St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
A Place of Refuge for the
Poor and Suffering OF
st. Paul.
All Classes of Humanity Ten
derby Cared For by the
Managers.
The Sad Case Of the Two Lit
tie Blind Girls Sent
There.
The Child's Cot Maintained
by the Children of st.
Paul's Church.

poor and suffering people OF OF. aul'
as we'll as to many strangers who nave
found themselves alone, without friends
and broken down in health. The
hospital is not what might be called
charitable institution, but within the
last three years much of the work done
has been charity work. Eight hundred
and fourteen patients have been cared
for, and of these one-third have been
charity patients. The hospital has no en-
doWment, hence the necessity OF requlr-
ing payment for the services rendered,
whenever it is possible; but many OF
the poorest people have received help
from this institution, and in the care OF
the sick. no distinction is made in the
treatment of pay patients and charity
patients. The hospital was organized
by the Episcopal church OF st. Paul, but
it is not, in any respect Sectaflah HI
stitution. Patients of all denomi-
nations and nationalities are wei
coined and tenderly cared for:
ProteStants, Catholics, Jews and
iEfidels have been taken into the hospl-
Nal. The institution has done GOOD
work for the Indians on the different
reservations of the state. Bishop ID. Is.
Whipple. who is an active worker among
the Indians, is one of the strongest sup
porters of the hospital, and many sick
red man has been sent by him to st.
Luke's. At present there are two In.
dians in the building, one the wife OF All
Indian clergyman, and the other a mis-
Sionary, now convalescent. Clergymen
of all denominations and their families,
if able to pay at all, are taken into the
hospital at half price.
Two Of the saddeSt cases now IN the
hospital are two girls totally blind:
One, Welsh girl, eighteen years OF
age. arrived here from Wales about
three months ago. For some time be-
fore. a disease of the blood had been af-
fecting her eyes until she was unable to
bear the light, and she has kept them
closed for months. She was employed
in Wales as a kitchen girl until her
sight failed, when she was dismissed
from her place. Some friends
in st. Paul sent her tickets to
America, and after her arrival here
she was placed in the hospital where
she is receiving the best of treatment.
The physician in attendance thinks
that with proper care the girls sight
may be entirely recovered. Sadder
still is the case of little girl only ten
wears old. The child has already had
one eye removed, and with the other is
able only to distinguish dark from light.
She is also very deaf. and her object
in being at the hospital is to re-
ceive treatment for her ears. By
sitting very near to her and talk
ing in the most slow and distinct
manner, she is able to hear and carry on
conversation. All day long the little
one sits or walks about in the ward
talking to the other patients or to her
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seems to give the child much amuSe-
ment. She has been known to enter
i tain herself in this way for hours, but it
gives her more happiness when she can
find some one who will talk and listen
to her. The little girl was asked how
she spent the day, and answered: "Oh, L
think about lots of things used to do, and
l remember my mother, who is dead
now. l think about the times when l
lived on farm and hunted eggs and
played in the woods The child is I'M
usually cheerful, and has very sweet
expression, Her face is round and fat,
and would certainly be called pretty.
She has been blind four years, and in
touch to remarkable degree. 1t makes
the little one happy to have some one
beside her where she can feel the visit
Or's hands and face, and make remarks
on the personal appearance as presented
to her touch. The two blind girls have
recently been given music boz, which
adds much to their happiness.
A few months ago young man of
twenty, the son of Canadian clergy
man, arrived in the city with no friends,
no money. and sick in mind and body.
He heard of st. Luke's, and making an
application for admittance was re-
N W. safn H
by fever. He was provided with the
best medical aid and excellent nursing,
but without avail, and in short time
he died. The necessary money was
raised by the association, and the young
man was buried in st. Luke's burial
ground. The parents of the boy have
since tried i'll every way to express
THEIR GRATITUDE
to the hospital managers for the kind
ness shown their son, and the matron
has received many touching letters from
the boys mother. On Easter, 1883, a
child's cot was given to the hospital in
memory of four children who had been
members of the infant class of st. Paul's
church. The children were Maurice
Auerbach, who died in December, 1878;
Alice Gilchrist, died in February, 1882;
Willie Jones, died in June, 1882, and
Elizabeth Rose Sargent, who died in
October of the same year. Since
1888 the cot has been supported
by st. Paul'S infant class. All the ex-
penses of the child occupying the cot
are paid by the members of the class.
The cot is now unoccupied, but the chill
dren are still collecting funds which
will be expended whenever homeless
little waif goes to the hospital. The
class has long had desire to endow the
cot, but as an endowment means $4,000,
the task seems great one to the little
ones. 1t is hoped by the board that this
child'S cot is only the forerunner of
child's ward, to be established in the
new hospital building, now in process
of erection Oh Oak street. AS yet the
hospital has not many child patients.
No contagious diseases are allowed in
the building, and these diseases are
generally the ones that attack small
children.
The building on Eighth street is ca
pable of accommodating about twenty
five patients, but at present there are
only eighth the wards. This decrease
in numbers is doubtless due to the mod
crate winter, which has been blessing
to the poor of the city. During the fall
there were over thirty cases of typhoid
fever, but there is now only one fever
patient in the hospital.
The hospital is greatly indebted for
its success during the past year to the
work of its excellent matron. Mrs. M.
A. Bradbury. She is kind, patient and
impartial i'll her miniStratiOnS to the
suffering, and just the person for hos
pital matron. Under Mrs. Bradbury's
supervision the institution is a home in
every respect as we'll as a hospital. 1t
is her particular desire that those I'M
able tO nav fOf, treatment shall NOT ha
made to feel any difference be-
tween themselves and the more
fortunate ones. The inmates do not
Themselves knnru uho ore my natiantr