The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-02

For the Richmond Dispatch
Ladies' oxpitals In Ricbmoad for the Sick

Soldiers. go N
Sisters Of tauss st. Francois de Sales,
on Brooke venue. May Is to Sept - --I3eds,
%: entries. 4i3. aetua, pa tents, A. Deaths, T.
=, Har@'et Haa.s End Cg.apa"g q Hospital. tMrs.
Gordon and friends, on Church Hill fromJuly
to sept. 25.--Beds, TO entries, 6n, deaths, 81.
Springfield HaH, on Chursh Hill. June to
Sept. 2.---Beds, A. entries, 26e: actual pa
TENTS, 80, dea tbs, 2, Las superintendent.
female NURSES per day, male per night, l
IMitroN, ! cook, ! washerwoman and BOYS
III its service.
Ciny Street Chop,t. Aug - 10 Sept. - Beds,
rs; entries, 49, actual patients, 70: tbs, :.
Soldiers Hom,, (hlrs. Jepkins,) June % to
Sept. 3J.-Beds, -; entries, lI7; actual pa
TENTS, %; deaths Z; returned to duty, SO;
sent away convaiescent, o; discharged from
army, 10.
Ao6'rtsop, on Main and Third streets, from
July 81 to Sept. 30-Beds, 50: entries, 100
tnai patients, 81: deaths, H. returned TO
duty, &c. discharged from army, >.
sgcGmora, from Aug. Il to Sept - Beds, 40,
entries, 81; actual patients, 81; deaths, 2 dis.
charged from army, .
BetAu1, OF Clay ANA Eighth streets from July
= 10 Sept. 2i.--Beds IS; entries, 81; actual pa
TENTS, IL; deaths, /; sent away conyalescent
5; discharged irons army. =.
Betaesda, from Aug. j 10 Sept. 20.--Betls 10;
entrits, 80, deaths, :.
6!rs. GDa!amey and friends, on Clay, between
ruth and SlAtn streets. beds, 70: .ntries IS;
actual patients, II deaths, Z: returned
To duty, 20 sent away conSaiescent, g.. dis
charged from army. 10.
Fourth, from Aug. IL to Sept &p.-Byds, 70;
I'll Tries, as jtctnai patients p; dea ths i; sent
away ConNHl.sCeut, ).
Mr}. Barhsdaie ana friends, on Gary, between
lhll d and Fourth, from Aug. - 10 sept. b.
Beds, l.: entries 10. actual patients, .; deaths,
= returned TO uuTy, 81.
lsomb.Gs HI, from Aug. % to Sept. 23-Beds
II: entries, u; actual patients, 10; deaths, s.
sent away CohSalcScpnt, :.
fr&Hftia !SJcet, between Eighth and Ninth.
from Aug. 10 10 Sept. !t.-ijeds, Il: entries 70
fanroi Strcet, beyond Leigh, 1ruil sept. Is To
sept. j0.-beds, "a; entries, %; actual pa
tcuts, -; returned 10 duty. - discharged from
army, !.
Battard's on Fredericksburg Railroad.--I2
TO Ii ;tt IL time, Tor Weeits.
Total, 2,lCJ 10 2,5uU. Ptrcen tage Of deaths,
net 49,; or, Glowing for the cases desperately
i'll WhCn brought III, between one and two per
cent.
STATE HOSPITALS IN RICHMOND RoR SICK SOL
DiERS.
lflHb0w0 (o.ganiZtt: by Mrs HOPKINS on
Filth street, between Gay and Leigh. from
Aug. 10 Srpt. 3I.-Entries, l47; under treat
nlent sept. =, ~: returned 10 auty, -; return
ed cOuyaieSccni, u: deaths, Il
L0eisi.,c, (nurseu by Sisters OF Ibarity) Il:
me Baptist Col -ge, from Sept. to Sept -
Entrits, ~: under treatment, 80; returned
to duty, -; dea ms, f.
GeorQid, bet ,yeen Main and Cary streets, low
Vi, ,niNed attend :nce.) truIa sept ) to
SEPT. A.-EntTIeS, 1875; uuutr treatment, rs;
returned 10 duty, Il; deaths, 5.
1t need not - sad that figures OF abstract
statements are utter : inadequate to express
tie kind OF service which tii, J, dies OF EIr-
Ginld are rendering "a car or-ny. Tabular
view Ct hospital rr@c+!ce arc here indeed
y.tit5'I - tAe f.ct That most u Il : SET
Gjers wlo nave died IL ,Ae hospitals wer.
allowed to tle III camp without such means
"rG appliances as the SICK require, untl! das-
perAtc1y III OF oven IL i ding condition.
