Annual report of the Governors of the Almshouse, New York. v. 5, 1853, Volume 5Governors of the Almshouse, 1849-19uu., 1854 |
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12th mo 31st December 66 Females Abscess admitted Alms House Annual Report Apoplexy April Assistant Physician attention average number Baker Bellevue Hospital Blacksmith Blackwell's Island Board of Governors Boys Brain Bronchitis building causes cent City Prison clothes Colored Home Colored Orphan Asylum Commissioners of Emigration December 31st Delirium Tremens Diarrhea died discharged disease Dropsy DUGRO duties Dysentery erected Erysipelas Fever Foreigners GENTLEMEN Girls Honorable Board House Department hundred Hydrocephalus improvement insane Institution Intemperance JAMES MCCUNE SMITH January 1st Kidney Laborer Larceny Lunatic Asylum Males Marasmus Medical Board ment months mortality NEW-YORK NOTE TO TABLE NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS number of deaths number of inmates number of patients Number remaining number under charge Nursery Orchitis paid Paraplegia Penitentiary Hospital Pericarditis persons Phthisis placed Pleurisy Pneumonia present Randall's Island respectfully submitted scrofula Sent sick STORE DEPARTMENT street Superintendent Syphilis Total number Typhus Uterus vagrants Warden wards Whole number
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Page 74 - Besides being a well educated physician, he should possess the mental, physical, and social qualities to fit him for the post. He should serve during good behavior, reside on or very near the premises, and his compensation should be so liberal as to enable him to devote his whole time and energies to the welfare of the Hospital. He should nominate to the Board suitable persons to act as Assistant physician, Steward, and Matron. He should have...
Page 70 - All such buildings should be .constructed of stone or brick, have slate or metallic roofs, and, as far as possible, be made secure from accidents by fire. VII. Every hospital having provision for two hundred or more patients should have in it at least eight distinct wards for each sex — making sixteen classes in the entire establishment. VIII. Each ward should -have in it a parlor, a corridor, single lodging rooms for patients, an associated -dormitory, communicating with a chamber for two attendants,...
Page 70 - V. The highest number that can with propriety be treated in one building is two hundred and fifty, while two hundred is a preferable maximum. VI. All such buildings should be constructed of stone or brick, have slate or metallic roofs, and, as far as possible, be made secure from, accidents by fire. VII. Every hospital, having provision for two hundred or more patients, should have in it at least eight distinct wards for each sex, making sixteen classes in the entire establishment.
Page 71 - The wings should be so arranged, that if rooms are placed on both sides of a corridor ; the corridors should be furnished at both ends with movable glased sashes, for the free admission of both light and air.
Page 69 - No hospital for the insane, however limited its capacity should have less than fifty acres of land, devoted to gardens and pleasure grounds for its patients. At least one hundred acres should be possessed by every State hospital, or other institution for two hundred patients, to which number these propositions apply, unless otherwise mentioned.
Page 71 - 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 71 - 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 75 - 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.