The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-03-20

ZEE MARINE uosPITAL, STATEN IsLAND-PRoPosEr
CHANGE IN ITS GOVERNMENT.
There - proportion before the Legislature ct Al
bany to restore the Marine Hospital ct Staten Island
to the government Of the Health ocsr aud to get rid
Ofths resident physician. To show the monstrous Oh
suray OF this STEP 1t Is only necessary to quote the
Cmcis OF admissions discharges and deaths Il
the hospital from the I'd Of February to the I'd Of
hSos nn.t.nt) Its ss foiloW.;-,
,eu By ticket, Byasss:sh' T Hs
remaining 54s, to which add $50 remaining the "a
and We have total remaining In hospital
en- t a., % q shs ;sss thor.
Admitted from jan. i, to March TO- inclusive. 1855
Total treated since Jan. /, ......... 2220
Yet with this extraordinary number Of patients It is
fssd.nt physician to the Health ososr. who has As
many duties he can attend to In boarding vessels,
= or ~ Ths
the Ho.pitai was formerly under the Health Officer
and owing to his utter inability to attend to his duties
with the other duties that dsvovsd upon him IL was
transferred from him to q resident physician who
has quite enough to do. Since the "a Of asroh.
that there in the Ha-s. unvarao ~ a 30
patients. The Csmmis. OF Enigrstion proposed
~. sport reduction in the expenses Of
..sns but instead Of doing So they have been com.
PEELED to add to their number. ss was recomme ndsd
IN tho Herda Wnen reviewing the report. The1e
hospital in this country better managed than tho
Marine Hospital-none In which greater cleanliness,
order, and discipline enforced; and though the
mortality ought to be far greater than In any other
hospital the cases being all of the most contagious
and fatal character and the patients being
the mortality does not exceed that Of ether reoepts
cles Of tho sick 1t only about sever per cent Of
osDg to the bunsus AND nasar. Of r..
sections Of the Emgrant law relating to the duties
and powers Of the health officer and the resident ply
Ia hatw fha nhArsc vboaa
two officers which prevents the intention Of the Law
being fully and properly worked out II tho Lsgisla-
tare would remove this collision and accurately de-
fine and separate tho duties and powers of Sidney
Doane andF Campbell Stewart, they would do great
Bile expense.
DEsrIruIroS EmGRANrs There IL not Q night or
day that some destitute emgrants recently arrived,
do shelter In the staff en- houses In the lower
wards thus occupying the places that properly belong
to prisoners the police giving them food and lodging
and IN doing 80, perform praise Worthy acts But the
burthen on the police when provision Is made by the
NV OF the state that every care should be taken Of
them by the Commissioners Of Emigration! But these
gentlemen seem TO have other business hand, than
afordisg shelter or protection to the poor emgrant
On Tuesday Ellen Holland and her three children who
arrived here in the ship Monte yuma, afforded
temporary asylum by the Fourth ward police They
were In the most destitute condition.
ANOTHER CASE OF 6rABBlNo IN A PoRrEnHousE.-Of-
hoer Turner, of the Ninth ward police, while duty
Tuesday morning, in the Sixth avenue. found man
and, upon questioning him, sscsrtaned that he had
been stabbed at porterhoure in the Sixth avenue
tween Twenty second and Twenty. third streets He
brought him to the station house where he attend
ed by Dr. Franklin who stated that the radia artery
had been divided near the hand. 1t was tied up by
the doctor and Brady taken to his residence, No.
Amity place In very weak and feeble condition
from the loss of blood.
0rABBrNG PoLIcEMAN.-Polioemen Daniel Aoker
states that Tuesday evening" at hahast O'Clock,
he was in the act OF arresting young rowdy ct the
foot Of Grand street, named Michael Smith, when he
drew knife from his pocket and stabbed Acker. In
nicting two wounds, the left side OF the
body, and the other his left arm. Smith was re-
tanned In custody and Is charged with intent to kill
TnE COMBINED EfFEcrs IrrorIcArIoS, AND
6roRM.-A woman named Louisa Ibert burrowed In .
cellar in Third street, avenue B. As the rain
fell and the dissolved yesterday, this den
Allied with water, and the unfort was 90
weak, under the influence Of intoxicating drink that
she was unable to get out OF the water and but for
the timely discovery by 0hser Lyon Of the Eleventh
ward, she would have been drowned, the water being
six or eight inches deep whom she was taken out.
A BosroN CourLE Manned AT STATION HossE.-At
four O'Clock Tuesday afternoon james s,ott IVES
married to Mary Gibbons at the Fourth ward station
house, by Alderman Oakley Both are from Boston
The groomsman and bridesmaid were John Niles and
Ann Donnell large number Of the residents Of the
ward were present during the ceremony