The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-12-05
THE WHEELING HOSPITAL AMI
ORPHAN ASYLUM.
who Founded II, what IL Has Done
and what 1t II Doing.

ORPHAN ASYLUM
who Foundcd II, what IL Has Done
and what 1t IL Doing.
At the corner of Main and Second
streets, in North Wheeling, Is ,arse,
handsome building, surrounded py a.. q
nretty little park, and bearing on 1t u
lace the words, "Wheeling Hospital.
In this building many person stricken
with disease, or injured by accident,
has been cured by the gentle, Pasien'
Sisters of st. Joseph ana sne
efficient physicians in attenoanGe'
The hospital was chartered Msrcn ~
1870 and was soon afterwsrd put IN OPP
Grafton, DR.. S. Z. Hullihen had estao-
lished private infrmary in l845, when
was controlled by him in connection
with DR.. NJ. II. Houston. DR.. HUI men
was the sole and prime mover IN e'sso'
fishing the Hospital, as the intirmsry DE-
came too circumscrlbed, and having Sc
cured the cooperation OF Bishop ne
Ian and the Sisters OF st. Joseph, oulld'
mo was secured on Centre street, and the
work began. In 1856 an Orphsns' Asy.
lum was added 10 the Hospital, and MOI
LONG afterward the present building was
erected. United States marine patients ere
attended to here in accordance Win
contract made with the Surgeon denersl
Us. A., and the terms vary from $40,
to $40 a week, according to the accom-
modstions and services required by ordi.
nary patients, medical attendance ano
medicines being separate charges. Inc
hospital has been wonderfully successiu
and has usually been well filed until Jus'
at present, there being but fourteen
patients in the wards. AS there Is nc
endowment, the institution depends upon
its patients for its support. Fourteen OF
the most prominent physicians OF the
civ had patients here in 1876, and cases
often came from other localities, IS this
is the only hospital in the State.
Last wear, OF II medical cases 4S were
cured entirely,7 were discharged I'M
proving rapidly, were removed by
friends and 10 died, four of them with
consumption. Of IL surgical cases IA
were cured, the other one being an
INQUEST over man who died from IN
temperance. This is high compliment
to the nursing of the sisters. Twenty per-
sons not under treatment were staying
in the hospital, together with ten charity
patients mostly nf!m from age. Or.
Frissell is physician in ordinary.
A REGIsTEE reporter called yesterday
upon Sister Basil, who has charge OF the
hospital, and was shown by her through
the building. On the first floor of the
hospital are number OF rooms
for private patients. There are ais
some on the second and third
stories. They are large. handsomely
furnished, we'll ventilated and are las is
everything in the hospital) wonderfully
neat AMI c.ean. A few OF the rooms are
occupied by persons who caR pay tor
them, and who are OF under treatment,
but merely live here. A well stocked
dispenssry is on the ground floor, and
here sll prescriptions necessary are put
up. At the extreme south end OF the
lower story is q large room fitted up
with beds and other necessities TOT pa.
tients. This is called the "frst ward
and is devoted to old men and male
charity patients. AT present there are
only three cases IN it-one of parsl-
ssis. 1t contains seven beds. On the
next story is the second ward" but
at present it is closed for lack OF cases.
1t has the same number of beds as the
first one, and is for pretty much the same
class of patients. The upper or third
ward is given to old women and female
patients, and now contains four or hVe
Several old women without homes are
kept in small, neat rooms near this ward
Commodious bath rooms and earth closets
are connecte d with each department
In the centre of the building, between
the hospital and asylum, is lovely little
chapel where the household services are
held. There are fourteen patients of va
rious kinds now here, and nine Sisters are
in charge OF them. -Four marines
were sent away cured from the
lower ward last week. The upper sto
ries of the Orphan Asylum are occupied
chiefly with the bed rooms OF the chill
dren. They are pretty sight, these
rooms with their rows of small, neat
beds, all in the most perfect order. There
are at present fitty-lour boys and girls
in the Asylum, and Sister Basil, aided by
another Sister and two or three Of the
largest girls, has charge of their educa'
ton. They are taught all the ordinary
branches of English studies. This de.
psrtment is very crowded. There are
20 bQ
neighborhood, who are not connected
with the establishment.
Boys of over twelve years are sent to
other schools, as they are generally diff
cult to govern. As the reporter passed
through the class rooms he was struck
with the order and attention given by
the pupils to the teachers and by the
cheerful, happy faces on every side, COW
cred with smiles of shyness at the sight
of q stranger. In the basement are the
cooking apartments, everything used in
the house being prepared here. The din.
ing rooms of the old folks who are able
to come down and OF the children are
also here. The sisters are deserving Of
great credit for the perfect order and
cleanliness that pervsdes everything and
for the we'll being of their pupils.
The expenses OF the asylum are
very great, but are covered by charita-
BILE persons who have the orphans inter-
ests at heart. Some of the children have
one living parent who pays little for
their support, and some few are paid for
the charge being only So q
month. Many are totally dependent
upon the Sisters for their living, and of
course the cost is very great where such
a number have to be provided for. Chil-
dren of other religious denominations
can be sent here upon payment of the
ordinary charge. The Sisters are very
Woodworking and energetic, and are de-
termined that the asylum shall be rs
successful in 1.-The future as it has been
in the past.
New COunterfeits.
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