The Pulse / Rush Medical College yearbook . it was always with misgivings. .JOHN WENTWORTB room. 172 When therefore the way evened for the establishment of a mater-nity department for teaching bedside obstetrics no time was lost,and it must be said to the credit of the management, that when it fullyunderstood the scope and motive of the plans it heartily renderedmost cordial support. Following this venture which has proved such a success, came theconvalescents home, and later the department for throat and chestdiseases, more especially for cases of advanced tuberculosis. A hospital that depend


The Pulse / Rush Medical College yearbook . it was always with misgivings. .JOHN WENTWORTB room. 172 When therefore the way evened for the establishment of a mater-nity department for teaching bedside obstetrics no time was lost,and it must be said to the credit of the management, that when it fullyunderstood the scope and motive of the plans it heartily renderedmost cordial support. Following this venture which has proved such a success, came theconvalescents home, and later the department for throat and chestdiseases, more especially for cases of advanced tuberculosis. A hospital that depends so much upon its friends for help shouldin turn care for those whom they send. It should not, indeed cannot always insist upon receiving onlysuch cases which are surely curable or at least improvable, for it oftenhappens that the least it can do is to soothe the last hours of these un-fortunates. It is neither wise nor safe to admit such cases to a gen-eral hospital and so by the addition of this annex a most serious prob-lem was


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