Show We believe the nurses In a good many hospitals are like cooks In hotels that they ought to be changed about every six months The real successful hotelkeeper hotel-keeper l will be the man who has seven hotels and makeR a change of cooks often We have all read of the scandals scan-dals which were perpetrated In the the Bellevue hospital a few weeks ago when three nurses beat a poor wretch to death The Medical News says of the scandals They are not due tony to-ny one persons management but to a syBtcm They are the outcome of po litical Jobbery The Medical Record says of the Insane ward This f imrt of the hospital had for many years itn experienced medical superintend eat who reslpned last spring and whoso particular ottic was thou abolished cannot bi > denied that the medical staff it blreriiiously I advocated tho continuance of such JU8Ujxrlntenucncy but without avail o Insttnd of honoring the mbBlortor of Churltlea appeal the Com duties tho now dUtksuioit imou an already overworked house stuff ThIs was doubtlcsK considered wise on hs part at tho time but the ultimate reauiu can hardly bear out such an as tuimnUon Tho virtual acknowledgment of error in this regard Is now manliest In ills finally acceding to tho original I wish 01 tho board by recreating the oillce oC medical siinjjrliHondbnt of the Insane and holding tho Incumbent to strict account ability for proper supervision wards of his It stems almost Impossible for any charitable Institution to run more than about BO long until some one In author ity either for money or for preferment or for something else fixes things so that the poor dependents upon charity are afiused The modern hospital Is one of the chlefeat signs of modern civilization but In I more than half the hospitals in the country there Is gross I neglect of duty often cruelty and worse than both perhaps there is a carelessness that patients have to suf for for In the attentions that thoy fall I to receive and In the food which is not prepared In a way that 111 people can i eat iJ J I I |