New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1929, Page 2

* 577 Out of Town Patients " o - Report of Supt. Recks Shows Institution Is Cen- | ter for This Territory— New = Accommodations Needed. i There were G563 patlents €om ' other towng and cities and 14 from other states, treated in the Mew! Britsio General hospital lasy year. | accor@ing to a report submitted | this afternoon by Dr. T. Eben Reeks superintendent, at the 29:h annual meeting of the hospital How a hospital's morblawy report sometimes is misleading is shown in Dr. Reeks' report, which points ou!{' that of 192 deaths in the hospital. | less than half or only 97 were insti- | tutional deaths. Of the remainder 75 paticnts practically were in a dy- ing condition whea they reac® »d lh't‘ hospital and 20 premature births are recorded as deatns. That the new ambulance is prov- ing & mecessity is shown by the re- | port which points out that this| vehicle answered almost Mas calls. Dr. Reeks points out that th tendency among local phystevans to | speclalize and render themselves more efficient in specific lines has helped cause the hospital to adapt| itself to calls for more specialized | service, He calls attention to the growing need for more adequate accommodations for the medical wards, which are still housed in the | old building, and for the need of greater accommodations for a grow- ing school of nursing. A fact long known by newspaper- men but made public today for the | first time is the fact that flowers |’ which grace the tables in the| nurses’ dining rooms are the gifts of C. F. Smith, chairman of the board of directors of Landers, Frary & Clark. Mr. 8mith recently spoke at a meeting of the nurses and in- | fiscal year 1928. Hospital Statistics Patients in hospital at beginning of year, 121; admitted during year, surgical casgg. 2,055; medical cases, 475; obstertrical cases, 624; new born, 593, total 3,867. Patients in hospital at ead of year, 101; daily average numb¢r of patients in hospital, 131; meathly average number of patients in hos- pital, 322; greatest number of pa- tients in hospital in a day, 165;; aversaa .umber days stay per pa- lent, 10; total hospital days treat- ment given, 47,826; total number of operations performed, 1.992; number of ambulance calls, ¢83; total number of accident cases, 321; total number of autopsies, 17. Deaths within a few hours of ad- mission, 75; infants (prematur hirths), 20; institutional deaths, 9 total deaths, 1 Residence of uring year: Britain, 3.169 rounding towns, 563; patients from other states, i total, 3,74¢; state and city cases included in above, 162. ending -September 30, patients admitted patients from New Number of bgd available: private rooms, 40; semi-private rooms, 92; wards, 50; children, 20; nurseries, 31154395 3.399.50 Protessional Medical officers, nurses, anes- thetiats, d rdel attendants, Laboratory depart e service upkeep Medical and surgical supplies, apparatus, drugs, X-Ray and laboratory : g ‘lies. R ord profesio. & m laneous & Training scho iarics Supplies Nurses home: Salaries and wages Ipkeep Kitchen: Salaries und wages Supplies Provisions Laundry: Ralaries and 247185 195.72 . 893276 11519 41,430,902 5,084.53 916.11 ternes and the gift of flowers fol- |, lowed. The gift is reported in her an- nual report by Miss Maude E. Traver, directress of nurses. The reports follow: Superintendent’s Report To the corporators and board of @irectors of the New Britain Gener- ! al Hospital. | Sirs:—It 15 my privilege presenting the $9th annual report of the New Britain General Hospital for the 19,864, 5,959.91 3.130.55 60.81 95.80 03.39 ! 16.23 00.01 Insgran, . . Freight, express and cartage Liep 2d alterations of buildings 421226 Salaries and mechanics Total total, patients from sur- | $ |tients spent 47,826 days in the hos- 4 Disburssments ce B354.846.94 Less accounts paysble at end of yoor “ Plus cash receipts applied t variows expease accounts Disbureed by beak for axpenses at hospital and salaries aad WAEe o0 aee 283.336. Average dally cogt per capita.. “n *“You will note-from the statistics set forth that. there were 175 less pationts admitted than during the previous year. With few ‘exceptions thers was a similar decrease in the number of patients treated in most | of the hospitals throughout the eaat. This was very generally attributed to the somewhat unsettied business con- | 'ditions existing during the summer months, forcing many wage earnefs to shorter hours of employment. De- | creased earnings invariably result in fewer calls on doctors. Hence, less patients are sent to hospitals. As; ithe fall months approached, the con- | |dition became quite marked, inse-! |much that we considered reducing our force of employes. But it was found that to effect any material saving In the cost of maintenange | we should have had to cut down the ! professional employes. This we felt would have been an unwise move, | |for it is not easy to secure on short notice, the type of professional peo- !ple we require, and, as I have many | |times stated, a hospital, like a fire! department, must be ever ready to| meet emergencies, and we would net have been ready with a depleted force, “There were 475 medical and z.