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Medical Records Kept For Patients' Welfare St. John's Hospital Charts Valuable To Laymen as Well as Medical Science Er RUTH G. DAVIS Little known perhaps, but hospital patient, is a department "Library. It is the pulse of the more value than can be realized by of the Medical Records Library at Helen Pearle Annis is the chief Medical records are kept on each patient admitted to the hospital so that the doctor may have a continuous history, not only for the present illness but for reference in case of future hospitalization. However, they are kept primarily because such are required by the American College of Surgeons as well as the American Hospital Association.

These entries sometimes are used in cases of hospital litigation, in completing insurance forms and -vital statistics. In spite of meeting these more formal requirements Mrs. Annis revealed that medical records play more important and universal part in medical history. "I always feel that science is based on the fact that somebody kept medical records." said Mrs Annis "I tell the internes that they have text books because some one in the past kept records and that perhaps they are writing the text books of the future." 'New Drugs Evaluated By keeping the statistics on new drugs, pharmaceutical houses evaltrate them by the medical records. After a drug has been tested on rats, pigs and dogs, the results are released to a few hospitals and doctors, who use them.

Records are kept and then submitted to the medical houses. It is only after the study of hundreds of cases that the product is released for general distribution. Although public knowledge of medical record-keeping is limited. such documents have been kept as long as there has been any means of recording. Through the ages the have evolved into the present chart system as outlined by the American College of geons.

At St. John's Hospital the first records were filing cards. then they were compiled in books and now on charts. Architects of modern hospitals apparently never looked far ahead into the future to realize the growth of a hospital, so that storage space for such records was limited. Now microfilm has been developed to reproduce the charts.

One steel cabinet containing 1,000 patients' histories can be taken on a 200-foot roll of film which occupies of about four by four chespace one inch deep. Complete Record The patient's history starts with the admitting which completes a social history. This chart is then sent to ward or room for the floor supervising nurse's desk. To this are added the temperature, respiration and admitting note, and an interne's record of the patient's former illnesses and complete physical examination. Following up this procedure the doctor then writes his orders for medication, care and diet as well as laboratory, X-ray A and other procedure required.

As each laboratory test is made the results are entered on the proper sheet. In a surgical case a record is kept of the anesthesia and patient's condition throughout the operation. The surgeon then dictates his procedure to the surgical secretary (a member of the Medical Records Department, who enters it on the "operative sheet." The tissue or part removed during an operation is then sent to the department of pathology where they do gross examinations and report their findings Each step is kept on forms of different color, easily identifiCable to the doctor. Progress notes "are kept from day to day and fiten. anally a Then discharge the chart is summary sent is to Medical Records Department, where it is checked and doublechecked for accuracy, with the sig-natures of the house and attendting doctors.

Upon completion to the satisfaction of the Medical Records Delogued according disease in a partment the charts, are cata- diagnostic file. Each disease has a number and the number is entered on a card. The numbers are code figures coming from the Standard Nomenclature of Disease and Standard Nomenclature of filed Operations. numerically The so charts that they also are easy locate. When a St.

John's Hospital doctor presents a paper at a meeting, he calls upon the Medical Records Library, and able to secure the complete data on the disease he is presenting in his paper. Ten years of active charts are kept primarily for such study. Confidential working with medical records. A graduate of the University of Buffalo College of Pharmacy, she wanted to change her profession after 25 years, and did so by takan extension course at Buffalo City Hospital in hospital record also medical records librarianship at Columbia University. Mrs.

Annis is aided by Miss Ann Maguire, assistant records librarian, who is in charge of microfilming; Miss Mabel Walters, assistant librarian, and Miss Elsa Schaffner, surgical secretary, ail specialists in their work. Miss Maguire recently completed the filming of eight years of records, requiring three months' work. After the filming of these records the doctors have easy access to them by placing them in a "review box" which enlarges the print to the normal size, making the to read. These films, easy to shore, may be kept indefinitely. All of this information is strictly confidential and in New York State has the status of a privileged communication.

and information is given out only at the written consent of the patient. Annis, who heads this library, is a pharmacist who prefers 7 Miss Hale, Mr. Campbell Are United Church of the Saviour Scene of Ceremony The wedding of Miss Rosalind Hale, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kinsman Hale of 267 Henry and Dudley Dakin Campbell son of Mr.

and Mrs. Dudley Dakin Campbell of 108 Pierrepont St and Cherry Valley, took place Friday afternoon. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. John Howland Lathrop in the Unitarian Church of the Saviour. A reception was held in the parish house following the ceremony.

Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a gown of ivory brocade, made with a fitted bodice. long sleeves and deeply scalloped train. Heirloom rosepoint lace trimmed the dress at the heartshaped neckline and formed an underskirt at the front. A fitted headdress of the same lace made crown from which fell a fingertip tulle veil. She carried a cascade bouquet of gardenias.

Miss Virginia Weeks of Brooklyn and Miss Mary Weiss of Butfalo, the bride's college roommates, were maids of honor. The other bridal attendants were the Misses Jane Armstrong. Mary Charlton, Caroline Christensen and Olga Peterson Van Wagoner. The maids of honor were gowned in blue and the bridesmaids in pink taffeta and they carried bouquets of pale pink carnations and ivy. George Prentiss Campbell, brother of the bridegroom.

was best man. Ushers were Jeremy Burchenal, Raymond Campbell, Walter Engel, John Lossoe and James Ray. The bride attended Brooklyn Friends School and was graduated on June 30 from Vassar College. She is a provisional member of the Junior League of Brooklyn. Mrs.

Campbell is a granddaughter of the late Mr. and Hale of Winchester. and of Mrs. R. Woodley Wickham of Poughkeepsie and the late Mr.

Wickham. The bridegroom, a graduate of Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School, attended the University of Rochester, where he was a member of Theta Delta Chi. After serving in the navy he continued his studies, graduating in '46. He is now associated with the Borden Company. Mr.

Campbell is a grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Gorin Campbell of Cherry Valley and of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Hunt Prentiss of Brooklyn.

Miss Patricia Crombie Bride of W. V. Sortore Miss Patricia Crombie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.

Austin Crombie of Garden City, and Emerson Crawford Sortore, son of Walter V. Sortore of Northport. were married yesterday afternoon in the Garden City Community Church by the Rev. James N. Gettemy, the rector.

A reception for the families was held at the Garden City Casino. The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a gown of white silk jersey, a tulle veil held in place by a halo of Belgian lace and carried a bouquet of white carnations and stephanotis. Mrs. Charles Powley of West Hartford, the former Miss Eleanor Filson of Garden City, was the matron of honor. The bridesmaids were Miss Gloria Patof Garden City and Miss Dorothy Iler of Brooklyn.

They all bustle gowns of slate wore. taffeta with matching mitts and halos of fresh flowers. They carried bouquets of garden flowers. Mr. Sortore served as his son's best man and the ushers were William McCullogh and George Anderson of Northport.

The bride. a graduate of Garden City High School, attended Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, and was graduated from Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn. Mr. Sortore attended Northport School and Penn State Colliege. He served three and a half years in the Naval Air Transport Service and in the V-12 training unit at Georgia Tech.

He is a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. Veronica D'Esposito's Betrothal Announced Mr. and Mrs. A. D'Esposito.

of 1399 E. 21st announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Veronica Anne D'Esposito, to Vito E. Rizzuto, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rizzuto of Great Neck.

Miss D'Esposito was graduated from St. Agnes' Seminary. She studied at the College of New Rochelle and recently completed her studies in advertising design at Pratt Institute. Mr. Rizzuto attended Manhattan College, Riverdale, N.

Y. He served three years overseas as a corporal in the Engineers Amphibian Corps of the U. S. Army. Veronica D'Esposito SOCIETY BROOKLYN EAGLE, JULY 13, 1947 Michael Shuter photo Elizabeth Anne Weild Jr.

Buschke's Studio Mrs. Dudley Dakin Campbell Jr. Jean Martyn Engaged To Ralph Bainbridge Jr. Mr. and Mrs.

George W. Martyn of 94-25 121st Richmond Hill, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Jean Dorothy Martyn, to Ralph Bainbridge son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bainbridge of 109-16 207th Queens Village. Miss Martyn is a graduate of Richmond Hill High School and a Long Island Business School.

She is a member of the Federation of Union Congregational Church, Richmond Hill, and is the leader of Wing Scout Troop 4-226. Mr. Bainbridge is a graduate of Andrew Jackson High School. He attended Union College, Schenectady, N. where he is a member of Gamma Zeta Chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity.

