Annual report of the Department of Public Charities of the City of New York ... v.16, 1875, Τόμος 16Department of Public Welfare, 1876 |
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acute Alms-house April asthenia attendants August BAILEY Bellevue Hospital Blackwell's Island Board of Commissioners boilers Boys Bread Bright's Bright's Disease bronchitis building Charities and Correction Charity Hospital chronic City Prison clothing Commissioners of Public Convalescent Hospital Daily Cost December 31 December 31st Department died dietary Discharges and Deaths disease Dura Mater duties Eloped Epileptic and Paralytic expense February Females Fever FM FM FM Hart's Island heated Homœopathic Hospital Honorable Board House improved Inebriate Asylum insane institution ISAAC H January July June labor Lunatic Asylum Males Medical Board Melancholia months Native November number of patients Nurse October Paralytic Hospital Paresis patients admitted paupers pavilion structures pavilions Penitentiary Phthisis Physician Pint Pneumonia President Board Public Charities Randall's Island Repairing School Ship September Showing the number stove pipe Syphilis TABLE tion Total number Townsend Cox treatment ventilation Warden wards wife women Work-house Work-House Help
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Σελίδα 95 - ... pestilence have' spread devastation within and without this beautiful city, but, under the most threatening and cruel circumstances, the heart of these charities has been warmed for their inmates, and their ministers have always stood ready to bind up their wounds, and to set them on their way again. The Frenchman may be on the crest of the wave, or in the trough of the sea, in so far as his individual experiences go, but he never forgets the hospital. The Frenchwoman may bestow a surplus of...
Σελίδα 134 - The county superintendents of the poor of any county, and any overseers of the poor of any town, to which any person shall be chargeable, who shall be or become a lunatic, may send such person to the Lunate Asylum by an order under their hands.
Σελίδα ix - Care has been taken not to diminish the terrors of this last resort of poverty, because it has been deemed better that a few should test the minimum rate at which existence can be preserved, than that the many should find the poor-house so comfortable a home that they would brave the shame of pauperism to gain admission to it. Acting on this principle, the per capita of 1875 was still further decreased to 12 cents . . . per day.
Σελίδα 75 - Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit the Annual Report of this department for the year 1920.
Σελίδα 27 - ... years of age, and under thirtyfive years, and must present a certificate from a responsible person and a physician, as to their moral character and health. They will be under the authority of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction. The Chief of Staff will have the power to decide as to the fitness of the Nurses for the work, and the propriety of retaining or dismissing them. He can discharge them at any time for misconduct or Liefficiency, with the approval of the Commissioners.
Σελίδα vii - The last of the children were transferred from Randall's Island December 31, 1875; and in the report of the Commissioners for that year, presented to the mayor early in 1876, the whole matter was summed up in these words : " The Nursery on Randall's Island, by act of the legislature, was abolished with the close of the year, and it is prohibited by law to receive children over three years of age.
Σελίδα 42 - Manner of to fulfil their engagements scrupulously as to time of service, and duty to be performed, agreeably to their respective contracts, • and no one shall discontinue service, without giving at least thirty days' notice in writing to the superintendent or steward.
Σελίδα 264 - Varied amusements, both in summer and winter, should be provided, for if the old adage, " all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy...
Σελίδα 276 - Their mental faculties and moral sentiments have been developed by lessons and exercises suitable to their feeble condition, and they have been raised in the scale of humanity.
Σελίδα 91 - ... advantages of observation. Many reasons for this painful and rapidly increasing pauperism have been assigned, but that which takes precedence above and beyond all others is the curse of intemperance. The statistics of almshouses, workhouses, penitentiaries, asylums and hospitals all attest this dark and gloomy fact.