-‘ 055 surgical patients, 62¢ maternity and 592 infants. all told the pa- pital. This does not include the 2,- 453 out-patients who came to the hospital for varjous diagnoses and treatments but not hospitalized. | There was a rather marked increase in the number of ward patients, there being 1,061 as against 568 last year. It is particularly gralfying to {know that we have rendered a larg- |er service to those unable to pay for more expensive accemmodations. |Ward patients are charged about | halt of what it costs the hospital for their care. They recelve the same nursing and medical and surgical kill as do the private patients, Even | consultation by the best doctors in [tha county costs these patients noth- he hospital is here to serve peo- | ple of all financlal conditions and | ‘no one in need of care is ever refus- ed .admission to our wards for fi- ‘There were 6,500 and treatment rancial reaso: days of care Master Of All ~ Financial Languages Elihu Burritt, New Britain’s learned black- smith, could read 50 languages, and could write and speak many of them. Through its connections with world-wide banking organizations, The Commercial Trust Company speaks all financial lan- guages. On its staff are employees able to transact business in Polish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish, Portuguese, Swedish and Lithuanian, For foreign exchange service to any country in the world, see us. Build eAnd Help “Build o e e o e gy have beet possible fer the hespital tg do this were it 3t for the dona. T8830 | ions and the incombe réceived from the endowments from sympaihétic und; generous individuals for the general maintenance of the hospita.. Medical (ases Fall 10 Ineroass ‘The year after we enlarged the huspital w3 cared for 451 medical gutients and each sucpeeding, ycar the number remains practically the rame. This is not as it should be for, while hospitals the.gountry ever | are .doing -more and more. susgical work rethethan medical, the nwn- | ber of our medical.cases a Sar-below what it ‘should. be. in & oity.0f.this she. We have'a good medical stafl #na a good’ clinical laboratory” and the medical ‘wards are ‘supérvised ty a nurse :pecially tralned in mel \icul care. But the quartérs are unat- tiactive to the patient 4n -cempari- son with the new paviflon, the ar- rangements are rather antiquated, they are small. and lack modern conveniences. I share the opinion of our doctors that the number of med- ical cases would greatly increas: could we house them in the few building. Of course, this is out of the qvestion, every inch of spurce there is needed for other purpose: “Th children's department remains about stationary notwithstanding the .work is now superviséd by a well trained pediatrician. In thie cage it is not due to unattractiveness, for if n the mew hospital, but to the of room to expand. Medical and surgical children should be kept apart and the older boys and girls segregated according to sex. Inso- far as is poasible we do this, but too frequently a crowded condition pre- vents it, and often it is necesary to place some children in an adjoining ward with adults, Ex| penses Increasing “The total expenses, you will no- tice, are higher this year due to pro- fesional betterment. Each year the demands for special lines of service increase and a hospital is obliged to provide the scientific aids -expected | in & modern hospital. It has been our aim to keep abreast of the times and, to mcet the growing demands of medicine and surgery, we have had to add to our equipment and trained personnel. And we . must continue this policy, if the needs of the community are to be mét. It will call for further expansion to provide suitable space and quarters for our present important scientific adjuncts and those ¥t to come, and to house our growing school of stu- dent nurses and increasing number | of hospital employes, What we have already accomplished has cost a great deal of money, and it will con- tinue just as it does in every hos” pital striving to give the best service “Today our .ospital is serving a 1099552 | given ward patients absolutely with- lcity of more than 80,000 and is| 0 lout charge. Obviously, it 'would mot |drawing more and more from thc YOUR NEW BRITAIN As alocal resident you are one of 80,000 “stockholders” in the civic enterprise known as City of loyal lew Britain. Be to it. Patronize its mer- chants and industries. umber of patients ia our; surrounding - communities—56Q of our patients came from nearby towns last year. “It is particularly pleasing to me, | and I am glad for New Britain, to note the keen interest our own doc- .tors have shown in the many ad- vantages the hospital now has, With- in the past four or five years no less than five of our men have devoted thelr time to the study and practice of some special branch of medicine. Four of them have now practically dropped their general practice and are giving their attention to the spe- cial line they are interested in. An- other doctor recently returned to, New Britain, having spent many months in the study and hospital practice of orthopedica, Two more of | our men have had the degree of Fel- lowship bonterred upon them by the American College of Surgeons. “Profeasional growth is more or} less intangible to record. Rather it 1s something to be observed and felt by -personal contact. - That it exists is evigenced hy the class of work now performed by