustenance and meuical attend- e said 10 me the ight be m. it bea larze nssorymeny of crutches. | brought back again. ‘They must be eyl ring from rheumal ‘e injured-the nether 1imbs. indispensable artic very friepdly with him. #ations sbout the food tantly by patients re- ference in the tone tism and actidents which o violent colil. 1t . But, notwithstand- | taken into a private room, not heated - in auy wa¥, | ¢he oap and towels that the Syphil les Are not kept **in | and there were patients who were hO **1f 1 could get ! ance I ru\uil(?c, ¥ &y on which he died sigh, 41 have mysell THE FOLLOWING CASES which have cowe Withi: ledge will | Bubject fur the dissecting ool at un_early dav. | 550 \vell received throuzh 3 newspaper corre— £ to thank for not h: It swas apparent from the dif- | GIRE0C x 1 for DpAeE e o e tainted. Oraduatos of medicil schools of 'his coush at he 130 aken | and practtioners of acknowlodged, 2bIILY ISiCh : WAs FLICOTE. 2 A that yphilis is contagions through the saliva, and aoywhere round. The nurse's duty wastobe look- | when inny ey, i Riie susiet | i atac e patiats, 2at fo i nownere o be | event or, b A, ; vefe a0t backs the soap and towels thot the SPHLCC Gy | f0indwhen the enginter madea thoron t, Seitel | BPEL 1 Dinting that it bad een done with 2 M 2f IENER; | delicate 1o piece of ImiOMAHEN arey desars, | for him. Vherewasher leoulduot tell aiiousy sy reside. 1am inclined to_think that the S ol man's decense, and rendering i | delicate 1o e patrons of N e holnt may | 1 bad been awake diring the greates BRCLOL toe | iy e man will be surprised. to lears, Disihh, and 1 presont the query 83 3 conuudram to | through the ‘medibm of this letter, that he died nearly a fortnicbt azo. B atned, siating that he could not find im [ dissolation. ~ If proper precaution 13 taken the ‘pntiznt s admitted, in the s death his friends can be ircumstance, in whatever county O medi: | Theold min is evidently of the safe opimion Wi | B¢, 03 NG would through the instramentality | the Wasden. from the rostrum of A matter which requires the attention of the 1 have no uoubt the Warden and the members of Detter illustrate the negligence of avans are gailt his ward two or rocure those necessitie. Tl on mow s my iron comstitution, 10 my neart, and if it ede was brought three weeks ago. The Water1s now w near), if and conld not T Ol mysclf do nov attach any impostance to the | o g clinical lecture delive:ed eht | 4 ression of such horc.blo opmions. HOW: . o coilege. I, in comman with all the patients in | suthorities is the 11 Flosoital Commitiee will regard me 38 very j captious individual, but 1 must ind fanit with Spenlt the En. | ever culpsble ibe "";}"‘""“L‘lf, ’;:,",%uh‘gg the Sward. object to using the towels with which EMPLOYMENT OF CONVALESCENTS i the syphilitics have removed the S olsture from | in the performauce of menial duties about the TOE AMBULANCE £oes ooy higher it will knock the stuftin’ out of | was semi-delirions - We.” During the night the water ros | momning he was taken with a chill Toon be' was attacked wit h he had charge neglect which had resul sheuzgling for a few moments, tge doctors were called in. They Inct, and, before the heart Lng. he ‘was hurried 1n0to His_denth-stry, 3?“11! much more than lied one of the most uniinching champ rights of patients, and he died cursit &nd mercenary policy omitted to stite that this man al h"’ thrown back considerably by imseif at Ltush Medical College as clinfesl lecture on Grizht's Or!gggt%ems_;on. while £peaki nyulesce e e related tome pities " THE FOLLOWING STORY: i n wae aduitled 10 the Hospital at diseasc he was suffering id be man was not conflued 10 4 imase nuthing 1 should be m. and he was neglected | auy sucl o moaned constantly, | trath. Butfl dication of continited | ed is prima 1 imtenuited. | tions are correct, The paticnts, 'S, Are Son in | are reduced by disease, brolien En- | tiouis assisted bys & flar to_the one d the_uuthoritics with tedin_his’ death. After he fell bsck dead. pronounced life d fairly stopped One duy Mr. Sk n uttered a nezative in snd immediately procceded ““Then lie over on +and keep quiet. 