The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-10-28
Dcmiiu Dlspensary.

AID To THE CITY
The managers of this institution respectfully but
urgently solicit attention to the INDECENT sick in
the upper part Of this city and the necessity for
providing and furnishing defines and medical and
surgical aid to such of them as may be in need
thereof but, by reason Of poverty, unableto pro-
cure the same.
In 1870, when the city contained less than one
fifteenth part of its present population, the New
York Dispensary was instituted; and in 1928 the
Northern Dispensary Was incorporated.
These two, though efficiently managed, were
found inadequate to the necessities Of population
according to the census of loO) of less than 22,
600; and in 1892 the Eastern Dispersary was in
corPorated
the calls upon them, and have extended the terrific
rial area Of their services quite far practical
ble yet Of the eastern side OF the city, above
Fourteenth street, has ever been provided for.
With an increase OF population of more than one
hundred and fifty per cent from 1882 TO 1851, there
was no increase OF D'spensaries.
The consequence has been a vast amount of suf-
ferng and premature death, and q peculiar expo
Of the city to the spread of contagious diseases
For several years past. this state Of things SO
forced itself upon the attention Of individuals con-
nected with the g association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor that the latter were con-
strained to provide temporarily for the most help
less and needy but as the care and medication Of
the sick fell without the scope of their desgns-and
having no funds which could legitimately be ap-
piled to that objtct-such aid was necessarily dis
continued.
For the year ending in 1850. the three dispe nsa-
res attended upon, provided for, and furnished me-
defines to more than eighty Eve thousand persons.
Yet the ratio Of mortality ia this, one OF the
healhest cities OF the nj is far greater than IN
almost any other owing to the numerous poor, and
the lack Of proper gratutous medical provision for
them.
Neither the city authorities nor the Aims House
Department can establish dispensaries, or supply
such Aid relief dispensaries afford hence the
duty, as well as pleasure, Of founding, managing,
and sustaining such institutions is left TO the vo-
luntary action of the benevolent,
In view of the foregoing facts, and of the divine
announcement that ''Ye have the poor with you
always, and VIII nsoever ye will ye may do them
good" the Demit Dispensary has been incorporated
Before entering fully and efficiently upon their
charitable labors, the managers are under the ne
cessity Of securing suitable building properly fit
ted up.
They have purchased the requisite ground. on the
northwesterly corner Of Twenty-third street and
Second avenue, and procured plans, specifications,
and proposals for such building, and for means to
erect and furnish AZ, they now on behalf eli the SUI
feripg sick poor, appeal TO those whom Providence
has blessed with both means and hberality, to con-
tribute accordingly
The ana gers cannot. in Justice to the institution
or themselves, proceed faster further than the
subscriptions shall warrant, because, first, they
would not lave the dispensary iened with q
debt, and, second, by he terms Of their charter,
they are personally liable for its debts
Bestoving freely Of their own means and time.
to the promotion Of this charity, they trust few If
any, to whom this is addressed, will pass by on the
other side
NEW YORK, October, 1851.
MANAGERS.
Peter Cooper, William Gale, John Campbell,
Henry Elliott, John Earle, Joseph F. Joy,
John ]. Walker VIM. +. Mott, Jr, ohm w. oil
yer, Giles Babcock, William 5. Brown, f. 4.
Mather, Jesse W. Benedict, Oliver De +. Grant,
William Walker, Henry VI. Alexander, Nathaniel
X. Long, Henry A. Hurlbut, samuel L. Mitchill,
Anson G. Phelps, Jr James Stokes, Walter Mead,
Ephraim Hoibrook, David Hosdley, Robert Kelly
Donations may be cent 70 VIM. Walker, Urea
nsgers.