The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
HOSPITAL OF THE CHINESE. 4 MODEST INSTIT UTION ON CHT-
 NATOWN,S BORDERS.

Open to Any Sick Chinese, Rich or
 Poor, and Supported by Chinese Con-
 tributiOns AIone--Odd Remedies for
 the Sick Odd Rites for the Dying
 Found There.
 Just beyond the western borders of New York's Chinatown, half way be- tween Mott and Mulberry streets, on Park street, facing the side door of the Church of the Transfiguration, stands a little old-fashioned two story red brick building, Across the front stretches the sign, in large red Chinese charac- ters, Chung Wah Kong Sor D Sang Fong." This translated into English means "The Combined Chinese Speak ing Society's Hospital"
 It has been said that no New York Chinese need ever be the recipient of outside charity; and the poor and sick of the race need never be a load on the white people. The little hospital at 105 Park street relieves them, rich and poor alike, and it is supported entirely by contributions from Chinese speak ing people.
 The institution is comparatively new. It owes its origin to Hoi You, the Chin csc consul general in San Francisco, who visited New York five years ago. He advised the Six Co.'S to establish such a hospital. In a short time the | organization was completed under the | guiding hand of Lee Tick, the mer- i chant at 34 Pell street, and the build ing at 1O5 Park street was leased at a monthly rental of seventy dollars.
 The hospital is supported by contri- buttons from nearly all Chinese within a distance of five hundred miles of New York, and it draws it's patients from the same territory Joseph Chung Hoe, a native of Canton, was put in charge and does all the nursing and conduct all of the business of the institution. He came to the United States thirty four years ago and for many years was a nurse for physicians of Philadelphia and New York
 The hospital occupies the first and second floors of the building, the base ment being given over to Joseph Chung Hoe for living apartments and kttch- en where strange Chinese prescriptions are stewed. The two large wards patients, one on floor, are fitted up ir
 Oriental style 6
 The hunks are made of reed and pal
 metto, like the sleeping hunks in thC Chinese living quarters. The Chinese
 do not believe in the luxury of be-
 springs, and the hunks arranged 1T
 tiers on either side of the wards are a. hard as boards.
 The lower tier is reserved for the old
 CT patients, while the youthful mus climb to the upper, Twenty-Five pa. } tients can be accommodated, but tho
 highest number in the institution a one time was nine. At present there
 are five.
 The Chinaman has prejudice against calling the Chung Wah Kont
 sor E Sang Fong hospital. Call it b!
 that name and he will quickly correc
 you.
 No hospital" exclaimed Lee Tick the merchant. Tt a home, Chines man got no money, no friends, he ge
 sick, he go to home. He got cousins
 -all relatives seem to be cousin : among the Chinese-"they give mayb , twenty-fi' cents, maybe fl cents weel
 help him. No cousins, alice same, talk
 care him. But no hospital-onl!
 home"
 The chief support for the hospital Q 5 home comes from the merchants c , Chinatown proper, and these contriut an average of one dollar a mont When it is considered that there ar probably one hundred and fifty mer - chants, this money with the other con
 tributions provides substantial work ing fund,
 When Chinee man go home,' con tinued Lee Tick, The hay Chinee-lik ] he want. He want to go back China , we send him. We give him plent f things eat, an plenty money-may
 hummer dollar It more'n pay he wa
 back.'
 Most of the Chinese when they go the hospital prefer the "Chinee-like doctors, who treat them according [
 customs laid down by physicians hun dreds of years ago. The walls of tn
 wards in the hospitals are covered wit
 inscriptions which are the saying (
 these old physicians.
 7, Their manner of treatment is base e not on the idea of the curative propel T ties of their prescriptions so much a on their power of driving out the ev r spirits of sickness. The Chinama . looks upon the "Chinee-like" docto e with more respect than he does upo n the "Melicanli like" doctor. d When he calls upon his doctor for o 'yock don," or prescription, he get Il one which usually contains about for f ty ingredients. Prominent anon : them are dried snake skins, frog skin a and powdered toad, upon the powder a of which they pin great faith. e Other ingredients are herbs. Whe
 the sick Chinaman has succeeded = getting the prescription filled the who e is boiled and he drinks the resultin e decoction, which is bitter as gall. In 1T mediately after drinking the prescriI h ton the patient takes a dried plum