LXVI.

Report of the New York Homœopathic Medical College

Dispensary.

By ALFRED K. HILLS, M. D.

Incorporated 1856. Located on Third avenue, corner of Twenty-third Street, New York.

OFFICERS, 1871.

President.-S. H. Wales.

Secretary.-Edmund Dwight.

Treasurer.-Dr. Carroll Dunham.

Trustees.-S. H. Wales, Edmund Dwight, E. H. Ludlow, Ralph Mead, Thomas C. Smith, G. W. Clark, Drs. Wm. Tod Helmuth, Lewis Hallock, John W. Dowling.

Superintendent.-Dr. John W. Dowling.

Executive Committee.-S. H. Wales, Edmund Dwight, Dr. J. W. Dowling.

Medical Staff.

Consulting Board.-Faculty of the College.
Visiting Physician.-Dr. Alfred K. Hills.
Resident Physician.-Geo. S. Norton.

Nativities.-Native, 1,114; foreign, 702. Males, 651; females,

1,165.

Five deaths have occurred; all of which were from diseases considered incurable when coming to our hands. No deaths have occurred from acute diseases. The exact number of patients cured it is impossible to tell, as frequently they do not return to inform us of that fact; but we feel confident that our practice has been generally successful.

LXVII.

Report of the Metropolitan Dispensary.*

This institution was established in 1868, and incorporated under the general law in January, 1869. It occupies, under a lease, the first floor of the building No. 54 Bleecker street, corner of Mulberry.

Since its organization the number of patients aided is 4,552. It is open five hours each day, and is free to the poor. When visited it was in good condition, and appeared to be well managed. The labors of the medical staff are entirely gratuitous.

The last Legislature appropriated to the institution $1,000 from the city treasury. Application has been made for aid from the State, and it would seem to be fairly entitled to share in its bounty.

* Extract from Report of Public Charities.

LXVIII.

Report of the Morrisania Homoeopathic Dispensary.

By JOHN M. MILLER, M. D.

Incorporated May, 1869. Located at Morrisania, Westchester county, New York.

Attending Physician.-Dr. John M. Miller.

Number of patients treated during the year ending October 1,

LXIX.

Report of the New York Homœopathic Dispensary.

Incorporated June, 1860. Located at No. 493 Seventh avenue, between Thirty-sixth and Thirtyseventh streets.

OFFICERS, 1870.

President.-William II. Fogg.

Vice-President.-B. S. Walcott.

Secretary.-Wheeler H. Peckham.

Treasurer.-John W. Bigelow.

Trustees.-William L. Andrews, J. W. Bigelow, A. C. Benedict, Dr. E. P. Fowler, C. P. Frame, Willard L. Felt, H. N. Twombly, Theo. Gilman, A. C. Richards.

Honorary Member.-Henry B. Millard, M. D.

Visiting Committee.-William H. Fogg and A. C. Benedict, January and July; W. L. Felt and William L. Andrews, February and August; J. W. Bigelow and H. N. Twombly, March and September; W. H. Peckham and C. P. Frame, April and October; Dr. E. P. Fowler, and A. C. Richards, May and November; Theo. Gilman and B. S. Walcott, June and December.

Building Committee.-Dr. E. P. Fowler, C. P. Frame.

Finance Com.-C. P. Frame, B. S. Walcott, John W. Bigelow.
Committee on Supplies.-H. N. Twombly, A. C. Richards.
Com. on Appointments.-Dr. E. P. Fowler, A. C. Benedict.
Committee on Real Estate.-Theo. Gilman.

Com. on Miscellaneous Business.-J. W. Bigelow, W. H. Peckham.

Medical Staff.

House Physicians.-Drs. John S. Linsley, Francis E. Doughty. Visiting Physician and Surgeon to Eye and Ear Department.Dr. Theodore D. Bradford.

Senior Physician, German Department.-Dr. Samuel Lilienthal.
Diseases of Women.-Dr. Augustus P. Throop.

Surgeons.-Drs. Francis E. Doughty, J. Antonia Terry.
Diseases of Chest and Throat.-Dr. Edmund Carleton.

Diseases of Skin.-Dr. Philip E. Arcularius.

Diseases of Head and Abdomen.-Dr. Harlan P. Patridge.
Diseases of Children.-Dr. J. Antonio Terry.

Physician and Surgeon for the Evening.-Dr. Francis E. Doughty.

TRUSTEES' REPORT,

In presenting the eleventh annual report of the New York Homœopathic Dispensary, for the year 1870, the trustees desire first, in the name of the poor recipients, to express gratitude to those who have. hitherto bestowed benefits through this institution.

They are also happy to state that the dispensary is rapidly extending its field of use, although it falls far short of the demands made upon it, as its benefactions are, of course, limited to the means placed at its disposal.

Its accommodations are inadequate, and in such measure unsuitable, that the trustees have thought it a duty to make a vigorous effort toward supplying the want, and we appeal to a generous public for the necessary means.

There are thousands of poor people who greatly prefer employing the homoeopathic method of treatment, but who are debarred therefrom by a lack in number and size of institutions where it is dispensed.

We earnestly beg of those to whom Providence has been bountiful, that they will in their turn extend charity and consolation to their less fortunate kind, who struggle, not only against the depressing influences of pecuniary misfortunes and poverty, but who are also sufferers, helpless from disease.

For the coming year the trustees have introduced a new feature to dispensaries, that of granting an evening hour (from half-past seven to nine P. M.), which will avoid consuming the valuable working hours of many of the poor.

Those who have experienced the superior benefits of homœopathy, should, at least, be willing to do a little, that those who are unable to buy them may receive them; and if they give at all, a sense of economy (even if all methods of practice were equally good) should direct them to give to this method, where the same amount of means will afford medical aid to a greater number of persons.

Since the establishment of this dispensary, in 1860, it has treated ninety thousand five hundred and forty-eight cases, and the experience of each succeeding year proves this to be the safest, the wisest, and the most efficacious mode of medication, and far the most economical.