Reports of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Butler Hospital: Presented to the Corporation at Its Seventy-Eighth Annual Meeting, January 25th, 1922, Providence, R. I (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Excerpt from Reports of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Butler Hospital: Presented to the Corporation at Its Seventy-Eighth Annual Meeting, January 25th, 1922, Providence, R. I

This program has been carried out and Dr. Ruggles is now the Superintendent and today presents the annual report of that officer. We are, however,happy to say that Dr. Blumer's official relation to Butler Hospital is not to be severed altogether. He accepts the office of Superintendent Emeritus, by virtue of which his counsel and co-operation are to be at the service of the trustees and the hospital staff, and he is, until the possible contrary action of some' future board of trustees, to receive an honorarium in some degree expressive of the appreciation of those charged with the administration of the hospital of the priceless service which he has given it for more than twenty-two years.

There are now in office but two trustees who were such at the time of Dr. Blumer's election. They te call distinctly the meeting at which he was chosen. After the death of Dr. Gorton, the president, Mr. William Goddard, the secretary, Mr. Charles Morris Smith, and Governor Taft were appointed a com mittee to recommend his successor. They canvassed the whole list of men available for the position, they obtained the advice of the best informed alienists, they visited the Utica State Hospital of which Dr. Blumer was superintendent, and they brought Dr. Blumer to Providence and pointed out to him the possibilities of usefulness offered by Butler Hospital. At the meeting of the trustees held on July 7, 1899, Mr. Goddard made the report of the committee. He described Dr. Blumer and his work and set out the qualifications which fitted him to be the head of But ler Hospital in language as felicitous and as carefully chosen as though he were delivering a Phi Beta Kappa oration, and concluded with words something to this eflect: I have met Mrs. Blumer also, gentlemen, and I can give you my most positive assurance that the fact that Mrs. Blumer is Dr. Blumer's wife is another and most potent reason why Dr. Blumer should be elected as superintendent of Butler Hospi tal. The report of the committee was accepted, Dr.

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