New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-17
children DYING
FOR LACK OF CARE
uo<oitals Too Crowded to
ri Give Them Attention,
II Is Said.
WITNESS DEATH
AGONY OF OTHERS
,..,u.,e Boards Report favors
New Building on Black
wells Island.


49, Works children arc dying Tor 'S'N
attention in the institutions
.,5 maintained for their care.
Maintained
surely.
Maintained how
COD knows.
-. Work has more MONEY it IS SAID
.-v other place in America.
i.- s-,r. leland is not TO De blamed
i'1. .-s.,,s. department was abolished IN
iD' s..,-istrston Of Commissioner James
- rsar,y ten years aeo. Screens are
"a ,se-e snd no youns person VII
Sc. the death agony OF a"o'"e''
r..,,ct Of money. il is said. % IS neces-
=, risce the little patients close TO-
rrsv cannot avoid seems things
>. ,s,v orcht not 20 see. They see SUI
- hat makes chem suffer ana '"a'
-. their little bodies CULVER with pam
80 hv disease Their little bodies
s,.,ts ana minds and souls remo'e
~. .b,r watch the anguish 81 others
~. n Durphy. superintendent
80, do any more than she does s"e
s--,,s,s what the city allows her 10 pro
.,e little more The same IS said
~. rue OF the other institutions.
gsr, t the story;
s..,,,g forth many cases Of improper
,..tlns OF chadreu's cases in the city
,.,rs,,ls the hospital investsatins COM
-. Of tie Board o. Estimate recon-
-,.s.s 10 that body yesterday the con-
--,.,ion OF new chi.dren's hospital on
r,..tv,lrs Island 10 suggested sweeping
..,.--s in tho handling of children
.ssss
s,,vi,s ne lack o. discrimination eN-
$500 in some hospitals. the report SAYS
80, the Investigators found children IN
s,us ward suffering from these IN
.-..s or ailments. tuberculosis Of the
,,,,. ahscess CT the neck. appendicitis,
.,,,u-ed skull pneumonia. pulmonar%
,-.,reulosis. mastoiiitis, fractured femur
,.-.lvsis. marasmus and empyema.
-.,,. vera six normal children there
,.o.. mothe-s we're patients in the hos
p1
often children who 20 20 a hospital FOR
surgical operation contract infectious
ts,sses and remain there sometimes
-,ry months. one child Of two years
risred hosp.ta. 20 he treated Tor
r,oorirr cough. Before she was able 10
., out several months had elapsed. In
re-, tine she had measles, pneumonia
nd abcess All contracted in the institu-
on.
lr one institution children had 10 watch
% death aronies Of other children. The
t.-ss In charge said it was quite unneoes-
| AZ 70 place screens UP in such cases.
III, idea o. the committee is TO CEN
nI7s an chlldrens cases in the sug-
s.sied Blackwe,Ts Island Hospital, which
| r,gld accommodate 90 children.
There is not en- up-to-date public hos
ra IN New York for children. Dr..
s,. a. Benson. Of the staff Of the
Metropolitan Hospital and consultant for
q. Babies Diaries. said yesterday when
iss4d for his opinion Of the report Chill
| ts have been treated Ike grown per-
Nls whereas there should be distinct
vsns or even hospitals. for them. The
fdfsshioned idea as 10 their care In this
respect stu obtains one end Of ward
5 70; aside for children, while the rest is
s'oisd 20 adults"
Dr. Benson said that present crowded
additions in some u the citys hospitals
-ade il necessary 20 place children in
rros where they did not heiong. This,
added often meant that. whereas only
us or TWO o. The children had contagious
DISEASES. ID was Necessary 20 quarantine
4. whole ward Re added:
What we nse1 at the Metropolitan
hosp.tal-snd 7 cannot say that too
rongly-is a chiidrenS pavilion. The
natter has been before the city authori-
les ior long time. Conditions are too
rosded 20 give the children the care
Hsv should have"
The majority Of hospitals have taken
r'si pains 20 prevent contagious dis
's'ss.' said Dr ira $. VILE. specialist
% ehldrens diseases. Sometimes the
'shsns are admitted during the period
Incubation and 10 cannot be told that
ls' are suffering from the troubles that
asf appear
lhey are guaranteed instantly when
"s discovered that they may spread dis
''* There has been. 40 times. over
e"soing, and convalescents may have
~ Injected by their neighbors
We have been hampered in New York
eaS Of hospital facilities for caring
Contagious diseases Iu opidemics the
Aaiiues are entirely inadequate. 4 child
y. Dc placed IN the wrong ward in the
-'-Aion. but no isolated instance should
-st1 as measure Of the hospital
s~k here"