Town annual reports of the several departments for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1875, Part 29

Author: Worcester (Mass.)
Publication date: 1875
Publisher: The City
Number of Pages: 490


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The daily condition of the supply in the Lynde Brook Reser- voir for the year ending December 1st, 1875, is given in the accompanying table, and the Report made to the City Council June 21st, is appended.


I am indebted to the Water Commissioner, Mr. Hall, and the Registrar, Mr. Brown, for information in regard to the Water Department, which has always been cheerfully given on applica- tion.


Thanking the Committee for the uniform courtesy received from them while prosecuting work under their direction, this report is most respectfully submitted.


C. H. M. BLAKE,


Civil Engineer.


WORCESTER, Dec. 1st, 1875.


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REPORT OF CITY ENGINEER TABLE


SHOWING THE DAILY CONDITION OF LYNDE BROOK RESERVOIR SUPPLY FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 1ST, 1875, AND RAINFALL DURING THAT PERIOD.


1874. DECEMBER.


1875. JANUARY.


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THE CITY HOSPITAL.


BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 1875.


Alderman-LEWIS BARNARD,


Councilmen HAMILTON B. STAPLES,


Terms Expire 1875.


GEORGE F. HEWETT, At Large-DR. FRANK H. KELLEY, Term Expires 1876. STEPHEN SALISBURY, JR., 66 1875.


DR. JOSEPH SARGENT,


66


66 1878.


ALBERT CURTIS, 66 66 1879.


ORGANIZATION.


President-DR. FRANK H. KELLEY. Secretary-STEPHEN SALISBURY, JR.


LEWIS BARNARD. Auditors GEORGE F. HEWETT.


Superintendent and Resident Physician.


DR. CHARLES A. PEABODY.


MEDICAL STAFF, 1875.


Consulting Physicians.


Joseph Sargent, M. D. Frank H. Kelley, M. D. Bernard D. Eastman, M. D.


Visiting Physicians.


Rufus Woodward, M. D.


George A. Bates, M. D.


Oramel Martin, M. D.


Henry Clarke, M. D.


Joseph N. Bates, M. D.


Thomas H. Gage, M. D.


J. Marcus Rice, M. D. Albert Wood, M. D.


Emerson Warner, M. D.


George E. Francis, M. D.


John O. Marble, M. D.


Leonard Wheeler, M. D.


Oculist and Aurist. LEWIS S. DIXON, M. D.


Microscopist and Pathologist. WILLIAM H. WORKMAN, M. D.


ORGANIZATION.


President-ORAMEL MARTIN, M. D. Secretary-LEONARD WHEELER, M. D.


Committee on Report


ALBERT WOOD, M. D. EMERSON WARNER, M. D. GEORGE A. BATES, M. D.


THOMAS H. GAGE, M. D.


Committee on Conference GEORGE E. FRANCIS, M. D. RUFUS WOODWARD, M. D.


REPORT OF TRUSTEES.


To Hon. Clark Jillson, Mayor, and the City Council of the City of Worcester :


THE Trustees of the City Hospital respectfully present their Fifth Annual Report.


CONDITION OF THE HOSPITAL.


From the opening of the Hospital, October 26, 1871, to the date of this report, 710 patients have been received, and during the past municipal year 212 have been treated, an increase of 25 over the number of patients in the municipal year 1873-'74. In the report of the Superintendent, which is appended, valuable statistical information is given concerning the practical operation of the Hospital. This charity has met the approval of the com- munity and has saved many lives, besides relieving and,benefiting a great number of persons who otherwise would have been ex- posed to much suffering, with but little prospect of regaining or improving their health. The success of the Medical and Surgi- cal treatment, furnished gratuitously by the staff of fourteen physicians, has been abundant, and it is expected that the im- proved accommodations and facilities, soon to be afforded by the new wards, will offer even more favorable conditions for the treatment of disease than has been possible in the past. At the request of the Medical Staff, Dr. William H. Workman has been appointed Microscopist and Pathologist to the Hospital.


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CITY DOCUMENT .- No. 30.


The ability of Dr. Charles A. Peabody, in his position of Superintendent and Resident Physician, and his unremitting de- votion to the duties and interests of the Institution, call for par- ticular recognition on the part of the Trustees. The subordinate offices of the household are discharged by the employees faith- fully and to the satisfaction of the Medical Staff.


