New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-28

Total Observation-Disclosures. o"Sfo
Last year the State Board of Charities approved
nineteen corporations. Four of the newly incor-
porated institutions are in this city. They are the
Brghtside Day Nursery and kindergarten, the
Greenwich homeopathic Dispensary OF New-hork
City the Loomis San,arium for Consumptives. ana
the George Junior Republic Association OF New
York City Six OF the institutions are in Brooklyn
They are the Medical and Surgical Dispensary OF
Williamsburg, the Immaculate Conception Nursery
of Brooklyn the Manhattan Hospital and DIS
pensary of Brooklyn. the Coney Island hospital
ST. Agnes's Home for Destitute Children IN 'he
City of Brooklyn, and the Swedish Hospital IN
Brooklyn. The remaining institutions newly IN
corporated are the homeopathic Home and Ma
ternity, of Yonkers; the homeopathic Hospital
and Dispensary Association, of Mount Vernon
~ Y; the Samaritan Hospital Of Troy; the Albany
Bows Club: the Chenargo Valley Home. at Nor
witch: the Nassau Hospital Association at Mineoia'
the Rivervew Sanitarium. at Fishki-on- HudSol'
the Old Ladies Home Of Herkmer County. az
Mohawk and the Paul Devereux Hospital AS
ISOLATION, at Deposit.
The appended paragraphs of the report OF the
State Board Of Charities vii. be read with interest:
While the State Board OF Charities is empowered
by law to approve disapproyo of the organnlz s
societies and associations, ana TO incense Hlsutu-
tons for the feeble minded. it has no direct au-
thory to dissolve such corpora tons. or TO revoke
licenses The Board believes that the best IN,
Of the State require that sucn Poweas
wav 81 closing unworthy and undesirable institu-
tons of which there are not few. 800.
IL is the rule of the Board TO require very care
full inquiry into every application Tor hcor pofatloh
or for license and TO take final action oniy upon d
the district wherein the proposea h tbra
seeks establishment The Board believes that lneIe
has been in some localities In TINS otate sIeie
growth of charitable interpretations IMAM necessity
demands, and IL grants It's approVal Only With az
sured that actual need exists and that the corpora
tion If established promises to be conouc,eu ~
wise beneicent and businesslike manner, WIN
sufficient funds in prospect Tor us sa'siac'o'!
maintenance ,.,o. o,,d 40
socatons subject to supervision shall keep care,
full and correct accounts OF their nhtnciaI anu
other operations so that trey snail IedcH9 NC az
cessibe and understood. ,, -
The system of outdoor medical and surgical re-
been made the subject of special lnves ,
and report This method OF charitable Work aloiis
the poor came TO US from EhsIand, anu iouS ~
first expression in the orgahZation Oh tIIe 80 W
York Dspensary in 1891. For thrty-seven years
or until 1885, this dispensary was me only lnsttu
lion of the kind in this state FROM 100 ~ !1oo
tbesa institutions increased in proportion to the
increase Of the population, and thelr methous ~
nrocedure do not seem to have been the subject OF
pprticisno During the last twenty-five years. how
ever these institutions have rapidly ihcieaSeu an"
Inc competition has been so great that the qutsss-
lion has been raised TO the real value OF thls
method Of administering relief. 1t appears iIOnr
this investigation that the dspensary uhuci p ofI
management is most nos Rnt to ful its
nropeT mission II should be so organized ana man
aged only the really sick poor should be ape
TO secure its benefits 1t has been found that tIle
,nonagars of dspensaries rarely institute any ade-
ana e inquiry into the means or aDilty OF Pa,ets
70 paw for the medical services OF the PHYSICIAN
~ Tor the medicines which they receive In some
instances the managers OF dlspeilsafiTs nav -,
ed of the wealth of their pa'lenIs;; haye 90 Ear
denarted from their original objects ana PURPOSES
as 10 invite or allow persons OF weaith OF
have ceased to fulfil their proper functions, ana
should be suppressed