University Medical College - Scalpel Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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makes the calls on the colored people. Dr. Lux and Dr. Frischer are each on duty half a day at the city dispensary, and for half a day are making calls. Dr. Frischer attends the workhouse from six to eight p. m. - , In connection with the dispensary at the City Hall there is a good stock of drugs in charge of a graduate pharmacist. This stock of drugs is composed of standard pharmaceuticals and chemically pure drugs of the highest grade that can be purchased. The -drug room also keeps in stock in a refrigerator, anti-diphtheretic serum, anti-strep- ticoccic serum and vaccine. These serums and vaccines are the best that can be -ob- tained. At the City Hall is also located the emergency hospital, where all cases of acci- dents, injuries, poisonings and' acute sicknesses are taken and given temporary treatment. This hospital consi-sts of a well equipped operating room, a female department with three beds, bathroom and lavatory, and a male department with eight beds, bathroom and lavatory. Three surgeons are in charge of this hospital, each standing an eight hour watch, Dr. W. L. Gist, U. M. C., '06, Dr. R. A. Shiras, U. M. C., '06, and Dr. Ford B. Rogers, Northwestern, '06. The general hospital, which is located at Twenty-second and Cherry streets, where all classes of hospital cases are taken and treated, has one hundred and eighty- five beds The city is just on the eve of abandoning this building for the new general hospital which is being erected at Twenty-third and Cherry streets. This new hospital will be fire proof and absolutely modern in every detail. It will have five hundred and forty-four beds. It will be so arranged that prisoners can be taken care of as well as the milder contagious diseases of childhood. The present force of the general hospital consists of the house surgeon, Dr. Paul B. Clayton, U. M. C., '07, the assistant house surgeon, Dr. R. C. Henderson, U. M. C., '06 and four gradu- ated internes There are twenty-three female nurses and five male nurses. When the new hospital is occupied, this force will be considerably increased. The St. George Hospital, which is located near the Randolph bridge, in the ex- treme northeastern part of the city, on the banks of the Missouri river, is used as an isolation hospital for smallpox patients. This hospital is in charge of Dr. Pipkin, a graduate of the Kansas City Medical C-ollege. Under him is a suitable corps of nurses and assistants. Dr. Eugene Carbaugh, a member of the U. M. C. faculty, is the chief inspector of contagious diseases, and is the final referee in the diagnosis of contagious diseases. Dr. Carl Jackson, the health officer, U. M. C., 1897, has charge of twelve sani- tary inspectors, who served more than fifteen thousand notices to clean up and abate nuisances within the last year. In the dispensary department last year, about six thousand patients were treated, and twenty-two hundred calls or visits were made at the homes of patients. In the emergency hospital about four thousand cases were treated. At the general hospital about three thousand cases were treated. The average length of stay for each patient in the general hospital was three weeks, and the death rate a fraction over ten per cent. Counting out of thi-s mortality the patients who died within the first twenty-four hours after being brought to the hospital, the mortality drops to six and one-half per cent. If we were further to count out the cases of tuberculosis, the mortality would drop to approximately three per cent.

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Uhr Health Eeparimvni nf iltunawa Qlitg, Miaanuri BY ST. ELMO SANDERS, M. D. City Physician, Adjunct Professor of Anatomy. I HE Board of Health Department of Kansas City government is organized with the Mayor as ex-officio president, the city physician and sanitary superintendent, L'-J the health officer, the chief of police, the chief of the fire department and the superintendent of streets. This board has charge, through the city physician and sani- tary superintendent, of all matters connected with the public health and the sanitary conditions of the city, also the treatment of the poor, and the regulation of quarantine of contagious diseases. The city physician is recognized as the head of the department, ,,, ,.. l ,, .. , Ziff f f21f 4? lf, . A Q U . 'fi' ,rf Qi! 2.,,,lzz,: .7 9 w, ,:rsp?f2.b5If.3 bzfcj, ,!3YfO, l Q E and his full title is City Physician and Sanitary Superintendent. The health officer is, by direct ordinance, placed under the control of the city physician and sanitary su- perintendent. The health officer is designed more especially to look after sanitary matters, while the city physician has direct charge of all of the city hospitals, the con- tagious diseases, the dispensary at the city hall, and, since the eighth of Janaury, 1907, all emergency cases, such as accidents, injuries, poisonings and the like. For the treatment of the sick, in the dispensary service there are three assistant city physicians, Dr. Paul Lux and Dr. Julius Frischer, each of whom graduated from the University Medical College in 1905, and one colored physician, Dr. T. C. Unthank, who

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