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THE SUNDAY CAM* These and a host of other self-sacriflc lhg women have worked together in singu lar and pleasing- harmony year after year with no bickerings- or disagreements or petty Jealousies. "No one can afford to be small." said one of them, "in such a large work— to tha face of vnch great issues— those of life and death. It cannot do other than appeal to the best and highest in the characters of those associated in it. It appeal* to the humanitarian Instinct "The only appeal I would make to Oak land's charitable and altruistic people I* that -they would come and 6ee us and learn for themselves of the quality and quantity of work that la being 1 done In Fabiola, the one institution in Oakland that Is caring for the sick and destitute. No other appeal to It will be necessary. When criticism comes, when we» are ac cused of *not doing real charity work.* we only feel like saying. Tou don't know us. Some time you will have a friend here and then you will feel differently. The people who know us best like us best.* ** Altogether it must be conceded that Oakland has reason to be proud of and rejoice in !i» hospital .started by and still under the sola management of Its women. During its existence only six women have filled the president's chair— Mrs. Holten. Mrs. R. W. Kirkham, Mrs. Little. Mrs. HInckley. Mrs. W. W. Standeford (who has been a director throughout tha entire period) and Mrs. John Yule, the incum bent. Its present vice presidents are Mrs. Reml Chabot. Mrs. J. A. Folger and Mr*. W. T. Standeford. cated many times, so that they can be had on call. In other words, we destr« to so maintain the hospital that people will feel that they can rely on U3 and that Fablola Is a comfort In time of trouble. From the little one-story cottage on ilarket etreet, where with one nurse and • a matron a little band of brave women opened to the needy sick Oakland's first ; free hoerpltal nearly twenty-flve years ago, ' It has grown steadily, and by no means slowly, to Its present magnificent propor - tlons. It has a staff of twenty attending ' and consulting physicians. Including sev • eral specialists, and a resident physician. " Instead of one nurse there is to-day a eiaS of forty men and women, principally the latter. Instead of a one-story cottage, ..capable of holding at the most a half fiozen patients, the present building- can easily accommodate one hundred. During the year ending February 1, 1S99, 679 pa '-tlents were admitted and 619 treated. Of the E71 patients discharged during that year 471 were cured, 43 Improved, 7 unim proved and 8 not treated. While nearly SO p«r cent of its patients are natives of the United States, representatives of tweaty- «j7vP v WAT from the no4Be of traffle and /Z3 of the omnipresent trolley car, sit- J» uated in what Is practically a de lightful rark filled with flowers of brightest hues and trees of graceful fo liage, in a spot whose very atmosphere . Dreathes rest and <julet, stands one of Oakland's proudest Institutions, Fablola ¦Hospital, an Institution the necessity for whoee existence was conceived by a no '; ble woman since gone to her reward — an 'Institution founded by women and man aged since Its Inception wholly by women. wont Baa bcon £r*atlr strengthens"! VS&. Improved by separate children's and ma- ternity department*!, separate, although, of course, all of these departments are connected by corridors. In some Instances seventy feet'long. This new ward Is to be. called the /John Archibald Annex/ Us building fund of 13000 having been do^ nated by hi» niece. Miss Martin, as. a memorial of her uncle. . "For Bix ¦ years we have maintained a district nurse,'who jjoes to the side poor, caring for them in their own homes. Bhe Is doing far-reaching \work in her Indirect lessons on sanitation,', the cars of the> sick ftnd the prevention of sickness, Physl- clans tell us they notice a great difference In the mode of living of the families with Whom she haa J»«n. Y • "As to our future wexk. we have the feeling so strongly that fabiola njujt be worthy of being regarded as a health 8t&. tienj a protection to the community, and membera of which, at any bour, by step- ping to their telephones and describing the case they wish cared for; can have a oompetent nurse Quickly, at hand, or an ambulance to transfer the patient to the hospital, With each year tbe public Is beginning more and, more to 'understand that hemes are not hospitals) and, that their sick can be cared for witp the right surroundings, as it is lmpoesiule ta'de at home. We will have such hoefcltal applU ttnces:8s crutches and stretchers duplK Wnicn an at* • world gnimwuw tr. * crearer or.less degree—that 1%, it