The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-07-15
THE BATTLE OF BiBYHOOD.
An Appeal for Floating Hospitals
for Sick Children.
DpHTHERlA AND CHOLERA MFANTUM
Seven Hundred Children Visit Mr.. William
Butler Duncan at Staten Island.
MORE MONEY WANTED

st. Johns Guild. the we'll known volunteer Or
ganzation which fed 49, 900 of the hungry poor last
winter, nursing the sick and clothing the naked is
again to enter the field with vigorous measures
for lessening the mortality among the sick children
of the city,
will be observed from reading the letter OF DR..
Harris, of the Bureau OF Vital Statistics, to the
Sanitary Committee, that, while the average
health OF the adult portion Of the community is
better than at any time since 1858, the death rate
among children Is rapidly increasing. This in-
crease is ascribed mainly to diphtheria which DR..
Harris finds to be steadily gaining ground, for
while the reports now give double the number OF
OF last year. the doctor OF the opinion that
not more than one case in five IS reported at all.
What does the statement from DR.. Harris really
mean ? 1t means that In cellars thick with MAS
matte gases, babes are dying in their mothers
arms for want OF wholesome food and wholesome
air; that in close rooms OF tenements, where the
strongest and coarsest natures langulsh from
heat, children are stretched on handful OF rags
ON the floor, pleading, begging, as only dying
child can beg for cooling drinks, for alr-l0r lie.
IL means that, when the fashionable thousands
have sought the seaside, the mountains, the oaths
and the springs where they may search out the
most pleasant places and find the shadiest hooks,
they leave behind them skeleton In the homes OF
the poor for the poor to fight. For the poor alonef
No. To-day and tomorrow, perhaps, but not FOR
very long, will the grim figure Of contagioh
hang about the squalid pallets OF poverty 1t VIII
feed little while upon this dollhouse fruit and
then it will move to the homes of the rosy checked
children OF wealth. Keeling under the lntoXlca-
ton OF success, it will throw wide the doors TO
dlas from the bedsides OF little sufferers. Will lay
its cold, bony fingers on many heart ana prov.
ew Ike condon Of the lower wards has
rendered contagion possible. In addition to dlph-
iberia, the cholera infantum, which every summer
carries of large numbers or children, mas APP
peared, and will for the next two months require
constant care ana attention among the poor
To meet this emergency the same course pui-
sued last summer with the best results, by the vol
unteer visitors, under the direction OF the Rev:
Alvah Wiswall the Master of st. Johns Guild, viii
be adOpted. This will include the use OF barge or
noatng hospital for sick children and their mothers,
which will make frequent excursions on the river
and bay accompanied by numerous physicians.
The sail Will furnish an abundance VI pure air to
the sick, while they will be supplied with whole
water and shore, and music from the volunteer
band on the deck appropriated to them, WILL IN
The work IN the streets and alleys lined with
filthy tenements and cellars will not be neglected
in the meantime and all that patient EFFORT can
The fact that the Department OF Charities and
Correction has discharged Its physicians and visit
Ors and abandoned its work among the poor rem
ders the prompt action OF the Guild important, H.
in fact it will not be indispensable.
st. Johns Guild will depend upon the aid OF the
world of wealth ana fashion the little pinched
children OF the renements and cellars appeal lor
even the mOrsel OF ice that may drive the lever
from their brow and for the breath OF pure air that
will allay the burning fever that consumes them.
God knows that with the riches that surround US
their appeal ,shOuld not be In vain. Children, VINO
are dying while their parched lips ask longingly
driven to madness, are whispering in the breeze
over land and sea to the peaSure-SeeEers aar
Off-whispering prayer for heip.
St Johns Guild moves responsive and its vOlun-
teers stand eager for the work and waiting for the
charitable everywhere 10 strengthen their hands.
Not one dime contributed Will be expended Tor
once rent OF salaries, but every dollar VIII go d.
rect and intact to the relief OF the destitute SICK
at once, and may be sent to
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pi&ayb N Gain Co.. 70 Church u street
Chckerns sons No. II las, foqrteenth street
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sgd &. De Witt, Bro Co, No. 90 John street.
Rowland AsgRnw N N s r Sou n ,, street
HH a'ihS F sssasa van street ,es
Francis mel Il jerks, President New York DeposI
| Company, No. l4 Broadway.
Jones X Ryder No. 49, Broadway.
! A. A. Low. No. 81 Burling slip.
Lord Il Taylor No. 89 broadway.
Arthur Leary, No. Is william street.
William Lottimer Co, No: IS Leonard street
T. Otis Leroy a. Co., No 26l Water street
Andrew W Leggat Deputy Collector Of Assessments
New Court House.
Gouyerneur X. Lansing, Earle's Hotel.
Theodore Moss. Waack's Theatre.
Miller h Co., No. Union square.
William Il. Ogden, No. PA Broadway.
Park Tilford No 92l Broadway.
Marshall q Roberts No. Ut West street
Henry G. Stcbbns, Department Public Parks, cOrne
Sixteenth street and Fourth avenue.
David Solomon, German American Bank, No. Il
Broadway. . $500.
Tiffany & Co. No IL Union square.
William H. Travers, No 10 Madison avenue.
Rev. 5. +. Weston y, Nc: rast Forty -fth street
Wlley Wicks 4 Wing No. $50 Reade street
wheeler Wilson, Nos 5i3 and 60 Broa way
William Watson 4 Co.. No. H. Church street.
g. j. H. Zabriskie, Peoples Bank, Canal an
or Rev Avah Wiswall, Master of ST. Johns Guild, Ne
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