Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1926.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Date:
1926
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1926. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Definite Tasks Accomplished There were 120 patients sent to convalescent homes. Most of these went to St. Luke’s Home, Chickering House, and the Jewish Convalescent Home. Other patients needing prolonged hospital care were sent to the Robert Brigham Hospital, and the House of Good Samaritan. About $2,100 was raised for special needs. $900 was raised by the surgical worker in addition to several hundred dollars promised by various organizations, churches, relatives, and friends, and disbursed by them. Under this heading might be mentioned a pension for a retired and penniless nurse and payment of office rent for three months or until a man could get on his feet; board for children while their mother was sick; money for vacations or con¬ valescent care; money for apparatus of many types, for extra milk or special diet, and for dentistry. In one case a relative was persuaded to promise $25 a month for an indefinite period, he stipulating that it should be sent to the social worker and spent with her approval. $1,314.80 was raised by the cardiac worker, $750 for the family mentioned in the report of the cardiac clinic, and $548 for a cardiac patient whose husband was blind and who needed financial help extending over a long period of time. The re¬ mainder was for a girl who needed convalescent care. $612 was raised by the medical worker; $214 of this was used for a large family deprived by death of the father, and the remainder for patients needing con¬ valescent care, glasses, artificial teeth, and apparatus. This money was obtained through appeals in the Boston Evening Transcript, Weber Charity Fund, Inc., Doane Fund for Nurses, Lend-a-Hand Society, In¬ valid Aid Society, churches, and other organizations.