la more or I**s dormant and needing only to be roused." Fabiola has no endowments and but one endowed bed. the gift of Mrs. R. W. Kirkham. Among the larger gifts of which it-has b«en the recipient is a new. beautiful and. thoroughly equipped ambu lance from Mrs. 3. A. Folser. one of its vice presidents. Or.ca a year It has Us armual donation reception* when the pub llo is earnestly invited to call and to bring or send from their homes any trifle which they feel that they can spare, and few homes that cannot donate something if they only think of it—a glass of Jelly, a kitchen ntensll, a bundle of old linen or cotton or at least .'oho article of partly worn clothing. Nothing cornea amlsa on this yearly donation day. Groceries, fruit and vegetables of all sorts. & pair of sheets, & blanket, and especially discarded -underwear. Many of the poor come wlth out even a ehanre of underwear wher* •» many change* are necaasary. A youna woman is constantly employed In the «ewing-room in mending and patching, We cannot all do the actual persons^ work of the good Samaritan In th« Bible, but we can all give a little of oar wlue and on so that Fablola may bind np tha wounds of the suffering, remembering that Inasmuch aa we Jo It unto one at the least ©X theM w» do it unto HUn. .. ALICE CHITTEXDBSt 1 "Indeed," said one of Fablola's man sigrers and earnest workers, "we never for get how loyally physicians of both schools nave always stood by us, from Drs. Nlch. olson. Selfridge and others of the past generation, who worked with us harmo niously, cheerfully and gratuitously. Just a* Drs. Larkey, Chamberlain and the yonncer Drs. Nicholson and Selfridgs and * score of them are doing- to-day." Fabiola has no assistance from (State, management of this hospital is the excep tion that proves the rule. A very notable thing about it from the first has been the determination en the part of its manage ment to maintain a broad policy. No na tionality, no creed, no belief, no want of belief, bars the wayof a patient who seeks admittance to Fabiola Hospital. Physi cians of all schools, acknowledged as such by the State, and in good standing, are and have alwars been recognized on its staff. -.,',! : /v ; It has been said that as a rule women are more narrow than men. Perhaps, th$n, we must claim that the feminine •even different countries were In that year found within its walls. Including thoso from Alaska, the Axore Islands. Hungary and Finland. A glance at the report of the treasurer, showing that over $30,000 was raised and disbursed in a single year, will prove that ttfese women have no mean financial abiU Ity, Between six and seven hundred dol» A second class of patients are those who are able to pay something, but not hos pital rates. Such are charjred In accord ance to their means, from $1 a week up ward. Those who have the ability pay regular hospital rates, no attempt being made to undercut the rates of other hos pitals. Any proHt arising" from the care of such patients is applied to those who are unable to pay, No salaries art paid except to the regular staff or nurses and the usual hospital attendants. county or city, no endowment an-i oniy one endowed bed. It leads a sort of hand to-mouth existence, meeting Us expenses from month to month, always keeping out of debt, although faith Is often the principal thing in its treasury. No one is ever turned away. Those who are unable to pay are received Just as courteously and cheerfully as those who, are. When the ' free beds are full extra ones are placed at the disposal of the needy as dis tressing cases come before the manage ment. Eighteen women pledged themselves to contribute $50 each, and - with . this fund v the hospital beffan Its -good , work, : F«e bly perhaps at first, like > all 5 newborn things,* but In an incredibly. short time it", eutgrew its swaddling clothes and moved , to a two-story house on Nineteenth street,', near Market, In less than ', three years It had again outgrown its quarters and With 75 cents In its .treasury contracted : to pay 15500 1 top a house e« 1 Alice street,' SmtbAisiasm always attends ) the start nf a work, but- It soon g»ts ta be an "eld ¦tory and \ then the true test of "Courage Is shewn In keeping 1 up one's enthusiasm to such a pitch that It can arouse it in ••-..¦¦ •- . , . •'¦.