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Hospital for Nervous Diseases .- Blackwell's Island. (Department of Public Charities and Correction.) Capacity, 40 beds. 110 patients were treated during the year. Wm. Moore, House Physician.
House of Refuge. - Established 1842. - Randall's Island. Ferry, foot of East 119th street. Under the charge of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delin- quents. The inmates are taught industrial pursuits and acquire a proper education. 750 boys and 250 girls can be accommodated To commit the child (who must be under 16 years old), the parent or guardian must take oath before a police justice, magistrate or justice of the peace, that the child is incorrigible. Eighteen coun- ties are represented by the boys at present in the Refuge, and girls are from all parts of the State. 1,413 were cared for during the year. The receipts were $143,741.44 and the running expenses were $121,586.24. For extra repairs $16,314.99 was expended. Israel C, Jones, Resident Superintendent; John A. Weeks, President; W. Jarvis, Jr., Treasurer; F. W. Donner, Secretary.
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Hudson River State Hospital. - Opened 1871. Poughkeepsie. Cases of acute insanity from any part of the State received. Private patients taken at $6 per week. 592 were treated last year. Joseph M. Cleaveland, Medical Officer in charge. Apply to any magistrate in the State.
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Idiot and Epileptic Hospital. - Ran- dall's Island. (Department of Public Charities and Correction.) Steamboat from foot of 122d street, E. R., hourly. For the treat- ment of Juvenile Idiots and Epileptics. Cared for the past year 353. H. T. Patrick, R. C. Thompson, House Physicians.
Infants' Hospital. - Established 1866. - Randall's Island. (Department of Public Charities and Correction.) 1866. Steamboats run hourly from 26th street, E. R., and 122d street, E. R., hourly. For all children under 2 years of age. Cared for during 1884, 1,206. With the Infant's Hospital is also connected a ward for children over 2 years. 453 cases were treated last year. J. R. Healy. Medical Superintendent.
Maternity Hospital .- Blackwell's Island. (Department of Public Charities and Corrections.) Has 30 beds. 522 confinements took place last year. Marion A. Murphy, Head Nurse.
National Association for the Protec- tion of the Insane and the Prevention of Insanity .- Organized 1880. Office, 24 West 50th street, New York City. The association meets on the call of the Executive Committee. For information write the secretary. Rev. Joseph Parris, Burlington, N. J., President ; Dr. J. C. Shaw, 2 Sidney Place, Brooklyn, Secretary ; Dr. E. Seguin, physician at New York office.
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National Board of Health .- New York City Office, 574 Madison Avenue. Rooms, 1410 G street, N. W. Washington, D. C. The National Board of Health consists of seven members, appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate ; and medical officer of the Army, Navy and Marine Hospital service, and an officer from the Department of Justice, detailed by the secretaries of the several departments and the Attorney-General respectively. The duties are to advise the national government on all questions relating to the public health. For other information, apply at the New York office. or write the secretary. James L. Cabell, M. D., President ; W. P. Dunwoody, Secretary. Stephen Smith, M. D., Physician-in charge of New York office.
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National Home for Disabled Vol- unteers. - Office, 194 Broadway, N. Y. City. Homes are located near Dayton, O., Augusta, Me., Milwaukee, Wis., Fortress Monroe, Va. Soldiers who received wounds or con- tracted illness during the late war, and who are unable to earn a living by labor, can find a home in any of those named. Transpor- tation is free, and blanks for admission are given either by letter or to the applicant presenting himself at the Broadway office.
New York Asylum for Idiots .-- Opened 1851 .- Syracuse. Medical and Educational. Partially supported by the State. Children between the ages of 7 and 16 taken on a month's probation, and then received. A full description of the case must accompany the application and the child sent must have needful clothing. 423 pupils were benefitted last year. $61,564.48 was expended. J. C. Carson, M. D., Superintendent. Apply at the Asylum.
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New York Catholic Protectory (The)
-Founded in 1862. Westchester, Westchester County, N. Y. Recep- tion Office, 415 Broome street, N. Y. City. Under the care of the Society for the Protection of Destitute Catholic Children. Children are taken between the ages of 7 and 14, by order of any magistrate of New York City. They may be truants, idlers, or of vicious or vagrant character, and as such are committed. Other children, such as half orphans or orphans, are admitted for protection and reformation. The Commissioners of Charities and Correction also transfer children to the institution. Total cared for last year, 2,841. Actual expenses of the Protectory, $269,384.67. New York and Westchester County contributed $222,664,44 for their support. Average cost per child, $132,77.