The garden connected with the Hospital has been much im- proved and has yielded a gratifying return of fresh vegetables and flowers during the past season. From returns furnished by the Superintendent, it appears that in an accurate account with this department, in which the supplies of vegetables and fruit have been charged at market rates, the income from the garden has exceeded the cost of production by $19.87, a very creditable exhibit when the advantage of a better quality of vegetables is taken into account.


ATTEMPT TO PROCURE A PERMANENT LOCATION.


The Trustees have always considered the occupation of the Jaques Homestead as a temporary expedient, not only for the reason that the house is poorly adapted to the purposes of a Hos- pital, but also because they realized the fact that by the present arrangement a very considerable proportion of the bequest of our benefactor, Mr. Jaques, was rendered unproductive, thus defeat- ing the purpose of his liberality in a measure. The estimated value of the property embraced in the Homestead Estate is ap- proaching one-half in value of the whole legacy of Mr. Jaques, and though the present does not seem to be a desirable time to dispose of real estate, the Trustees have felt that it was their duty to make some effort towards procuring a permanent location on land offering the greatest natural advantages from situation in a sanitary point of view, and by removal rendering available for sale the valuable property which they now occupy. The land given by Mr. Jaques, as a site for the Hospital, has never met the full approval of the Physicians connected with the Hospital. The fact that it is situated upon the northeast side of a hill, was an objection which was deemed very important; for in the


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CITY HOSPITAL.


treatment of disease it is now regarded of the highest moment to offer all possible natural advantages in regard to light and air. On the 10th of April, an opportunity of purchasing the Colton estate, adjacent to the present Hospital lot, so called, but having a southeasterly exposure, having presented itself, and the terms upon which such purchase could be made being then deemed reasonable as a basis of negotiation, and the above location con- mending itself to their best judgment as an entirely advantageous location for a Hospital, in which opinion they were joined by the written approval of the whole Medical Staff, and by the City Committee on the Hospital, the Trustees prepared a memorial to the City Council, recommending the purchase of the Colton estate. This proposition was, however, not approved by the City authorities.


NEW WARDS.


At the monthly meeting of Trustees, on October 2d, the overcrowded condition of the Hospital being more than ever apparent, was a subject of much solicitude and discussion. In all the wards the ventilation was none of the best, but in the ward devoted to the care of surgical cases, the evils arising from this cause were so evident that the Trustees passed a vote to diminish the number of patients in this ward and to request the City Council to afford temporary relief, by building isolated wards in which the atmospheric conditions might be more favora- ble for the treatment of serious surgical cases. By a visit to the Hospital, his honor, Mayor Jillson, was made acquainted with the existing evils, and with the views of the Trustees and of the Medical Staff as to the remedy. The Mayor presented the sub- ject at the next meeting of the City Council and an order was passed providing that the Superintendent of Public Buildings, under direction of the Committee on Public Buildings, construct such temporary additional accommodations as might be required for six patients, the expenses thereof to be charged to the appro- priation for the City Hospital. Estimated cost of construction, $2,000.00.


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CITY DOCUMENT .- No. 30.


In consequence of this order, a Committee of Trustees, acting in concert with the City Committee on Public Buildings, planned the erection of two temporary pavilions, one of them 25 feet by 37 feet, and the other 25 feet by 27 feet, each of the rooms thus provided being 14 feet in height in the clear, and the two build- ings being isolated, but connected with the present Hospital by a plank walk. The two pavilions are to have open fire-places with air flues in each chimney, and a small room is partitioned off in one of the wards for the treatment of special cases which it is advisable to separate. The pavilions are to be ventilated on the plan invented and introduced by Mr. A. B. Brown, a system which has commended itself to the Trustees from a previous trial in one of the wards. An operating room is in process of construction 16 feet by 25 feet, and 11 feet in height in the clear, lighted by a skylight in the roof. This room is in the rear of the Hospital, closely connected with the main building and with the pavilions, and is in all respects better adapted for an operating room than the one at present used, a removal from which is desirable on many accounts.


