New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-25

Tie increase I'm the number Of patient. treated in the
unac Asylum has been quite steady for several years
past. six years the highest number at any one
time lid not exceed The Increase IL said 10 he due
in great measure TO intemperance the part OF men,
and domestic Affections, on the part OF women The
number Of cures Is happily also increasing result due
20 series Of cations by Dr. Parsons the Resident
Physician and Dr. Kellogg. his chief assistant. or the
whole number of patients treated In year. about forty
,er cent are now cured. Postmortem examinations Of
LESSONS in different types of insanity have afforded Naa-
bile inforrnat'on One hundred and seventy Inmates.
afflicted with acute insanity, are confined IA The mad
In the Work.House are many inmates who haze vol
unfairly gone there ~ recover health
or those in the Aims House, 0ne-haf are women m
Guiding the oldest inmate whose age is 100 The whole
number maintained this year VIII be ahout $500 ADOut
10 per cent It Is said Of those maintained from year TO
year really unworthy OF charity OI abont &"S per
sons admitted last year over 1000 were natives OF ire
Land while only 300 were Germans.
Ont of coo In the Penitentary, 80 women and many
are minors. committed, it i, said, by magistrates who
want To their early release for political capital
Somr of the those guard In boats
about the i-andcOmplain that they are poorly pald
and oyerwOrkrd, man being compelled to do dlty
fonrte.n hours daily only about $50 month. Their
position dangerous. too six armed ruians having re
boats 6v holding loaded revolver at the officers head
Their fare is also said 10 be frequently bdd ana III
or the 80 inmates In the charity hospitals 50 fever
and five are smallpox patients -, ,.-.,,..,.,
The total net expenses annually or all the iStttohS
ON Blackweu- Island amount TO about SlJN", divided
fol OwS: .... o,. .co.o,
luuarr As} lu1n = ItofNt itnN'' -, '''' 7,N.'
Wolhoua: 49,. 1900 Charity Hospital. lot"o
Tn uly 1859 the inmates in the institution Wards
Island under the jurisdiction of the commissioners Of
EmicTaton numbered l7C July 1850, 1872: Nov. 20,
lsCg i2sj Nov. 90 1870 about 1881 Notwithstanding
the falling off, the number of emgintS arriving ~ this
Tort has about 10000 during the summer and Fan,
ibe average Increase at the Wards Island institution
being about 800. The cmGrants who have arrived since
the commencement Of the war In Europe seem Ia be-
neither socially hysically equal to those who
rived before. The number in hospital now is about
1900. Among tine inmates are about coo women aud as
many children.
In me Inchrate Asylum there are IS paying patients,
u being women besides % aud IS women received
free OF the women who pay four were put there ~
their husbands. ,,,.,
There are NewYork Volunteers in The Soldiers
Retreat including several now absent furlolgh 10 ~
their friends ia the city and Ia he visited IN re'uin anu
kindly cared for in every particular: IL, ,o,e,a
The ages Of inmates Of the Infants ho-Ptai, itt
from day Ia nearly three years. In lN' I,i @ -
mitted aud Iga died In July 1869, 81 per cent ou, u%
last July the mortality was onS ~ ..rD' me- I'm
hi. decrease was due To llhPHoN t..,,,h,
caring for the children. IL - ou -,
however, that the empioymeht o. w Sis,,.borsc
United for crimes to do household wVrA, ai ~, ,s
other mnrt.nt tles is not advisable even Ior icsonS
AT economy Gases have recently ".V 49,,
women In the city have ahahuyhssfn MI All t,s5
allowed them Ia 10 the ihlhh'' 1872" ~ a,s.i,.-
mnnared to he committed 10 the same pace 'ne'eo'
IN. -. ~ me inmates OF the Nursery Hospital tfnto
-, - on vc,rs In the adjoining Idiot A-lluu are l'o
nnat. IN the Nursery there are about $50 boys ana
10Y sls M r,ote. ~ the House oi Refuge are - g1rS
IT., hnt :, ngfs RANGE from 10 20 Eears ana the sfs
80, 4, Ia ~ The following ntW pom Will go ln'' 'H'''
=, 49, -utl..i,u ,h1ITuDU H De- -yt rlift To accom-
So.t, NOT 10 oAceod % boys, VITA iuc requisite ia