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Hospital Progress in New Jersey: Address of the President, May 27-29, 1937
September 1937
Recently, New Jersey had the occasion to witness the sad misfortune to the
airship Hindenburg. On a moment's notice, fully aware of the hospital
facilities within the state and the medical and nursing service attendant
therewith, an immediate radio call for help was made. Ambulances were rushed to
the scene; airplanes stood in readiness to rush the volunteers to the emergency
service. In less than thirty minutes planes en route to the scene were ordered
to return as sufficient aid had reached the disaster and the necessary medical
service had been organized. I preface my remarks with this incident because it
is under such immediate catastrophies that the public, as a unit, is conscious
of our hospital service and the ready response on the part of those persons
attached to any and all our hospitals in answering society's call for service.
We, associated with hospitals, are well aware that our respective institutions
stand ready despite such disasters; yet may some program be devised whereby
society may develop a consciousness concerning our institutions to permit
adequate financing to maintain properly the responsibility allotted to us.
Source: Quarterly Bulletin of The New Jersey Hospital Association, Vol. IV, No.
1, September 1937, pp. 5. Report of the Thirteenth Annual Convention, [New
Jersey Hospital Association], Atlantic City, May 27-29, 1937. Address of the
President, "Hospital Progress in New Jersey," Edgar C. Hayhow, President, NJHA,
Superintendent, Paterson General Hospital, Paterson, NJ
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