Show ST T MARKS MARK 1 S HOSPITAL HOSPITAL A NOBLE INSTITUTION INSTITUTION I IJ It 1 A J k r rI I tk t pp tI 4 U M I p I 14 f t wa 1 w far Cai i ir iry y 3 0 BY ELIZABETH H CORAY When within another fortnight the ball gowns are laid out for fornear wear near ear and the dainty dancing frocks of the fair maidens ar arA placed before an Admiring public for far he e big Charity ball there will be bo many who will be bo glad to todo todo do what they can with nimble feet for lor forthe the sake of sweet charity There wil wilbe be some there who will wil 1 look back through more than a quarter of a cen century century century tury to the old days of the Charity ball when whon under different conditions ns but actuated by the tho same saute motives m they danced the night away These will be fewer in number as the tho years go by and their places will be filled by a younger set all willing to dance for charity The number who realize the breadth and scope of the work done by St Marks hospital the pioneer hospital not alone of the state but of the In Intermountain intermountain region is not great but there are many who are arc interested In Income some come of the phases of the work done In Jn the Ule past by that Institution Founding of St Marks St Marks was founded in response to a crying c need for medical attention for the miners of the region In 1872 and was the first Institution of ot Its kind In the intermountain coun country country country try In his book of reminiscences Bish Bishop Bishop Bishop op Tuttle gives the credit for starting the movement to Major Edmund Wilkes who Is stilt still living and to whose energetic services the success of its early life was largely due Through the help of Mr Hussey Russe the tho banker the enterprise was launched In April of ot the year mentioned and Dr J F Hamil Hamilton Hamilton ton was made its medical director In those tho e days that meant simply Its physician phy physician physician surgeon patron saint and nurse If It need be and all without pay Asso Associated Associated dated with him were Bishop Tuttle Rev Dr Kirby and three laymen and added to this small board are arc innumerable Innumerable Innumerable able names of women who worked untiringly un untiringly untiringly for the success of the venture The old Who recall the very beginnings of ot the hospital aro not all gone by any means though few are left who were active workers for Its success in the early days The start was made In a small adobe building on the corner of at Fifth South and Fourth East streets and md here the th work went on for four years Early In 1578 or thereabout the large lot on the corner comer one block north was purchased for 1000 and on It stood the brick structure of two stories which was the home of the hospital for Cor nearly twenty years more This build buildIng buildIng building Ing answered the purpose of executive office matrons home a few private rooms and general dining room and kitchen Here were managed all nil the tho business affairs of the institution no small email proposition even in those days das and from the little sitting room on the ground floor emanated a large share of ot the charity work of the period Three Wards Added To this were added In later years three wards outstanding and separated from one another which held the pa patients patients patients and these were made bearable In cold weather by means of at stoves The heating and ventilating systems were on the primitive order but lives Uv s sand and limbs innumerable were saved in these places The regular maintenance ance was WIlS such an immense problem In Itself that the renovating of these wards was frequently the work of some philanthropic individual but they were kept In most presentable condition nevertheless A number of at matrons all of them spoken of most highly by Bishop Tut Tuttle Tuttle Tuttle tle and the clergy In charge figured In Inthe Inthe inthe the early history of the place but final finally finally finally ly the office was filled by Mrs Prout the widow of at a clergyman formerly stationed In Virginia City CIt Mont and for many years she was the active efficient ef efficient efficient matron as well as the chief dis dispenser dispenser dispenser of charity for the institution No Student Nurses There were no fair young oung students and the only nurses Jurse for tor many years ears were men Chief of o these was one Al Alfred Alfred Alfred fred Kendall whoso whose work as steward and head nurse and emergency staff start combined d Is most pleasantly re remembered by the one remaining staff member Dr A S Bower who under the guidance of Dr Hamilton did most cost of ot the medical work after his ad advent advent advent vent In 1883 1583 Thero was In reality no staff starr nor were there any considerable number Of directors but many man of the charitably Inclined people of oC the town were generous patrons of ot the Institution tion Ion The main soured of at revenue was from the mines mine and nd smelters The amount given by b the Ontario mine along alona was waa something over a month while the old Lead mine at BIngham came next with between and monthly The Emma mine thine was a staunch contributor In Its palmy palm days A few tew private patients were accommodated accommodated accommodated occasionally but the th revenue from