Excerpt from Philadelphia Hospital Reports, 1905
The Editor offers his congratulations to the Director of the Department of Public Health and Charities, Dr. Edward Martin, and to the members of the staff upon the completion of Vol. VI of the Philadelphia Hospital Reports. It is larger in number of pages and better in the quality of the contributions than the previous volume. The delay in its publication has been due largely to the fact that a special appropriation for it had to be secured from City Councils, and that this was not granted until several months after the regular appropriations for the Hospital had been passed. We are grateful for their favor, and we hope that we may be able hereafter to count upon a definite sum, so that subsequent volumes may be issued promptly.
The attention of members of the staff and friends of the Hospital is especially directed to the Report of Dr. Biggs. It shows a most remarkable improvement in the system of hospital management, for which, in the name of the staff, the Editor would like to express thanks and grateful appreciation to the Director and his assistants. No one can enter the wards without being impressed by their cleaner appearance and by the greater comfort which the patients enjoy. The confusion and noise are also less. A corps of paid orderlies and better laundry facilities would make the nurses labors lighter and be of corresponding benefit to patients and visiting staff. In this connection two sentences from Dr. Biggs"s report may be quoted with advantage to give them emphasis: "The greatest handicap to the work of the Hospital is lack of a sufficient number of paid, responsible workers. We are dependent to such a large degree on inmate labor that it is impossible to approach the standard of service which we set, and many advances planned and attempted have to be abandoned because of an insufficient number of suitable and efficient persons to carry them out."
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