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Ne,c Orleans Charity Hospital.

The Charity Hospital Of Now Orleans
has always been m institution of inter-
est to visitors to that city, but now that
n terrible epidemic is upon the city, and
Il has been made so prominent as n
Mace of refuge for so many of the strick-
en-, it has q double interest. From the
New York Graphic we take the follow
ing history; ,--. =.
The Charity Hospital of New Orleans,
the fame of which is worldwide, was
founded in the year 1856 by Don An
dreras Almonaster Y. Roxas, to whose
generous endowment, the munificence
of the Legislature of Louisiana and the
Iberality of the State of Pennsylvania,
the people Of New Orleans were indebt-
ed for the means of erecting the present
building. It was built in 1882 and cost
about $4,000, including the grounds.
Several large requests have been made
to the institution, including one of the
value of $4,000 by the second Almon-
aster, Julien Poydras, brave French
Huguenot, who was president of the
first council of the territory after its
cession; another by Stephen Hender-
son, native of Scotland, of about the
same value, and donation of $4,000
was made to it by the State of Penn
sylvania in 1881. The hospital has been
supported chiefly by appropriations Of
money annually made by the State
Legislature, taxes on immigrant pas
sengers, payments for United States
troops and marines, grants from the
municipalities, payments for patients
from adjacent localities, receipts from
pay wards and other sources. The in
stitution covers two squares of ground,
and the lofty, airy and commodious
buildings on it, no fewer than fourteen
in number, are all judiciously designed
for the great purposes contemplated,
and in proper condition, are as impress
sive in appearance as excellent in adap-
tation. Its capacity enables it to &C.
commodate from seven to eight hun
dred patients. The largest number
received in any one year was in 1852,
when one thousand eight hundred pa.
tients were treated. Surgeons of ma
tional and even European reputation
have been connected with the hospital
and practiced there. Among others,
in recent years, DR.. Warren Stone, DR..
James Jones, DR.. Thomas Hunt, DR..
Andrew w. Symthe and DR.. Chopin.
Besides these eminent surgeons, the
hospital patients have had the benefit
of the daily visits and treatment of dis
tinguished members of the profession
generally, among whom the following
may be named: DIR. Joseph Jones, DR..
T. G. Richardson, DR.. s. Logan, DIR. j.
Dickson Burns, DR.. Chaille, DIR. Schup-
pert, SC.
The average expenditures of the in
stitution amount to about $4,000. In
1871 they reached 100000. Appro-
priations by the Legislature of the
State have been annually made for the
hospital since 1866, but when the war
rants were presented to the State Treas
urer his answer generally was, mo
funds" This forced the hospital au-
thorities to dispose of these warrants
and oftentimes it could be done only
at heavy and ruinous discount, and
when the incorpolators of the Louisiana
State Lottery Company proposed, in
consideration of the Legislature grant
ing them their present charter and
privileges, to pay to the State annually
for educational purposes, afterwards
changed in favor of the Charity Hos
pltal, the lawmakers of the State
thought it too favorable an offer to be
rejected. Without this support the
hospital managers would have been
forced to close its doors long since.