New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13

Of the child suffering from the transgressons or
rnfsfortunes Of those responsible for Its coming
into the world minimiZed.
The hospital wards where sick and defective chill
dren are treated would make story by them
selves as would the part OF the institution given
over to contagious diseases, which will crop out
where so many children handled Within the
scope of this article can only mention the sew
ing rooms where the Sisters make all OF the pretty
dresses and suits by the children; the sclen-
tifc kitchens. where the food is prepared IN Inn
mense quantities, and milk treated until It is abso
Iutely pure: the dormitories where the older chill
themselves in separate beds at night, and
the kindergarten. where their education is begun.
1t was a good many years ago that the hospital
took up a work for the mothers. well as the
babies and the account of the way It came about.
as told by Sister Teresa Vincent. who is in charge
Of the hospital is touching
"A beautiful girl came here one day and left a
mite OF a baby in our crib" said Sister Teresa.
THE little one taken in and had every care
and attention, while the young mother went her
weary wav few days later she returned. and
asked look at her child.
This is the last time, she said. My baby 10
IN good hands. but there seems to be nothing but
the river for me-
BIT by biz her story came out Her family had
turned her out to suffer her shame alone. Her
old friends would have nothing TO do with her
She could not get work. The girl had determined
take her own life. We took her In found work
left to lead upright honorable life
So it was that the portals of the hospital first
seemed TO open vision of salvation for the
scious babe wherein il could enter and be saved
complete the mission of its life; but under this
outgrowth the mother the institution expand
into protection and savior of herself. The
women taken into the hospital Of two classes
the destitute married mother and the unmarried
mother The percentage of the latter who
claimed is very large.
From twelve TO fourteen hundred founding. are
cared for in the outdoor department of the hos
pital by women in poor circumstances who hav.
lost their own babies. The nurses are paid SO a
month and the hospital supplies the necessary
clothes and medical attendance. The first thought
when this outdoor work instituted was only
OF the welfare OF the babies. It soon developed
that it was a great boon TO the poorer classes to
whom SO month is a very considerable addition
the family income
Most OF the mothers employed by the city In
nursing the foundlings Italians and tho care
they take of the little foundings is generally
superlative. Very seldom do the detectives en-
unexpected times find anything OF which TO COM
plain. Tie bring the babies TO the hospital
the regular monthly payday and are In
structed 10 return them Immediately in case Of
sickness.
Poor they are, the nurses become greatly at
tached to the foundlings. Nand II has been found
necessary 10 cast ironclad rule tsSt under no
circumstances Will a nurse De permitted to adopt
or keep as her own child the child given her to
nurse Sometimes II is necessary for the hosp-
tai to go to law secure the return OF the child.
The visit 10 he hospital ends in the big parlor.
where Sister Teresa gets out one two OF the