President. Mrs. Isaac H. Cocks, Old Westbury, L. I. Secretary. Mrs. Charles J. Stewart, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. Treasurer.-G. Howland Leavitt, Flushing, L. I. Attending physician.-E. D. Skinner, M. D. Matron. Mrs. Kate Hunting. Value of property, $18,000. Number of children cared for during the year, 55 (of whom 29 were supported by public funds and 26 by private funds); remaining October 1, 1904, 40 (18 boys and 22 girls). Receipts for the year ending September 30, 1904, including balance on hand ($4,449.15), $9,673.95; expenditures, $5,613.41; balance on hand October 1, 1904, $4,060.54. Terms and qualifications for admittance.-Destitute children between the ages of four and fourteen years are received; the charge is two dollars per week for those who can pay. Application to be made to any manager or to the overseer of the poor. (See, also, Homes for Children, Queens county). HOSPITALS. NASSAU HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, Mineola, L. I., N. Y. Inspected by Inspector Thacher April 21, 1904. Established July, 1896; incorporated September 8, 1896. Objects. The erection and maintenance of a hospital and dispensary for the reception, care, maintenance, giving of medical and surgical advice, aid and treatment to persons of indigent circumstances and others afflicted with maladies or physical injuries, physical weaknesses, or deformities, or infirmities. Governing body.-Board of Directors. President.--William L. Swan, Oyster Bay, L. I. Number of patients treated during the year, 504 (356 paying patients and 148 beneficiaries, of whom 144 were supported by public funds and 4 by private funds); remaining October 1, 1904, 36 (19 males and 17 females). Receipts for the year ending September 30, 1904, including balance on hand ($1,679.23), $19,133.27; expenditures, $18,955.46; balance on hand October 1, 1904, $177.81. Terms and qualifications for admittance.-For pay patients, four dollars to twenty-five dollars per week; free to the worthy poor; contagious cases not admitted. Application to be made to the superintendent. NEW YORK COUNTY-PUBLIC RELIEF. STATE INSTITUTIONS. THE MANAGERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE REFORMATION OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Incorporated by chapter 126, Laws of 1824. Maintain the New York House of Refuge, Randall's Island, New York City, an institution under private management, though the funds for its support are derived from State appropriations. Opened January 1, 1825. Inspected by Inspector Hill December 4-6, 1903; May 25, Object.-A reformatory for children under sixteen years of age charged with and convicted of crime, vagrancy or disorderly conduct, who are given a common school education and industrial instruction. Governing body.-Board of Managers. By chapter 613 of the Laws of 1905, this Board shall consist of twenty-four managers, of which Board the Governor, Comptroller and Attorney-General shall be ex officio members. President.-Alexander E. Orr, 102 Produce Exchange, New York City. Secretary. Evert Jansen Wendell, 8 East Thirty-eighth street, New York City. Treasurer. Robert P. Perkins, 41 Union Square West, New York City. Superintendent.-Joseph P. Byers, appointed December 6, 1904. Value of real estate, including buildings and land (37% acres), $2,591,000, value of personal property, $52,509.03; total valuation of institution property, $2,643,509.03. Capacity of institution, 1,000; total number of inmates during the year, 1.402; average number, 864; number remaining October 1, 1904, 828 (746 boys and 82 girls). Average weekly cost of support, including the value of home and farm products consumed, $5.29; excluding such value, $3.71. Receipts for the year ending September 30, 1904, including balance on hand ($1,546.76), $178,823.74; ordinary expenditures, including a remittance of $474.97 to the State Treasurer, pursuant to the provisions of law, $167,595.53; extraordinary expenditures, $6,147.01; total expenditures, $173,742.54; balance on hand October 1, 1904, $5,081.20. Qualifications for admittance.-No children are received except on commitments by a magistrate or by a court of competent jurisdiction. Application to be made to any magistrate. CITY INSTITUTIONS. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES. Established by chapter 510, Laws of 1860, as the Department of Public Charities and Correction. Established under above title by chapter 912, Laws of 1895, and chapter 378, Laws of 1897. BOROUGHS OF MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX, Central office, foot of East Twenty-sixth Street, New York City. Commissioner.-Hon. James H. Tully. First Deputy Commissioner.-James E. Dougherty. Superintendent of Outdoor Poor.-See Bureau of Dependent Adults. Bureau of Dependent Adults. Superintendent, George W. Meeks, foot of East Twenty-sixth street, New York City. Bureau of Dependent Children.-Superintendent, Frederick E. Bauer, 66 Third avenue, New York City. The Bureau of Dependent Children investigates cases of children who, if found to be legal residents of the city and destitute, are committed to institutions. Upon application for a child's discharge from an institution, a thorough investigation is made, and if everything is satisfactory, the discharge is recommended. It examines all monthly or quarterly bills sent by institutions for the care of children, and transmits the same to the Finance Department. The Bureau of Dependent Adults issues all permits for admission to hospitals of this Department, not accident or emergency, also passes to visit the various institutions on Blackwell's or Randall's Islands. From here all foundlings and sick, destitute, feeble-minded and idiotic children are committed to Randall's Island, and feeble-minded women and children, idiots and epileptics are sent to the different State institutions. Destitute persons who are stranded in New York City are sent to relatives who can care for them in another city. Application is here made for admission to the New York City Home for the Aged and Infirm, Blackwell's Island. Expenditures for the year ending September 30, 1904, $68,452.53, of which $13,530 was for 524 destitute G. A. R. members, $31,725 for the relief of 675 blind persons and $23.197.53 for expenses in connection with the Municipal Lodging House, conducted by this Department for homeless men and women, where lodging, supper and breakfast are given. (See Municipal Lodg ing House.) Application to be made to the superintendent, foot of East Twenty-sixth street, New York City. ALMSHOUSE. (See New York City Home for the Aged and Infirm, Manhattan division.) CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, Randall's Island. (See New York City Children's Hospitals and Schools.) CITY HOSPITAL, Blackwell's Island, New York City. Inspected by Inspector Lathrop September 7, 8, 22, 1904. Established, 1832, as Island Hospital; name changed to Charity Hospital; destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1858; title changed January 1, 1892, to City Hospital. Object. To care for all classes of destitute sick, except those suffering from contagious diseases, which must be referred to the Board of Health. |