In carrying out the projected improvements, the Trustees are indebted to Mr. Charles H. Peck, Superintendent of Public Buildings, for the plans and superintendence of the work, and also for many valuable suggestions. It is anticipated that the new wards will be ready for occupation in February of the ensu- ing year.


The ready response of the City authorities to the urgent calls of this charity, in providing the relief asked for, by the erection of these new buildings, deserves the grateful acknowledgments of the Trustees and of all interested in the prosperity of this In- stitution. It is now thought, that with the additional accommo- dations offered by the new buildings, patients can be better cared for and their restoration to health very much hastened. An opportunity is also given to make a trial of the pavilion plan upon a small scale, the results from which will determine whether this system shall be adopted when permanent buildings are erected for this Hospital. It is hoped that the experiment may receive a thorough trial in the present location before any further steps are taken to procure or erect permanent structures.


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LEAVE TO SELL REAL ESTATE.


The Supreme Judicial Court has authorized and empowered the City of Worcester to sell and convey real estate devised by the will of the late George Jaques, and to execute and deliver conveyances of the same to purchasers, and to hold and apply the proceeds of all lands sold and conveyed, by a decree of the 26th of May last, for the use and benefit of the City Hospital.


On the 12th of July, the City Council passed an order authorizing the Trustees to sell at public or private sale, such portion of the real estate, devised to the city by the will of George Jaques, as by decree of the Supreme Judicial Court may be lawfully sold by the city, as they may from time to time deem expedient. The deeds of conveyance are to be signed by the Mayor and sealed by the common seal of the city, and delivered by the Trustees in the name of the city. But it provides, how- ever, that such sales shall be subject to the approval of the Com- mittee on Finance on the part of the city, to be shown by the en- dorsement of such approval on any deed given, which is to be attested by the City Clerk.


Thus it will be seen that the Trustees, subject to the approval of the City Finance Committee, are furnished with legal authority to dispose of such portions of the Jaques property as may be deemed advisable, and plans of this real estate have been pre- pared and may be consulted on application at the Hospital. Greater efforts would be made to sell parts of the estate if the dullness of the market did not render it undesirable at present.


DONATIONS.


Dr. Rufus Woodward, of the Medical Staff, gave in the month of January, more than seventy volumes of books of a miscellaneous character, as the nucleus and foundation of a library for the use of patients. The People's Club afterwards added fifty-one books, and Hon. Edward Earle gave forty volumes to this library. These valuable presents were acknowledged by the Trustees in appropriate votes of thanks.


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CITY DOCUMENT .- No. 30.


In the month of January, Mr. Albert Curtis, one of the Trus- tees, added twenty-nine standard medical and surgical books to the valuable consulting library at the Hospital, which he had previously established, and on the 10th of March, Mr. Curtis sent a communication to the Trustees, in which he expressed his desire to provide permanently for replenishing this library, and enclosed one thousand dollars as a fund, to the present Board of Trustees and their successors, to be by them safely invested, the income or interest thereof to be expended at the discretion of the Board, for the benefit of the Medical and Surgical Library and in procuring books, maps, plates, and other apparatus there- for which might, in their judgment, aid and assist medical and surgical operations. In consequence of this liberal gift, the Trustees passed the following vote : "Resolved, That the Trustees of the City Hospital do hereby, as said Trustees, accept and receive from Albert Curtis, Esq., the sum of one thousand dol- lars, to be held under the name of the Curtis Fund by them, ex-officio, and their successors in said office, in trust for the uses, trusts and purposes touching the same, declared by said Albert . Curtis in and by his letter to the Trustees of date March 10, 1875, to be herewith recorded in the records of the Trustees." The conditions of this trust were approved by the City Council.


The following additional gifts were received during the year : (December), Mrs. G. Henry Whitcomb, shirts, pieces and pa- pers ; Mrs. E. W. Ball, pieces ; Mrs. Marble, pieces ; People's Club, pieces ; Anonymous, pieces ; Mrs. Benjamin Walker, pieces ; Mrs. N. Harkness, pieces and papers; Mrs. A. P. Brown, pieces ; Mr. Francis Douglass, easy chair. (Jan- uary), Mrs. G. Henry Whitcomb, pieces ; Mr. C. C. Wood- bury, pieces ; Mrs. E. L. Davis, sheets and pieces ; Mrs. Wm. Brown, pieces ; Mrs. Gill, night dresses, jellies and pieces ; Mrs. L. Leonard, pieces ; Mrs. A. B. Barnard, pieces ; Mr. Salisbury, dressing gown, pieces and shirts ; People's Club, pieces ; Mrs. Miller, pieces. (February), People's Club, shirts and pieces, books and reports ; Boynton Street Book Club, "Old and New," Lippincott for 1874. (March ), People's Club, pieces ; Mrs. Eaton, pieces ; Mrs. P. L. Cooper, pieces ; Mrs.


