The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-14
NEW HAVEN DISPENSARY
REPORT OF THE WORK ACOOMx
 PLISHED E

During tho Thtrtieth Year of It's Sue.
 cessful Existonce-The Election of
 Officers.
 At the annual meeting of the board
 or managers of the New Haven Dis-
 pensary held yesterday afternoon ats
 the house of Dr. O. A. Lindsley the foi-
 lowing officers were elected to serve fcr
 tn ensuing year:
 President-Dr. c. A. Lindsley. N | Vice president-Thomas Hooker. # Secretary-Dr. John s. Ely. x s& Treasurer-Gilbert F. Kendall. Finance conmittee-Messr MET
 Adler, Thomas Hooker and pr. N. H. !.
 Bishop.
 Committee on supplies-Drs. Elvs
 Carmalt and Swain.
 Consulting physicians-Drs. Franci1' Bacon. c. A. Linsley, Oliver T. Osborne: Louis s. DeForest and Charles Js Foot6.
 Attending physicians-Drs HenfY Il. lL. l.. Swain, Arthur N. Alling, John H. Ely, Robert E. Peck. Louis B. Bieh6p and Otto G. Ramsay. 3ss
 Apothecary-Dr. Thomas H Yoilnfs sa
 In his report for the year ending O6s tober 31, 1900, the secretary says:
 With the close of another year 20f tfi dispensary's existence there is littin k{a record beyond the successful coisfifaii.4 ance and extension of it's bench iicef
 work 6 sS3z <
 Again we note an increased lsa d 1 } the dispensary by those for wtoBe b&f eft 1t is designed, the number of &c31sx sultations during the past year hftviY3T been 17,26O as against 17,175 durirlk th7 preceding twelve months. The work {iY < nearly all departments shows groWth but this is particularly noticeAbla tU X the clinic for diseases of the eye Sfij that for diseases of children. and if TT perhaps worthy of mention that III EYE % latter clinic 377 vaccinations were IF N X formed, thereby relieving the auti6f {s < ties in so far as the work of protecfIf S the school children of the city sfto}i2 W smallpox Fifty women were deliverS6 at their homes by the obst etriciaf1s Fl the dispensary and were cared for {Is3f Y x ing the puerperium. s5 N
 The dispensary was open 305 dSS \ The average daily attendance has Eli 56.7 The medicine required to fill S1 7S4 prescriptions has been freely di N pensed. With the large increase III f1 * B service of the dispensary there has bSg $ a gradual increase in the numbers of & those in attendance until now ab65ff < nh ff,io in connection with the various deparfz ments of the work. During the pa& year these gentlemen have been musk $ regular in attendance and untirine iif < their service, and it should be 3uSti appreciated that the successful krnWt6 " of the philanthropic work of the inSf i tuition is in very large measure dle <1 5 the devotion of the physiciait6 < xi1f charge. @
 It is matter for congratulation th8t @ after so many years of strugglink Sx x lstence in it's present inadequate tiliox@ ters the dispensary may look forwaffl7 7 to the time in the near future wl1edis 1t will occupy commodious and M il < equipped rooms in the Clinical bull dx g Ing recently presented to the mSdlc1l department of the university and now } in process of erection This buildlnE iS H situated at the corner of Congress- ave nue and Cedar street within eaby acH cess of all parts of the city by neAnx If street cars passing it's door. ThaS portion of the building which will b6 occupied by the dispensary has been ~ specially planned to afford every at- for it's work and in these < quarters we shall have a home inferior o that of no other similar institutions n this country. It is hoped that thu building will be ready for occupancy M ,arly in the summer. 8 < E In conclusion the secretary wo1lI make acknowledgment to thoee M turing the past year have genefoli6ly to the support of thu dlI ,ensary, and to the finance conimitt HIT S through whose energies the funds n16 Z ssary to the carrying on of the w0rl 9& lave been raised. x |8 }z