New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
HOSPITAL. FOR CRlPPLES.
ATTRACTIVE BUILDING AT TARRYTOWN,
WHERE DEFORMED CHILDREN ARE
CARED FOR BY THE STATE.

Numerous applications have already been
ceived for treatment at the New-York State Hos
pital .or the Care of Crippled and Deformed Chill
dren. recently opened in Tarrytown, and ten Toys
and girls there. The number of beds is
limited to twenty-five. These could easily have
been filled from this city alone. but in view of 'he
demands Of the State large only children whose
conditions make hospital absolutely
sary will be admitted. One of the difficulties
nected with the State applicants lies in the fact
that no funds are available to their travelling
expenses An effort to remove this obstacle is on
foot in the present legislature.
The hospital was opened December last It's
establishment is due to the efforts of DR.. Newton
NJ. Shaffer, who has been connected with the
Orthopedic Dispensary and Hospital, of this city,
for more than twenty five years. Rea izing as
few have opportunity, the crying need Of such an
institution not only for the city but the State DR.
Shaffer went to work In 1899 ard succeeded in en-
listing the sympathy of Governor Roosevelt Gov
ernor Odell Bishop Potter, }. Adriancc Bush and
others in the project He received further encour-
ase!nent from tine example of DR.. \. ]. Gillette. one
of his former pupils. who had instituted a move
ment resulting in the State of INDECENT
crippled children in Minnesota In February 1900
a bill was introduced in the New York State Legs
lature incorporating this hospital and it was duly
passed and signed By Governor Roosevelt on April
II, 1900 the sum of $4,000 being appropriated the
first year. Governor Roosevelt appointed as man.
ayers Bishop Potter ]. Hampden Robb. j. Adriance
Bush. George Blagden. jr.. and DR. Newton NJ
Shaner Bishop Potter made president of the
board, Mr.. Blagden secretary, and Dr. Shaffsr
surgeon in chief and chairman of the executive
committee. An ordinary and somewhat dilapidated
house the banks Of the Hudson about a mile
and half south of the New-York Central station
at Tarrytown. was selected. The sum appropriated
by the State being too small the struct-
ure into a suitable hospital building with furni-
ture and necessary income for the year a fund of
$500 was secured by private subscription and was
expended in renovating altering and repairing the
house the first State money being in furnish
ngs The medical officers of the hospital all serve
without pay. Although the act of incorporation
specifies that the surgeon-n-chief shall receive
salary Dr. Shaffer refuses to accept compensa tion
Application for admission should be made to Dr.
Newton M Shaher, surgeon-in-c chief No IS East
Thirty-eighth-st, New-York City who will appoint
time and place for the examination of the patient
Patients living at remote points Of the State are
referred 10 the following men, who are out of town
members of the consulting staff: DR.. A. Wander
Neer and DR.. s. B. Ward of Albany n Y: DR.
Louis A. Weigel, Rochester. n e; DR. Roswell
Park and DIR. Charles G. Stockton of Buffalo \
y. and DR.. Richard B. Coutant Tarrvtown \ V
In recent census by the State Board of Charities
OF the children physically defective and deformed in
the institutions making monthly returns to the board
there were found TO be three hundred crippled
children eligible to suitable special hospital
| for whom absolutely nothing being done from
a medical or surgical standpoint This does not IN
Clude the almshOuses and other town and county
institutions not reporting to the State board. In
New-York City alone conservative estimate places
the number of crippled children at from 1900 to