Boys' Protectory .- Under the direction of the Christian Brothers. The boys are taught knitting, tailoring, carpentering blacksmithing, chair making, painting, shoemaking, printing, silk- weaving, and are given a thorough elementary education. 1,925 boys were cared for last year. Brother Leontine, Director.
Girls' Protectory .- In care of the Sisters of Charity. Sew- ing, house work and other useful occupations taught. Number of girls, 902. Sister M. Celestina, Directress. Apply to Superin- tendent Casimer Villeneuve, for other information.
Officers of the Society: Henry L. Hoguet, President; James R. Floyd, Jeremiah Devlin, Vice-Presidents; Eugene Kelly, Treasu- rer; R. H. Clark, Secretary.
New York City Asylum for the Insane .- Opened 1871. (Department of Public Charities and Correction.) Ward's Island. Cares for indigent insane males only whose friends cannot provide for them in private insane asylums. Number treated in 1884, 1,784. Still in the asylum, 1,509. A. E. McDonald, Medical Superintendent.
Branch of the New York City Insane Asylum, Randall's Island. Patients treated during the year, 132. Dr. Healy, Resident Physician.
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New York City Lunatic Asylum. -
Blackwell's Island. (Department of Public Charities and Correc- tion.) Any female residing in New York City, whose friends will make the necessary affidavit that she is insane and they are unable to support her, will be admitted to the asylum. 2,019 were treated during the past year. 1,578 are now in the institution. Thomas M. Franklin, Medical Superintendent. Emmett C. Dent, Assistant Superintendent.
New York City Branch Lunatic Asylum. - Established 1877. Hart's Island. 128 females were admitted during the year. There were treated during that time 422. For other information ap- ply to the Superintendent of Out-Door Poor, corner of Eleventh street and Third avenue. Andrew Egan, Medical Superintendent; G. A. Smith, F. A. E. Disney, Assistant Physicians.
New York Institution for the Blind.
-Opened 1832. Thirty-fourth street and Ninth avenue. For the care and education of the blind, from eight to twenty-five years of age. $300 per year is charged for those able to pay. Those charge- able to the State are paid for by annual legislative appropriations, at the rate of $250 per capita. Pupils are also sent here and paid for by many of the counties in this State, and by the State of New Jersey. The institution has property, real and personal, to the value of about $600,000, derived from legacies, etc. Income (last report), $115,262.13 ; expenses, $114,105.56. Number of inmates, about 250. Robert S. Hone, President Board of Managers ; William Whitewright, Treasurer. William B. Waite, Superintendent ; William A. Hume, M. D., Attending Physician.
New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. - Established 1818. Eleventh Avenue and 162d street. For the instruction in the deaf mute language of pay and other pupils. Pupils who cannot pay and who are over 12 years of age, must have a certificate from the Super- intendent of Public Instruction, at Albany. This may be obtained
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by writing the Superintendent, stating circumstances. Pupils between the ages of six and twelve years, may be admitted on the certificate of the Overseer of the Poor, if in any of the towns of Westchester, Queens, Suffolk, Albany, or New York Counties. Such pupils are supported by allowance from County and State. Pay pupils are taken at $300 per capita per annum, and day pupils, without board, are received at $100 per annum. 488 pupils were cared for last year. For other information, apply to the Principal. Geo. S. Knickerbocker, M. D., Superintendent and Resident Physi- cian ; W. Frothingham, M. D., E. Herrick, M. D., Visiting Physi- cians ; Isaac L. Peet, LL. D., Principal.
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New York Juvenile Asylum. - 176th street and Tenth avenue. Harlem Railroad Depot, Fort Washington Office and Reception House, 61 West 13th street. Indenturing Agency at Bloomington, Ill. Chartered 1851. Supported by the State and County of New York and voluntary contributions of the charitable. The asylum is a reformatory for truant, disobedient and vicious children of both sexes belonging to New York city. Children between the ages of 7 and 14 admitted. Parents may sur- render children or a warrant from a magistrate will be requisite for admission. 653 children were received last year; 923 remained in the asylum, making a total of 1576 being cared for during the year; 491 were given to parents, 183 were sent to Illinois, 16 were dis- charged by city magistrates, the remainder, 873 still staying in the asylum.
