New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-02
A HOSPITAL ON A VACATION.
LITTLE PATIENTS OF THE ORTHOPEDIC
TAKEN TO SUMMIT. n. J.
rurRr THEY WILL. GET LOTS OF FRESH AIR
AND COUNTRY FOOD. AND THEIR REGC-
LAR TREATMENT WILL NOT BE
INTERRUPTED.

TREATMENT Will MI DIX
INTERRUPTED.
The New-York Orhopedlc Hospital started FOR
the country yesterday for its summer Vaca"on
There were thrty-one crippled little boys anu s"''
who crossed the Christopher-st ferry and TOOK
rain for summit ~ j., where they Will JOIN
twenty other patients who preceded them TWO
weeks ago. The hospital was practically mover "
the Fresh Air and Convalescent Home al summit
where it will remain until September D. Inc nus
ptal building at No 126 East flf'y-h'n'ns" "
Closed until that date, but the dispensary remains
omen The Orthopedlc Hospital is the only nos
pital in the city which spends vacation IN the
country Patients from number OF hospitals en-
joy a week or two in the country. but the Or'ho-
pedic Hospital moved as completely LOT August
as ii it private family.
Almost all the cases which are treated are tu-
h.rcnar and require unlimited fresh air for their
successful treatment AS the desired fresh air can
not be given patients all the year round, the nos
ptal has adopted the plan Of removing to the eouh
try. where 1t boards for a month. BY this plan
fresh air is secured. and the mechanical treatment
of the patients in no wise interrupted
Since the children knew they were TO go 10 sum
nit II has been the topic talked or by theW.
Some of the older children were there last SUM
mer and they have retailed descriptions Of all the
attendant joys for the younger patients many Vi
whom have no idea of what country Is AI'hous"
all the boys have either spinal, hip or joint DIS
they insist on trying play football Yesterday
the mysteries Of packing everything from ''eii
clothes to pet dolls and playthngs. absorbed 'he.
Although the start from the hospital was scheuuieu
for O'Clock in the afternoon every no'ien d NV '
and daughter out OF bed by cIoch' anu ~
had hats ready 10 start , .,..s %
Two large carriages carried the little patients ~
the Chrstopher-st ferry. and on the ',rs 80 Vas
Delaware, Lackawanna ana western ""'" ~
taken for Summit. , tho
Four patients. who were not able TO stand 'he
trip were taken &c the Presbyterian Hospital, -
number of those who did go were 100 wan ~
walk and were carried in the arms Of the nurses,
road station. At the Fresh Air Home the nome
surgeon. Dr. r. A. Hbbs establishes regular nos Ss
long to the Orthopedic Hospital. which engages
board and pays certain amount tGr r earm df,y
one of which are occupied by the hospital. Every
morning the little patients are seen by me
nurse takes her charges and wanders IN me Woous
close to the Home The children I'VE chieiI! Oh
milk and fruits and their diet ana ala arsss
The advantages gained by this plan are Neiy
marked said DR. Hibbs as he Vas po'n Wb miS
these children return not only VIII there oe si,
tanned and fattened little faces in evidence pu'
eases for which they being treated. This is
inevitable. owing to the tubercu!ar nature OF tiie
hip and spinal complaints and diseases OF .ne jooi.S
rnent but seldom perform operations during sne
vacation. In fact, operations are In many cases as.
DELAYED until the patients in September with
increased strength from the county ,IlP, p, MANY
In the Party tees wsy SEPARATED
including a little girl from Denver and one from
Ptsb"Ts The majority or he are rty from the poorest
While the hospital in Fifty-ninth-st. is closed It
will undergo housecleaning Inc hospii,ai MAJ
never possessed an operating room. Four thousand
dollars has just been given the hospital ana me
usual four weeks vaca ton will be prolonged untii
% sn oneratinr-room which is TO be fitted with
every up-to-dae appliance for orthopedic surgery