He is now attending Poly Technical Institute of Brooklyn. He served three years with the United States Army Air Forces. Newman-Friedman Engagement Revealed Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newman of 148 Lafayette Ave.

and Crescent Lake, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Hermine Gloria Newman, to Dr. Meyer Friedman of 330 Clinton Avenue. Miss Newman is a senior at New York University. Dr. Friedman was graduated from Columbia University in 1938, where he received his B.S.

degree. He received his D.D.S. from New York University in 1942 and was elected to Omicron Kappa Upsilon. He served in the U. S.

Army Dental Corps, 1942 to 1946, rising to the rank of major. His overseas duty was with the 3d and 7th Armies in France and Germany and he was awarded the Bronze Star medal. The couple will be married this Fall. Manhattan Beach to Be Scene Of Church Benefit Over Weekend Residents and Summer of Manhattan Beach and adjacent areas are serving on committees for a benefit bazar to be held Friday and Saturday, for the benefit of the R. C.

Church of St. Margaret Mary. The will take place at Hastings Hampton sevend Manhattan Beach. The Rev. Leo J.

McAvoy is pastor of the church. Thomas Tesauro, president of the Coney Island Chamber of Commerce, is bazar committee chairman and Miss Mary L. Mulligan, co-chairman. Among the committee members are Mrs. Norbert O'Connor, Mrs.

Edward Franznick, Miss Marilyn Franznick, Mrs. Carmine Tesauro, Miss Jo Tesauro, Mrs. Clement Sullivan, Mrs. Henry Hoffman, Miss Nancy Maude, Miss Ella Fallon, Miss Marion Reilly, Mrs. Vincent Scotto, Mrs.

Aurelius Cianflone, Mrs. Joseph Bertola, Mrs. Frank Jill, Miss Angelo, Scotto, Edward Crosby, J. John(sen, Mrs. Edward Smith, Mrs.

Henry Boland, Mrs. Edward Hammer, Mrs. Raymond A. Gallehr, Mrs. Charles Van Horn, Mrs.

Helen Nieman, Julia M. May, Mrs. Thomas Lynch Mrs. William Fallon, Mrs. Sallie Carlson, Mrs, Thomas Petrillo, Mrs.

Alton Daley, Mrs. John E. O'Brien. Also the Misses Eileen Lynch, Barbara Bedwell. Jean Crosby, Phyllis Crosby, Ella Fallon, Angela Scottio, Overbaugh, Floria Colleen Tesauro, Stillwell, Jo- Miss Weild Will Be Wed On Aug.

30 Will Become Bride Of W. Wright important to the welfare of designated as the Medical Records a vibrating dossier, that has a layman. Such is the reckoning St. John's Hospital, where Mrs. librarian.

MICROFILMING -Miss Ann Maguire works at the filma- record instantaneous recording machine. DOUBLECHECK Miss Mabel Walters and Miss Elsa Schaffner are shown locating charts in a medical records filing cabinet at St. John's Hospital. Mrs. Marjorie H.

Cates' Engagement Announced Mr. and Mrs. Cortlandt W. Handy of 1120 5th Manhattan, formerly of Woodmere, announced engagement of their daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Handy Cates, to Gouverneur Morris Nichols, son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. Osgood Nichols of Onteora Park, N. Y. Mrs.

Cates is an alumna of Milton Academy and made her debut in New York in 1938. Her marriage to Dudley E. Cates, former lieutenant, U. S. N.

was termidivorce. Last Thursday Mr. Cates married Miss Edith R. Schober. Mr.

Nichols was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1937. He was a captain in the A. A. F. in India and is with Fortune magazine.

He and the former Miss Virginia R. Williams were divorced. Miss Joan Nolan Will Be Honored Miss Joan Nolan of St. Albans, formerly of Brooklyn, will be entertained at a garden party and shower to be given by Miss Peggy Ann O'Toole and Mrs. Joseph Kerr on Saturday, Miss Nolan will be married to Andrew Ackelson of St.

Albans early in September. Kathryn Filby To Wed Mr. King Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edward Filby of 1055 E.

