The Solarium is much needed by these little patients, for
the mental health of afflicted children that is provided by
pleasant occupation is a stimulant to their physical progress.
Our physicians consider that keeping them happy and inter-
ested in intellectual and occupational work is a necessary cur-
ative measure. It will cost $25,000 to enclose this large porch
and there are no funds now available, the hospital being now
50 deeply in debt. The public is urgently requested to contri-
bute to this splendid work for the helpless and suffering child-
ren who so greatly need it.
The Nurses’ homes are large, comfortable buildings, adja-
rent to the hospital, where the nurses are amply and comfort-
ably cared for. The training school, always an index of the
usefulness of a hospital, is constantly increasing, both in num-
bers and educational standards. There are more than 80
nurses in its different departments.
The medical and surgical care of the patients is in the
hands of the hospital staff of physicians, consisting of about
50 specialists. H. T. Price, M. D., is medical director and
chief of staff.
The active staff consists of: Dr. D. H. Boyd, Dr. J. K.
Everhart, Dr. H. C. Flood, Dr. Z. R. Scott. The orthopedic
staff has as chief of service, Dr. David Silver, with Dr. W. O.
Markell and Dr. C. C. Yount as his active staff; Dr. E. W.
Meredith and Dr. W. O. Sherman, surgical staff. Dr. J. R.
Simpson is head of the oto-laryngologists. Dr. C. H. Hen-
ninger is the neurologist. Dr. Ralph V. Robinson is roentgen-
ologist. The dispensaries have also a large and very com-
petent staff of physicians, in the medical, surgical, skin, or-
thopedic, ear, nose and throat. nervous. mental and dental
departments.
More than 2400 children have gone through its wards dur-
ing the first year the hospital has been in its new building, and
over 14,000 visits have been paid to its dispensaries. On Octo-
ber 26, 1927, the hospital suffered the very great loss of its
much-loved superintendent, Mrs. Rye Morley Kinsey. She
was a woman of charming personality and very great execu-
tive ability, and as the executive had made a name as a super-
intendent among the foremost children’s hospitals of the
country. Miss Laura B. Wilson, who was head of the training
