The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-11
A Singular Institution-The Great
Founding Hospital In MOSCOW.

a movement is on foot in New York for the
establishment of founding hospital on
large scale, on the plan OF that in Moscow,
Russia.
The Moscow founding hospital q the largest
in the world. It was organized by the EN-
press Elizabeth about one hundred years since,
and has now yearly fund Of s., ,0D0, 900 for its
support. There is Lombard bank, and also
q savings bank attached to it. There are ad-
mitted yearly some twelve Thousand children.
tons of similar kind, at the door OF the
building, but are taken openly, either by their
mothers, or some friends, into an entrance
room, set apart for that purpose. 'Es we stopped
o few moments in this room, we counted sixty
women, each with an infant in hes: arms, wait
ing, in single file, to make their deposit. No
question is asked by the recording clerk, ex-
by what name?" The child is then registered,
number is placed around it's neck, and figures
on it's cot, while receipt showing the same
number is handed to the bearer OF the child,
in order to enable her to VISIT or even claim
it at any future period up to The age OF ten
years. The infant is then passed into another
room and handed to its future foster parent,
she being the woman who happens, at the mo-
ment, to stand at the head of tho list amongst
d
dance. These women are generally peasants
from the country, who have, it was told us,
themselves been depositors Of th cir own chill
dren but o few hours before, or else mothers
who have left their own children in the coun-
try to be brought up by hand, attracted by the
wages and good quarters provide them IN the
institutions. 1t is not supposed that even
majority Of these children are illegitimate.
The great proportion are left there by the
nrf ron q in
The nurses have distinct apparel for each OF
the different wards in these VISIT buildings.
Some have blue, others red AMI green caps.
There were seven hundred nurses In this one
hall alone. In passing from one ward to
another we could not help remarling the clock
like regularity with which the whole establish
ment is conducted. There seems nothing
omitted which good domestic management can
suggest or medical art approve The simple
arts Of washing and dressing are brought to
perfection, and executed with great rapidity.
The infants are bathed in copper tubs, lined
with flannel, and they are dressed on down pill
lows, instead Of the hard hoops or bony legs of
modern nurses.
Never upon earth was there more aston.
ishing mixture Of baby-hesh-big and little,
pug-nosed, blue and black-eyed, fat, lean, red,
yellow and white babies. It might be suppos-
ed that they would make q great deal Of noise,
but we only heard about forty or fifty small
choruses while there. But suppose the whole
number should start at oncs! Who can
imagine the style OF music Of 60)0 baby voices,
when they give up ther mind to il? But sup
pose they spend most of their time in sleep,
ing, and seem to be much given to eating and
drinking. During the summer months several
thousands of these children are sent out in the
country to nurse. AS soon as they become old
enough they aro taught reading and writing,
and the most intelligent arc ac.ectcd rs teach
ers. The boys usually receive e military edu-
cation, and a certain portion CT them furnish
recruits for the imperial army.