The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-10

s Ios s:;: IN ;ais 1899
1857 1858. 1859
Inmates At Wards Island. ......l,745 1905 I,iS2
Do. st Marine Hospita....... l23 LOG 63
Total. ......................1S6 S6s 2,o12 1,245
Balance in bank January 1, 1862 . S5666 %
Aggregate receipts to Feb. 2........s5 ,260 81
Receipts since 10 Feb. 0, 1859, for com.
mutation Of passengers, &c...... 1853 O0- 5000 81
Total. ..................... sll ,6e2 IS
Current expenses Of jan and Feb2 sss ssl sss 10
Balance of Communication fund. ............ s23 IS
The election Of officers for the current year was post
poned until next meeting
Captain CRABREB presented official account of the
connected with the burning Of Quarantine,
differing no essential points from the of the oc
currences already published in the public newspapers
The report was adopted.
The annual report of the Commissioners for the year
ending with December, 1858, has been prepared snd for
Naded 70 the Legislature Qt the State Of New York. The
principal features Of the document will be found
STATISTICS or EMIGRATION.
The year 1858 has been marked throughout by the
greatly lessered number Of alien emgranls who arrived
curing the year IN the United Staes and especially ut this
port.
The Of alien emgrans who arrived at this port
during the year 1868, and for whom Communication
paid or special bonds executed $780, being 1855
less than In the year Immediately preceding, SO 1853
former years since 1s4s is much less than half
or these emgraDs 81 874 from Germany, 26 O75
from Ireland, and IL ,o24 from England
The details OF the various operations Of the Commission
and their officers during the year 1858, present the fol-
lowing results
Number Of luuatic emigrants under year. 93
| emigrants sent back to Europe. ......... 2l4
Number forwarded to various places inland by the
Number temporarily relieved IN this city with money 4S
4" supplied tempor'y with board and lodgg. S,73l
| Number OF outdoor roor in the city buried at the
Total number provided With employ nj at this Office ssss
Whole number relieved ana forwarded in and from
the several counties Of the State, chargeable TO
the Commission, about. ut.....................4 200
employ ment by the Commission in the State and
city Of New York.. .19, ,450
Amount Of money received from friends of em
grants for forwarding them. .A,531 40
Amount Of money received by Irish Emgrant
Society, and applied TO the forwarding Of emi
grants, chargeabe to the Commission 1,l8S 90
WARDS ISLAND.
The report then to speak OF the condition Of
Wards Island relating all the facts connected with that
prices and now much increased in value, and
sea wall has been built along the Shore principally by the
On the lst January, 1885, there were in the buildings
el6 inmates; tho number on 1st January, 1859,
1os2 The whole cos Of buildings and improvements on
Wards Island Is about $500 000 Some portion Of this
sum, spent on the earlier wooden buildings which were
very useful for the time, be considered sunk but
the more important works were economically as well as
duably constructed, and it probable that equal acoom
mediation for the objects OF such an Institution exclusive
OF the price or ands could be obtained
| sum than the whole amount laid out in buildings.
The Whole number Of inmates whether diseased In the
hospitals or inrm and helpless In the other department.
purDg The year, was 6906 being 6S3 less than in 1857
and 754 less then in the year preceding The average
number ut any one time about 200 The net cost OF
support Of the Emgant Hospital and Refuge was $76
being s32 COZ less Than 1857 and $50 $40 than in 1885,
and amounting TO little more than onc-third Of
the expense IN ls66 Tor in several preceding years.
Jhe NUMBER provided for indeed less than in those
years but the economy, with equal comfort and berali
81 supplies, was much creator than the proportionate
dmnution Of numbers The whole number Of days spent
by the naiee Of the Hospital Refuge during the year
in those institutions being 43S SAG gives an average
Of l,2oo persons throughout the year 1t will be seen
| that the average cost of support, including the
compensation Of physicians and surgeons, the
salaries and wages Of officers and nurses and
all other expenses on the island, was nearly $63 so
head exclusive Of these salaries medical and other
officers and wages OF slbaern employees about $43 80
per head for their whole COST including special hospital
expenses O the above average OF 200 persons sus-
taned and aided in the Wards Island institution there was
about average of $50 Hospital patients and 47O in the
Refuge department II s quite difficult separate the
accounts to show the relative expense Of each class
but the Hospital PATIENTS Of course, receive much the
largest proportional share.
The following summary gives the aggregate results of
The whole Of these estabshments including the hospitals
| proper as well as the Refuge department.
| Inmates in institution Oh lst January, 1858 ol4
1cmted to institution during 1858. S.......... ,625
| Births in I" 20 ...... 1856
Total number cared for during the year @ 906
Discharged during the year 1857
| OF deaths during the year in both Refuge and Hos
pnaI ..................... 4SI
lOta numper.... % ,oo4
| Number remaining on 3lst December, 1865 / 05o
The school for children, under the charge of the Com
mesioners, remains school the city, the Com
masioncrs providing commodious apartment and paying
for certain expenses The arrangement appears
neicia and the present number Of pupils is about one
| hundred and Dfy.
| MEDICAL AND SURGICAL DKPARTMESTs
The Hospital department Wards Island is administer
ed on the system adopted in July, 1855, reported in
1851 The medical department proper under the charge
Of salarcd physician, wholly resident on the island
with many salariod assistants the hospital service
may require from time TO time. H. B. Fay NJ d. was the
ply in chief until his resignation In July last when
Dr. George Ford who had acted ~ one OF his assistants
for two years preceding TO the entire satisfaction of
Board, was appointed his successor. He s assisted
by f. Smrcck, NJ d.
The surgical department is continued under the charge
Of Murray Carnochan, N. d., as surgeon in chief who
vistf the surgical wards al times fixed by the bycaws
| and as often In addition the surgical service
| may demand. He pcforms all important operations
l he is assisted by two salared and constantly resi-
| dent surgeons, Drs j. Carey Sclden and Herman
A. Gueke; the last, as well as DR.. Smrock Is a German
by brih both OF them speak European languages
The Commissioners have always been sensible Of the i'm
porance Of having in their employment persons capabe
Of oon,crspg with the patients and other inmates ia their
languages that except in special cases fas the
Chnese), the inmates almost always find an inter-
l prefer TO explain their wants.
The number receiving medical or surgical aid was be-
low the average Ct the years preceding there being 67
cases rsaed in the hospital, against 3,l47 1866 and
| 6sq3 In 1857.
The following summary of the aggregate results
o the practice, both medical and surgical turing 1855
There cared for in the hoepta during 1855 pcud
ing oo3 In hospital ON 1s January 1858, together with
900 pr,ns 612
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