Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-03-12
Help For Thousands
 of Crippled Children
How New York is Battling With a Great Prob lem. It is Known That There Are Three Thousand Misshapen Little Sufferers in the Tenement Districts.

ing braces and supports. foot and chin plates, and the famous aluminium corsets devised by Dr. Anson M Phelps. who at the time of his death iI 1905 was accounted the greatest CrthOpedist in America. The ortho- pedic ward of the Post Graduate has been in existence twenty years. With one exception. it is the only separate ward of it's kind in general hospital beds are always occupied.
 Fresh air and country life do their part in helping the msshapen ehil= dren of the tenements. The work done at the Post Graduate hospital is sup plemented by that carried on at the Daisy Fields Home. in En2leWooa, New Jersey, and at q place i'll South ampton, on the shore of Long Island. These homes, which accommodate  ed, and besides, With their attfaetiT" interiors and wide vefandas and lafge grounds. they are sa p1aasant hIr Ja5 vel> sight of them would dc child 2uul
 When th, little eon4Mescon Faeh- e. Daisy Fields CT Southampton =he=is continued on his ne0fishin2 hospital diet and ii tuboTcul5usly affected, continues to make specially of egzss milk and diecstible fats. Iie receives the education proper 10 hi, grade of n.ental attainment and for the rest he plays in the open air all day anA sleeps at night in a room with open windows The change that is GuieI51e wrought in his appearance is m.rveI- GUS. By the end of two weeks he has lost the wan, anxious look of the in- valid and shows the proper red i'll his cheeks. He forgets his deformity, for as it decreases there is nothing left fer him to brood upon; and he learns to become joyous, according to 1 his birthright.
 The Daisy Fields home is open all the year round. The other childrens branch of the Post Graduate, the Southampton Fresh Air Home for Cripples. is open only from May unti, November. It's work is supplemented by visits to the patients ln thelr homes by the matron in charge during the summer. This young woman IS well instructed in nursing, and she goes from home to home, through the most distressful sections of the city, carrying practical comfort for the tlnv pent-up sufferers. She arranges to have the wagonette from the cripples' school call for her little pa tients if they are able to attend. She sees to it that they receive each two quarts of milk and two eggs every day. that they sleep alone in the best room of the house, and with the win dows open. The patients and the families of the patients are accustom- ed to the open window. Roofs, ire escapes, streets and parks are utilized to their fullest capacity in this de n;and for fresh air. The Southampton management provides cots for the roofs, reclining chairs for the fire escapes, and baby carriages or wheel chairs for the parks and streets.
 Sometimes it is evident that home is not the best place for the little sufferer, and forthwith steps are talk en to remove them. One day recently the matron found a crippled boy ly- ing in baby carriage in a room al most hot enough to bake bread in child was an old woman who seemed to have no idea either of the serious ness of the patients case or of the ways in which his distress could be alleviated.
 In another place the matron found child afflicted with hip disease cooped up in a room as unc,ean ant uninviting as a pig-sty. The f1ool was so rotten that it had begun tc cave in and the walls were molder ing with damp.
 Of course, in these instances th' only humane thing to do was to hav' the suffering children removed. A home they were simply wasting thei feeble strength and poisoned air an, unsuitable treatment were slowl
 bringing on the inevitable end. IT
 little ones who have endured thes double hardships, the delight of rest ing in cheerful rooms, of basking il
 the sun on pleasant days, and of hay ing with them to ease their achin