our staff members and copfirmed by the people, who formerly went elsewhere, but now come to our hospital, under the care of our own physiicans and surgeons. | “Our pathologist reports 23,447 | pathological and chemical examina-! tions, a goodly increase over the last | annual report, and the X-ray de- partment shows more work .on hos- pital patients thap ever before. This | represents a great varlety of tech-' nical work calléd for by the doctors and is a good index of the profes- sional advancement spoken of. Con- siderable equipment has been added | to these departments, each of which ! is sadly in need of much Ilrger“ quarters. “The amount of work performed by the physiotherapist is about the same as last year. His room is well | equipped but is far too small and cramped for all the work he could | do, Pleased ing fichool Growth “I am ‘impressed with the steady growth in numbers of our student nurses and the standing our train-| | ing school has attained under the | supervision of its directors. It is now ome. of the schools recognized | {by the ' New York State Board of | | Regents. This gives our graduates reciprocity with that state, i *‘Considerable alteration and | LINIMENT Also see of all and that THE NEW DODGE SENIOR =largest, Anest product of Brothers craf has the enthusiastic spirit achievement depend. ability which invariably eharacterizes Dodge Brothers cars. property has kept our six mechan. ics unusually busy. In addition to repairs too numerous to mention in this report, the entire interior of the nurses’ home and several parts of the hospital were re-painted, and steam and water lines extended to other hospital property. “The bequests to the hospital re- ported by the treasurer are most gratitying to me, as indeed they are to all, for it is only by such gener- osity that the institution has been able to reach its present profession- al efficiency. “I desire to make grateful ack- nowledgement for the advice, co- operation and encouragement given me year after year by our presi- dent, also to the dirtctors for thelr splendid support. “The hospital is indebted to many individuals who have unselfishly given their time and energy to as- sist in in one way and another, and to others, who have remembered us with flowers, fruit, books, maga- zines and donations. “The woman's board has been markedly active in the interest of the hospital. In addition to the ma- terial aid of its members it would be difficult to estimate how far the influence of th: board extends. made by groups of various churches. One group als made 208,725 dressings. Mrs. V. A. Sheldon, the head of a group, gen- erouly donated three dozen com- fdrtable, high back chairs for the surgical dressing room. “I wish to pay tribute to the medical and dental staffs for their copoeration and to express appre- ciation to the heads of departments, | nurses and employes for their loyal- ty to me in the management of this institution, “Respectfully submitted, “T. EBEN REEKS, M. D, “Superintendent.” ‘Training School Only 33 were accepted out of 115 girls who applied to become student nurses, according to the following report by Miss Maude E. Traver, supervisor of nurses: “Sirs—I have the honor of sub- mitting the twenty-first annual re- port of the school of nursing, whic! MY BACK HURTS TERRIBLY. | CANT . |CANT SLEEP. HOW CAN | 1| ALWAYS USE SLOANS TO STOP PAIN. GET A 35¢ BOTILE OF SLOAYS LINIMENT AT ANY DRUG STORE. USE I7. SLOAN'S WILL MAKE YOUR PAIN GO RIGHT AWAY. IAME BACK? Sloan’s Limiment INTRESNIIYEN 1; theoretical instructor, 1; = supervisor, 1; assistant night super- visor, 1; department supervisors, 2; assistant department supervisors, 2; head nurses, §; anaesthetists, 3; sur. gical supply room supervisor, 1; post graduate studets,. 8; student nures, ¢5; preliminary students, 19; ward attendants, 3; orderlies, 5— total 95, +“1016 private patients employed special nurses. “During the past year 115 appli- cations to enter to the achool were received, and of this number 33 were accepted. Two students have resigned and three have been dis- missed. “The health of the students has been good, there being but 154 Cays absence on account of sickness in the entire year, and a large pro- portion of these sick days were taken by one student for treatment of gastric ulcers. THe other sick days were chiefly due to minar colds, 4 i “Lectlres to the achool were given by: Dr. G. H. Bodley, Dr. |Dalton, Dr. G. W. Dunn, Dr. D. W. |0'Connell, Dr. W. F. Flanagen, Dr. | Through its instrumentality, great |W. T. Morriasey. Dr. R. N. Pullen, | quantities of surgical dressings are superintendent of health; Dr. V. J. ladies from | Mendillo, Dr. N. W. Loud, labratory{social recreation parlors. | director; Dr. R. 8. Buol, R. G. Jo- | hanson, psyo-therophy. director. / “In May a class of 17 was gradu- | ated, the exercises being held in the| NFLU got on the safe side — helped many in their no harmful drugs —it G. H., $25 to Mism Dorothy Crewley. Junigr clas, first prise of $50 te Miss Dorothy Andrews; second prize ot §25, to Mim Lucy Williams. The apecial prise of $50 given by the Women's Hospital Hoard, was awarded to Miss Anns Rajune. “Since the achool was organised in 1907 it has graduated 164 nurees. “The fund of $200 given -by Charles F. 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