Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-17
LITTLE SUFFERERS
AT ST. CHRISTOPHER S
BRAVE AND CHERRY
Hospital in Northeast Sec
ton the Daily Scene of
Hopeful Struggle Against
Diseases of Children. Z.

Just at present st. Christopher Hos
pital, Lawrence and Huntingdon streets,
has A little patients
Opportunity to study child life is ever
present to the visitor at st. Chrstopher's.
/ Teddy Roosevelt will not greet him at the
door, but Teddy Roosevelt Wick will well
come him on the roof garden. This little
boy, like Miss Jeffords, head nurse, wishes
TO interest every one in the work of the
hospital, and consequently he will talk
for a half hour without a. complaint and
smile during waking and sleeping hours.
1t is the build of prizefghter in en-
bryo that Teddy carries when he is
stretched in bed He has hip disease.
From his waist up he is perfect Miss
Jcffords does not think that Teddy will
ever be far-famed as an athlete, but
eventually he may walk without a false
step and make a name for himself.
In the cot next to Teddy on the roof
garden Is Isabella Lawson, years old,
II sufferer from infantile paralysis. She
is walking today, but II is with the
hesitatng steps of old woman or child
Just learning to walk. The fact is, she Is
just learning over how to walk. She Is
confident, and when she falls she smiles
in an apologetic manner She is the mes
senger and errand girl for Teddy Roose-
welt Wick. She is about as speedy as
the average messenger boy, but she Is
much more certain of results.
Ida Rudolph, years old, is also on the
roof. She has been there two months,
but shows little Improvement The doc
tors see her every day. There is some
thing wrong with Ida because She won't
grow strong. The doctors have lot of
names for her complaint.
Then there Is Beatrice, 1h years old
Beatrice is favorite. but the nurses
have forgotten her last name. She will
be operated upon tomorrow or the day
after by DR.. L. G. Alexander. There is Il
tubercular condition of her spine and one
of her legs. Miss Beatrice has not |
guessed that an operation is imminent,
SO she has not become hysterical as |
some of her older sisters might. When |
she isn't sleeping she is sucking her left |
thumb. 1t is always the left one.
Fransico Disco has spent six of his
ten years in the hospital. AS an old resi-
dent he says that he prefers the roof
garden to a ward. There is more air.
and then he can hear all the street noises.
He can tell just what is happening by
the cries of the newSboys and he also
is Il Judge of the prices of tomatoes,
Reaches and such staples by the shouts
OIL tle NtnupGS' fGallslCo WHO - Ou' Oh |
tho Oldest patients, will never push
truck or sling bale nook on the wharf.
He may be made for better things ana |
an easier job. He has a hip disease,
Helen Horkins, years old, had Il fall
Hip dsoas" and tuhcrcular bones fol-
lowed. she has been in many hospitals
She smiles when she does not feel pain.
When she does she holds the hand OF
one of the nurses or bears the pain alone.
The nurses say that children have more
than most grown people they
have met.
Clarence Wallace has started into train
ing that he MAY reach tho roof garden.
He was operated ON for appendicitis five
days ago For three days Miss Jelfords
feared for her patient, but now since
Clarence is always hungry there must be
bone for him.
Iu the surgical ward lies Billy Garnett.
years old. Tho tiny boy, who is the
most Of the time i'm Il sleep or a stupor.
.rosSed the path Of a horse, on January
., and was Knocked down. He was
picked NJ and hurried to the hospital
Every one but the physician who re-
2civcd him said that the child was dead
He is alive, but that is all.
The featherwei%ht of the hospital is a
,-dav old baby girl She is of Italian
'arent9ge, and at noon Wednesday
weighed exactly two pounds six and one
lalf ounces. She will live. probably,
Irdcr hospital care hut If she had been
eft with her mother she would have
oerished.
Nearly all the other children in the
10SritGiS w1rdc are recovering from
ummcr complaints or marasmus.
At the side of the hospital under a
mali tent are children recovering from
Illness or children with Pneumonia or
rth.r lung complaints. There Tom holds
.Fyav Although hr is guffgripgr from,