2 nts with your groaning.” dish journalist and Lsaid, -*As that countrym: to be getting worse. glish, you had better Lot {nio o condition in waie » gaid he, and with that he a doctor and Intimated that_he wo: e giad to act a4 interp: VW eaid the doc. | tem, inthis mannef, i3 fartter reduced until they g‘;{ms O e on't distarb the other | reach s pitchof - ‘standin by mybed, | ritle and’welrd thoug] e vouraseems | tabsTwillgite o araNCE: , ble 1 vtk eay T 4 3y oed 0 The nurses are the officers wno will nextbe | becitin &% undt cond e o or be may | Student Kauifman, ashe passed g o ot For M"be beyond | askd me how lons 1had been in the © five_minates. of the anthor: ‘Thaving to exhibit the snbject of 3 f the kidneys. T the evils of ex- o the coid and damp, icea were | versation, approached miein 3 cx e s that the man was | and ssid in a hoarse underione: suffering intense agony. ki of the boys, #nd ©nds of medicine without success. The man con- They gave him o) 3 1S bed wood | ccased prescribi d him bis bed, had a g0od | SRCCEC T Sothing butsti 2. evidence of their | e ephilitics BoTe T ve objoot touncha pa- | ward, which the nurse would Bate fo ot e | before T close this letter, 1t i3 literally a covered h charges without di o without doubt a | wazonawith cashions at the bottom, = The springs e fact that such views are entertain- tient with his j . S i & Loy ipacy v allema- joints' dropping olf brinsing In our | were no convalescents. facic evidence that many o my slledt” | meals, or laving any business VBSOS o | Jrere m o owiion of paid nolp about the bullding | of the conveyance HL b any—1 have nd hesita- P! pantry. But by suchia man our food is handled, | who occupy sincciire ofiices e winstanding | tlon in saying are strong, but what they lnck is to the immediate danger of all in the ‘ward. Some- | this the convalescents are required to sweep the | elasticity. ln very coid weather 1t is hardly the o L dome. sn nt onee, to protect the | ward cvery ioraing, clean outthe SplIf00N <P dinc | Kitnd of & vehicle in which to convey sick mep from \jority of fhe paticnts fro being comtaminated ag daty), hulp to carry ont the dead, watch | one part of the city to another. - I used it fn my orbid sensivility yery ncarly ap- B oot sullcring from delicium, ‘handle | transit fromuay hotel 4o U hospital, and 1 was . Diteh of morb S eaeh i the ‘most ot - e B oot s from the Kitchen. and | heartily glad when the Jonrae) N33 JRET, We proaching madne s, fsare natucal. In proof of THE NURSES e o e ices, bome of o light and pleasant | went over considerable ROSh round, and bere I ! + LSy andmany of o heavy und unpleasant character. | Was Jostled in a most unmerciful manner, and as AND.HOW THUEY ACT. ‘Patients have been madeé to work when they have | my ‘hands were benambed with cold 1 was unable ‘one dny. o dhdillo‘n to perform ||;he duttes ul’l s‘t,:ndyh mys:ll’. It l"cml'ixfl a3 h;‘\wngs N ) B 4 7 assigned them, and have in consequencebeen com- | 8 e rheumatic pains in e world__ ha : the oty Teoll| mbjected g slight _castigation. In this ward | ycjied ty retam to their beds ot periods, | united for the puposcof uivingme s Ficket, When gg-;g;:;;d;05&“’0,;;3;5;;‘,",,,,,5 Jlkelawely.