them was insignificant Numer Numerous Numerous ous charity patients were w re treated aside from the contract work for even In those days It was a proud boast of at St Marks hospital that no deserving sick man an was ever ey r turned from Its Us doors Aside Mide from the tIle Income already re rep p j j Y 1 I tl r i y gj t i A m y t I V D f t 1 to the main supply resulted from the charity ball given ghen each year ear under the management of at the good wo women women women men of the town Among those whose names are still remembered as taking an active part In this charity work York are Mrs Fidelia B Hamilton wife of Dr Hamilton Mrs Daniel S Tuttle wife of at Bishop Tuttle Mrs George Y Val Wai Wallace Wailace Vallace lace who Is one of ot the most active workers In the Hospital Aid society today Mrs Thomas Carter and Mrs Ellsworth Daggett From these an annual annual annual nual events the sum of over 1000 was frequently realized and this went to help in the work for which the Institution Institution institution I was most noted the care of the indigent sick Ball Bali of Early Times It is interesting to note the attitude of the beloved Bishop Tuttle In refer referring referring referring ring to the Hospital ball of early times in his reminiscences written to find readers perhaps more especially In the east where the ways was of the primitive mountain regions were un unknown unknown unknown known He says With houses too contracted for large social functions with domestic service a thing among the almost impossible with the exactions exactions exactions of a steady stead and strenuous labor pressing on both men and women and with the Irrepressible outcry of healthy natures for occasional recreation and amusement it was vas most natural and most reasonable that dancing parties should be given for old and young rich and poor por married and single People Peo People People honored In social and business life came to the dance and participated in It It may not seem strange then that the dear mother Mrs Foote who stood by In so many other things led off oft once in a while with her sonin law and bishop in the grand march for forthe forthe forthe the Hospital ballAt ball ballAt ballAt At the end of the first year of its life Ufe a report published at the time tri triumphantly triumphantly triumphantly states that a balance on an hand Is 1168 but the expenditures had aggregated over Even when the commodious quarters quarters quarters five rooms of the second home were secured the amount expended seems unreasonably small but it Is pointed out with pride that only a very small sum was contributed from tho the east toward supporting the struggling hospital Boxes missionary boxes came for its aid and many kindly gifts but Bishop Tuttle says of It Item even evenin evenin in its infancy Anyway an honest pride points out the fact that St Marks hospital used the kindly eastern east eastern eastern ern nursing bottle to a very small ex extent extent extent tent Indeed When hen the frame wards were added to the brick structure purchased with the theland theland land it was a proud day indeed and It proved to be bea a step In Inthe Inthe inthe the growth of the institution New Quarters Demanded In these small buildings then the hospital made Its home homo for over twenty years and during that period the needs of the Institution had grown to such extent that new quarters were an Im Imperative Imperative Imperative need Although the two other hospitals of the th city had been opened In the meantime the demand d mand for the work of at St Marks was greater than ever everit everit evert it t was In response to this that the present site was purchased and steps taken toward securing a more commodious building The old site was sold and the new building erected In 1893 and In the autumn of that year the tho hospital was moved From that time forward the growth of ot the institution Institution Institution has been almost phenomenal In 1897 the south wing was added and named for Dr Hamilton two of the wards being named for Dr F S Bas Bascom Bascom Bascom com and M lI H Walker respectively respective Only two years ago the north wing was completed adding additional space to the tha growing institution The main maln building with Its is two wings Is today In Ina Ina Ina a much crowded condition New Maternity Ward One of the tho most Interesting places Is the newly fitted maternity ward just j st opened within the past few tew weeks and already doing its Incubator duty with a half dozen do en assorted sizes and kinds of babies This ward Is the pride of the Institution Its sense sen e of restfulness Its dainty rooms Just fitted for I the e little people who draw their t eldest earliest breath therein Its Us salute a immaculateness all commend c it 11 to even ven th the casual vis visitor visitor above very other ther part of at the In Int t iIii In one room r om suitably heated and separated from the various pa patients patients rooms lie He rows of ot dainty bas baskets baskets baskets each containing its tiny bundle of at humanity sleeping peacefully Expert hands havo served the tho little ones from the first and by the time they leave feeding the institution habits of regular feed feedIng feedIng Ing have been established which only neglect will break I In the same wing In