DONATIONS DURING THE PAST YEAR TO THE LIBRARY OF THE STATE CHARITIES AID ASSOCIATION. RELATING TO CHILDREN. THE Aberdeen Industrial School contrasted with Irish Workhouses, by W. Neilson Hancock, LL.D., Dublin, 1876; from the Author. Second Paper upon Boarding-out of Pauper Children, and the Defects of the Irish System, by Professor Ingram, London, 1876; from the Author. Workhouse Schools, Macmillan's Magazine, Nov., 1874, by Menelia B. Smedley; from Miss Schuyler. Crèches pour les petits Enfants d'Ouvrieres, par M. Marbeau, Paris, 1873; from the Author. On the Family System of Rearing Pauper Children, by W. Neilson Hancock, LL.D., Statistical Journal, March, 1859; from the Author. RELATING TO ADULT ABLE-BODIED PAUPERS. Should Boards of Guardians endeavor to make Pauper Labor Selfsupporting? by W. Neilson Hancock, LL.D., July, 1851; from the Author. Liverpool Workhouse Papers, November, 1874; from Miss Schuyler. RELATING TO HOSPITALS. Nightingale Fund Report for 1875; from the Secretary of the Fund. Westminster Training School and Home for Nurses; Lady Stanley Memorial Fund, London, 1876; from Miss Schuyler. Report of Committee on Diet for Bellevue Hospital, June 13, 1867; from Austin Flint, M.D. Third Annual Report of Training School for Nurses attached to Connecticut State Hospital, New Haven, 1877; from Miss Woolsey. A Class Book for Nurses, prepared for the use of the Connecticut Training School for Nurses, New Haven, 1877; from Miss Woolsey. Trained Nursing for the Sick Poor, by Florence Nightingale, New York, 1877; from Mrs. W. H. Osborn. Twelfth Annual Report of the Liverpool Training School for Nurses for the Sick Poor, 1875; from E. G. Putnam. Reports of the Board of Managers of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, January 13, 1876; from Mr. Newbold. A Scotch Insane Asylum, Letter from Dr. Frazer, January, 1875; from Mrs. David Lane. RELATING TO OUT-DOOR RELIEF. Papers of Charity Organization Committee of St. Marylebone, London, 1876; from Miss Mary Wells. Papers showing the Working of the Co-operative System in St. Mary's District, Marylebone, London, 1876; from Miss Schuyler. Administration of Poor in Elberfeld; from the Translator. L'Assistance Publique dans les Campagnes, Revue de Deux Mondes, Juin, 1875; from C. E. Detmold. Homes of the London Poor, by Octavia Hill, Good Words, February, 876; from Miss Schuyler. District Visiting, by Octavia Hill, Good Words, July, 1876; from Miss Schuyler. Methods of Improving the Homes of the Laboring and Tenementhouse Classes of New York, by Stephen Smith, M.D.; from the Author. Wisdom in Charity, Paper read before Germantown Relief Society, Nov. 29, 1876, by the Rev. Charles G. Ames; from Miss Collins. MISCELLANEOUS. The Journeyman Baker's Case, by W. Neilson Hancock, LL.D., lin, 1861; from the Author. Dub What are the Duties of the Public in respect to Charitable Savings Banks? by W. Neilson Hancock, LL.D., April, 1872; from the Author. Provident Knowledge Papers, by G. S. T. Bartlett, London, 1873; from Miss Mary Wells. Totworth Provident Co-operative Society Report and Papers, 1876; from Mr. R. T. Tilbury. A Suggestion to Those who Love Beautiful Things, by Miss Miranda Hill; from the Author. Working Men's Club of the Church of the Holy Communion, New York, 1874. Sanitary Relations to Health Principles in Architecture, by Carl Pfeiffer, New York, 1873; from the Author. Our Common Land, MacMillan's Magazine, April, 1876, by Miss Octavia Hill; from the Author. Report on the Ventilation of the Hall of Representatives, by Robert Briggs, C. E.; from Curl Pfeiffer. Ninth Annual Report of the New York State Board of Charities, 1876; from Charles A. Hoyt, M.D. Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Chairties of Pennsylvania, 1875; Diller Luther, M.D. Thirteenth Annual Report of the Massachusetts State Board of Public Charities, 1877; from F. B. Sanborn. Report of Local Government Board, London, 1874-75; from E. G. Putnam. Report of the Convention of Charities at Saratoga, Sept., 1876; from C. A. Hoyt, M.D. Investigation of the State Prisons and Report thereon, 1876. Pauperism and Crime in Michigan, in 1874-75, Lansing, Mich., 1875; from Mr. Henry W. Lord. Report of the Board of State Commissioners, for Michigan, 1876; from Mr. Henry W. Lord. "The Jukes;" a Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity, by R. L. Dugdale, New York, 1877; from Miss Woolsey. PRESENTMENT OF THE GRAND JURY. THE Grand Jury of the Court of General Sessions being desirous to ascertain the sanitary condition by personal inspection of the different institutions on Blackwell's Island and also in Bellevue Hospital of this city, selected a committee from its number to pay a visit to these institutions on the 22d day of March, 1877. The following is the true condition of affairs as the said committee found them at the institutions above named: CHARITY HOSPITAL. At the Island, the first place inspected was the small out-building, at present used as wards for the reception of erysipelas patients. The building has a generally dilapidated appearance and is improperly ventilated, or rather is not ventilated at all; the boards, with iron bars attached, for that purpose, are inadequate. The windows to the wards, though large, are unprotected from the direct rays of the sun, except by shades, having neither inside nor outside blinds; the male and female departments are alike in this respect. The condition of the water-closets is both appalling and disgusting. The night-soil has been allowed to accumulate, and the odor therefrom penetrates even into the wards where the patients are lying. This could be effectually remedied by placing a small pump over each water-closet, taking the water directly from the river. The cost of the alteration should not be more than four dollars for each water-closet. It may here be noted, that all the water-closets in Charity Hospital and in Bellevue Hospital sadly need more careful supervision, and a copious use of disinfectants. The grounds about the buildings for the reception of erysipelas patients, as also about the dead-house, are encumbered with an accumulation of rubbish and filth, which shows a lack of cleanliness and vigilance on the part of the authorities in charge. The baths adjoining these wards, and in fact those throughout both hospitals, were found to be of iron, and to be both black and rusty, and entirely unfit for use; as they now are, they may be a means of spreading instead of checking disease. The cooking arrangements, in the kitchen of the main building of Charity Hospital are inadequate to properly and promptly prepare the food necessary for the number of patients now in the hospital. Another set of large boilers is absolutely needed in the kitchen, that the cooking may be done satisfactorily. |