NAMES OF SUBSCRIBERS AND AMOUNT OF SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR, ENDING FEBRUARY 1ST, 1868. From the Common Council of the City of New York, inclusive State appropriations.. Subscriptions of $25 each. Mrs. Robert L. Stuart, Jonathan Sturges, John Caswell, Samuel Wetmore, Josiah Macy's Sons, Thomas Suffern, J. O. Alston, Josiah Lane.... Subscriptions of $20 each. Henry Morgan, J. C. Barnes, Misses Binney, M. H. and Cashman, Theodore Victor, Misses S. M. and A. Hitchcock, Edwin Booth, Mrs. Jas. Boorman. Subscriptions of $10 each. Mrs. John Johnston, G. N. Miller, Mrs. Jonathan Henry Nicoll, Thomas Hitchcock, Wm. Allen Subscriptions of $5 each. Mrs. L. Hopkins, Miss P. A. Thorne, Wm. C. Scher- $3,300 00 200 00 160 00 345 00 Ames, Charles J. Gillis, Frank E. Howe, Mrs. 230 00 $4,235 00 EXPENSES FROM FEBRUARY 1ST, 1867, TO FEBRUARY 1ST, 1868. To rent for dispensary and eastern branch... แ 66 cleaning and washing towels and bed linen.......... medicines, alcohol, sugar, sugar of milk, vials, corks, and powder paper.. "medical books, journals, bindings and daily papers, $880 00 97 47 971 47 136 25 ARTICLE LXXXIV. Statement of Diseases treated at the Hospital in connection with the Five Points House of Industry, from March 1st, 1867, to March 1st, 1868. By B. F. JosLIN, M. D. During the past year, 935 cases of sickness occurred; four of these were sent to Bellevue Hospital, leaving 931 to be treated in this institution. Of typhus and typhoid fever only eight cases are reported; a much less number than has been usual in previous years. Scarlet fever twice started in the house, but on each occasion belladonna was given as a preventive, not only to the children more directly exposed in the hospital room, but to all of the children in the institution. The result was most satisfactory, as in all only eight cases of this dreaded disease occurred; these were treated successfully. Measles furnished twenty cases. Of ophthalmia 129 cases occurred; one sent to the hospital, and the others treated successfully in the house. One case of gangrene of the mouth was cured; in a former year I reported two cases cured, a pleasant success with a disease so generally fatal. 108 cases of diarrhoea, 83 of bronchitis, and 54 of sore throat are reported; forty cases of various injuries occurred, all treated in our hospital. The tabular statement contains the names of all diseases treated. Of the eight fatal cases, two deaths were from consumption, one from hip disease, one from Bright's disease of kidneys-this patient had also been the subject of hip disease; one from acute hydrocephalus. All of these are diseases of a scrofulous character. The children having hip disease had both been apparently cured at one .time. An infant died from general debility, having with difficulty sustained life for two months. A little girl was taken sick from outside, ond died in our hospital of typhoid pneumonia. I. have made sixty-four visits to the House, besides frequently consulting with our capable and efficient resident physician, Henry C. Houghton, M. D. 2,374 prescriptions were given, and 438 children vaccinated. Three years have elapsed without the occurrence of a case of small-pox or varioloid, a result I consider owing to the care taken in vaccinating the inmates. Our present hospital room, though admirable in some respects, is quite insufficient to properly accommodate all the demands made upon us by the sick children. The very serious evil of having to treat all diseases, contagious or otherwise, in one room, is too apparent to require comment. Scrofulous ophthalmia will always be found among the class of children we deal with, and is readily communicated from one to another. Typhus fever, scarlet fever, and measles occasionally visit us. Apart from the contagious character of these diseases, another very important reason for separation in different wards is found in the very different kind of care required. Ophthalmia and typhus fever require a constant, supply of pure air of a moderate temperature; the poisonous emanations are thus rendered harmless by being diluted with plenty of air. Scarlet fever and measles, though of course requiring good ventilation, cannot with impunity be exposed to the strong draughts of air found useful with the other diseases named. It is to be hoped that at some time not too far in the future we may be the occupants of several fine wards, with the much needed. convenience of baths and cooking apparatus for hospital purposes. |