which the ma maternity maternity maternity ward is placed but on another floor are a number of at private rooms and on still another floor are the two operating rooms with their equipment I which to the eyes of ot an outsider seems barely short of miraculous One whole H floor in this north wing is devoted io too the surgical work and here hem the ques question question tion of surgical cleanliness an entirely different thing t from any ordinary cleanliness is the one solved to per perfection perfection perfection Four wards all of them occupied by men are found In the big south wing the Hamilton wing referred to On the top floor Is the surgical ward where men suffering from fractures etc are cared for On the next floor below is a combination of surgical and medical while directly beneath that Is the medical med medical medIcal ical ward Opening off on this is 19 an addi additional additional additional smaller ward made out of what was at one time the chapel Directly below the large ward again is the ty typhoid typhoid typhoid ward which at the present time Is full tull a number of ot the patients being charity patients Charity Burden Lifted Of the patients in the general genera surgical surgical surgical cal ward by far the larger number are what are known as contract patients the kind already alread referred td t for whom the hospital was first started Here are the men who for a comparatively small sum paid monthly receive medical at attention attention attention as long as It la is needed Here too are many cases for which no n definite definite nite fee is charged but some soMe soine of the expense ex expense expense pense of which is borne by the Hospital Aid society No distinction is made of course between the contract patients and those who are receiving charity nor does any patient know the stand standIng standIng standing Ing in this financial respect of any any other The main or central building con contains contains besides the offices and medical supply rooms a number of private rooms the chapel and hidden away In Inthe Inthe inthe the south end of the basement two tiny dining rooms for the nurses and andr resident r physicians In la the north end of the basement are Isolation wards the partitions between being carefully sealed scaled Here any patients may be absolutely separated from the remainder of the building the only means of egress being by an outer door to a court yard on the north This ward Is not called Into service very frequently fortunately as Its capacity is limited Formerly a building to the rear rear of the hospital proper was used as an iso isolation isolation lation ward but the growing needs of ot the hospital and consequently of ot Its helpers made it necessary to put this to other uses and only last summer this building with a large wing added be became became became came the nurses home the Bishop Leonard Memorial Here are housed the forty or more In constant at e a at the hospital although no dining room Is connected with it and andas andas andas as a consequence all nurses have to eat In the main building Nurses Training School The training train Ins school for nurses opened In 1893 when the hospital was housed In its new home Is a feature which has grown In grace with each passing year yearBy yearBy yearBy By its means m ans the hospital has been helped in a material way with the help increasing yearly year In efficiency and numbers of young oung women omen have been b n given profitable and helpful occupation tion through Its agency In the period since 1893 many nurses have hav been graduated from the school Of these a large number have married but i a great many are arc still In the profession For years these thelia nurses have worked under the additional disadvantage of pt no n prop proper er home for tor rest and recreation after their hours of labor Within the year however this has been changed In the completion of the Leonard Memorial the handsome new nurses home the furnishing of at which has been under undertaken undertaken taken by some of the charitably In Inclined dined women of ot the addition a to their work for the care cf of the indigent sick J C i v I No provision was ever eyer made In the early plans for the treating of women patients and indeed at qt t the very first the call for such medical treatment was not frequent However In the late SOs the superintendent of the hospital urged on the board the necessity for a womans ward It was not till after the new building was occupied how however however ever eer and the thc first or south wing was added that a real rea ward was opened This ward was so ro designated by Dr Bascom and Is today known as the Bascom ward The crowded condi condition condition condition tion of the hospital has made it necessary necessary sary ary to transpose things temporarily so sotha that tha at present this Is a combination of at surgical an am medical m wards and the few women who are ward patients are placed in a smaller ward in the main folding It Is still hoped however that at r ome fome time the original purpose of at the Bascom ward will be carried out and the women patients who are to be beed cared ed fo fa in a ward will find a haven there Three Medical Directors Only three medical directors have held sway in 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