Annual Report of the Governors of the Almshouse, New YorkGovernors of the Almshouse., 1854 - Almshouses |
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12th mo 31st December Abscess admitted Alms House ALMS HOUSE DEPARTMENT amount Annual Report Apoplexy April Assistant Physician average number Baker Bellevue Hospital Blacksmith Blackwell's Island Board of Governors Boys Brain Bronchitis building City Prison Colored Home Colored Orphan Asylum committed December 31st Delirium Tremens Diarrhea died discharged disease Dropsy duties Dysentery erected Erysipelas Fever Foreigners GENTLEMEN Girls Honorable Board Honorable Body hundred Hydrocephalus improvement insane Institution Intemperance iron JAMES MCCUNE SMITH January 1st Kidney Laborer Larceny Lunatic Asylum Males Managers Marasmus Medical Board ment months mortality New-York NOTE TO TABLE number of deaths number of inmates Number of Patients Number remaining number under charge Nursery Out-Door Poor paid Paraplegia Penitentiary Pericarditis persons Phthisis placed Pleurisy Pneumonia present Randall's Island Resident Physician respectfully submitted scrofula Sent sick Small Pox STORE DEPARTMENT street Syphilis Tinsmiths Total number TOWNSEND Typhus Ulcers Uterus wards Whole number
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Page 47 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 62 - One fatal remembrance — one sorrow that throws Its bleak shade alike o'er our joys and our woes To which Life nothing darker nor brighter can bring, For which joy hath no balm — and affliction no sting.
Page 78 - A complete system of forced ventilation, in connection with the heating, is indispensable to give purity to the air of a hospital for the insane; and no expense that is required to effect this object thoroughly can be deemed either misplaced or injudicious.
Page 77 - The stairways should always be of iron, stone, or other indestructible material, ample in size and number, and easy of ascent, to afford convenient egress in case of accident from fire.
Page 82 - The situation and circumstances of different institutions may require a considerable number of persons to be employed in various other positions, but in every hospital, at least all those that have been referred to, are deemed not only desirable, but absolutely necessary, to give all the advantages that may be hoped for from a liberal and enlightened treatment of the insane.
Page 78 - XXV. The wards for the most excited class should be constructed with rooms on but one side of a corridor, not less than ten feet wide, the external windows of which should be large, and have pleasant views from them. XXVI.
Page 79 - State institution, selected in such a manner as will be likely most effectually to protect it from all influences connected with political measures or political changes ; if of a private corporation, by those properly authorized to vote.
Page 81 - In no institution should the number of persons in immediate attendance on the patients be in a lower ratio than one attendant for every ten patients; and a much larger proportion of attendants will commonly be desirable.
Page 77 - The apartments for washing, clothing, &c., should be detached from the Hospital building. XIX. The drainage should be under ground, and all the inlets to the sewers should be properly secured to prevent offensive emanations.
Page 81 - ... and by his order, should make all purchases for the Institution, keep the accounts, make engagements with, pay and discharge those employed about the establishment; have a supervision of the farm, garden and grounds, and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him.