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E. N. Harkness, pieces and papers ; Mrs. Ezra Kent, pieces ; Mr. C. F. Lincoln, pieces. (April), Mr. 'Salisbury, linen ; Mrs. Hawes, pieces ; Mrs. Albro, pieces ; Mr. Edward Earle, periodicals. (May), Mrs. Green, pamphlets ; Mrs. Potter, pieces ; Mrs. Winthrop, pieces ; Mrs. Jabez Rice, pieces. (June), Miss Clarissa Sikes, pieces ; Ladies' Benevolent So- ciety, 1st Unitarian Church, pillow cases, sheets and night dresses ; Flower Mission, flowers ; Mrs. Halstead, papers. (July), Flower Mission, flowers each week and papers. (August), Flower Mission, periodicals and sheets ; Mrs. H. E. Richardson, pieces ; Mrs. M. J. Greenleaf, sheets ; Anonymous, pieces ; A Friend, $25 for rides for patients. (September), Flower Mission, flowers each week, papers and pieces; Miss Gill, flowers and pieces. (November), Memorial Free Dispen- sary, pieces. (December), Mrs. C. H. Whiting, pieces.


RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES.


The following report in detail of the receipts and expenses of maintaining and conducting the Hospital during the past year is submitted. A payment from the State for the care of patients, amounting to $695.72, was received one day too late to appear in this statement, but is now deposited with the City Treasurer, and will be credited to the Hospital in the next monthly state- ment of the Auditor.


RECEIPTS.


Balance unexpended Nov. 30, 1874,


$1,579 57


Appropriation, 1875,


10,500 00


Board from paying patients,


655 93


Board from State for care of patients,


31 71


Sales of produce and materials,


174 10


-- $12,941 31


EXPENSES.


Salaries and pay roll,


$3,245 44


Groceries and provisions,


2,441 45


Carpets, bedding, table linen, &c.,


171 42


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CITY DOCUMENT .- No. 30.


Repairs,


133 90


Coal and wood,


426 71


Surgical Instruments,


145 70


Medicines,


492 58


Gas,


210 43


Crockery, tin ware, &c.,


128 58


Stationery, postage, expressage, &c.,


44 34


Printing,


60 45


Furniture and fixtures,


110 40


Ice,


13 83


Trucking,


20 80


Hay and grain,


140 05


Advertising,


25 00


Cow and swine,


200 00


Hot bed frames and sashes,


40 00


Boots and shoes,


6 04


Manure,


86 62


Cooking range,


103 25


Fowls,


13 50


Seeds,


20 30


Hack hire,


47 77


Tools,


9 20


Legal service,


379 53


Engineering,


8 00


Balance unexpended Dec. 1, 1874,


4,216 02


-$12,941 31.


There are now outstanding bills for the cost of construction of the new wards, which, when completed, will require furni- ture and fixtures. On the completion of the new buildings a larger number of patients can be accommodated and the ex- penses of maintenance will be somewhat increased.


In view of the probable requirements of this department, the Trustees would respectfully ask the City Government for an appropriation of $12,000.00 to meet the expenses of the ensuing year.


INCIDENTAL TOPICS.


The present service at the Hospital includes the Superintendent and Resident Physician, Dr. Charles A. Peabody, the Matron, Miss M. A. Hales, a Cook and Assistant, a Male and Female Attendant, a Night Watchman, a Gardener and a Laundress.


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CITY HOSPITAL.


The Trustees are under great obligations to the City Treas- urer, Wm. S. Barton, Esq., for his careful and accurate man- agement of the accounts relating to the Jaques Fund, the sur- - plus and interest from which is safely and productively invested.


