Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1928, Page 45

CHANGES URGED N SANTY TST Methods for Improving Use- fulness of St. Elizabeth’s Are Cited in Review. Simplification of present methods, the resott to a public hearing and a jury only in cases where it is demanded, but making it mandatory-when so demand- ed, are recom- mendations stressed in the an- nual report of St. Elizabeth’s Hos- pital, made public today by the board of visitors, headed by Rear ~Admiral E. R. Stitt, chief of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine -and Surgery, and prest- dent of the board. Opening the doors of the hospital to voluntary patients 1s advocated. “All of these changes would go a long way toward increasing the usefulness of St. Eliza- beth's Hospital, more particularly by cnabling it to deal with patients who are in the incipient of mental illness rather than for most part, as at present, only with those who are s0 seriously ill as to have attracted pub=~ lic attention or necessitated legal steps for their protection or the protection of the public,” the report asserted. Would Abolish Legal Hindrances. “The hospital, it is believed, should be freed as far as possible from those legal impedimenta which interfere ‘with its functioning at its maximum degree of utility, while at the same time re- taining all necessary legal to protect the patient and insure public confidence,” it continued. * tion along the lines suggested, we believe, would accomplisk these results.” Turning to the question of trial by jury of the insane, the report said: “Trial by jury or any proeedure which imputes criminality to the patient tends to defeat the purpose for which the hospital was established, and experi- ence in & number of jurisdictions has demonstrated that trial by jury is gen- erally unnecessary and inadvisable. “We are advised that in mlmd no such person has been subjected to jury trial for many years,” the report pointed out. Summing up this question, the report asserted that “the intervention of the Jaw should be as unobtrusive as pos- sible.” Advising the Secretary of the In- terior of the growth in the institution’s population, the report said: “The hos- pital continues to increase in pop- ulation. We _have, approximately 4,150 patients who are recie treat- ment. We are increasing at rate of more than 100 each year. It will be necessary in the near future to again ask for additional buildings to prevent overcrowding.” Admiral Stitt. The dean of centenarians, 154-year~ old Zaro Agha of Turkey, is to learn his A B C's. Cedar Chest, $19.75 113, left bank deposits to his daughter, Civil War Veterans’ Reunion at Expense Of U. S. Is Proposed By the ated Press. A reuhlon of the survivors of the Union and Confederate fes in the Clvflexl-r at the FREEDMEN'S URGES OBSTETRICAL WARD Need of Additional Equipment Is Cited in Hospital’s Annual Report. proposed tive Howard, Democrat, Nebraska. ‘The bill carried no specific ap= propriation request. TWO WILLS PROBATED. Among the most needs at SR Freedmen's Hospital is an obstetrical Patrick Kirby Leaves Properties to | ward, according to its annual Tt submitted today to the Secretary of the Interior, under whom institution, maintained by the Government since the Civil War, is directed. With the present facilities this im- mnmc function is greatly restricted, e report states. Neither sufficient space nor the necessary equipment ex- ists to operate this department in keep Relatives. Patrick Kirby, who died November Catherine O"Toole, and his daughter- in-law, Mrs. Michael P. Kirby. His son, Michael P. Kirby, is given premises 7 highest EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘D. C, declares. The hospital is entirely with- out radium, and has depended upon the generosity of another hospital in sup] some for urgent cases. It is s safe’ estimate, the report states, that at least 300 treatments would be “glm SERVES MANY ISLES. Bishop Thorne Ministers to Vast Diocese in Pacific. PAPEETE, Tahiti () ~—Warships, steamers, island schooners and native craft of all kinds from sampans to dugout canoes are utilized as means of transportation by the Anglican Bishop of Polynesia in covering his diocese in this part of Oceania. Bishop Kemp Thorne is perhaps the most yoamhr of the Europeans that come and go in these remote parts. His personality draws to him men in every rank of life from the highest govern- ment official to the poorest beach comb- er and all regard him as a wise coun- selor and an abiding friend. Bishop Thorne's diocese extends from Piji on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1928. endeavor to make the sty a model of sanitatio n. ‘The dead man is survived by a brother and sister, the former living in Holly- wood, Md., and the latter in Anacostia. Both have been notified and announced HOSPITAL EMPLOYE DECLARED SUICIDE Deputy Coromer Finds Joseph C. that they will take the body to Leon- Tippett, 53, Ended Life ardtown, Md., for burial. comit PN ‘With Revolver. A certificate of suicide yesterday was issued by Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, deputy coroner, in the death Tuesday of Joseph 8. Tippett, 52, keeper of the piggery at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Tippett was found in his bungalow on the hospital grounds yesterday after- noon with a bullet wound in his temple. A .32-caliber revolver was lying nearby. Emory Walker, 3129 N street, another em‘?lnye, made the discovery and noti- fled hospital authorities. ‘Search of the bungalow revealed that | Of the total authorization, $840.000 the dead man m's‘z,voo in se- | would be for completion of the Army FUND BILL OFFERED. Asks $890,000 for Buildings at! Army Medical Center. Expenditure of $890,000 for building operations at the Army Medical Center, ‘Walter Reed Hospital, would be author- ized by a bill offered in the Senate yesterday afterncon by Senator Reed, Republican, of Pennsylvania. nl’:g:d to the military affairs com- mittee. cash se- creted about the place. Physicians at [Medical School and $50,000 for a the hospital told Dr. Rogers that Tip- |Power plant at the instituti pett had been in ill health for some gme fltli had recently injured his head |, a fall. Tippett had been employed as man- FARMERS TO BUILD AN ASSEMBLY CAMP North Carolina State Test Farm to Have Accommodations for 500. ASHEVILLE, N. C. (®).—A farmers' assembly camp, with accommodations for 500 farmers and their wives, is to be | constructed on the North Carolina State western test farm at Swannanoa in the tion on the experime: farm is to en- "‘ hance the practical of theoretical 4 instruction by expe! arious phases of (nrmlns. It is pointed out they will have the facilities of the farm for use ;} in demonstration activities, The camp ' will be modeled somewhat after the as- | § sembly arrangements of several of the ~ larger church denominations which have established camps in Western Norih Carolina. 1 part of the State. Plans announced by John W. Good- man, agent of the State agricultural extension service for Western North Carolina, call for wm&l;flnn of the project within six months. There will be a combined dining hall, kitchen and assembly hall. Barracks, each accom- modating 36 persons, will provide lodg- ing for the farmers. The assembly camp is to be used as| a gathering place for persons studying short courses in agriculture. Its 717 Beventh street mortheast, and the house at 1212 Sixth street southwest goes to his daughter, Mary E. Wise, for life, then to her daughter, Dorothy Wise. Premises 1118 Sixth street southwest are devised to a grand- daughter, Catherine H. Wise, and houses 1223 and 1225 Union street southwest go to his grandson, Charles P. Wise. Mrs. Michae 1 3 1 P. Kirby is named as executrix. By the terms of the will of Mrs. QGertrude E. Holmes, dated June 22, 1921, and offered for probate, her en- tire estate is left to her mother, Ellen Wall. Should the mother be dead, a sister, Nellle Oke, is to have one-fourth of the estate absolutely and hold the remainder in trust for Elinor, Elisa- beth and Nelson Holmes, children of the deceased. Mrs. Wall also is nanfed as executrix. ing with the requirements of the grade and most advanced scientific the service. Last year 390 births occurred s st & sufficient far north as the Gilbert Islands. in Preedmen’s Hospital, a number to more than justify the ex- of an up-to-date maternity ward, report ts out. A total of 29,000 cases of all kinds were treated during the year, about 4,000 of which were patients at the hospital. ‘The number of paying patients admit- ted to the hospital for the year, in- cluding births, amounted to 1,005, or one-fourth of the total admissions. There were performed 2,361 surgical operations, the majority being of a major nature, There were 27,334 revisits to the several clinics in the dispensary and 3,902 emergency cases received for treatment. ually as urgent as an obstetrical ward is a supply of radium, the report EE—— 917 F The Columbia National Bank Capital and Surplus, $650,000.00 you run Simpson’s Milk, to same quality milk grocer’s. Street e acter. to remember. 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