Digital Bob Archive

9 April 1980

FEBRUARY 12, 1887-Last fall the St. Ann?s Hospital Society was formed here and operates under the following rules:
1. The object of this society shall be mutual relief and gratuitous charity.
2. All persons in good health, without distinction of age, sex, creed or color, may become members of this society.
3. The benefits of this society are gratuitous admission into the hospital, and, while there, medicines and medical attendance free of charge.
4. The monthly subscription is one dollar, payable in advance, to the collector of the society.
5. All benefits and privileges of the society will be forfeited after a lapse of three months without payment.
6. Patients desiring private room and special attendance will be furnished the same at $2.50 per day and upward.
7. The surplus of the society will be devoted to the gratuitous treatment of patients devoid of means.
8. Patients will be admitted only upon the certificate of the attending physician. No admission will be given to such as are affected with contagious or infectious diseases.
9. Convalescents and patients subject to incurable diseases shall in each case abide by the decision of the attending physician.
10. Any person may have the attendance in the hospital of their own medical attendant at their own cost.
Sisters of St. Ann?s
Drs. Wyman and Simpson, attending physicians
John Timmins, authorized collector

Patrick Corcoran, Juneau merchant, died on February 3 at the age of 51. He came to Alaska in 1867 with the Quartermaster Department of the Army, later served as a Customs officer at Sitka, then went to the Cassiar when that discovery was made. He returned to Sitka and opened a mercantile business which he conducted until he moved to Juneau with the first settlers in the winter of 1880-1881. He is survived by a wife and several children and will be buried at Sitka.

A meeting has been called to organize a brass band from Juneau. Please attend if you can blow a horn.