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Identifier: annualreport03newyuoft (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: New York State Hospital for Crippled and Deformed Children
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Publisher: Albany
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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received, and verbal applicationsmade to the members of the medical stafif, have been, it is estimated,upwards of one hundred and fifty. A formal record of these verbalapplications has not been kept. It is noticed that applications fromthe interior of the State have shown a considerable increase. With at least three hundred and fifty applications for admission,we have been able to receive only twelve patients into the hospital.The number of poor cripples, for whom much can be done in bothcity and State, and for whom no adequate hospital accommodationsexist, is as yet unknown, but it is safe to say that there are severalthousand of them. The pressing need of the new hospital, varioussites for which are now under consideration, which will soon beerected, and which, when completed, will accommodate a much largernumber of patients, becomes very apparent when the de-mands made upon us are even briefly considered; and it iswith much pleasvire that we note that in Ohio, as well as in Minne-
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II sota, the care and treatment of crippled and deformed children bythe State is receiving- proper attention. Hampered as we have been by a small and inadequately equippedhospital building-; overwhelmed with hundreds of applications, whichwe have been obliged to decline; lacking the room for a full corps ofassistants, and with overcrowded wards, we have nevertheless keptin mind the ultimate licnefit of those committed to our care; and theexcellent results obtained speak well for the resident officials whohave given much time and energy to the care of the patients—oftentimes at considerable personal inconvenience. The work of the hospital for the past year has been carefully sum-marized in tabular form. Each patient treated is mentioned by num-ber, and the condition briefly stated, both at the time of receptionand at the end of the year. I call especial attention to these tables, acareful study of which will repay those who are interested in ourwork. Table No. I represents all the pa

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