The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-20
sick and IN PRISON.
Daily Visits Among the InValidS Of
Sitting TenementS.
STARVING TO DEATH.
Why the Dispensarics Do Not Cooperate with
the Board Of Health.

~ "A
rsscn,a,ivs in his various tours during the week
among the poor OF the city In company with the
physicians appointed by tho Board OF Health TO look
alter the well-bsing of the children. nothing has
seemed strange ~ that every one living IN tho
crowded tenements was not prostratsd with disease
Even IN tho better class Of houses visited
are only fifteen or twenty families In house and
whore certain provisions for health are really made
the marvel great bat In the older and worse build
ikg where tho has all 70 be got from hydraat
ia the courtyard tho first foor whore there are
from forty TO sixty or ninety Kitchens the
house. In all cheap necessarily Inferior food
being almost constantly cooked where there Is
provision for ventilation excepting doors opening into
dirty close Railways windows opening on court
yards from SIX TO fifteen fcet In width; where gar
bage boxes stand for hours tho hail and for days
on the sidewalk; where all these disease producing
agencies are acllve-t seems Incredible that single
nmalo should 1--we through such terrible weather ~
New York mas had Tor week past. .A
.How Is IT. that children live 1t all In such bousesi
asked the writer OF Dr. James yesterday. 4ayl
.tH TIE DIspESsAEY's DIFFICULTY ,
"a cannot tell he sand, ..but think principal
why things arc better than usual this year
that the city cleaner usual. OF thsre
them clean all the time, but they cleaned fre-
quentiy. Another cause Is, think. the amounsof
teaching the poorer aud more ignorant people have
had from the visiting physicians sent out ny tho
Board. Formerly they d:d not appreciate the danger
their children from tho common ailments OF cntld.
hood. II = child had the dxrrhoea its mother wond
think Of doing anything Tor II until It mad runso
long that the child Was PROSTATE. Now the physi.
clans nd great numbers OF cases wherc the mothers
have done just what they were told to do two ysArs
ago. They will give little limo In the milk
few DROPS OF paregeyic and check tho trouble at
once" tb l4Nt
~. is said" observed the writer, sthat thoro is
some feeling which officers Of the dispeu-
sarss to roiuse 20 furnish the medicines prescribed
by tho physicians Of the Board Can you explain
thisf" - rAAt.A'N
The explanation made by DR.. James not Alto
gcher cioar aud left the Impression that did cot
exactly understand the reason himself. He SAID, how
ever that the dispcnsaries were institutions sup
ported by private contributions and receiving ala
from the city like other charitable insstotions and
that they bound to act In cooperation With
the Board Of Health. Desirous OF clearing up TINS
question: which is OF vital importance many Of the
destitute people, though It really involves only
very small amount OF expenditure, the writer called
at tho New York Dispensary mud asked DR.. stnrgis.
poor could have tho prescriptions given them by
the visiting physicians Of the Board OF Health put up
free Of charge ut cossy DR.. Sturgis explained at
once and fully.
WILLING TO HELP.
81 do not suppose, ,, he said sshat there would DO
any difficulty IN the Board OF Health making
cement with tho dispensarios 10 have such pre-
slider It necessary or advisable. But the Board has
heretofore made with different druggiss
70 tho d,aersn. districts. ana has Not PROPOSED sny
ever, NO sort OF feeling OF jealousy or rivary orany
thing OF tho KIND which stands IN hs way OF susn
arrangement, SO TAR as know. rho dispensarios,
however, work alter their own plan, and woula not
rcadiy 20 outside that plan. Our dispensing depart
Tor the use Of the dspensary PATIENTS and II
we put up prescriptions outside OF that opeu the
door that we shali be Obliged to put up prescrip
tious from clinics people afford pay.
Il is not from any Jealousy or any rsucxncs to help
tho poor that we refuse We do believe. however,
Iheir children 10 the dspousaries 10 be treated.
1t was further learned that 10 addition to tho "co-
ored docor Of Frankfort street who offered 10 up
prescriptions entoned al cost price, gratis
Of real necessity, Mcssrs. Jewstt, FrohweiD,
Svers, Wenck ana schave, proprieors Of drug stores
The Board OF Health has also supply OF medicines
It's Office, No Sol Mott street. wnIcn will DO gwen
Auch people ~ wi apply there Tor IL bringing their
further examination OF District No. g. which was
the ground described IN yesterday HERALD, showed
that by means the worst part Of that district
described On the TWO blocks IN OAK street, indeed
which furnisned tue material Tor Yesterdays article
there was IN many Of The bouses greater degree OF
cleanliness than might naturally have hesn expected
though some oi them seemed rs dirty as years oil
tematic neglect could make them.
Al No. 80 Catharino street. however, "a eight was
FOUND that almost beggars Description IL Is large
tenement house OF tho oldest anu cheapest style, md
is built on longitudinal section OF ordinary s,zed
CITY lot, about ten eet being reserved for court
yard or alley, anu ABOUT nteen Ieet being occupied
by The building. portion OF the ground III the
was evidently left open NJ nrst Tor yard; but, as
that was sterward decided TO DO useless luxury,
ricketty addition was quit 10 the tenement house.
The house mas lour or nvs entrances, opening on the
alley, and each ono Is used by IRON twelve to fifteen
lanhes living IN inc various rooms up stsirS Here
For The most part they i've III one and that OF
tho poorest. The halls are narrow aud only half
lighted In inc gay time ana tho Stars are grimy and
slippery with NTH and are broken and worn III places
TIL II ~ perious thug Tor stranger to mouus
thom here Inc men seem 10 De out oil work and the
women TO nave htie 10 90 excepting 10 bear aud care
Tor children inc sun was streaming hereby INTO tho