New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-22
CONDITION OF TIE tlrYS HospITiks
GOVERNOR HILL CENsURED FOR vEToIyG It'd
BILL TO ESTABLISH A REFoRMAToRY
FOR WOMEN-wrlAT COMMITS.
SIONFR pOpTrp S,vc
sIOYER POTTER SAYS.


FOR WOMEN-wnAT COMMITS.
sIoNER POTTER SAYS
The seventeenth annual report OF the Newvcra
County Visiting Committee for Bellevue Hospital and
other public institutions has Just been submitted IN
the State Charities Aid Association As a whole tha
report is most encouraging and contains many interest
ing features. on October 1. 1850, the total humber
Of persons, officers, employees and inmates In IN.
institutions of the Department Of Charities and Cor
rectiOn, was 14,52j, increase o. lG7 over IN,
number the corresponding date last year. After
enumerating several Improvements effected in certain
institutions. including the opening of the AsyIm Fam
at Central Islip, the completion Of new pavons at Tire
AmshOuse aud at the Children's Hospital on Randafs
Island, and The Introduction Of trained nurses in
Gouverneur Hospital. the report goes u express
the hope that some action may be taken BY the
association in pIscETing legislation in the matter Of
short term commitments to warehouses.
Investigation has shown, says the committee. that
many persons confined for short terms I'm The prisons
attached to certain police courts are self committed
and apparently rccurrcnt Of the natIr Q,
the wOrkhOuse " FOUNDERS" The veto by Governor
Hill of the bill to establish ref0rnat0ry for women for
New York and Kings Counties the report continues.
is in this connection of serious regret fr
such institution taking the younger women Nh)
now 60 to the WOrkhOusc might in time cl-c, To
supply Of disorderly WorlShouse help-rs. II "a
also TO be regretted that the law authorizing the 2p
pointrnent OF police matrons has been carried
into effect. The committee believes that. I'm order ID
effect radical Of existing evils in the WOrkOu,s
or In the other Institutions. the Department Of Caa-
ties be separated from that Of Correction. Icy
are well Of the practical difficulties IN the way
of sucn measure. but whenever the harm that results
from the union of the two Is fully recognized. way
overcome these difficulties VIII doubles, b. iluui.
The division OF the department would not indeed. "
paIacea for all evils, but would simplify the effort
10 remedy the defects that would rcmain-tO make tho
correctional
cells Bellevue Hospital, general renovation u
Ninety ninth street Reception Hospital and more
full provision everywhere for the comfort and health
" In reference To the report Of the committee. Com
missioner H. II. Porter, Of the Dcparfm cnt Of Cldt
ties, said yesterday Everybody know that - flF
as the building, are concerned and the overcPowdng,
we have made tine strongest repre-" ntatiOn that =
lion vim almost every institution ard C. partm.nt
INT we have not received il that, all. We asicd
l,t so 900 The cornmlttee want the state to take
care Of all the insane, but think can take caro-
them quite well. | am certain there are no .i-
stitution, the face Of the earth where the sa1e
class Of insane people are cared fOr better than tey
About the workhouse helpers the question Is,
much, if 1t were possible, To do away with az no
workhousc help in our institutions, but who J., 10
complaint about the large amount OF money ,pcnL
particularly for salarei They must have pFo0sbg
do the scubbing, washing, carrying and
all that. suppose all these had 10 be hired,
IL would be an enormous addition u the expense II
running this institution. They are not very AZ
tractive looking lot Of women but We do with them
the very best thing can.
The Ninety ninth street Hospital the committee
crtcises pretty severely. The lease Of that build
ing expires MAY /. and the Board has not felt
that Il would be rght to eNpend any more money on
a building which does not belong 10 H.. and the
hospital il 10 be discontinued after that time
The institutions RandalrS Island are generally
commended in the report, but the criticism i maze
that the good young girls who are IN training Tor
nurses are not in the least competent T. deal WIN
the women WHO mothers Of the babies ana
most OF whom need discipline rather than nursing.
Well all ! can say about the thing i that do not
think the Institution is absolutely perfect There are
things which could be improved. but they cannot be
improved except upon very large increase OF are
propriationS.
THE committee says that the workhouSe mixes M
young with old. We do not We try, A. far "A, we Pr,
sbly can. to separate the young women from the OH
The vonng men are sent to Harris Island. super
intendent Stocking has schOolhouS" ana takr> 4
great deal Of interest in it. and We proDose We ca
manage il with limited appropriations, 70 ger
another teacher for him.