New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-24
ASKING AID FOR BABIES.
WOMEN TRYING TO BUILD HOSPITAL WHERE
MORE WARDS MAY BE ESTABLISHED.


The Ladies' Auxiliary Committee for Babies Wards,
No o22 East Twenucth-st. has Issued the following.
The Babies Wards OF POSTGRADUATE Hospital have
given treatment during the past year over 325 sick
babies and young children cost OF go 5G3 including
rent. They twcnty.six beds. and several
ions have full that has been to put
ten children in six cribs During the months OF June,
July August and September last 124 little ones wero
received 1903 babies, and mostly under six months
In the heat Of when infant mortality Is at is
highest these wards form the only hospital In this
city for the treatment sick babies. Again and again
Door mothers have come US. after making weary
round Of other institutions in vain, begging US to take
the sick child in their which, but for our open
and immediate care. must have died In the street
Liberal provisions made for couvalescent home',
hospitals outings the delicate, etc. which
most valuable, but will you not remember Che thou
sand, OF little ones who scken every summer, whose
only hope lies In immediate skilled medical treatment
and the besj nursng1
The Babies Ward, occupy small rented dwelling
house where is constant struggle TO furnish, in tho
simplest way the absolute necessities for proper hos
pia treatment and yet with these great disadvantages
and notwithstanding the fact that they have never refused
diving child they show a lower deoth rate than ho'
been thought possible In the best managed childrens
Institutions.
While doing their best for the sick children Of the
destitute these wards have also served os school for
ply scan, all the country who come to tho
pstuduate 70 study the diseases OF Children, so that
when pronounced hopeless has yielded to
remedy. when apparently incurable deformty
has been overcome by the advanced surgical skill!
the results carried far and WIDE and may some
day help 10 cure your child so dear 20 you.
Tho Po,,Graduate School expects 10 erect at once a
building largo enough TO meet It's growing work II we
can raise the Of 900 1; Will enable va to build
and equip in connection with the POSTGRADUATE Hos.
pita, an annex for the accommodation OF the Babies
Wards hi, and this Alone would make 10 possible for us
To furnish these little sufferers with all those april
ances which the advances IN medicine and surgery
Of present day render necessary and practicable Tho
sum- however, mus be raised at once, that plans ana
drawings may be made accordingly. Money Is being spent
most freely in his city for the OF sick ADULTS and
older children; nearly half million dollars have been
given recently TO provide additions single hospital,
while another contemplating the erection Of Dulungs
far uptown. at the cost Of over million All THIS IS
worthy but in the heart OF our great tenement
house district In midst Of misery 1; Is trying to
alleviate stands a little building, the one Institution OF
this city which summer and winner, ever keeps an
open door for suffering yea. even dying baby. re-
gtless Of race color or creed the only recommendation
requisite urgent necessity.
Twenty thousand dollars at least now needed to
enable Ms to carry on and enlarge work. Are there
not in thi, great city nobemnded and women who
will provide this small sum. not IA matter OF charly,
but simply Justice and mcrcy1 VIII not you who ieal
this help us according to your ability
The committee Is rs follows: Miss Ella f. Kus-
SELL no 1915 West Thireenthst., chairman; Mrs Will
lam d. Harbour No oG8 Madson-nve.: Mrs. Valentine
G. Hail. No II West Thirty seyenthEst: Miss Charlotte
winthrop No. % East Thlrty-third-st.. chairman
Clothing Committee Miss Geordana Bergman, no
No. fn orocc iIo1drn No iIG Fast Ec6teenth
Mrs j. Henry Lane. 40. III Fast Twenty rstst Mrs
+ Phps NS 60 e East stfPTy ss tn tnb Mss
Committee: Mrs Lawrence Miller. No. 200 westhfty-
nfth.st. chairman Committee on Visiting.
ladies. marked Building Fund for Babies Wards, -
and Will be acknowledged at once.