New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1927, Page 3

HEAD OF HOSPITAL ' CRITICIZES [IflUNGIL Objects to City Emploges Being' Treated Like Foothalls clubs of New Britain a combined organiza- tion for the purpose of taking an| sctive interest in city finances, ac- cording to Dr. T. Eben Reeks, who the members of the | council last evening for not ing adequate salaries to clty em- ploye: Dr. club. The civic should form rks spoke to the Exchange He paused a few minutes In opening his address to remark that | Lo had digressed from his subj and expressed his opinion that ci clubs should take ‘up the finan situation of the city government. “When I see the chief of a de- partment handled like a fobtball by & councilmanic committee, I feel ashamed of the city,” he sald. “If some of these councilmen should be called upon to do the; work others are expected to do, the salary would be tripled. From time to time the salary question com up and is made a political foot- ball.” The physiclan added that when worthy servants of the city scck In- creases in salary which are their due, their names and desires should | not be bandied about the city like & foothall. Continuing his address, Dr. Reeks said: “The public has a right to expect every institution to be good. 1If the city suddenly found itself shut | oif from electricity, gas and tel phone service it would be seriously handicapped and there would be a tremendous interruption of business but that would be all. If it be- came necessary to close the police | and fire departments and the hos-| pital, the situation would become more serious. That superficlal ven- eecr of civilization would be broken down by the lawless element.,” he said. “We would live in continual fear of fires, and what would hap- pen to emergency cases demanding immediate care in the hospitals I do not know.” Traces History of Nursing The speaker traced the history of hospitals and the development of the practice of medicine from the times of the ancient Greeks. He said nursing first was undertaken by religious people who wanted to do some good. A hundred years ago it was considered a disgrace to g0 to a hospital, while the modern al hospital and modern sclentific medi- | cine is only 70 years old, he ex- d the scientific deve h have advanced medl- s the past 70 years and il hospitals and nursing schools {have been required by necessity to |keep pace with them, He said there are two classes of hospitals. One is the institution magnificently built, but containing no modern sclentific apparatus for |cientific treatment. This is called the boarding house type of hospital. | The other is a modern scientific hos | pital. tarted During Spanish War | Britain had {fore it had a hospital, {temporary hospital was opened to give treatment for typhoid fe )('ust's coming back from the Spani war, This was in 1898, In 1S public spirited men got together and {made the hospital a permanent in- |stitution. The first year it had 119 patients. Now it has one and one- | half times that many in one day. | Ior 10 to 12 years the New Britain {General hospital was a boarding {house type of hospital and contri- {buted nothing toward the advance- {ment of medicine in the communit It was not equipped with entific | paraphernalia. In 1914 the board . lof directors reorzanized and from {that time until 1917 “pent thousands | |of dollars for scientific apparatus. |During this period the finstitution plaine wl and then a s (added a bacteriologist and roentgen- |ologist. Physicians found it a great- er aid to their work and more p: ‘mnts were sent in. With capacity |tor 84 beds, the hospital soon was ;m-» ging 108 patients a day. Then came the drive for a new {hospital and new nurses' home. Now {the institution has a capacity of 190 {patients. The old hospital was dis- [mantled and turned into a depart- ,m\n' for enlarged clinical, patholo- gual and X-:ray laboratories. Irom {that time the effect on the medical |profession was most marked, Dr. |Reeks said. Get Service At Home He pointed out that many ph |cians are using the scientific {acili- ties of the hospital laboratorles to | turther their own studies, and that these facilities have so greatly atded men in making special studies of certain types of cases that it no longer is necessary for New Brit- ain peopls to go out of the city the services of specialists. Dr. Reeks explained that American college of surgeons, foun. the vestigate and rate medical schools 1and later to fnvestigate hospitals h |given the New Britain General ho: pital a first class rating. This means that the best physicians and sur- geons in the country have decided after a thorough investigation that the hospital now {is thoroughly |equipped with scientific apparatus. modern training school. and the highest type of internship.’ 00 people be- |« for | ed by the Rockefcller institute to in- | NEW BRITAIN DATLY HEWALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1927. VEHICLE ACCIDENTS IN 192 ANALYZED : 36,833 New Operators Involved in 24,326 Collisions | In 1913 and 1314 the American College of Surgeons placed the local hospital in the C class, which meant | that it had an X-ray machine but {no trained person to run it. It had {a surgery but had no clinical or| | pathological laboratory to diagnose | |cases in advance or give valuable {information atter an operation. . In | )6 Bruans {1316 the hospital made an applica- | 4 EOY water Sure Rellef tion to be admitted into B class and | was refused. In 1917 another appli- | cation was made and the institution |entered the B class. In 1919 appli- | s made for admittance into Fo class . The nospital @2 not nave| FOR_INDIGESTION | n'l'n:h sclentific equipment-and was| 25¢ and 75¢ Pkgs.Sold Everywhe. |taking care of 110 paticnts in AN | se—————— {54 bed hospifal. The application was | refused. | department. Finely Got Rating. He explained necessity As soon as the new hospital was| Fuls and regulations, es'wulll) built the American College of Sur. | Visiting hours. These rules are » ns voluntarily investigated and|for the benefit of the patient, aiscd the status to class A. |sald. Generally those who P year later the American Medical | ave visitors, not patients. ociation placed the hospital on While ft costs the hospital its approved .list, giving it a grade |a duy to care for ward paticnts a A rating. This means.that ti $5.3% a day to care for private pital now is approved by the leading | tients, enly $ is charged | medical schools of the country and | ward patients, and the average for the past three years not an in- | private patients is under $4.2 terne has entered the local ho: tay, he said. | who has not had a full and thero He concluded by say! medical education in one of t institution is attracting new d medical schools in existence opments and speclal lines of treat- A statement which surpr . avery day | R al i Bill" Freestone, 167 people to take care of an a ers of the Boston Bo age of 155 patients. This means th: ‘k,w,” tdam tendered it takes 1 1-10 employes for | Jonaph Ward sad Ho patient. In the Hartford es aprolnten s Cnn\x\xl(("\ tor this ratio Is 1 1-4, [ resent the club in the [k D : club being formed. Briplo g sora gy N Herwitz, phy Dr. Reeks describer A e business departm; {he’ club for its hospitality to - William §. Canuon self and the members of his basket |school departs et Zuests. Diwight teachers and puplls, and the house- | gi A LIC T the local keeping departments, h he s“"‘no\s club, invited the members {requires housekeeper with special | ol ") Tingirel show at t {training. The present housekeeper, |10 S Mool yink e |ne sald. had cight to nine years| S %R LT e training as a | ousekeeper and |88 SLSRC h in truth we hat rs a5 a hospital housekeep- | PN U LF T ity he said er previous to coming here. The hos- | 1€ pital has 39 maids and eight or nine| { kitchen men. | He cxplained the work of a die-| tician, who among other things must| VT have five n hospital u: t every for one of the meni- vlvn. bas of | training | supervisors, | o CATERS TO WOMEN an Stamfonl Barber Will Not Take Mecn Patrons Now Stamford, Conn., March § (UP)— of m: eck: 150 dozen eggs | Lhirty vears ot shaving and l\.’nGlrc"fl-- Iper vo tubs of butter |Ung has proved to Emillor Gre & |the same period. 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