New-York tribune., 1874-04-14
AID TO THE STATE CHARITIES.
SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHARI-
TIES AID ASSOCIATION.

SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHARI-
TIES AID ASSOCIATION.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ALMsHOUsEs AND PENAL ISsTI-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND OTHER CHARITIES
THE WORK OF THE ASSOCIATION.
The State Charities Aid Association. through their
President, Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler. have made
their second annual report to the State Board of
Charities, from which the following extracts are
taken:
When we last addressed you, but Ave Visiting Com
wero organized This number has been increased
to fifteen. Our visitors then numbered $50; they now
number thousand. In one county In this state
the atrocous system OF farming out the poor to the
lowest bidder through the influence Of our visitors will
be abandoned on the 1st Of April next when the con
tract expires, and county buildings will be provided
This horrible system will then longer exist In any
part Of the State In Rochester the Committee has
added the outdoor relief its prescribed duties
In the POorhouse has divided tho whole city into four
distrcts and working In concert with the Over
Of the Poor. Is distributing relief and exposing
imposture with an efficiency and thoroughness which
command our warmest admiration. Much attention is
also being given here tn the study of tho OF
perism This same investigation Of tho outdoor relief
system, working in cooperation with the Overseers OF
the Poor has also to smaller extent been n successful
operation In another county Here, too. improve
ments have been brought about In the Pooraouse
IMPROVEMENTS IN BROOKLYN INSTITUTIONS.
U
ton recently been Effected and we look now for the
same active cooperation that associated with the re-
cord of our sister city throughout the Rebellion In other
counties where almshOuses and poorhouses we're COM
paravely well managed. visitors have turned their
attention more especially TO the jas In one Instance
the Jail has been indicted as nuisance Dy the Granu
Jury In another reforms will no doubt shortly be made
with the aid OF the N. Y Prison Association And here
explanation to why these sub
Committees ON Jas should be 30 often added 10 our
Visiting Committees, when this department properly De-
lonUa IN fnp "
Committees have never been added t our request
but always at tue request OF the local visitors Tue jail
munity is interested In the prison reform movement as
well as In the reform OF the pubic charities, ana y IS
gether In all the visitors To the IAN are oDged
report directly thePrson Association. aud they re-
ceive their Instructions directly from that muchre-
spected and valued body.
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES.
In NewYork City, the officers of our two Visiting Com
mttees for Bellevue Hospital aud Randalfs Island are
received officially once month by tho City Commis-
Of Charities and present their reports In person.
Nearly year ago the Bellevue Committee reorgan-
ICED to cover the visiting OF ak ofsthe public hospitals
three in tie city, and the others BlackwoPs and
with the work Of the Bellevue Hospital visitors has been
the successfu establishment in the hospital OF the train
such by the community tna tho $4,000 asked Tor
by orglnators more than raised IN few weeks
a competent lady superintendent and lew noduluises
engage and sufficient nubber OF pupils OOtaned
women OF an educafed class-to open the school, as
charge OF five wards OF tue hospital. comfortane
home very near TO the hospital, procured for the
nurses, only necessary TO add ~ PROOF OF
excellence of tho training, that when at the emu OF
six months, froui various causes tue ouperinrhuene
found herself without headnurses three OF the nve
months probatoners were able TO take their places ana
did do so to the entire satisfaction OF the physicians
THE NEW BELLEVUE HOSPITAL
Abiding 30 the prevalence Of pyemla In Bellevue Hos
pita the report says:
II WAS not until our Committee had visited Bellevue
for some months that the poisoned condition OF the
building forced itself upon their attention.
Meanwhile, the State Charities Aid Association had
been quietly preparing for action. A letter was ad
dressed to the City Commissioners Of Charities, In Au
gust last asking permission to bring In plans Tor aef-
ing or rebuilding Hospital Its present ste asking
whether should continue TO collect lnIOfnaion ann
make study of the SUBJECT Of hospital construction TO
this end. affirmative reply was received frOni tne
Board, saying that any such plan would De careinly
considered At once every enott was Insue 40 - ,oect
the very best information upon the subject Ssrmany;
the present acknowledged leader IN regard 10 hospa
construction having pucked the aures rom our or9m
since the late war. ut once applied 10. Tne
Empress OF Germany herself became Interested
efforts. aud sent US valuable coecuon % Dooas
and pamphlets, containing plans ana prdcticaI WORK
ing details. IraDslatOns of the more important
pamphlets were made by u member OF tue ASSociauon,
when, IN November, most urgent appear III oenail
OF "A new hospital from our Visitors, VINO
could longer endure the needless sacrDCo Oh NE they
were compelled To witness, the appeal was at once
responded 10 by the appointment or q Special Com
mttee take active measures IN regard 10 the cree
tiou OF a new Bellevue Hospital" This Committor,
COMPOSED OF Hospital Committee, ana OF those Al
yi5ory Members who also members oI the u % odh
tary Commission immediately entered upon It's duties
The report OF Special COnmittee VIII be found IN
full in the appendix, and nave reason 10 hope tha
Charities and cooperation or the Bellevue
Medical Board-themselves fully alive 10 the necessities
of the may shortly the erection OF several
wards OF tine new hosplta now 50 npor
atiye