New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-23
In THE BABIES WARDS.
PATHETIC CASES AT THE POST GRADU-
ATE HOSPITAL.
BEDS SUPPORTED IN PERPETUITY BY WELL
KNOWN PEOPLE-s2O0 MAINTAINS
ONE FOR YEAR
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The annual report of the babies wards Post
Graduate Hospital, has just been issued, and con-
tains much that is of interest to the public The
work of the babies wards, it states, has increased
during the year to such degree that larger in
come is absolute necessity One thousand and
thirty-three children treated in the wards.
Some extremely pathetic instances are cited, of
which one may be quoted:
very interesting case was that of Frank M,
eighteen months old baby, whose mother was
hopeIessIV insane The child had cataracts on both
eyes and was almost totally blind A little blind
for him, never having learned to walk or help him
was pitifu indeed As he was so young very
simple operation had to be performed and repeated
6ont intTnF the baby After sight had been
restored it took him some time to learn TO use ms
efforts understand what it ali meant, and that 1t
Srisht tiU and warmth and love He grew so
happy in his newly acquired vision. and under the
would clap his hands In the delight of living.
He began to walk, at first with faltering steps;
Cliff, his health was completely restored and he
sem h i Iare sttinp TO welcome not the sad
laughing, really jolly little fellow
Providing the means TO properly for over
one thousand little patients coming to US from
homes of great poverty each year lays upon US a
great burden of responsibility" says the report
I'VE simply cannot refuse to receive these poor
we might save their lives or at least alleviate
their agonies. There Is other babies hospital
below Fffty-fourtn-st. for the needs OF the great
tenement house district. Their needs seem count
less for in addition to the most skilful medical
care and the best trained nuIsng. we must provide
free medical and surgical supplies, every tried APP
pance for the relief Of suffering, even every article
of clothing needed.
with the strictest economy consistent with good
results we shall require for the expenses Of the
ha hieS'N rdS
5000 than was expended for the last season:
Of He 500 toward the board Of such sbso1teiy
pauper children had lived In New-York at least
is scarcely more than one-ffth of the total amount
@ th a6vice of the CHARITY Organizaton
b iyen ne entertainments We must therefore
raise the sum of over $4,000 through our personal
public to remember that we appeal directly them
for this IS me nnd e5 every d02T gyen Will go
ask most earnestly y first s for the support OF
sum allows the giver the privilege of naming and
nscEng the bed and With the aid Of the fe city b
support Of those applicants who need its shelter
work best will agree in saying there are few ways
in which $500 could do as much good as in thus
teen baby patients. A crib has been supported for
years in the babies ward In memory of one who
Fifty dollars would provide for crib during the
mortality are at their highest. and there is
other babies hospital open in all its departments
Gifts Of clothing, of which thousands of articles
While toys, fresh fruit and homemade jelly are re
ceived with the greatest delight by our GONZALES
cents"
One item in the receipts is Donation from Miss
May Irwin, 500"
wards by the gift of 5000. Some of them The
St. Ursula bed, by the st. Ursula Society of st.
bed by Mrs Edward King: a Little Angels bed
by Mr. and Mrs George Gordon King, in loving
memory of their little daughter. Mary lie Roy
King; in memory OF Marie Louise Reed. by Mrs,
J. Van Dusen Reed the Little Morris bed, by Mr..
and Mrs William E. Dodge; In memory of Char
lotte Winthrop Cram; by Henry S Cram; in mem
muty; the T. r. L. s. T. Society, by Mrs. John
Hall: in memory OF Frttzie de Barry. by, Mrs;
Burden by Mrs James A. Burden, Jr.: in memory
of Mrs. N. B. Mcneil who loved little children
memory of Nathaniel Church scoville. jr. 1889 by
Miss Grace Scoville; in memory of Jefferson Hogan,
jr, by Mr.. and Mrs gefferson Hogan; in loving
Among the beds supported in the babies wards
fum Little it'll Anna Mrs William Douglas sloane
Mrs L. Bolton Bangs, The LEONARD Bed; Mr.
and Mrs Stanley Mortimer the sunbeam League,
Gertrude and Helen Thomas: Mrs sa Gustaye 6eye:
Miss Ellen King The Mary C9 2 ihlng Beo
S MIs' John Jacob Aston Mrs. w. S. Pyle. The
Iamie Bed; Mrs Charles B. Alexander, Mrs Louis
B. Mccagg Mrs Laurence nshs scbefen Wsm gne5
Barbour, Mrs. Allan Robinson. The K E SAINT MT
and Dearest Mrs IuckeInan The Mrs
8 gladse Mrs George Lewis. jr; Little May Bed;
1SsY Arthur and Bessie Moulton Mrs. Archbaid
Mackay Mr. and Mrs Fredec Gfg snd h M
Nelson in memory or iheou"i" @APf'-' ~ NAi'
and Mrs. e p Dlcke
HONEY FOR 4 PLAYGROUND.
progressive euchre given yesterday after