Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1937.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Date:
1937
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1937. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    frankly admit this fact. Actually we have had more work to do and in many respects less to do it with dur¬ ing 1920, and so it has not been so well done. If we are not to regress, we must have more funds; if we are to progress, our needs must be admittedly large; I feel sure that for any institution a failure to progress in¬ evitably leads to regression, and we cannot afford not to grow after the accomplishments of our first few years of existence. The staff has curtailed its activities cheer¬ fully during the emergency of acutely decreased re¬ sources; if the staff is willing complacently to continue to do so over any long period of time, the Trustees should begin to think that they need a new staff.” From the 8th Annual Report (1921) I quote: The Flospital spends less now on the professional care of each patient than it did in 1914, notwithstanding the fact that wages of nurses, orderlies and helpers, drugs and supplies have increased in cost during this period. Moreover, the same salary expenditure is made now as in 1914 for physi¬ cians and surgeons, though they care for 52 per cent, more house patients and 64.5 per cent, more Out-Door Department visits. On the medical service the same sized resident staff, a salaried visiting staff one larger and several additional voluntary workers (Associates in Medicine), as compared with the staff in 1914, are now caring for 78 per cent, more house patients and 82 per cent, more Out-Door Department patients”; and from the 9th Annual Report (1922): It seems to me that no better way could be found for marking the beginning of our second decade than organized ac¬ tivity under the leadership and guidance of the Board of Trustees in the securing of increased funds to permit of the carrying out of developments so earnestly desired by the staff of the Fiospital. Ours is certainly the only hospital in Boston whose trustees during the past ten