The House of Reception accommodates 150, the asylum 670. Children remain from a month or more until vacancies occur at the asylum proper. Visiting day at the asylum last Thursday in eaclı month, at the House of Reception any day in the week except Sun- day. The city treasury pays $110 yearly for each inmate and the school fund pays $8 per head. The receipts during the year were $109,582.62, expenditures $112,084.21. Elisha M. Carpenter, General Superintendent at the House of Reception. Ezra M. Kingsley, President; Peter Carter, Secretary; Henry Talmadge, Treasurer.
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New York Morgue. -- Opened 1866.
Bellevue Hospital Grounds, foot 26th street, E.R. Open all hours of the day and night, for the reception of the bodies of unknown per- sons. The body is kept for 72 hours or less, at the discretion of the warden, then taken to the dead house and from thence transferred to Hart's Island. If identified, and the claimants desire to bury it, the body is given them with the consent of the coroner. The clothes are kept for 30 days, aud then, if not identified, laid away for twelve months. The face of the body is photographed, and with a registered number of the grave, preserved. The coroner's inquest rooms, hospital museum and the dead house, adjoin the Morgue.
New York State Emigrant Hospital, Asylum and Refuge. - Established 1847. Ward's Island. Ferry foot of 110th street, E. R. Under the charge of the Commissioners of Emigration. Supported by a per capita tax of 50 cents levied on each passenger brought to the port of New York by the steamship companies. Object : To care for friendless emigrants who have resided in New York county less than one year. Capacity, 1,200 beds. Medical, surgical, obstetrical and insane departments, comprise the service. A. M. Thomas, Jr., M. D., Superintendent and Physician in charge. Last year 3,856 patients were cared for, 188 died, and 118 were born. $195,116.20 was received and disbursed. It cost $111,989.90 to run the hospital, asylum and refuge, the balance was used for improvements. Ap- plication for admission to the island may be made to Wm. Blake, Superintendent of Out door Poor, N. W. cor. Eleventh street, or to the Examining Physician, office, Castle Garden.
Temporary Hospital .- Castle Garden. The hospital is under the care of the Commissioners of Emigration and is a branch of the State Emigrant Hospital and Refuge. Emigrants taken suddenly ill are placed in the hospital until their case can be diagnosed and they can be transferred to the hospital at Ward's Island.
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New York State Institution for the Blind. - Opened 1868. Batavia, N. Y. For instruction and training of blind persons, between the ages of 5 and 17, residing in any county, save New York, Kings, Queens, Suffolk and Richmond. Received during the year 174 pupils. Expend- itures $37,549.94. Rev. A. G. Clement, Superintendent, who will furnish blank applications and all necessary particulars.
New York State Lunatic Asylum .-- Utica. Opened, 1843. Governed by a Board of Managers appointed by the Governor and Senate, who report yearly to the Legislature. Supported by the State and by pay from inmates whose friends are in good circumstances. Has accommodation for 600 patients. Charges per week the State for patients, $4 ; private parties, $6 and upward. 991 were treated during the year. Cost of running asylum during the same time, $179,268.48. John P. Gray, M. D., Superintendent.
Patients are sent to the above Asylum on the recommendation of the State Commissioner in Lunacy, office, No. 31 West Forty-second street, to whom all complaints of improper treatment should be referred to.
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Opened 1876. Elmira, N. Y. Is supported by the State. Persons convicted for the first time of any felony may be sent here instead of to the State Prisons, and by good behavior may shorten their terms of imprisonment ; in which case they are compelled to report at stated periods after discharge as to their means of livelihood, etc. Capacity 500. Z. R. Brockway, Superintendent.
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New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home .- Bath, Steuben Co., N. Y. In- firm or disabled soldiers or sailors, who have served the United States in a New York regiment, battery, or navy, who have been honorably
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discharged, and are disabled or unable to help themselves, having no property or relatives able to support them, and who have resided at least a year in the State, can be admitted to the Home. They may remain as long as they desire, if they comply with the rules. Apply to Wm. M. Blake, Superintendent of the Out-Door-Poor, Third Avenue and 11th street, who will give one of the blanks of the Home, which the applicant must have filled above his own signature.
Night Medical Service .- Organized 1880. Any respectable physician may register for this service. A registry of physicians is kept in the station houses of the various precincts, and where an application for medical aid must be made. 198 calls were made last year, for which the city paid. Dr. W. A. Ewing, Superintendent, at 301. Mott street. Should applicants who call for such medical aid be able to pay therefor, the police captain of the precinct will collect the charge.
