Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-25
In NEED OF SUPPORT
Is the New York Pasteur Institute,
and Funds Must Be Found Or
ITS DOORS WILL HAVE TO CLOSE
For Want of Suitable Accommodations and
Better Location.
IT'S NOW RUN AT DIR. GIBIER'S EXPENSE
rspEc1AL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.t
NEW YORK, Feb. 24-When Police JUS
tice Preisel and DR.. Ludwig R. Sattler, of
this city, called on Dr. Paul Gibier at the
New York Pasteur Institute the other day,
to see about the admission of poor woman
whose arm had been badly bitten by a dog,
DR.. Gibier told them he would admit the
patient free of charge, but that he would
have to close the institute unless he re-
ceived material assistance. Yesterday Jus
tice Preisel went to Trenton to urge the
New Jersey Legislature to lend aid to DR..
Gibier's work, ON account of what he had
done for New Jersey and what be might do.
DR.. Gibier said to-day that he felt very
grateful for this act on the part Of the New
ark justice. SIT is true" he said, 'that
unless receive aid from some source
shall have to suspend my work as far as
hydrophobia patients are concerned. Were
it not that have patients who come to me
with other diseases 1 could not afford to
keep up the work. 1t is a continual loss to
me financially to maintain the institute
Fully half of my hydrophobia patients
come from the States of New York and
New Jersey. If those two States would as
sist the institute to the extent of 5000 or
Sc, 600 a year, not only could the work be
carried on, but the institute could be re-
moved to better quarters.
Elsewhere Supported by Public Aid.
''There is hardly any institute of the
kind in the world that is not the recipient
of State or municipal aid. There are Pas
teur institutes in Warsaw, st. Petersburg,
Odessa. Bucharest, Florence, Ha-
vans, Milan, Naples, Barcelona, Lis
do
and Buenos Ayres, and every one of them
is assisted by either the city or the State,o
both. Thev receive from about Sc, 600 an
nually, which is paid in Havana, where the
people are poor, to $50, 900 or more. The
Pasteur Institute in Paris has site of five
acres and endowments amounting to several
million francs. 1t has extensive laborato-
ries to which students from all parts of the
world, even from Japan, come to study bac-
teriology.
Cali these cities that / have named pay
the director of the institution, his assist
ants and the servants. not only have to
pay my assistants and my servants, but in
some cases have even to feed the poor
patients who come to me without bread. 1t
is hardly fair. 1 cannot afford to maintain
a charitable institution. I have never yet
asked for State aid. The aid from New
Jersey, if it comes, will come unsolicited.
improvements to Follow Assistance.
eff do get aid to the extent that 1
have named I shall at once seek new quar-
ters. A gentleman stands ready to erect a
suitable building which shall accommodate
20 hydrophobia patients and be provided
with suitable laboratories. I should prob
ably choose site somewhere west of Gen.
trail Park. The present location is not de-
sirable. 1 have even known patients come
to New York to be treated for hydrophobia
and then take steamer for Paris when
they saw the sort of building the institute |
was in. BY so doing they lost II days at
very critical time"
'How many patients can you accommo- |
date here?" was asked.
zone, when give up my own bed. I |
have 5-year-old boy here now, who comes |
from New Jersey. He has been here three |
weeks, and occupied my bed, and have |
acted as his nurse. The house in which I |
now am is leased until May, and it would
be nearly year before I could hope to get
into new quarters I should give orders to
build at once, if the proposed aid should be
granted"
Since the opening of the institute in West
Tenth street two years ago, DR.. Gibien has
treated 800 patients for hydrophobia. only |
three of these have died, one of whom came
to him too late, he says, for the remedy to
be of any avail In the last two years DR..
Gibier has received !, 400 applications for
treatment and has turned away 1,100 be-
cause there appeared to be no danger of
hydrophobia in their cases. OF the patients
he has received 60 per- cent, he says, have
not paid what it cost to treat them.