But The liHles must b. Seeh at their own
private hus.;.,;ls, moving i'll tAeir ministry OF
na!J Elt4' al
annoyance. cUusolinX IN every AFT! elton re-
NiYlns the tci.ts, memories Of hUn4a, ana re-
c@lilH> tbr vital power tnrpu3n the channels
ot social Il Affection. Ouc day spout III visiting
tne iadttS' private hos /; tais OF Richmond suf
ncGS to penetrate the CDstTv1I with ConYic lion
Of the immense superiority which syCato1teoas
ana alecIionate service here rendered under
an abiding sense of social and patriotic duty
possesSe~ over all rcutine5 of mercenarY
service. 1t is little 20 say that our soldiers Ile
better lodged, better ied, better nitrscd every
way, more comfortable ia cody ia these neat
and orderly places OF personal derotio Their
physical tr.Ei.Eta res are but the accessories
10 tne great social fact that they constitute
ministry of tae heart, ard from their foun-
tain life Of religion re-est,tb!ish the pri-
mai relations OF mother and child, of the
angelic lite with humanity, in which woman
resumes her ln,diatorial Office between nature
aud lH:tn.
Besoes the numbers mentioned az nursed
by ladies III private hospitals, ii is known
that nearly every respectable fami!y in Rich
irOrd has added 10 its ties Of blood adaptive
children OF The army, and the couvalescent
from the hospitals are constantly taken to
the homes q citizens, there TO perfect their
recovery.
Among the hospitals men toned several
mast NOW be given up for school rooms but
it remains with the Confederate authorities
10 override the deplorabie prejudice which
has hitherto excluded from the general hos
rthl this NEST precious and pontaneouS or
der OF service. Many ladies ready tc
engage IL Il, and to carry iutO our iuhlic in
stitutlous tie beneticeEI spirit OF their phi
H%te establishments.
The ladies .ospita L. in Richmond are adapt
ed exclusively FOR the care OF patients sick
enough 10 b. IN bed. They are nor nosnita!s
for COnfaltSrentS. and il wOnld be absurd 10
hold them accountable ter the deaths or acci-
dents OF retarded conyaiescence CONSEQUENT
on tue nlpI udance OF those who have been
treated in them, and who may stin use them
Is lodgings but no allowance is made for
This com piicatiOn in Tie tabular estimate
These errors are Wilful aud regardless of ad-
monltiOh~. 10 soldiers who commit them,
The camps afford no guarantee of fety : Tor
ilere, rs IN the city, ii is easy for those who
aa|e little money at disposal to commit
rNcesses or imprudences in diet. Besides,
there are hundred pre;eXts habitually used
tor getting out of camp. 1t is only, then, by
sending away the convalescent from all the
hospitals in the city and camps daily, under
guard, TO the est, blishments pared for their
reception in the country, where it is COM
naratiyely easy to remove them from temp
i.itiors, and where all heaithful Influences
cOhspire. that the results Of their previous
good Hursin = can hr sustained. b. tine two
fold intervention of families in the city and
cOun try adjacent.
II is also desirable that Il patrol should be-
detailed to enforce discipline and prevent dis
orderly conduct al each ofthe larger hospitals
If not al all of them. both large and small
No one could then leave the hospital without
permit duly signed by the officer in charge
The Medical College Hospital especially has
of
which would sensibly reduce the table OF
deaths and also the term of convalescence
Camps which admit huckSters cannot profit
by this sanitary patrol. Two thirds of the
deaths in them are fairly attribut table to i'm
prudenccs in diet; the health of the Survivors
is grave)y preludiced by the same, and be
You'd all question, the periods when tempta-
hons are strongest, and when it is most fatal
10 yield 10 them, are those of ccuyaiescencc
1t is hoped that a cordial erstanding will
reign on this point, as on al others between
the citizens of Virginia and the Confederate
authorities, and that the wisdom of disci-
piine will blend with the eltusion of kind
hearts.
1t would be an extraordinary and intoler-
able abuse OF vested aut h0r ty, if in this war
OF our people, when every mans home is at
stake, and every family las children i'll the
army. the ladies were prevented, under pre-
text Of military discipline, from taxing care
of their sick and wounded brothers. III. +. l..
PAPER SUPPRESSED IN CISCINSATI.- The fol-
lowing is from the Cincinnati Press:
The Rev. Sabn Jtoug,,, OF this city, a
clergyman o. >Wed. nboTgian persuasion
WAS arrested yesteiday upon charge of
treason, and an edition OF he Rana.r Of Re-
uat9n, Il journal in the publication OF which
he il engaged, seized ana suppressed
The following is said to be the iucendisry
article that appeared in the paper. 1t told
the naked truth, and 1t had to go under:
There is no need of this war, nor any rea-
rt.,- . a