| Giereareunc, oneiwelise: SomaL is Callopy; [“u man roguired o swecp the 165 006 1100, ng | we acrived a the Hospitl my ideas were contaed, : s he, 3 i n i ko, Belore the task_was complete.l he com- | and L wasrn, er the impression that 1 was bein: d | had becn standing neas by, aud bad hedrd (he CoR: bis front ngme I do ot know, ;n"’ Christian | Liyincd of siciness, and went to his bed, where b B e itk Some o the relles o tae ng name of the other is John, and [am asmueh | Fongined three weeks. He had expected (o leaso Spanish Inquisition. ot the process of yanking oard to | the Hospital on the following day, but the undue | me.outof tae ampulance awoie me {rom Iy rev- Do you know | i, doubt as to his surname as I am in reg; Y o @ exertion of sweeping the floor brought om ‘another’| erle, and cansed my blood to circalate with greater and the work of emacia. tarvation dict. Then thes sre drugged to an unpeces3ary extent, and the sys- Fae disense | why be asked that question:™ b2 o ey hoy tricd all | +*Xo," I responded. Callopy’s imitial appellation. Callopy is @ tact- | SR G CU o rever. At the expiration | Bciuty. A 'newambulance Is requ.red. It should i 1le wanted to kuoiwif you had any friends here | turn Hiverafan of B oiding sspect. Benentd | of'the thice wesks he orformed the duty of wait- pomess prings, s avoud the Gmacceasacy and | I the citS ) ia, his right eye is @ gash sometwoinches lonzand, | or. fetchits in the foodfrom the panleY; Whle | Jostiing of th sick o injured occiipant. 1 N . ¢ > i i ? | acting in this capacity, he was required < —— mujants were given <t And it you hadn't got any friends, and was o | the flesh inthe immediate vivinity baving con- | §5U8 oo carry 2 e the Morzae, which 3 " - %08 | stranger, " he contimacd, **they would regard yoo | tracted considerably, an ® craordioary area of | S Rncies from the pavilion. laving fothing | - THE WARDEN. appetite, and tools his meals in the e flfw dsysafterwardshie was taken to. Collegeina buggs. Soon after his rétg o bi bed and ute ecarcely anythin after Lis visit to the College he dicd. ‘din.ng-room. K Sfedical | bim for a day or and tiey thouzht Hiis medicine waa r at lnst he wasuna De heard all over o stronger. | as a fit subjoct for the di cnewed, but he ¢ ble to move. His br ccting-room.” Ly way i et 2 o ie pavilion. = i 4 . < is exposed to lic seruting. Add to | butslipperson, he got his fect wet oy walking HIS INEFFICIENCY. o they coud | I8 Lo o 1 e ohow, aAd the next day he wasdows | Hitherlo T have only aliuded to the Warden !eater. and | of an addendum, he observed. *'an ” athing could | quickly prepare yon for that; " this o sinister countenance, some idea canbe | 4oinScin agother chill. S & i the man'a life | **Pehaw," 1 exclaimed, '!These med, althonzh | formied as to the general expression of the index By alo0 necessary in rogard tothe ina general way. Now I wish to direct my at- ks toa patient ex- | ADMISISTERING OF 'THE MEDICINE BY THE tention for a brief space to him alone. The ered that hie wag | they are grossly negligent of the duties "devolving T hs received | upon them, and careless of human lives when they v t ‘when be was brooght in there | are in danger, are ot fiends you represent them o | cept to find fault orto threateir to discharge ight have been | be.” nig, however, We awoie T & tied to the Morgne. | tatlon on s lips, such as ‘deem it neces<ary to in- doubtedly resulting : e e g yas beyond redemption, ‘uffering from Leart di jital who bave knowledze of tnis casc. n immediate atten »os¢ that the doctors will deny e lmpuution, as'ai] memben of this class have lenied similar imputations from time immemorial. Bt ke fact remains and there ore Jiving wimeses it. George Lolmes, now m thedlosaital, 1cannot paea over the gul ferriug toa ecene which Tie impucstion, sy o but what his life m nd that he had bee d the Comumissioners ‘Tnvestization into these chs il t6 summon 3fr. Morri: Sarey Marose doet bject of diet withoat re- ccurred in the wedish would do we st : el | 1L et wistny of his sonl. He mever speai 7 3 i NURSES. Warden is instructéd by the Commissioners to irty- or less, - s % s o o, orto hsaled 10 GRCTED | ey s soundt iyt b e, S8 | g0 ound the wards e it RHEE Ly T tients In regard to their treatment by the nurses, 16 nan hen hobbled off with & pecallar i0GAL. | Corype cipeumstances 1 do_not think it possible | clne obt of 6ne £20 Huoyafe sapposed to e i the gluss every Lime it ‘a{n 4, but this is,not al- | and inguire of them whether they have anything i Beard before. 1t made my flesh crawl, | for him toiook cheerful. ‘When Wenmick nsed d, 1 v T T to my didznst bave frequently dis- 4 Egé'rpawlmnuwfi!e“:u G reases S;:’;flo:“ toleave the officc eud repair to the Aged at :un):gg.n!‘[ o 1 te rhistortuge to b n"é_:w 1y &is” | 1o comolain of. I never saw the Warden g memse O tewdnervou condi | Walwarth T ¢ oo™ woali loae 5 | grnsnimtives v s codeibser oit O k. don o o Y el i e o for thelr general happiness and welfare, and are Hiabte o be discherged ut any moment b him it pposition to him, o Setkiale when e T unreasonabie g ere is onc,other important ol 9 N P oticer of the house THE HOUSEREEPER. . . fortine is, that sheis only 17 consequently hus ng bad the ary to ‘prepare ilfr,fur such Her ‘greatest mid yéats of age, and experience_necess: a2 responsible ther. is the Warden, 1a have carried the key of the storervom 0so large and important an institu- 00d housekeeper i3 re- the sooner tue chazge ce the svoner will the half-straved pa- tients have canse to rejoice. Tn conclusion, I desire to_state thatT am per- that there Are.dead-beuts in the Hos- e the place a'zond namne, in order allowed to rewmain there during heir hiitred for work is so great that simulate sickness, aud, though 1le dotwn beside fever patients and breathe here vitiated Dy the disessed ex- lalations of some. thirty 3 £ sach sloths is valucless, t whateser with an intelhgent pub- ital Committee want further and more aetailed information in regard to statements in this communication, 1 beg to refer th following gentlemun, Norri e et otpical George. I ents in the Hosplml: George Holmes, E. Gould, and I-jredpwnaon. i o tion.._ A Matron who Isa in this position, ant pital who will 1hat they may have no weigh! N ve, sni the following pa- fail ‘to make ‘good witnesses. desire further information, they may tarn to the journals of the Hospital and discover the pame of the typhoid-fever patient who last oc- ‘He feft the Hospital compluin- hed would not enubie him 0 et stronz, and he is nuw with his frieads at. the Summit- They cun also ascertain the name of & tive wno remained ln the [{o<pita] about s ho became 80 debilitated inconse- f being unable foeat the food, tuat he . ‘to get ‘out of the Hospital while he could walk out. He was an Irishmun, 2nd occa- pled bed No. 25 before its present occapant. T LEAVE THIS HOSPITAL to-day, worse upun the whole tian whe Tdoso for a_tivo- lace. to obtain careful medical trest in the second, to enjoy the full benedt of Nuture's principal refuedial agencics, —a ‘whole- some diet, A0 even temperature, dd a pure atmo: here. 1 desire, in druwing my reau o say that if 1 were that the food furni ‘Dosses3or of & < zcinl value of which was thing less than two bits by dog- and if he were suflering from a severe at- . Lwould not allow the faculty be for hiw uu- rated at_ some! tack of the mi of Cool County dospital o prescil fess I were revigned to his_becoming an ancelic —————— Spectal Dispaich to ‘The Tridune. —A Lapeer special cide of Mrs. Fric Derrorr, Micl reports the death by sui who lived near that place, by hanging herself in the barn. Temporary insanity is allezed. Spectat Dispatch to The Tridune. EAST SAGINAW, Mich., Nov. son, alady 60 years of age, living with her son- in-law at West & Lewis Mill on the Saginaw Valley & St. Lonis Railroad, near the Sazinaw County line, retired as usual last night, and - during the night arose and, taking a flour sack, walked thronzh the snow barefooted to the ‘Where she tore up the sack, makinga rope, d ton beam aud the otber around herself. The bodywas found igious enthusiasi is supposed ‘her necls, hangins this moruing. Rel to have been the canse. . Special Dispatch to The Tribune. ST. LOUIS, Nov. Zo.