New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-15


your rear. The cool green tops Of timber and the
greener banks look pleasant in the and from farnp
the river the picnic mnsresy at Joness Wood floats
gently down the river your ears. you are pulled to
the island beach.
Landing at the lower extremity Of the island. You
stand upon the Hospital grounds. The first building
on the very south.lookng end of the Islands,
THE SMALLPOX HOSPITAL.
This is large, square, handsome gray.stone fabric
which is devoted entirely to patients suffering from
small pox At the present time the patients are about
~ in number During the Winter months they average
great many MORE At one time during the last Win
ter 10 patients nj time under treatment IN
this hospital. The building is large, airy and CON
modious Ventilation seems to have been studied
earnestly the appear to take interest in the
patients the location OF the edce could not be better
and science as well common sense seems 10 have
been largely drawn upon if not exhausted, in render
ing the establishment place for the cnre rather than
the disposal Of its inmates. AS in all other establish
ments of this nature, there patients who pay
price for their treatment. and they are consequently
accorded extraordinary attentions In proportion to
their MEANS but so far as the medical attendance
goes they have the same medical treatment, and o
pauper has about the same chance of being cured rs
the man or woman with money and friends
THE ISLAND HOSPITAL.
The Island Hospital, being the first imposing build
ing one meets. going up the Island from lis lower
extremity is the handsomest building in respect to III
material and its architecture. With main building
in the center crowned by circular tower it fronts up
the Island and has equal wing on either sde the
width Of the entire structure being about 100 feet with
an average depth or thickness ofsay 20 feet The stone
is Of rough bet ttngly and welprepared granite aid
the edGce is well built not quite complete four stories
in hight and faced with smoother and whiter-iaced
stone.
On the ground.foor located the Kitchen the
Wash. Room the steain-Room the Clothes l1ooT and
the Store Room.
TUE KITCHEN.
The former is large apartment with ovens. steam
pipes and all the various Apparatus OF culinary de-
ipartment Nearly all the employees arc details from The
Aims and Warehouses, which is the Gaze generally
throughout the Island the workers being The inmates
Of various Institutions Both males and females are
used in this department They get their living for
nothing as the phrase goes but made TO :" stand
around" For instance, two wooden horses are bask-
ling upon the green swsrd; one idle fellow. m
idle stripes and corporation hat is basking At the
back kitchen door John" says Mr.. She'll fhe war
den. ''vou are a cartman' mo sir" " You were
car,man Z" yes SIR" Well Sead those horses Oh
the pasture into tie stable So John laziy moves
away aud takes the wooden horses out Of sight,
THE STEAM ROOM.
Another room on the ground floor is the Steam Room.
wherein are number OF furnaces and boilers and the
steam for the entire establishment il here procured
The workmen are mostly from the Workhorse--ren
who with purity of purpose and outside their saysh
propenstes could as a general thing earn not Only
their living but support large families by their labor
TIE WASH ROOM.
The heat requisite for the operation Of the machinery
Of this room is also large number OF women
are employed from the Workhouse Large tubs OF soh
soap filed the floor entered. and the washing was
lin process Once per week all the clothes in which the
patients lie in bed are thoroughly cleaned; mairon
keers the women in order. aud the most perfect
obedience seems to be obtained from the employees.
THE STORE ROOM.
From this room are dispensed all the provisions used
in tie establishment. Plates o. butter eggs cheese.
sugar and other decaces here apporioncd out the
respective members of The wards marked upon them by
tickets and the ration. prepared for disribnion Upon
the shelves round the rooms, are the fairies ffom
which clothing is made and awarded to those who have
none Of their own.
TIE CLOTHES ROOM.
Here is the place where patients leave their clothing
while they remain in bed in different wards. memo
randum is left Of everything, OF money any be lett I'D
the hands Of the officials when the articles are rolled
M tickeed and put away on shelves until the dis-
charge of the owner when then are returned to hln
II patient retains his money on his person. he alone Is
responsible for it, and get no satisfaction from The
authorities Of the prison in it should be lost or
stolen In many instances. the clothing ofthe patients
is found TO be so filthy necessitate its destruction
THE WARDS
The entire hospital is under the control OF Sr benJa
min T. She'll the Warden. There are 80 wards 10 al'
with different numbers Of beds in each, but having
about 40 TO the The average number OF patients
treated during the last year $50 the females being
in excess Of the males in the proportion of two to one
The original intention of the building to devote one
wing 10 the male wards and to the female, but the
necessities arising have nerered with this design 10
that at present entire wing with two wards oil Tie
other wing is devoted to female patients. Last fal
there were a large number Of United states troops
uuder treatment-there being upward OF 500 at one time
and the hospital was consequently crowded TO It's ut
most capacity. At present however NOT more 'n""
half of the beds are occupied.
A visit TO these wards forms melancholy experience
in ones lifetime large proportion Of the male pa
tens are very Old men. some OF whom nave peeh sent
bither from the Aims OF Workhouse. ana most oil
whom will never recover. They are merely Drought
here 10 exc out the last grains OF the astruhnng SANDS
of their lives with little confer, than could else
where be accorded them. One department Is entirely
devoted 10 diseases of yenereal nature. Most ofihese
natieuts are voung men. Many Of the cases are most
lloathsome 10 look upon There men with the flesh
eaten from their ankles the very bone; others with