Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1928, Page 34

HOSPITAL DESIRES 0 CONTINUE CLINI Dr. W. P. Morrill, Head of Co- lumbia, Anxious to Keep Up Charity Work., In spite of the fact that Columbia Fospital is in a precarious financial istate and for years has gone heavily on the red side of the ledger in its charity work, allotted and paid for in part by the District, Dr. W. P. Morrill, ‘superintendent of the hospital, declared today his hospital is anxious to con- tinue the work, and termed the plan of ‘the Board of Public Welfare to cen- tralize the charity hospital work at \Gallinger Hospital after the current ‘Hiscal year as an ill-advised one. Dr. Merrill pointed to the death @ate figures of Columbia Hospital in charity work as the great reason for the |continuance of charity work at Co- Jumbia. ,. _Last year in the District there were IB7 deaths in a total of 3,085 childbirth icases. Not all of these cases were thandled in the hospitals of the District. he death rate for the hospitals, Dr. Morrill says, was a flat 15 per 1,000. }The discrepancy in the total figures and the hospital figures, Dr. Morrill points out, is due to the fact that practically | Columbia Hospital show that whereas the Government the hospital $2 per oy for each charity patient allotted jt, the average per capiial cost to the hospital of & patient at Columbia for the fiscal year 1928 was $4.30. Dr. Morrill points out that these res are not quite correct, because the Gov- ernment allots the $2 for each adult charity patient admitted, and the per capita cost figured takes no account of the cost of attending babies. This would bring the per capita cost on the basis of the Government's figuring to about $5.50, he says. However, in spite of this added bur- den on the hospital's finances, Dr. Mor- rill says that he and his board are heartily in favor of continuing the charity obstetrical and surgical work, and particularly the pre-natal clinic. Dr. Morrill feels that the clinic is the chief factor in Columbia's remarkable death rate figures, and that for the sake of humanity it should be con- tinued. “Columbia is not a money-making in- stitution. It is serving humanity. Tts service is of vital importance to the|g city as a whole, but of still more vital importance to the section which it serves, and I do nat feel that the re- moval of the allotment of charity work that it has been taking will be a well advised move from the standpoint of humanity,” he declared. “Certalnly, from a standpoint of Government economy,” he declared, “there can be no doubt but that the Government would gain, because what is costing the Government $2 here would cost double/that amount, or even more, when all the work is taken over at Gallinger.” P, Busses in the Irish Free State carry- ing more than seven passengers must comply witl#49 specific regulations, ac- MONEY ALLOTTED 10 PENSION DEFICIT Bureau’s Increased Qutlay Due to Obligations Ineluded in Appropriation, ‘The extraordinary deficit faced by the Bureau of Pensions for the current fiscal year is taken care of in the In- terior Department appropriation bill in making its provisions for the coming fiscal year. The expenditures for pen= for the fiscal year 1928 was $228,- 9. The appropriation for 1929 ,000,000, but the expenditures for 1929 are now expected to be $229,- 000,000. That deficlt of $19,000,000 for the current year is due to incres ohligations in the amount of $11,500,000 arising under the act of May 23, 1928, which allows $40 per month to Civil War widows 75 years old or over, and to an underestimate of approximately $7,500,000 on the part of the bureau on probable expenditures for the year. For 1930 the estimate of the bureau is $221,000,000, which amount has been approved by the budget and by the House appropriations commitiee. Applied to Welch Act Demands. The start made by the Pederal Gov- ernment top amortize its accrued liabil- $11,780 for medical relief for the natives in_Alaska. The bill carrles $50,000 for ing an investigation of secondary education fiscal | which has been urged by the Bureau of is $5,500,000. ° ye"Ir'luc amount is intended to represent sulting under th n\ul of the fact that more employes tha" en brog'ht .:; ler the purview of nfixeum: system. " The operation of the Weich act also has had ‘an effect on the aj for Bureau of Education which is $1,071,850, an inctease of $130,640 above the current year and $3,780 above the budget estimate. Increase Explained. 'This increase is accounted for in part by the Welch act, in part by an increase of $93,900 for education of natives in Alaska and in part by an increase of Reduces oil consumption —Reduses friction drag— Reduces ‘repair bills—be~ cause it's the “Best Oil in the World™ Demand Education as well as by the most in- fluential organizations of educators. This investigation is to occupy three years at a total cost of $225,000. 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This 11 figure he attiibutes wholly to the na‘al clinic maintained by the hos- [pital for oharity cases, in which each charity case presented is studied to the Dfullest extent, not, as Dr. Morrill puts {it, “for the sake of the 24 normal cases presented, but for the twenty-fifth ab- mormal case that comes up and is & mew problem for the medical men.” ‘Will Abandon Clinic. If the help that the Government ap- |propriation has been to the mainte- nance of the charity work, of which this clinic is an important part, is with- drawn, as is the decision in the cen- tralization of charity work at Gallinger Hospital and the emergency hospitals, \the clinic will have to be abandoned and that part of Columbia Hospital which has been used for charity pa- tients, 90 per cent of whom are colored, taccording to Dr. Morrill, will have to be converted into quarters for white patients. R ‘The construction of the hospital is of such a nature, Dr. Morrill states, that if the charity allotments are with- {drawn Columbia must become entirely ® hospital for whites. Dr. Morrill predicts that charity pa- tients of his section of the city will not o to Gallinger. “We are so isolated in this section of the city,” he said, “and such a distance | from Gallinger that I don't believe those {.who now are coming to us for charit; {treatment will go elsewhere. We wil not be able to take them when the Dis- ! trict appropriation for their care is not ! forthcoming, and I feel that there is to slgnsoma added suffering from this con- on.” Dr. Morrill said that nothing has ‘been done by the hospital to have the Crery entryy Wl be hent by the hoa every energy 08~ pital authorities. to that end if the opening presents dtself. Hospitals Will Benefit. ‘The majority of hospitals which have ibeen taking charity work will benefit from the withdral aa' of their allot= ments, George.-.S.. , director of public welfare, said today. With the centralization of charity work at Gal- linger, Emergency, Casualty and Freed- men’s, the latter a Government hos- | pital, the other hospitals will not, after the current fiscal st‘ have to take the charity patierfs. they have been allotted heretofore, .@nd therefore will save the cost, over and above the Gov- ernment approj ort, which the hos- pitals have paid in the past. ‘The board’s figures in the case of WHILE choosing gifts for your children do not forget the every-day-in-the-year gift of healthful nourishment, so necessary for their developement. Give them plenty of Shomps an’s PDai. ‘ Serving Was’u’ngt: Homes for 47 qu’u 2012 Eleventh St., N. W. Phone Decatur 1400 Visit Washington's Oldest Dairy—In Washington's Newest Planc. 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