The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-05

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Religious service has been held on each Sabbath,
blythe Rev u. Searle, Chaplain of the Island, and
on Thursday of each week the Rev. Geo. l.. Neide,
OF Manhattanvile, has had the kindness to hold the
Episcopal service. The patients were visited weekly
by a Catholic Clergyman. I am fully confident that
religious exercises, properly conducted, produce
favorable influence Even in cases where the mind
OF the patient dwells on religious subjects, and
although despair DO the predominating feeling yet
words Of consolation may inspire hope, and thus aid
in removing the feelings of doubt which enshroud
the mind
THE Aims HOUSE NURSERY DEPARTMENT, RAN
q DALL's ISLAND.
From the asylum we were conveyed to Randall's
Island by Mr.. Fitch. in his boat, which, through
the courtesy of Mr.. Henry, one of the Ten Cover
nors was ordered to be in readiness for accom-.
mediation. The nurseries are detached and SO ar
ranged that children Of equal age are apportioned
to each building; thus there is one building for in
tants just beginning to walk, another for those
ranging from three to five years. and so on. There
are upwards of one thousand children in the nursery
department-725 boys and 3l9 girls-out of which
number there are 125 boys and 90 girls in hospital
suffering from the various diseases to which child
hood is subject. There are in this department SO
men who are at work about the grounds and build
ings, and lS5 women who are also employed wash
ing, tending cleaning, and who for the most part
have children in the institution, whom they natu-
rally wish to be near Great precaution is used to
prevent c0ntagion-for instance when children first
arrive they are taken to nursery adapted for their
reception, where they are washed in large cstern.
They are newly clad, and kept here to perform a
sort quarantine Of three four weeks before they
permitted to associate with the other children
Everything we saw in the nursery department was
consistent with the care, the cleanliness, good
der, and management which prevail in the other
institutions under the Ten Governors, and our need
Of appreciation is justly due to Colonel Stearns, the
excellent warden, Mrs Lee, the matron, ex.Alder-
man Tappan, the st0rekceper, and to Miss Clifford,
an affable and accomplished young lady, who has
the management Of between three and four hun.
dred children out of school time. We understand
that the school on Randall's Island has. at the
aminations for the past two years, fully equalled
any Of those under the charge Of the Public School
Society.
We saw this little band 60 through some singing
exercises in one Of the halls, which they performed
admirably well. They all, in this particular
department, where they range from about four to
many of them with expressive features indicating
contentment and good care, and bear strong con-
trast to the children in another department, who
had recently arrived, and whose wan faces had the
impress Of neglect-want, the pale occuper of their
cheeks BY the storekeeper's report, we find that
the provisions used in the nurseries, for the previous