In behalf and by order of the Trustees,


. STEPHEN SALISBURY, JR.,


Secretary.


WORCESTER, December 24, 1875.


REPORT


OF THE


SUPERINTENDENT AND RESIDENT PHYSICIAN.


To the Trustees :-


GENTLEMEN : The following Statistical Report is respectfully submitted.


Since the Hospital was opened there have been admitted 710 patients, 161 of them suffering from accidental injury ; 70 have died, and 160 have been refused admission ; as follows :-


1871, Five weeks ending Nov. 30,


Admitted. 16


Refused.


Accidents.


Died.


0


1


1


1872, Year


160


29


38


19


1873,


66


162


44


34


24


1874,


66


174


32


54


14


1875,


66


66


198


57


33


12


In the Hospital December 1, 1874: Males, 10; Females, 4; Total, 14.


ADMITTED FROM DECEMBER 1, 1874, TO DECEMBER 1, 1875.


Males, 128. Females, 70. Total, 198.


Medical, 88. Surgical, 110.


Paying, 37.


Free,


161


Of these, 21 paid $10.00 per week, and 16 others paid various smaller amounts. The average price per week paid was $8.54. The number of accidents admitted was 33.


TREATED DURING THE YEAR.


Males,


136. Females,


76. Total, 212.


Medical,


95. Surgical,


117.


435


CITY HOSPITAL.


The largest number of patients in the Hospital at any one time was 16 ; smallest number, 5. Daily average number, 11.2.


Average time of patients in the Hospital, 19 days; of paying patients, 22.73 days ; of free patients, 18.8 days.


DISCHARGED DURING THE YEAR.


Well,


124


Much relieved,


24


Relieved,


19


Not relieved,


7


Not treated,


13


Died,


12


Eloped,


3


202


Cause of Death : Railroad accident, Pneumonia, Typhoid Fever, 2 each ; Aneurism, Heart disease, Cirrhosis of Liver, Con- vulsions, Enteritis, Pyæmia, 1 each. Death rate, 5.6.


REMAINING NOVEMBER 30, 1875.


Males,


7. Females,


3. Total, 10.


Medical,


2. Surgical,


8.


RESIDENCE OF PATIENTS.


Worcester,


171


Other Towns in Massachusetts,


20


Other States,


7


198


BIRTHPLACE.


Males.


Females.


Total.


Massachusetts,


34


19


53


Other States,


20


10


30


Ireland,


57


35


92


England,


5


3


8


British Provinces,


7


2


9


Other countries,


5


1


6


128


70


198


OCCUPATION.


Males.


Females.


Laborers,


66


Domestics,


35


Mechanics,


42


Housewives,


22


Minors,


11


Minors,


11


Clerks,


4


Nurses,


2


Railroad Employés,


5


128


70


436


CITY DOCUMENT .- No. 30.


CIVIL CONDITION.


Males.


Females.


Single,


70


Single,


35


Married,


44


Married,


15


Widowers,


14


Widows, 20


ADMISSION REFUSED.


Pulmonary disease,


15


Bright's disease,


1


Injury,


6


Bunion,


1


Ulcer,


4


Hemorrhoids,


1


Cancer,


4


Lichen,


1


Venereal disease,


4


Phlegmasia Dolens,


1


Paralysis,


3


Pregnancy,


1


Typhoid Fever,


3


Rheumatism,


1


Abscess,


3


Strabismus,


1


Dysentery,


2


Tonsillitis,


1


Uterine disease,


2


Cardiac disease,


1


Chorea,


1


57


Of these, more than forty were refused for lack of room.


The death rate is lower than that of any previous year ; but it should also be stated that the number of deaths from disease was larger than ever before (9.4 per cent.), while the number resulting from accident was very much smaller.


Of the twelve deaths of the year, eight occurred during the cold months; and of the remaining four, two occurred within a day from the time of admission, and one resulted from the rup- ture of an aneurism.


This statement, so far as it is of value, goes to illustrate the evils of overcrowding and insufficient ventilation, of necessity much greater in Winter than in Summer. These evils, which cannot be avoided in the old house, will, to a great extent, be obviated in the new wards now building. These wards, while meeting for the time the most urgent demands of the Hospital, will also afford a practical test of some of the more recent ideas in hospital construction.




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