—Juige Jumes K. Knight, who has been on_the Circuit Court Bes 4 this county o number of years, acc shot himself at 7 o'clovk this moraing, two hourslater. ‘The sensational death of Jud; all-absorbing topic, an impression pr 2 great extent that the Judge cow cide. He was extremely anxious to edto the Bench, and sought with much per- sistency the nomination by the Republican party, which fie received. In the large sum of money, and. “a lurge majority, in spirits, Tberc areo probubly develop themselves show that the unfortunate geotleman e Knight s the ¢ canvass he spent @ ‘having been beaten by uch depressed ther facts which will shortly tending to became very m —————— Mestems, Tenn., Nov. 25.—A telegram from Columbus, O., announces the death, on the train yesterday, of Commodore Paul Shirley, ‘United States Navy. Deccased was enroute to this city to visit his sister, Mrs. Rice. His re- mains will be taken to Nashvllle for {nterment. NEw York, Nov. 25.—J. W. Brutooe, come- @ian, died yesterday morning, after a short Special Dispatch to The Tridune. ForT WAYNE, 1nd., Nov.5.—This mornin was found dead in his cause of his death {8 un- ng the Hon. Willism 8. ‘Edsall, Clerk’s office, sus- since, which time d rapidly sluking, ntarily expe.ted. Mr. of this section, Wayne more than fifty He has always been a leadiu; held many important positions, rominent {n_the Democratic time engaged in the comuul business in Ciricago. George Deal, aged 74, at Huntertown. The while sitting in the Couuty tained a stroke of apoplexy, he has been unconsci and his deata is momes Edsall was one of the having lived in Fort, ‘LouisviLLE, Ky., Nov. 25 —Ex-Secretary Bris- tow said to-day, in an interview with a Courier- who asked if the article fa the Journal reporter, ¢ Thursday about the whisky New York Sun o cutfons, was o vindication of <himself which some of the Eastern papers said would appear as soon a8 the electio said all statement vindication of him: sbout his publishing an: self were unauthorized. official _condact and he had not He had no desire tters before the public, he shonid Dot select the present, ly voncerned about mat- ment. Iurelerénce to d heard nothing of y. The article’ne says had not heard of before. necded any vindication, such vindication made. eople are deep! more serious mol the article in _the Sun he ha it until he read it t contains matters he | 2 STATUE OF WEBSTER. NEw York, Nov. 25.—The statue of Webster, donated to the city by Gordon W. Burnham, was unveiled to-day, with appropriate ceremonies, in the presence of a large nuinber of spectators. The ‘proceedings were opened with an address from President Martin, of the Department of Parks. Mr. Burnham made the ‘presentation of the statue, which was accepted on behalf of the city by Mayor Wickham. Other addresses followed. The statae is situated in Central Park, Seventy-second street cen fcet high. The pedestal igh, and the two together weigh “The cast was made by Muller, Fifth aveoue and trance, and is fourt 13 fiftcen feet hi about 125 tons. ———— Lotisvirze, Ky., Nov. 25.—Col. O ed-Marshal of Ke: e Ballard has recéived him O'Neal apoointed his first a former officer under Gen. The Depnty presented himself to dze Ballard as 1t is onder- estion was fn- ablizhed certatn - derowa- g officers of the United urt in Kentucky some time ago. e ——— ing been reappoints the President, Judg 88 such. Yesterday tent and unfit person. stood here that she Depuly in_ gu strumental in hivinZ p. cles coprernio! The One Serene Man. Zouiscille Courier--Joxrnal “agricuitural er the election dispatches. umn has kept its place, and use- jon has Been disseminated in.the fitable froth of politics. tter and the crash df he has been quictly writinz up the and telling us about tree-plant- well suppiied with writéts cani cyver bi completely Good for the hasn’t becn €: midst of the unprof e wreck of fal jchneumon fly, ing. No country that 13 agricaltural