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Penitentiary .- Blackwell's Island. Persons charged with minor crimes are employed here for 30 days and up- wards, as the sentence may be. Felons are also sent here from different parts for whom the State pays so much per capita.
Police Department .- Headquarters 300 Mulberry street. Telegraphic communication is established between the other police stations, Bellevue, Reception and other Hospitals, where ambulances and surgeons are in readiness at all hours to go to any part of the city, on order from the police surgeon on duty. The city is divided into eighteen districts. These are each governed by assistant surgeons. The surgeons attend members of the police force and all sudden cases of illness. Stephen B. French, President ; John McClave, Fitz John Porter, John R. Voorhis, Commissioners.
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Public Officials having cognizance of mat- ters affecting the poor of New York City and County.
THE MAYOR .- William R. Grace. Office, 6 City Hall.
COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. - Office corner Third Avenue and East 11th street. Have jurisdiction of all the City and County charitable and correctional institu- tions.
COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION-Office, Castle Garden. THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT .- Office, 301 Mott street.
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT .- Office, 300 Mulberry street. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION .- Office, 146 Grand street. CORONERS .- Office, 13 Chatham street.
EXCISE DEPARTMENT .- Office, 54 Bond street.
INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS .- Office, 155 Mercer street. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR. - Office, 49 Beekman street.
Quarantine Establishment and Hos- pitals of New York. - Established 1738. Commissioner's Office, 71 and 73 Broadway. New York City. Boarding Station three-fourths of a mile south of Clifton, near Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. Hospital ship Illinois used in summer as a boarding station for vessels from infected ports. Cemetery, Seguin's Point. W. M. Smith, M. D., Health Officer of the Port ; residence and office at Clifton, Fort Wadsworth, S. I. T. C. Platt, President Quarantine Commissioners. Apply to Commissioners or the Collector of the Port of New York, Wall street.
Reception Hospital .- 99th street and 10th Avenue. (Department of Public Charities and Correction.) Patients received residing only between 59th street and Yonkers city line. Has 24 beds. 1,150 patients were attended to during 1884. Out- door patients treated during the same time, 1,843. Attached to the hospital are two ambulances. F. W. Meyer, House Surgeon. Mrs. J. Kehoe, Matron.
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Riverside Hospital .- North Brothers' Island. For contagious diseases only. Under charge of the Health Department. Accommodates 200 patients. 350 cases treated last year, while hospital was located at Blackwell's Island. D. B. Pease, Resident Physician.
Reception Hospital .- Foot of East Sixteenth Street. For contagious diseases, waiting transportation to Riverside Hospital. Has thirty beds.
State Almshouse .- Flatbush, L. I. Takes charge of non-resident destitute poor, who have no settlement in any county of the State. Apply to Superintendent of Out-door Poor, Eleventh street and Third avenue.
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State Asylum for Insane Criminals.
-Established 1859. Auburn. Managed by Superintendent of State Prisons, who reports each year to the Legislature. Has room for 200 patients. It is the only asylum in the United States devoted solely to the cure of the criminal insane. The patients are taken from the prisons and penitentiaries of the State ; unconvicted " criminal lunatics" from the Courts, and by transfer from other asylums. 199 were cared for during the year, at a weekly cost of $4 per capita. C. F. MacDonald. M. D., Superintendent.
State Board of Charities - (The).
Instituted 1867. Principal office, Albany. New York City office, 54 William street. Eleven Commissioners, for a term of eight years, compose the Board. They are appointed by the Governor and Senate, and give their services gratis. They visit at least once a year every State and County charitable and reformatory institution, and report to the Legislature. They are invested with authority to visit private charitable institutions, inspect the buildings, examine papers and books, see all inmates, and whoever is found guilty of
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obstructing or retarding their progress in the performance of this duty, will be fined $250. Further information at the office of the Commissioners. Wm. R. Stewart, Josephine S. Lowell, J. J. Milbau, Commissioners for N. Y. County ; Ripley Ropes, Commis- sioner for Kings Co .: W. P. Letchworth, President; C. S. Hoyt, Secretary.
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State Commissioner in Lunacy .- Office 31 West 42d street. Investigates the condition and administration of insane asylums and the treatment of patients. Grievances of any kind should be sent (or made personally) to him, at his office as above.
