. Hospitals and their relation to medical colleges and the training of interns. Fig. 14.—View in one of the cross tunnels. for the supremacy of Germany to-day in the world ofmedicine. Cincinnati is fortunate in having a mayor who is infull sympathy with this movement. At a dinner givenrecently in honor of Professor Welch of Johns Hopkins, L2 Mayor Frederick S. Spiegel said in concluding hisaddress of welcome: In conclusion I desire to say thai I am in full agreementwith the efforts of our city to establish not merely a hospitalbut a clinical hospital. To many of our fellow citizens thisterm ma
. Hospitals and their relation to medical colleges and the training of interns. Fig. 14.—View in one of the cross tunnels. for the supremacy of Germany to-day in the world ofmedicine. Cincinnati is fortunate in having a mayor who is infull sympathy with this movement. At a dinner givenrecently in honor of Professor Welch of Johns Hopkins, L2 Mayor Frederick S. Spiegel said in concluding hisaddress of welcome: In conclusion I desire to say thai I am in full agreementwith the efforts of our city to establish not merely a hospitalbut a clinical hospital. To many of our fellow citizens thisterm may be a strange one. but if they had studied in Viennaor in the cities of Germany, they would know that there thehospital is always a corporate part of the medical school. Let us hope that the chief executives and those havingcharge of hospitals in every other large city in thiscountry may he imbued with the same progressive Fig. 15.—View of main tunnel near power plant. (Note largesize of hot-water pipes.) Granting then that the large municipal hospitals arethe best suited for medical teaching, it becomes our dutyto endeavor to raise their medical standard, their organi-zation and administration to the very highest point ofefficiency. I am strongly in favor of municipal hos-pitals, because there is no valid reason why the supportof the sick poor should fali on the shoulders of the 13 comparatively small number of charitable citizens, whichis the case when hospitals are supported by voluntarycontributions. The municipal hospitals should be madeequal to the best, and their maintenance being paid outof the general taxes will compel that large percentage ofthe population who are abundantly able to contribute,but never do, to bear their just part of the burden. I know that the argument will be advanced thatpolitics in city affairs will prevent the carrying out of
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