New-York tribune., 1912-04-20
CARING FOR SURVIVORS
St. Vincent's Hospital Alone Has
One Hundred Sufferers.
MRS. A. BELMONT, VISITOR
The Financier's Wife Providing
Clothes and Money for Those
Left Destitute.

The hospitals OF this city are caring for
more than l25 survivors OF the White star
liner Titanic. more than one hundred OF
these being at ST. Vincents Hospital. While
others are distributed throughout the city
Hundreds Of persons called az the different
institutions asking for relatives seeking
for friends from whom they had not heard,
and listening to accounts OF the sea trag-
edy from those who had been on the IL
tanic when she struck the iceberg.
The house surgeon at st. Nincent's said
that nearly one hundred patients are being
cared for there only three OF whom are
not In favorable condition. Thirtyhve OF
these patients are men, three OF whom
were OF the Titapic's crew. Their names
are John Thompson. stoker, with a fract-
ured right arm; William Mcintyre. coal
trimmer. both feet frostbitten. and Thomas
Whitley, waiter, burns and fractured right
leg.
I. Al Bellevue Hospital there were seven
survivors, three Syrian women and four
children. They were removed to the hos
, pital early yesterday morning. Two Of the
children are suffering from measles. and
were later taken 10 the Willard Parker
Hospital for treatment. The women are
all suffering from shock and exposure.
There are twelve women survivors at the
Junior League Home. 18th street and East
River but none Of them was in a serious
condition. II was said 81. Luke's Hospital
shelters eight survivors, four women and
four children. All are suffering from ex-
posure. Two OF the women lost their hus-
bands In the disaster.
In the Clara De Hirsch Home for Immi-
grant Girls. No. 233 East 18th street, six
survivors are being treated. One OF them,
Mrs. Agnes Davis. a widow, was coming
from her home in Cornwall, England to
join her son In Michigan. When the Ii
tanic went down Mrs. Davis was forced TO
leave one son. twenty years old. behind
on the upper deck. while she took a
younger son, only eight years old, in the
lifeboat with her.
The Sydenham Hospital, in East 10th
street, had two women patients, who were
taken there last night from the Carpathis.
but left yesterday morning after being
treated by the surgeons They were Mrs.
Jawan, Of No. 227 West 145th street. and
Mrs. Aida Ballas. of London, and both
went to Mrs. Jawans house.
Although the Mount Sinai Hospital
housed two women patients all informa-
tion except their names was refused by
those in charge. Neither is in serious con-
dition.
Mrs. August Belmont and some women
friends went to st. Vincents yesterday
and talked with many Of the Titanic sur
vivors. 1t was announced after her de-
parture that Mrs. Belmont had arranged
to make the patients comfortable with
supplies Of clothing and money. and would
see that they were we'll cared for when
they leave the institution.
Mrs. Katherine Youssaf. who. with her
children. Mary. one year old. and Michael
four years old, was at Bellevue Hospital
gave an account Of the sinking OF the
Titanic yesterday. She said that after she
had been placed in iifeboat with her
children, she dropped her boy into the
water accidentally and thought he was
drowned. Several hours latcr. when the
Carpathia began picking up the Titanics
lifeboats, Mrs. Youssaf found that Michael
had been rescued by a steward In another
llfeboat