New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-07

of Charities is doing in Brooklyn for the
victims of the disease. This department
has q great opportunity in the work, with
out doubt but there are those who THINK
that it mas failed to make the best use OF
it's chances. This has been partly due I'M
questionable to lack of money and workers.
Dr. Thomas l.. Fogarty, the local deputy
commissioner. has Joined heartily with the
| BROOKLYN tuberculosis Committee. which is
organizing the fight. The committee plans
to spend s25 600 in improving conditions
during the coming year. The other day
DR. Fogarty consented to talk about the
work of his department in the cause. He
said;
''Whastan applicant, suffering from tu-
berCuloSiS, comes to our department for
care and treatment. if found to be a legal
resident and proper county charge, an in
vestigator examines into his case and, if lie
is found worthy, he is admitted to a ward
in one OF the hospitals set aside for the
purpose As the accommodations at the
Kings County Hospital are Inadequate. we
are often obliged to transfer patients to
other hospitals, such as the Metropolitan
Hospital BlackweIl's Island, and St Vim
cents Hospital. Staten Island These
transfers are of frequent occurrence.
1T may interest you to know just how
many cases We're sent to the different insti
tutions by the Department Of Charities
last year as county charges The Kings
County Hospital has two cottages. with
ninety-three beds. and 3S4 cases were
treated there. At ST Peters Hospital
1,S32 cases were treated at the Brooklyn
Home Tor Consumptives 233
1.-The greater city sent to ST. FinCent's
952 cases and $685. to the Metropolitan
Hospital. These included many from
Brooklyn. Throughout the greater city the
department cared for 3,47S cases
"A new feature of the work in Brooklyn
was adopted on June l. when trained
nurse was appointed by Commissioner
Drummond to investigate all convalescent
cases in our hospitals for the purpose of
securing places in which they rest and
recuperate fully before returning to work
ana also TO provide temporarily for children
whose parents are in the hospitals, to Sc
cure aid for destitute families through re
lief societies TO provide instruction in
home and individual hygiene to secure
legal aid. diet and kitchen aid, and to OBJ
tain surgical appliances for those unable to
purchase them.
I'VE all know from past experience that
while a patient is often discharged from
the hospital cured OF an Illness. he remains
il q weakened condition which for a long
period may render him unfit to cope with
the conditions of life particularly where
the victim is a father and the family purse
Is exhausted.
He goes home depressed. mentally and
physically, and is obliged to resume the
struggle for existence before his normal
health and spirits have returned. Is it any
wonder that this man becomes = lit sub
ject for tuberculosis, when VIC consider the
effects Of poverty, worry, lack OF proper
nourishment and often unsapitagy sur
roundings? Neither Manhattan nor Brook
lyn has IA conValescent hospital to care for
such cases as this
II have already called the attention of
the public to this prime need. and il was
with this end in view that | secured the