New-York daily tribune., 1859-01-10
sEW- YORK STATE WOMANS HOSPITAL.
CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH ANNIVhR-
SAkI.

The Fourth Anniversary Of the New-York State
Womsns Hospital vas celebrated on Saturday az the
Hospital No. SO Madison avenue. Of those present,
tne greater portion composed oi promrent citl'
SECS and medical men. About twenty lance were
present. most of them forming the Bo ard OF Managers
Cf the Inst tuition.
DIR. j. w. FRANCIS presided. prayer Wss oncrou
by the Rev. DIR. Bases.
Mr.. OGDEN HorfaAs, the Secretary OF the Board,
thsn read the annual repoits oil the treasurer sud
B.,sId Of Managers. Tue former showed tue receipt
and expenditure Of over g. 900 curus tue year. la
tbe stter the perfection of the grant OF land by the
eity-4O0 by 800 fee-ss site for the future hospital
Sd,fice was alluded to. Tae Board had reason TO
exp.ct that fund, nov amounting to SjO0Ot, which
he'd been apart by its founders for plisatnro2ic
purposes In medicine, would be sppropr''ed 70 the
Dol poees Of this institution, whicn would Dc an
exo.len. beginning of pernaoent fand Tor the
oGdo~meDt OF the institution. Plans had already
bsen prepared for building which would accom-
nodate loo j,mBtes. The number Of patients
received during the year was i2sIs an Increase
pf "a upon the number in 1851. OF this number 81
had been dschaiged, and 80 remalped andeT treat
nsDt Ehy-eight were discharged perfectly cured;
- we're discharged permanently relieved, enhe oat
cpe had been dischaI geo incurable. Ot the sums
received TO aid the Institution, only $30 60 were from
subscriptions, and only g., ,S5l ~ from donations,
which bad compelled them TO draw still further npon
the amount o.goaly appropriated by :he State. iesv'
fpg only &3 VOO of that amount remainsng unsppro-
psistsd. The report ntimses that, with grester ex-
es,cD on the pat Of those who appreciate tho vslde
a toe institution the receipts from private
might have been much grv ster. In conclusion, tho
Board return their thanks t. the house OF PonlOld,
Clay Co., for liberal supply Of me cines aud 10
Rh,hp j. Forbes for a rare old medical work.
DR.. FRANCIS then ad trossoo toe meeting lie
expressed hs renewed confidence ia tue suocss OF the
institutiop. When the ladies' first embarked IL ii he
Gk It ~ be an era in the progress OF humanity. No
thing had occurred 10 chsuge his opinioo tnen or1ed,
but the contrary had beea stroDsthe ~ each
pears Increased success, anu With the ominept abty
Of DR.. Sins, as evidenced in tho Tesats which hal
csowred bis labois, they mgut well l)ok fcr%.rd
without usgvmgs MS 90 the future of the Institution.
AL opposition TO it had been extps Tue medi.
cal aen Of this city the press srd ali who Knew OF
~ b. De hceDt wokirgs endorsed H. ls opt rations
he'd been closely ortic'sed by men fton Loado1,
Edinburgh, and Dubln aud they had endorsed its
excs lleI,e. With the iand which they would soon
have, begun in i7eS and rerred to IL the rePor, he
could not what they oAd to discourage tnen.
EsAsrus &. BksxDIor, esq, next addressed the
meeting. lie exoioited the decd Of tie land which
bad been gvea by TIE city, AMI mentioned the
ef the m.mhers ot the Co,no Coeno, the CefAs Of
tbs Boards, the Mayor, the Corporaton Coaose, aud
cthols who had been instrumental IN procuring the
ersut. Referring IA hosptta's, Me- Benedict siudod
10 the fact that TIE trst hosptl established
est>h shed by faoios fifteen centuries since, an
vast could be more appropriate than the oantiog OF
the Womsp's Horpitsl-the last schie veneat Of our
ned,cal phanthropics-by women by their effor
the faIde could be- secured oeo efts and
Ae concluded by encouraging them to couhnao the
work they had ausp,cioosly begun.
Ait.i afsw pmarks by the Rev. DE-. ADAMS, in
winch the institution was nded, meeteg vas
s3osed with bsredction by toe Rev. Dr. BURcHARp.