-¦ If ever there was a practical illustra tion of. the text, "There Is that scatter eth yet increaseth,"it la to be found, in the history of this hospital association. Almost a quarter of a century ago, when this subject of a free hospital for Oak land appealed to and lay most strongly on the heart of that benevolent and pub- Ho spirited woman, the late Mrs. R. W. Kirkham, Oakland had no^ receiving hos pital and the County Hospital then, as now, was twelve miles away. In her work among: the poor Mrs. Kirkham constantly met with cases of acute disease which could not be carried to the County Hos pital on account of Its. distance. She talked with physicians and prominent clt- Jyens, pleading;, importuning, asserting Oakland's need for a free hospital, but vm invariably met with the reply, '.'We sympathize with your wish and deplore our city's need of such an- institution, but the time is not yet; Oakland Is too small to support cuch an institution." , Bhe final ly- broached the Bubject to I>r. Nicholson, who laid it before his medical society, and a meeting was called which resulted in the organization of the . Oakland Homeo. pathotio Hospital and Dispensary Associ ation, " ¦ " , In connection with the regular hospital work the association provides for a two and a half years' course of. training for young women desirous of becoming pro fessional nurses, admitting also a limited number of young men.' These student nurses are given every opportunity and facility for receiving the best instruction, and are consequently hold by the man agement to; the highest ideals. Lectures, recitations and demonstrations, conducted by different members of the hospital staff of physicians, take place at- regular in tervals. It is a great safeguard to a com munity to feel, that at any hour of the day or night thejv can summon to. their own homes a nurse from' Fabiola,, one upon, whom they, can rely morally, physi cally and professionally. larJ is expended monthly en its free beds, not to speak of those who are un able to pay enough to cover the cost of •tW.ehaye the plans drawn and win In a; {aw '¦>:- days •; start , on i the . erection • of an.' ?Isolation; ward, 1 with , necessary ; work-' rooms : attached for, the sequestration of! any contagious case that may develop in ¦ the ? hospital. "!" This f will* add 7 greatly i to the feeling of security of the inmates, Our •v "Wo are just putting 1b a steam laundry, with all the latest and most approved fa cilities fer washing and ironing, at a cost of . $3000, .-. pe that . we ; shall rejolos In l aa abundance of clean linen. No ona who is not initiated into the mysteries of its workings can Imagine the demands m*ada en the linen-room of a heapltal, : ••Have yen tny ; plan" regarding ths work and fnttrre growth of the hospital V X asked, - •: : ' ¦¦¦' '•"¦•" >Y-? r .< : '".--'' ¦:'¦-. -¦¦''¦ .•'-: In cheesing the present site the ladles gave an evidence of their breadth, theli business, sagacity, their belief in Oak land's tuture, and their ability to see and discount that future. Theirregular tract of wild land lying at the corner of Moss avenue and Broadway was unhesitating ly and almost unanimously pronounced by the assembly of physicians, ministers and business men called together to dis cuss the selection of a sit© to be Ineligi ble on* account of its distance from the center of the town. There seemed to be no FlternativA however, and the present location was decided upon. •'But we must not claim too much fo* women," »ald Mrs. John Yule, the presi dent, whom I had asked to tell me of the future work and prospects of Fablola. 'The men have always been the powet behind the 'throne. No; we must allow that Fablola Is the work of both men and women-Oakland's work In short. •'It was M r .*Anthony Chabot who cam* to cur assistance In our most Important crisis by Quietly purchasing the new site and sending the deed as a free gift ¦ to the ladies of the association. When the erection of a suitable building- stared u* in the face Mr. I Frederick IDelger started a building fund by depositing to our cred't In -. the bank ¦* the generous sum o* $500^ Mr. James A. Folg-eiv Mr. T. 8. Barker; Captain Asa Simpson, Mr. Francis ¦ Blake, and - many others . contributed willingly 1 , and generously, ;.-'•- . . • . - "And there is Derby dayj that too Is ths work of a man,". I said .with the g-host of a smile, There- mi Just the faintest re flection ' of thl*,smile ; on I the lips of the gentle lady as she replied, "I don't know* what we. would have done without Derby day, ' ' We ¦ should *, hav« . had ' t» * refuse cases and our work would have been sadly limited," : : others. The ladles of trie hospital asso r'niion have, always shown untiring en «.;S5' and Indomitable courage, but thN undertaking to raise $^>00 with a reservi fund of 75 ctnts was nothing short 01 heroism. In less than three years, how ever, It was paid for, and larger accom modation were again imperative. They had no" operating or surgical room— In fact, none of the conditions that are es sential to a well appointed, working hos pital. ' ¦ ¦ . j 10 A HOSPITAL MANAGED SOLELY BY WOMEN