New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-17
NOT so MANY BROKEN HEA DS
ONE RESULT OF THE ENFORCEMENT OF
THE EXCISE LAWS
THE HOSPITALS REPORT FEWER CASES or "~~''
DENTS HAPPENING TO DRUNKEN


TILE HOSPITALS REPORT FEWER CASES OF Acci-
DENTS HAPPENING TO DRUNKEN
MEN on SUNDAYS.
A nhase OF tho rigid enforcement Of the Excise
law that has been unnotced is the failing OH Oh
accidents and consequent decrease IN the hun'oe'
OF calls FOR ambulances on SUNDAYS if''",'e
reporter Yesterday investigated this SUBJECT py
visiting a number OF hospitals
Tho ars, hospital visited was that In Hudson-st'
The house surgeon said there was a MARKER IAN
Ing Off in the number Of men being Drought III
who wanted their heads sewed up on SATURDAY
nights and sundays. "On sunday last ne SAID
$50 hal only two calls for ambuances. a
thing absolutely Unprecedented. Remember we
have the larger part OF the italian quarter 10
cover and the tough quarters about "es'-S'' ar.
the streets that lead into II. As RUE the stan
OF surgeons look forward TO SUNDAY az ua' Vi
work; the last one was day OF rest. ana put II
| dovn entirely 20 the closing OF the ginmills
A, Gouverneur Hospital the house surgeon was
ina, ne enthusiastic in his praise OF the ENFORCE
mcnt OF the law. This Is the mixed ale uist'V'
he said "and rule we are kept ouss e'.''
Saturday night and right through Sunday pa'oh''s
I'D the wounds and cuts and broken arms anu
heads Of men and women who In their beery mad
ness hay. fought and fallen. Last Sunday except
| for A few men who got hurt In the manufacturing
stores around here whore work Il done on Suhu''S
not a case came in. one surgeon cou'd haNe "'"e
Ia.
holiday. | could not have mace 'ha' s'"''"'''
truthfully two months ago.
The district around the Harlem Hospital at NO.
sa3 East one hundred and-t wentieth-s Is as
,inctly a GROWER locality and for months '"e
p.ople there have had their Sunday orgies. sehcihs
a contingent OF skull-cui victims to the hospita'
and k.eping the stan busy sewing mp their soaps
mr. nuttlng the broken limbed fellows To bed'
swa,hed In splinis and bandages The sudden sop
page in the beer river seems TO nave s'oppe' '''
Cor ,h.re wer. only three OF any conse-
ou.nc. on Sunday last. and these were caused py
",ags'' that had been accumulated on SATURDAY
rt,b, This closing OF the saloons on sunday
said the superintendent. rs one OF the greatest Oh
blessings TO our city. The men buy their drink III
hotties over night take II home. enjoy 1t with their
wives drink moderately. and 20 10 bed SOBER IN
.,eoa OF nrdng themselves In a police station on
Monday morning
In at the Manhattan Hospital. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
,hirtv-nrst-s, and Amsteriam-av,.. tn" ENFORCE
ment OF the law had made little dinerenVe' o""'s
n the fac, that the Inhabitants around there are
,o, l.w-hreakers: and the same the report ai
tho Presbyterian Hospital. IN East SeNeh'ie'n-s'
A. the Mount Sinai Hospital lexlngton-aVe ana
had no ambulance service but whereas some weeks
ago "A hopelessy drunken man was orousn. ~ in'o
the hospital Sunday, there had not peeh such
A. the Roosevelt Hospital. Fifty-ninth-st and
Ninth-ave James LathroP. the superlntenus a NJ
things easy FOR the staff There was an apprecia-
HE falling OF OF calls for the ambulance on sat
urday nights and sundays. and those VINO had
fallen by the waysid. were few and far between
in comparison with the number few months ago
cb amy az seemed TO- have made Ii;te difference
Another curious feature ~ the irI, season Is
| that the managers OF the Turkish bath estabish-
and learned that there falling OF in patron
| age. There are not so many men who want -