The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-27

state Legislature this year and II the
appropriation bill becomes a law as re-
ported from the committee the Lack
awanna hospital, Oral School for Mutes
and the Home for the Friendless Will be
seriously hampered in their work dur
ing the next two years. The appropria-
tion asked for by the Lackawanna hos
pital was as follows:
Maintenance for the two fiscal
years beginning June ], 1895. s36Oo0
A new wing, ward for women...... 4O0OO
Purchase of n lot ot.., 1900
Administration building. 15OOO
Isolated ward contagious diseases)
ana Darn. ..............."........... E,o"o
Total ................. .sl1l 900
A consideration of the items asked by
the Lackawanna hospital indicates
that the needs Of that institution are
more than urgent-its appeal seems i'm
perative While only $36, 900 Is asked
for maintenance for two years over
double that sum, or $4,000, Is required,
provided the state assists in granting
the new wing. The item of $4,000 Is
based on the present work and ca
paclty There are now fifty-five beds
in the hospital and that number reveals
the actual capacity of the public hos
pltal IN the fourth city in the state.
The new wing, for which $4,000 Is
needed, and w.hlch would add fOrty-five
beds to the capacity and supply ward
for women, would also contain a few
rooms for occupancy by private, pay
ing patients.
No Administration Quarters.
At present the hospital is really de-
void of administration quarters for the
staff and nurses, the latter being
obliged to lodge and room In the old
Delaware and Hudson office building
across the street. If the institution Is
granted $4,000 for an administration
building it will contain suitable quar-
tiers for the nurses and staff.
AT present admission and treatment
are daily refused men and women suf-
ferlng from contagious diseases for the
reason that the building contains no
proper apartment for isolation. On sew
eral occasions disease Of contagious
nature developed after patients had
been admitted. The hospital officers
were then obliged 90 Isolate the case In
dingy and small room on the second
floor, where a spread OF the coni.agion
was prevented only by excellent treat
ment and administration. The item of
S12,5OO for am isolated ward seems no
less imperative than the whole Sill ,OOO
ABOUT the oral school.
The Oral School for Deaf Mutes, the
institution at North Park. which is do
ing such useful work, also had the
amount asked for very much pared
down. The appropriations requested
were as follows: Maintenance of 100
pupils for the school years 1886 and
96-'97, $4,000; for completion of boys
dormittory, $1,5O0; for completion of
girls dormitory, $4,000; for completion
of laundry, $500; for alterations Of ad-
ministration buildin,, $1,000; for fur
nishing of dormitoy es, $4,000; for i'm
provement of gror ds and erection of
fences, $4,000! to pe applied to reduc-
ton of mortgage debt. $4,000 Total,
$S1 600.
This was cut down to the following:
Maintenance of seventy-five pupils at
S24O each for school terms of 1896 and
'96-97, $4,000; for completion of boys
dormitory, $1,000; for completion of
girls dormitory, $4,000; for completion
Of laundry, $500; for alterations of ad-
ministration building, sl,5OO; for fur
nishng dormtories, $4,000. Total, $44.-
600.
Amount Wholly Inadequate.
This amount will be totally made
quate to properly conduct the school,
the maintenance of the pupils being es-
pecially serious, as 1t will be practically
impossible to maintain the children as
they should be with the amount al
lowed. The reduction of the amounts
asked for completing the building and
furnishing dormitories will not be suf-
ficient for the purpose and places the
state in the position of eXpending a
large sum of money in the erection Of
a building and then refusing to make It
habitable.
The school is constantly growing and
before the end Of the two years over
which these appropriations extend
would have exceeded in pupils the num-
ber that the state was asked to pro-
vide for. but which has been cut down
to seventy-five. 1t is therefore prob
able that many applications for ad-
mission will have to be refused during
the next two years If the present ap-
preparation bill is approved.
Home for the Friendless.
The whole of the sum asked by the
Home of the Friendess. $4,000, has
been denied by the committee. This
amount was but small part of the
$65, 900 necessary to erect the proposed
new building. Nothing was asked for
maintenance, the women identified with
the institutions management being
willing to vouch for that as we'll as the
other expenses of the Home. Should
the committees purpose be final it is
stated that the work of the Home will
be seriously crippled.
1t is the only institution of its kind In
the city.
Its need Is shown by the fact that It
is constantly occupied to its full capac-
ity. and from five to dozen children
are denied admission each week.
YOUNG LIFE ENDED.