34th St. announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Kathryn Filby, to Frank H. King, son of Mrs. Julia King of Norfolk, and the late Frank King. Miss Filby is a graduate of Midwood High School and is now attending the Executive Secretarial School.

Mr. King served four years in the United States Army as first lieutenant with the nance division. Since his return home has been a member of the faculty of William and Mary College in Norfolk, Va. Maurice L. Lehy Studios Kathryn Filby Mr.

and Mrs. David Weild Jr. of 3823 Farragut Road announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Anne Weild, to William Robert Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wright.

of 3712 Farragut Road. The ceremony will take place on Aug. 30 at Paul's Episcopal Church. Miss Weild is a graduate of the Packer Collegiate Institute and the Washington Square College of New York University. She is a member of the Junior Committee of the Brooklyn Kindergarten Society.

Mr. Wright served as an officer with the Combat Engineers of the 83d Infantry Division in the European Theater. At present he is attending the Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute and is a member of the Alpha X1 Chapter of Kappa Phi Fraternity, He is also a member of the Reserve Officers Association. Eagle Staff photos CHECKUP Annis is chief the medical partment at Hospital. Mrs.

Helen librarian of records deSt. John's Miss Graham Married to H. W. Blose Miss Marion Elizabeth Graham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

James Graham of 77 Elton Road, Stewart Manor, became the bride of Howard William Blose, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fern J. Blose of 297 Hathaway Road. Dayton.

Ohio, last evening. The candle light ceremony was performed in the Lutheran Church of the Epiphany, Hempstead, by the Rev. E. I. Morecraft.

A reception followed at the Garden City Hotel. The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a white satin gown made with a fitted bodice, square neckline, long sleeves and a long veil of heirloom Belgian lace caught with orange blossoms. Her maid of honor, Miss Janet Bushen of Bellerose, wore a pale yellow off the shoulder taffeta gown and carried various shades of blue delphiniums and yellow gladioli in cascade arrangement. Joan Robertson Beverly Hamlin of Bellerosemand N. the bridesmaids.

wore gowns matching the maid of honor's and a cascade of blue delphinium. Mr. Blose was best man for his son and the ushers included Donala J. Graham, the bride's brother; G. W.

Shroyer, Franklin Shroyer, John Berry, Gaylord Kittredge Bachrach photo Mrs. Howard W. Blose and James Shroyer, all of Dayton; Roger Boose of Wilmington, Robert Gallagher of Chicago, and William Horner 2d of Middletown, Ohio. The couple left a wedding trip to the Old Homestead. Hot Springs, Va.

They will make their home in Cranford, N. J. The bride attended Cornell University and is a member of Kappa Theta and was a Red Cross nurse's aid. Mr. Blose, who also is a graduate of Cornell University, is a chemical engineer associated with the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.

He is a member Psi Upsilon, Sphinx Head and Aloph Somach. Patricia Ann Baynham Weds George N. Shea Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Patricia Ann Baynham, daughter of Mrs. Margaret Baynham of 1579 E. 19th to George Nutley Shea, son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. James Shea of 1477 17th at a nuptial mass in St. Brendan's Church, on June 14. The Rev.

Palmer performed the ceremony and a reception followed at the Columbus Club. The bride was given in marriage her uncle. She was attended by Miss Ellen McKenney as maid of honor and Mrs. William P. Hall, sister of the bride, and Mrs.

William Grogan, sister of the bridegroom, as bridesmaids. James F. Shea served as best man for his brother and William P. Hall and William Grogan were the ushers. Following a honeymoon at Split Rock Lodge in the Pocono Mountains the couple will reside in Brooklyn.

Mrs. Shea is a graduate of St. Brendan's Diocesan High School. Mr. Shea is a graduate of Brooklyn Preparatory School and the University of Notre Dame.

He 18 a member of the Notre Dame Club of New York and North Hills Golf Club. Miss Seaman's Wedding To Take Place Aug. 9 There is interest on Long Island's South Shore in news of the forthcoming marriage on Saturday, Aug. 9. of Miss Shirley Theresa Seaman, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Gordon Seaman of 95. Brower Woodmere, to Arnold Wulkan. son of Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Wulkan, also of Woodmere. The ceremony will be performed in Woodmere Methodist Church by the bride-elect's grandfather, the Rev. Dr. George A. Bronson, who was pastor of the church at the time its present structure WAS built, assisted by the Rev.