State Homeopathic Asylum for the Insane .- Opened 1871. Middletown, Orange Co. N. Y. For the treatment and cure of insane males, indigent and otherwise. The insane person may be committed on the written certificate of a Justice of the Peace of any of the towns in the State, certifying that the person and his relatives are unable to care for such person. Others who can pay are charged from $3.75 to $35 per week. During the past year 472 persons were cared for. The income is derived from pay patients and the State and counties from which patients are sent. Fletcher Harper, President; M. D. Stivers, Secretary; Uzal T. Hayes, Treasurer; S. H. Talcott, A. M., M. D., Ph. D., Physician in charge. For further information apply to Dr. Talcott, at the asylum.
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United States Marine Hospital Service .- Established by Congress in 1798 and reorganized by acts approved June 29, 1870, and March 3, 1875, is the medical department of the mercantile marine, and is charged, under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, with the duty of looking after the health interests of the officers and seamen em- ployed on all American vessels engaged in the foreign, inland or coasting trade. The object of its establishment was to encourage
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fit persons to become seamen by affording care and treatment to such as may, while following their vocation, become sick or disabled. The medical officers of the service are further charged with the medical care of the seamen of the Revenue Cutter Service and phy- sical examination of the keepers and crews of the Life Saving Sta- tions, and under the Secretary of the Treasury to aid in the enforce- ment of Quarantine regulations. The service has been entrusted with the management of National Quarantines for the past four years. There are medical officers and hospitals at all the principal seaports of the country. The office of the Surgeon-General is at Washington, D.C.
In New York, the office of the service is at the Battery, adjoining the new Barge Office. Office hours, 9 A. M. to 3 P. M.
The hospital is at Stapleton, Staten Island, has a daily average of 125 patients, and admits no contagious cases.
During the fiscal year 1884, 3505 seamen were treated at the port of New York, of which number 1327 were in hospital and 2178 re- ceived relief at the Dispensary connected with the Battery office. In general, the requisite for admission is sixty days consecutive ser- vice immediately prior to application, with a certificate to that effect from the master or owner of the vessel. Seamen seriously injured or taken sick while in the line of duty are admitted without regard to length of service.
Officers of the service of the Port of New York: Walter Wyman, M. D., Surgeon in charge; R. P. M. Ames, M. D., Passed Assistant Surgeon; W. D. Bratton, M. D., Assistant Surgeon; D. C. Finlay, Hospital Steward.
United States Naval Hospital .- Flush- ing avenue, near Grand avenue, Brooklyn. N. Y. A Government institution, under control of the Navy Department, for the treat - ment of the sick or disabled attached to the United States Navy, both officers and men. Apply at the Hospital.
United States Naval Laboratory .-
Brooklyn, N. Y. The Laboratory is the general supply depot for the Medical Department of the United States Navy from whence is
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issued to ships, hospitals and stations as the Government may direct, all medicines, instruments, surgical appliances, hospital and dispensary stores and furniture, bedding, stationery and books. Is supported by annual appropriations granted by Congress. Delavan Bloodgood, Medical Director.
United States Pension Agency .- Office, No. 398 Canal street. Residents of the city and county of New York who are entitled to pensions and who have been authorized by the Government to receive them, can obtain their claims only at this office.
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Willard Asylum for the Insane .-- Willard, Seneca Lake, New York. Opened, 1869, for the benefit of tbe chronic insane poor. Admission to asylum is obtained only on order from the County Superintendents of the Poor. Has room for 1,700. 1,758 cases were treated during 1884, to support whom $243,864.64 was expended. P. M. Wise, M. D., Superintendent.
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Workhouse .-- Blackwell's Island. (Depart- ment of Public Charities and Correction.) Persons charged with drunkenness, and able-bodied destitute adults, self-committed, are here taken charge of. There is one for each sex. George B. Van Brunt, Superintendent.
Branch Workhouse. - Hart's Island. Receives the excess from the Workhouse on Blackwell's Island. Lawrence Dunphy, Warden.
Workhouse Hospital .- Blackwell's Island. (Department of Public Charities and Correction.) For sick inmates of the workhouse, having a capacity of 56 beds. 585 cases were treated here last year. A. D. Becker, House Physician.
ASYLUMS AND HOMES.
Association for Befriending Chil- dren and Young Girls .- House of the Holy Family .- 136 and 138 Second Avenue. Established in 1870.
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