LVI.

Hospital Report of the Five Points House of Industry, Ending March 1st, 1871.

By B. F. JOSLIN, M. D.

MEDICAL BOARD, 1871.

Attending Physicians.-B. F. Joslin, M. D.; H. C. Houghton, M. D.; St. Clair Smith, M. D.

Resident Physician.-Charles A. Church, M. D.

HOSPITAL REPORT.

During the past year we have experienced the advantages of our increased hospital accommodation. We have been enabled to separate different classes of disease, and have not feared to admit diseases of a decidedly contagious character, as our ward for such cases is so isolated as to prevent the contagion from spreading to other inmates of the hospital, or to the well children in the house. Another year of total exemption from small-pox or varioloid gives us great reason for thankfulness for and confidence in the great discovery of Jenner, vaccination.

Nearly seven years have elapsed since a case of small-pox or varioloid has occurred in this institution. Two hundred and twentythree children were vaccinated during the past year, making a total of forty-two hundred and ninety vaccinations in ten years.

The past year has been one of remarkable health in the House of Industry; the only disease of an epidemic character prevailing during the current year being measles. This commenced in February, and forty cases occurred. Several were dangerously sick, and one proved fatal. Four cases of typhus, five of typhoid and eight of relapsing fever were treated. One of the cases of relapsing fever died; the other fever patients recovered.

A little child brought to our hospital with constitutional syphilis, had gangrene of mouth with measles, but fortunately recovered. This child was found destitute, in a garret, with his clothes frozen around him. This instance will give some idea of the class of patients with whom we have to deal, and will show that we have

great reason for thankfulness that we experience no greater degree of mortality. In all, five deaths have taken place. Besides those previously alluded to, one was from marasmus, one from tubercular meningitis, and one from gangrene.

The tabular statement will show all the different diseases treated. One hundred and fifty-five teeth were extracted.

Dr. Joslin made thirty-three visits to house.

Dr. Houghton made twenty-one visits to house.

Dr. St. Clair Smith, who has ably filled the position of resident physician for two years, leaves the house for a residence and private practice in Brooklyn, but retains his interest in this work, and takes his position as one of the attending physicians.

Dr. Charles A. Church will be resident physician for the coming

LVII.

Report of the Hahnemann Hospital.

By F. SEEGER, X. D.

Organized September 7th, 1869. Located on Fourth Avenue, between Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Streets.

OFFICERS, 1871.

President.-Hon. Hiram Calkins.

Vice-Presidents.-Hon. D. D. T. Marshall, Wm. Radde, Esq. Treasurer.-John Davidson, Esq.

Board of Directors.-Hon. Hiram Calkins; Hon. D. D. T. Marshall; B. F. Bowers, M. D.; John Davidson, Esq.; Lewis Hallock, M. D.; F. W. Hunt, M. D.; Rev. R. M. Stratton, Wm. Radde, Esq.; C. E. Blumenthal, M. D., LL.D.; M. H. Chambers, Esq.; Alanson T. Briggs, Esq.; Hon. R. A. Storrs, E. H. Kent, Esq.; M. Bundy, Esq.; Hon. H. C. Brown; Gen. J. K. Averill; Hon. C. C. Pinckney.

Chief Physician.-F. Seeger, M. D.

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Medical Board.-F. W. Hunt, M. D.; B. F. Bowers, M. D.; F. Seeger, M. D.; C. E. Blumenthal, M. D., LL. D.; L. Hallock, M. D.; A. P. Throop, M. D.; H. Muhr, M. D.

Surgeon.-Wm. Tod Helmuth, M. D.

Consulting Medical and Surgical Board.-E. E. Marcy, M. D.; R. McMurray, M. D.; W. H. White, M. D.; M. Freligh, M. D.; A. Reisig, M. D.; S. Lilienthal, M. D.; J. F. Gray, M. D.; J. Beakley, M. D.; G. E. Belcher, M. D.; E. Guernsey, M. D.; H. D. Paine, M.D.; C. Th. Liebold, M. D.

HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL CLINICAL SCHOOL.

Regular Faculty, Session of 1871 '72.

Chairman.-F. W. Hunt, M. D.

Surgery and Surgical Pathology.-Wm. Tod Helmuth, M. D. Clinical Medicine.-S. Lilienthal, M. D.

Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System.-F. W. Hunt, M. D. Diseases of Children.-W. Wright, M D.

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Diseases of the Nasal Cavities, Throat, Lungs and Heart, with Laryngoscopy, Rhinoscopy, and Physical Diagnosis.-F. Seeger, M. D.

Diseases of Women.-A. P. Throop, M. D.

Adjunct to the Chair on Surgery and Surgical Pathology.—A. S. Bayliss, M. D.

Assistants to the Chair on Surgery and Surgical Pathology.-H. N. Dunnel, M. D.; H. M. Jernegan, M. D.; A. J. Richardson, M. D.

Petition to the Honorable the Legislature of New York.

The undersigned, directors of the Hahnemann Hospital of the city and State of New York, respectfully petition your honorable body for an appropriation of thirty thousand dollars in aid of the building fund of this hospital.

They would beg to base their claims for your favorable consideration upon the following facts:

I. This is the only homoeopathic hospital in the State of New York.*

II. Other hospitals, not under homœopathic administration, have received and are constantly receiving aid from the State.

III. Homœopathy is now fully recognized as an advanced and scientific system of medicine, and a large body of the citizens and taxpayers of the city and State of New York, adherents and followers of its principles, are now wholly unprovided with the usual facilities for hospital treatment, which are so freely afforded to those of their fellow-citizens believers in the old school system of medication. The board of management would briefly call your attention to the several arguments advanced. Of the first, that this is the only* homœopathic hospital, we can but say that it carries within it almost the entire conviction of the necessity for a homoeopathic hospital. To quote from the editorial of a prominent morning journal of extensive circulation: "There is no more justice in requiring a poor person who prefers homœopathic treatment to put himself under allopathic hands, than in compelling allopathists to submit to homœopathic prescriptions." (N. Y. Sun, April 8th, 1870.) Similar sentiments were expressed in editorials in the New York Herald, Evening Post, Evening Mail, World, Times, and others of the more influential journals. What a true act of justice it would be to provide a homœopathic hospital, may be seen from the fact that the homoeopathic dispensaries

* At the present time (Apri), 1872) there are several other homeopathic hospitals in the State.