New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-23
Nem4lurk DAILY Gribn,te
THE woMANS HosPITALASSOcIATI

The exercises in observance OF the Fifth AnniVef'
sary of this Association took place on Saturday d.
No. SO Madison avenue, at present used as hospi'
building, where patients treated under the super
intendenee Of Or. j. Marion Sims.
A brief statement Of the design with which the
"Woman's Hospital Association was formed, ana OF
the Ultimate attainment contemplated, may be oil inter-
est to those Of our readers who are lot familiar with
the facts Some wears since remarkable discovery
was made by Dr. Sims of q successful method oil treat
inc those denorabe female diseases before then deemed
irren,.deble The means by which this method was
made available 20 certain number OF sufferers, anu
the wish and nope now entertained OF eAenle 10
blessings by the erection OF large ano Pernane.
Hospital, will be gathered from the following eAa0'
from a circular Just issued: h.,
Woman in the interesting and painful even. o. e
He IL of, by notwithstanding lpevso,
caused BY ignorance want OF shl Ia opstett, ,
made the victim Of mos, distressing neiads m qu hat
peusb IN, aeo sG Of
sss sufferers, shut out rom ynp7!by oy 100 i,,ss
ReE bsss Pnss this seoTey the Medical Profession of
ih, city with gnezamPed un,n@ity s9fgesed tns In
In Department where these terrible Affections and ohsI ar
peculiar to the ser might be treated WITH s Sic
meas which them Accordingly under
aurices an association Of soies opened Hospital N pas
and b their sse o sne The State and City
sustained IT, while measures were being sooPe1 W
TN cb,,scsr OF this great want cannot be better shown
than BY fact that with only the feeble means tne
have ,eady been relieved coming from nearly every state
IA. Union the Brth PROVINCES from Central ana o"u
America from England, ard from China while want OF roc
hes many lroa the opportunity Of freshmen
Legislature ofthe State Of Sew oIS has gwen tne 70,
charter ard presented with bloUo wiz nod
aid provided that funds should be literally auPphea
With are and hesrhy site for Hospathe whole square
iound. by ninth keth streets and Fourth avenue
=. free beds all Be for patients degnsed
BY the City Government is already di IT, rssnt
wan; can be supplied aud that cannot be bui and ioSne
than @oc The Board Of Governor nave
ipe determined TO build Womsns Hospital 800 eet oAg AUG
high With all the conv. fences whieh e open on
sices to broad streets and which the great improvements o.
oc' construciiop place Sithn ther eacn' 0" P'"'
AZ, Il uder confederation" -, -.
A large number of the lady managers of the Asso-
rsti.s were present On 9a'uTaay' anS Mr.
Mir,nrn-Fitet Second, and Third Drectresses, re-
fpectiyelv; Mrs Jacob LIE Rsy, Mrs. T. e. Doremus,
and Mrs Walden Pell-the Treasurer Assistant Treas
urer and Secretary and the Corresponding secretary
Mrs. Ogden Hoffman. Several prominent citHens
were aso present, who participated as toliows III tne
exercises Of the day After prayer ny the Rev D. o..
Prime the Annual Report OF the Secretary ME- HON
man. was read by DIR. Sims. The report audes TO the
difficulties attendant upon the inception OF "orA Vi
this kind, and goes on TO ray;
IN addition The ordinary yearly report OF money
received and expended, and sufferers benefited, the
Managers nave deemed IT wEe 70 Ptesent me "noIe
resnt of their five years abors. In donk this they are
sctuated by many considerations, bu. prlncpsy Dy Tue
with 10 encourage those who haze faithfully aided
them from the beginning, and the deare TO assist ana
prepare the way for an appeal shory 10 DC ma &c W
the public. This appeal will emanste from the Cover
nors under the Charter granted by the Legislature for
the establishment Of a large and permanent Hospital 10
winch this Association is 10 be MERGED They say, aid
and assist in this appeal for surely none VINO read
what has been done by a few women gathering mere
little and there a little, End hear that what ms
been done, is but the little of what might have
been done had their means been gre iter, Will refuse,
when called upon TO cast tier Offering into their treas
urv and thss receive of that blessing which is promised
to those who in the Of The SICK and
on earth minister 10 their goried bead ana @
Twice during the past year when the treasury was
empty an appeal the public wss made through the
uspapers and in each case fsr re'Ponse was sven
which added to the ordinary donations, have nearly
met the expenses of the year. =
The number of paying patients has very much in.
creased and the outside recipients ~ the benefits Of
the Hospital nearly doubled those Of last year.
l5S patients have been admitted, and l2S
dismissed, So Of which were permanently cured, Az
permanently relieved 2 died, and 3 were ineurablei
50 still remained under treatment: