The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-26
INTERESTING
Operation
Performed on Little Boy by
DR.. lorenz.
CRIPPLESWANT TREATMENT
Hundreds Flock to Him to Get
Relief.

New York, Dec. 21.-This morning DR..
Adolf Lorenz and his assistant, DR.. Mil
Ter, left for Boston on the 10 o'clock
train DIR. Lorenz will return on wednes-
day evening. On Christmas he win be
the guest of DR.. w. r. Townsend. On
Friday the Austro-Hungarian physicians
club. On Saturday ]. Adriance Bush
gives a dinner for him at the Union
League club with theater party after
ward. He sails for Liverpool on the Gel
tic on Wednesday of next week.
Yesterday DR.. Lorenz visited the state
hospital for the care of crippled and de-
formed children, at Tarrytown. There
ne performed, upon a 5-year-old boy, his
''bloodless" operation for congcnitai dIslo-
cs-,lon o. the hip. The case had been
brought 10 his attention by letter the
boys mother had written 10 J. Ogden
Armour of Chicago. The operation was
performed in the presence OF number OF
physicians and friends of the hospital,
who came at the invitation Of the sur
geon-in-chief, DR. Newton NJ. Shaffer.
After the operation the party inspected
the hospital, and then drove to Sunny
side, the home of Washington Irving.
From there they drove 10 the Ardsley
club for luncheon, and then came back
to New York on the 2:57 train.
The visit of DR.. Lorenz has drawn at
tention TO the excellent work that the
state hospital is doing with the most
inadequate facilities. Before leaving DR..
Lorenz dictated the following letter:
My Dear Professor Shafer: 1t has
pleased me much to visit the state hos
pital for crippled children at Tarrytown.
The little crippled children you have
gathered there are most interesting. The
location of the hospital is fine. and the
work you are doing must commend a.
self. The pity is that it is so small 1
myself have seen that many crippled
children exist in your country who need
great care. which they cannot now re-
ceive, and for the state TO care for them
is most praiseworthy. L hope to know.
after | return home, that your hospital
has been made much bigger, and l hope
you may have a great success. ] shall
tell my own government of your hospi-
tai, and L hope we may have one like
it in Austria
The institution was opened to the re-
cepuon of patients in December, 1890.
In the spring of that year the state legis-
lature appropriated $1,000 for equippinS
the hospital, and for the first years main
tenance. A private dwelling at Tarry-
town was leased and converted into a
hospital. For this purpose over 5000
was expended from private funds raised
by friends of the institution. In the
ten months ending October /, 1901, TWEEN
ty-four patients were cured
DR.. Skaters annual report for the year
ending October l, 1902, is now in press.
In the course of it he says:
''Thirty-five patients have been treated
during the past year, and ten have been
discharged. This makes a percentage OF
so discharged patients for the year.
There were eighty-one formal. written
applications for admission, and seventy
five verbal applications. nearly all OF
which were eligible, but no vacancies eX-
listed. ] OF the thirty-five treated.
seventeen were received from New York
counties outside OF New York. IT was
rot until last June that the operating
room was equipped for work. Alto
gother seven operations were performed.
and all successfully. Considering the fla
cilities at our disposal. and the brief
length of time since our actual organiza-
ton for operative work, | feel that the
results are most satisfact OF the ten
discharged five were cured: four were
discharged very much Improved. and in
no further need of hospital care, and
one was discharged as ineligible
he most interesting passage for the
general reader in DR.. Skaters report
is that in which he tells Of Or. Lorenz'
visit to America. He says:
The one great burden which has fallen
upon your executive officer has been the
frequent necessity of declining poor
suffering child who sadly needs care.
The need Of more beds was very appar-
ent to those in immediate charge q
your work IT the end of the fiscal year.
when. as already stated. some 80 appli-
cations were pending. with the hospital
crowded TO its utmost capacity. Since
that Inc the advent Of Or. Lorenz has
aroused much interest in the subject of
the care and treatment Of crippled and
deformed children both on the part of
the public at large. and especially 80
among the parents of the poor. This has
beer especially noticeable az the ortho-
paedic department OF the Cornell uaiver-
sity medical college In anticipation OF
Dr. LoreEz' visit 10 the college a sim
pie announcement was made in the news
papers that on certain days an exam
ination OF poor. deformed children would
be held at the Cornell clinic. The result
was astonishing. On the first stated
day over 20 applied and FOR over
month there has been "A steady strean
OF applicants. until over 2.eo have been
examined. classified ad entered for treat
meni All varieties OF cefo-med condi-
tons presented. among them some rare
sar-di;'cns. II these crippled chiidrea
were merely drawn from other clinics.
attracted by the renowu OF the great W
enese surgeon. there would have been
perhaps less susrprise. Bu; nearly al
We're patients who had previously received