New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-22

TIE NEy-YoRx HosrrrAL was founded In
l773, mainly by private munihcence; oi'
the Revolution. &c. interfered with ITS early
operations so that its systematic activity ana
efficiency date from 1872. In that year IL
received $50 patients; and the number has
steadily increased until it reached last year
total of 3,715. In the sixty years commenc-
ing with 1851, the total admissions were
92,s5s, of whom g. ,373 were discharged cured,
5.7S4 relieved, 1922 dismissed at their own
request, 1873 as improper objects, 1919
eloped, and 9,471 died Since 1921, a separate
ASYLUM for Lunatics has been maintained at
BloomingdaIe, where 3,7l4 patients have been
admitted of whom LIS were cured, $50 i'm
proved. SAB discharged by request, and 3S7
died.
The demands on the Hospital have steadily
and rapidly increased, as We have seen, while
its income has remained stationary. The State
allows it sI2,5OO per annum; the US. Trea-
.urv pays il Hospital Money at low rate for
the care and treatment OF certain number OF
, sick and disabled seamen; it has had some do
nations. and some pay patients are taken; but
the population from which objects of charity
are sent to this Hospital has increased during
the last sixty years from One Hundred Thou
sand to One Million with no corresponding In
crease of its resources. It's Governors per-
form in rotation the duty of superintendent
without charge; the Medical Faculty in like
manner serve il for nOthing-and there Is no
class of citizens on whom more constant or
heavy claims for gratuitOus service are made
than on the Doctors-but the time has come
when others must help, or the poor must be
turned away to suffer and die. The buildings
10 longer suffice; the funds are no longer ad-
equate to meet the heavy and rapidly increasing
demands upon them. We know instances OF
the turning away of deserving and suffering ap-
plicants because room could not be made for
them. Surely, this must not continue. At
season of general prosperity and abundance
like this, there ought to be no difficulty in rails
ing the $25O,O0O which the able and most eff
cient Board Of Governors now ask for as an
endowment TO enable them to put both the
main Hospital in Broadway and the Asylum at
Bloomingdale in n condition to answer all legt-
innate demands upon their charities.
The Governors Of the Hospital, twenty-five /
in number George NewbOld, Presideat,) are /
among the most intelligent and publc-spirted .
of our wealthy citizens, and have devoted .
much time and zeal TO their most responsible
charge No one can doubt that every farthing
ntrusted to their charge will be carefully in
vested or judciously expended, and we trust
their appeal will be promptly and heartily re-
sponded to. And, as an earnest that it ,cW be, +
We may state that one of our City's most
wealthy and benevolent citizens has already
volunteered 10 head their subscription paper !
with $4,000. All cannot give anything like
that amount, but all who have property may
give in the same spirit; and if they do, we
shall soon have the pleasure of announcing that
the sum is made up, and our Hospital again
what it should be, an honor and pride to the
chief City of the New World