Leon V. Kofod, current minister. A reception will be held afterwards in the church parlor. The bride will be given in marriage by her father. Mrs.

Frederick Voorhees of Northfield, the former Miss Phyllis Seaman, will be her sister's matron of honor and bridesmaids will include: Miss Audrey Rhinehart of Woodmere, Miss Lucille Davis of Holmes. N. roommate of the bride-to-be at college; Mrs. Herbert St. Martin of Woodmere, sister of the bride-elect; Miss Janet Patterson and the Misses Jane Bronson Seaman, cousins and of Lynne the Pickett prospective bride.

Eugene Carman of Cedarhurst will serve as best for Mr Wulkan, and ushers will include Frederick Voornees, Herbert St Martin, Thomas Pearsall and Johr Foster, both of Woodmere; Olive: Glass of East Rockaway and Johr. Hopkins of Hewlett. The bride, who comes of an old Long Island family, is a niece oi Mr. Clayton Seaman, president o' the Lawrence-Cedarhurst hurst Bank She is a graduate of Woodmere High School and New York College for Teachers at Geneseo. He: fiance, an alumnus of Woodmerr High School, served with the 22c Regiment, U.

S. Marines, for twe years in the Pacific. He will ente: Farmingdale Technical School a commercial art major in the Fall. 19g alt Sybil Altenhaus Dr. Kahn Will Wed Sybil Altenhaus Mr.

and Mrs. Solomon Altenhaus of 559 E. 9th St. and Lake Hiawatha, N. announce the betrothal of their daughter, Miss Sybil Shirley Altenhaus, to Dr.

Alvin Jerome Kahn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kahn of Elizabeth, N. formerly of Brooklyn. Miss Altenhaus is a junior Ohio State University, Columbus, at Ohio.

Dr. Kahn was graduated cum laude in May, '43, from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster. where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Lambda Phi social fraternity. He received his M.D. degree from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest College, Wilston-Salem, N.

in December, '46. The bridegroom elect received his honorary discharge from the U. S. Army after serving 32 months. He was a voluntary assistant at the Hadassah Rothschild University Hospital in Jerusalem, Palestine, from January to June, 1947, and is at present a rotating interne at the Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, La.

D. K. Schweikert To Wed Jersey Resident Mrs. Eldon Leon Loblein of Point Pleasant and Bay Head, N. announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Mary Anne Loblein, to Donald Kenneth Schweikert, son of Mr.

and Mrs. William L. Schweikert of 1807 E. 22d St. Miss Loblein, daughter of the late Dr.

Eldon Leon Loblein, attended the Anable School in New Brunswicht and Place was School in graduated Summit, N. in 1945. She is a junior the University of Pennsylvania and is doing extra work in psychology this Summer at Columbia University. is a member of Beta Alpha Chapter of Chi Omega. Mr.

Schweikert is a graduate of Adelphi Academy and is a senior at the Wharton School of the University Pennsylvania. He is president of the Omicron Chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi. Durrecording the war he served with the 859th Army Marine Ship Repair Unit in the Aleutians. June Williamson's Engagement Announcec Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred Arnold of 1495 Nostrand Ave. have announcec the engagement of Mrs. Arnold's daughter, June A. Williamto Henry Schroeder, son of Miss, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry C. Schroeder of 953 New York Ave. Miss Williamson was graduated from Girls Commercial Hign School. Mr. Schroeder, a graduate of Erasmus Hall High School served in the Pacific with the S.

Army Signal Corps. sephine Keenan, Agnes Morton, Frances Torpey, Pat Torpey, Delores Kratch, Mary Carley, Mildred D. Conmy, Rosemary Mauro, Sonya Munter, Ann O'Connell, Dorothea and Margaret O'Connell and Kay Rice. co committee Serving are the Clement arrangements Sullivan, Lawrence Loesch, John E. O'Brien, Charles Rennie, William F.

Keenan, Alton Daley, Gene LaJoie and Raymond Gallehr. June A. Williamson SHOWING OFF--Misses Josephine Keenan, Pat Torpey, Jean Crosby and Colleen Stillwell exhibit the dolls for the bazar to be held on Friday and Saturday for the benefit of the R. C. Church of St.

Margaret Mary at Manhattan Beach..