The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-17

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In eye and ear department. ......-.- $50
Number Of patients paying fun or -
Number 81 free patients 45s
Il Children treated in Daisy ward...-.. 90
OF those occupying beds there were:--oo
E~piscopalians.. $500. -. ............ lo
Roman Catholics. -.... .........-.. aS9
Total. 80
treated in 1894 and in 1895 shows the fol-
lowing
Patients. in beds.-...-.... "a SO i
Eye and ear department. .... 81 3Sl
Dispensary.,.. .............. l64 zUSS
Total 2s7s 1929
The expenditures have BEEN
G fatsrsat o eapee anesa asnt 81, s sSS q q
Insurance and other expenses. 422 g
Endowment of a bed............ 5000 90
Total. B. .s17, 500 40
Charging the outlay for current ex-
penses to those patients occupying beds,
the cost per day for each patient has
been 81 cents.
I'm the early portion Of the year the
failure OF the water supply. on the pall
TO be curtailed and the RECEIVING Of pa
TENTS to be suspended. This fact ac-
counts for the number of patients oc-
cupying beds appearing less than the
year previous, and the expense per pa
fient being larger, because during this
misfortune the greater part Of the hos
"Of the $40 patients last year 45S were
treated free, SO that more than three
quarters were charity. The charity work
the hospital SO freely gives cannot be
carried on without liberal donations and
subscriptions from those who have their
FAILING off 0f many clpbSpriDtfOnS on 4c-
count of the depressed financial times,
seriously endangered the work. We now
close .sour accounts for current expenses
for the past year. If the little children
of the Home Of the Homeless can gather
and send them to the suffering in Christ
Hospital, what should they do who, nav
ing homes, ought cheerfully to make
st. Luke's Guild was organized for
receiving subscriptions for. the charity
fund. It has received $40 the past year
nns ysaT doilsrs. It received over two
"The reports of the treasurer and
special treasurer Of the building fund
the close financial times in all things
manifest themselves. Over SIC, 200 have
endowed bed, and $3.50 balance n the
building fund, was a part Of a legacy.
This leaves our RECEIPTS through reg
less than the year. previous, and had
not the increase of revenue from the
patients been considerable there would
nave been a larger deficiency.
Leaving out the interruption of the
work by the failure of the water supply
the hospital has been taxed 60 It's utmost
to provide for those applying to be re-
ceived. 1t is now of frequent occurrence
that every bed and extra cot is Allied.
and patients s.t,; E are unable ct to gain al ! a rhamss
by persons DESTROYS of operations, cries
out to us to arise and do Something more
erection Of the south wing, therefore, be
comes an absolute necessity, and the
councS asks all its friends and a charita-
BILE public to come to its relief.
S Mary's Guild is an auxiliary of the
Finance Committee and is charged with
the special work of trying to raise an
in building the hospital and in reducing
the principal. To this end it has scattered
all over this section IA mite boxes. from
which quarterly collections are made. II
has received, through these and in other
aThe Abercrombie Guild is an auxiliary
to the council and works for the general
good of the hospital. Thanksgiving week
they took charge of making this d dona-
ton week. They sent out hungry bags
for gifts of money and provisions, and
the response from all sections. Of the city
was most gratifying. The Abercrombie
G Gofs AYE i'm IN o chars, a baes p prin msTal
tain and extend the charity work Of the
institution. They have increased the en-
d fbsir enao 9gsp sf'G IS n 1os P over y $50 6oo So T faat
has been collected through THE Daisy
a little paper issued monthly by the
guild.
sThe members of the medical board
have shown themselves most devoted to
their work. and they have brought the
q high standard. The great increase of
the number Of capital operations, over
t fhat ta m1re pr saan tae ye sKill pr IS bsin ,gnp pess
ognized and in increasing demand by
our citizens. Their urgent need is more
SIDE Of our work that is most pressing
and must be provided for In the building
Of the south wing Of the hospital as
speedily as it may be accomplished.
nThe training school for nurses now
numbers thirteen graduates VINO nave re-
ceived the diploma and the medal of Christ
hospital, and nlne pupil nurses and two
probationers. 1t cares for The sick in
the wards and private rooms of the hos
pital and in private families SO far as 1t
II has been greatly assisted by the
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Browning, which has been fitted up as g
temporary hong, wherein It Is proposed
nurses in memory Of Mrs. Elizabeth s.
the enjoyment of beds through the
council, added to those endowed Through
endowment over $4,000.
an uaf fur rosl nj oq has pfbs been { ab 5anr' ss sSe5.n q
which there is a bonded debt Of 0,000. II
this be deducted from our outlay and the
value of our -endowments added we have
q cash value at this date Of $S5,00o.'
After again referring to the necessity OF
more. funds. the report concludes:;4
He has in the past. and may Christ eft
IN the light of His co~untenance.' upon His
namesake and grant US our hearts de-
SIRE.
Rev. r. r. Sanford preached an interest.
imp sermon upon Mercy and Charity
IN which he spoke Of the great good done
BY such institutions as Christ Hospital
The Rev. pr. Warner Of Riverside
fhe work dome by Christ Hospital, after
II which a Ifberal collection was taken,
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