New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-08
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WORK or THE NETWORK COUNTY VISITING COM
MITrEE-NECEssARY REPAIRS AND ALihHA
TONS sUGGEsTED-THE FOOD, NLNIiLAiioN
AND NURSES IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
The New-York County Visiting Committee
for Bellevue and other public hospitals in Its report TO
the State Charities Aid Association on May ii, com
nained Of certain abuses I'm the several hospitals WHICH
the Commissioners OF Charities ana correction lol
yariops reasons neglect TO remedy This committee Vi
thirty ladies sub1vided into several smaller commit
tees and the members visit their respective wards fro
ouently The first meeting of the whole committee since
the report made abstract of which was printed
in THE TRIBUNE, was held october 81 After the
meeting member OF the committee conversed WIFI
reporter about the condition OF the hospitals NJ pre-
sent.
"Rerarling Bellevue" she sad, the defects from pau
plumbing grow constantly worse, increasing 'no uu
pleasant smells in the wards The rats and mice ada 10
the defective plumbing by gnawing away the ro''en
closets II is not probable that the Commissioners can
reme1v these abuses except by tearing down the old
buildings and erecting good paNlnohs uieIe' 49,, S0
Is an admirable one, but the buildings are 700 coWueu
W. ntntioned last spring that the towers connected
with one of the male wards inc Dat1- tup ni, ss o
washing dishes almost touched without larutohs OF
screens of any kind between them IL would ll0t nave
cost much to put up wooden partols .IelG, put n
visitors this morning report that thele nus ooch ho'ns
The food at Bellevue ia on the whole satisfactory
and has improved much In the last few years put sun
fbcro are 100 few vegetables and the patients would
ReSSr ss qt nd SR seTTed Which ought be-
but is rarely absolutely fresh. Al the payIlons
needed i'm the bathroom. 1t should be larger, and
then we have asked that the china be removed from
over the bath where II is OF course that would
make necessary china closet and it is not done
There were I51 cases the Emergency Hospital last
ibcre have been seventy-one cases since May j. and
that only two mothers have died In our report we
swrnt tbc windows protected .by shades inside
shutters the outside shutters and also the heating a
movements there are satisfactory At the Reception
Hospital In Ninety-nintli-st new hospital tent was
Jnly 10 and two days later Commissioner Porter wrote
that he had ordered the tent Such promptness was
mitee wish TO express their appreciation OF the con-
tesy which the Commissioners have shown them even
when not complying with the imperative needs or the
patients in some Of the hospitals.
too strongly reiterate the old plea Tor an
elevator at the Charity Hospital There seems no ex-
cuse for their being none. The CommisSoners have
made any to G ana 6 0e neg Ta OF up
and down the stairs, and are often compelled TO Walk
ASYLUM '" on BiackweI's Island, the visitors to-
day report matters to be 6 no better tier t ian
other hospitals while Is well known fact that insane
patients require the most nourshng food IN order TO
insure recovery 1t has been recommended that more
German nurses should be employed as nearlj half the
patents speak that language, while only three OF inc
ninety~six attendants aud nurses are Germans And
then more Protestant nurses should be employed. OF
the nnetysiX just mentioned only SIX are flOcstautS
present Board OF Physicians visit regularly at Charity
and Bellevue Hospitals We have suggested that me
patients at Blackwes and Wards Islands should also
be visited by this board, the medical treatment they
now receive is not sufficient owing TO the limited force
of physicians the hospitals The need of one or more
female physicians has been mentioned several times;
and there is no reason why the female patients should
not he attended in part by physicians of their own sex
"HOw about the pigs at Wards lsandf suggested the
1.-THE pgs are still there, and the ventilation of the
Homeopathic Hospital is simply dreadful. II Is impos-
sibe TO describe it, The stencil thought 10 be due
10 the great number of ulcers treated In that hospital
but the superintendent agreed with our visitors that
was due 10 the unnecessary presence OF $50 pigs which
are kept in the immediate vicinity of the hospital The
Commissioners promised faithfully that that nuisance
would Le removed but all through the hot summer they
have remained there and they were there yesterday
The hospital also lacks most OF the comforts ana con-
yeuiences 10 be found at Bellevue"