Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-22
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Thursday. November 22, 1SS;
New Haven Dispensary,
The Annual MeetfnG-RepOrts Submitted -Omcers EIected-The InstftutfOn in a

The Annual Meetfn&-Reports SubmASteu
 -Omcers EIected-The InstftutfOn in a
 Prosperous Condition
 The New Haven Dispensary association held it's annual meeting last evening at the office of ex-Governor James E. English in the First National bank building on Chapel street. A small number of those interested in the work of the institution were present. The various reports were submitted.
 The secretary's report wss as follows: "As will be seen by the statistics presented, the decrease in consultations, which has been asteady feature since the year of the great est attendance, 1879, has this year given place to an increase of patients treated, to the number of 400 in round figures, or ten per cent more than that of last year. This IS 8 very significant fact if that which has been steadily observed at the dispensary IS true, namely, that general prosperity of the com munity is inversely proportional to the ns- pensary attendance. I doubt if the generLA health of the community as expressed by mortality statistics has any bearing on the amount of our work. Our patients are hardly ever those who suffer from acute ipAammatory affections short in their duration, terminating either in death or in rapid recovery. The quality of our work is to treat people suffering from lingering chronic ailments not lncapacitating them wholly from their work, but rendering their forced efforts to earn livelihood for a half famished family torture which none but an attending physician is able to appre- ciate and to sympathizO with children too, who from insufficient diet and improper hy- gienic conditions, superadded often to he- reditary taint and aggravated by climatic changes, are vegetating rather than living, furnish large number of our benefciaries As will be seen by a revie v of the physician's s report the great increase in our patients is in that class suffering from diseases of the respiratory organs. The nationalities furnishing the greatest increase are the Russian and Italian races. Leav- ing aside the fact that it is just this class which are the most recent immi- grants, suffering must keenIy from their trans ported poverty, crowded in cheap, poor un- healthy tenements, the changes of climatic conditions which the eastern seaboard of America imposes on them is perhaps the greatest cause of sickness. The work done in this institution is well calculated to fit them for living in this country. The nature of the treatment requisite for this class of pa tients involves the use of an abundance of cod liver oil, malt extract and other nutrient rather than curative agents. In regard to the class of people receiving aid the report says: "A visit to the clinic at anytime will prove conclusively that the applicants are really poor and gener- ally deserving. It is not the pauper who applies, but the timid and better classes who find their income and the cost of medi- cinal aid so much at variance, and whose seIf-respect forbids them to ask pauper aid :" The report further discusses the field covered by the dispensary and comments the physi- cians for their attendance at the clinics. and thanks the press for free notices of the insti- tuition. The report was accepted.
 The apothecary's report showed that to- tai of 4,454 prescriptions had been put up during the year, divided as follows: