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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE CONSOLIDATION SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 2, 1898. 25 FOR CHRISTIAN FOLK. Two Associations Which Are Doing a Great and Good Work in Brooklyn. Splendid Educational Features. Byek and Maujer streets.

It is under the care and management of the Sisters of the Order of St. Dominic and was established in 1870. It has 2,111 inmates. Ten thousand four hundred and fifteen prescriptions were given during tho year 1897. The receipts from the city were $8,940.

Private contributions were $35, 226. Total, Current expenses were for building improvements, total expenditures, $79,254. Property value is $350,000. The Rt. Rev.

C. E. McDonnell is president and Mother M. Catharine Herbert, matron. St.

Mary's General Hospital and Dispensary at St. Marks and Buffalo avenues, was established in 1S82. It has 1.5S6 inmates. During the year 6,885 persons were aided and 7,374 prescriptions were distributed. Receipts from the city were from excise.

private contributions, endowments, total receipts, $112,557. Current expenses, $42,667. Improvements, any hospital In Brooklyn. The medical and surgical work has largely increased of late years and the commissioner of health has paid the institution the high compliment of sying that he knew that the hospital received patienilS with the intention of curing them and sending them out better people tor having entered the hospital The Police Department and Navy Yard authorities send many acci demt cases to the hospital and the resources of the institution were heavily taxed during the memoriable heated spell of 1896. The number or aimbulan oe calls frcm August 1.

to August 16, were 136 and the number of patients taken to 'the hospital were So, of "whom 8 were in a dying condition when they reached the hospital. Of those remaining, all but one were sent cut after a few days' careful treatment, fully recovered. There is an excellent training school for nurses in conjunction with the Homeopathic Hospital. The Homeopathic Hospital and Training School for Nurses was a valuable aid to the work of the educational department. The Evening Institute for Young Men has reached a high standard of efficiency and ie now an evening school, furnishing courses of study in twenty different subjects, some of them conducted along lines similar to our best technical schools, and furnishing diplomas to successful students which are now accepted at their face value in some fifteen different educational institutions throughout the country.

The graduating exercises in April are always an attractive feature. As an evidence of the recognition the department commands in the educational world, it may be mentioned that the regaiits of tho University of the State of New York have recently recognized the centr.il branch as an "extension center," such recognition conferring the right to use the maps, charts, lantern slides and traveling libraries loaned by the university. The work is still progressing, and new features and increased efficiency are continually studied. The social side of the members has re In the forty five years of Its existence the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association has passed through a very interesting course of progressive development. Commencing in humble quarters in the old "Washington Building, corner of Court and Joralemon streets, the work has grown until seven branches have been established in different parts of the city.

The Central Branch, the oldest and largest, may well be taken as a type of a well organized and thoroughly equipped association building. The Central Branch Building, corner of Fulton and Bond streets, though not over ten established in 1852. It now has 1,287 inmates. It received during the year 1897, from the city, from excise, contributions, $10,236. Total received, $39,554.

Total expenditures, $39, 794. The property value Is $158,500. St. Peter's Hospital. Henry street, between Congress and Warren streets, and which is under the charge of the Sisters of the Poor of St.

Francis, enjoys a deservedly high reputation. Probably the best statement of the aim and purpose of this hospital is to be found in the rules governing the admission of patients, which are as follows The hospital Is open to all, of whatever nation, class or creed and those who cannot pay anything are received as readily ceived due recognition. The lectures and entertainments have been among the best in the city, and the frequent social reunions and members' meeti have done much to cultivate and promote this feature. In all these departments, and with all the care and thought exorcised in their administration, the fact has never been lnsf sight of that tne development ot the higher life of young mon la the chief end and aim of the assoc i a tion's work. Through the public meeting, the parlor gathering, tho personal work ot devoted Chri i a LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL, HENRY STREET, BETWEEN PACIFIC AND AMITY STREETS as those who can, the preference belnjr always given to the poor.

1. Patients sufferlne from severe aeddsreta or other emergencies, shall be admitted to ae hospital at any hour ot the day or night. 2. No patients suffering from smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria or cholera Shall be admitted, nor any whose case does not require the special benefits of the hospital; nor shall any person be admitted whose cose Is judged to be incurable unle3 there be urgent symptoms which. In the opinion of the attending physician or surgeon, are capable of being relieved.

Chronic cases will not be retained longer than medical treat Property value, $420,000. The Rt. Rev. Charles E. McDonnell is president.

St. Mary's Female Hospital and Maternity, at 155 Dean street, was established April 6, 1868. The Memorial Hospital at Classon and St. Marks avenues, is distinctively for women and children and was established in 1883. It has 405 inmates.

During the year it received $3,000 from city charter appropriations; $698 from excise funds; contributions, total, $17,685. Expenditures were $17,401. Property value is $140,000. Mrs. J.

H. Burtis is president and Laura L. Foulds, M. resident physician. The Memorial Hospital maintains a training school for nurses, which was established In 1SS9, and has eighteen students.

Miss Bertha Smith ie superintendent. It also has under Its management a dispensary at 811 Bedford avenue. The Norwegian Hospital and Deaconess' years old. is to day unsurpassed in size, variety of privileges and facilities for its work by any other structure in the country. Its gymnasium, 68x100 feet floor space, wltb two experienced and trained physical directors, has every advantage, including four bowling alleys, running track, shower baths and a large swimming bath.

On reguUar drill nights, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the floor is fully occupied, and the calisttienic and athletic drill is an interesting sight. Basket ball games and hand hall matches occur at frequent intervals and are always popular. Outdoor athletics receive due attention during Che summer months and are systematically carried on. The summer vacation period and the consequent quiet of the evening work in the building at that time is met by systematic provision for vacation trips and camping mem ana nursing are essential to tne relief or men, efforts are con tinually made to develop the spiritual side of the member's nature. The Sunday afternoon talks are among the most popular in the city, and our most eminent clergymen gladly lend their presence and aid.

The subject of Bible study has been given especial thought this season, and six classes, covering varying phases of the subject, are in successful operation. The Rev. John Humpstcne, pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, is giving a series of twenty Four talks on the "Devotional Study of the Bible," and his audiences number some of the brightest young men in the association. This, the highest aim of the association's work, is meeting with gratifying success, and many of the young men are showing in the development of their Uvea the influence here brought to bear upon them. Young Women's Christian Association Of the many philanthropic enterprises that are carried on in Brooklyn, few enlist the active Interest and co operation of the best portion of the community to so great an extent as does the Young Women's Christian Association.

Compared with many of the other philanthropies, this organization Is a mere child, as its ninth year is not yet completed, but it has proved a success from the start, and its progress from the preliminary meeting in December, 18S7, to the present time justifies the claim of its promoters that there was need for just such an institution in this city. The membership is divided into life, active, sustaining. life and associate, the latter division enjoying the privileges of all the classes, library, reading room, social and devotional life, hut fcaving no voice In the management of affairs. The right to vote is reserved for active members alone. Sustaining members contribute an annual sum and life membership may be secured by the contribution of a certain sum.

The active and sustaining members include women who are the leaders in the social and club life of Brooklyn, and tho advisory board consists of men prominent in the business, professional and social world. A distinctive feature of the work is the large number of young women who voluntarily give their services in the various departments; women of wealth, culture and talent who faithfully devote a certain portion ot each week from October until May to instructing classes in the different praches, for which may of them have been especially trained. In addition to these a large corps of expert teachers is employed. Another unique phase deprecates the raising of funds by any sort of public entertainment Dues, donations and subscriptions and rentals together with interest on the endowment fund constitute, the revenue upon which the association depends wholly for support. In her last annual report Mrs.

Charles N. Judsou, who has been president of the association since it was started, thus characterizes it: "It is not a club, although possessing soma of the elements of a club, for the young women are members and have the right to use it freely; it is not a mercantile establishment, although a market for the work of self supporting women; it is not a dispensary, yet the care and advice of good physicians may bo obtained here; it is not a school, but in ita many classes hundreds of young women daily receive mental and industrial training; it is not a church, for there is no creed set forth nor sacraments dispensed, and it has no da amelioration of suffering that la to say, after the acute attack has subsided and the patients are restored to the ordinary health of persons In their condition. Applications: for the admission of patients living out of the city must be accompanied by a certificate of some physician, statins' the nature and probable duration of the disease. 4. The friends of the sick are allowed to visit them twice a week namely, on Sundays and Thursdays, between the hours of 3 and 5 P.

M. Children are not admitted. 6. All persons desiring admission to tiie hospital must matoe application, to the sisters between. 9 and 12 A.

or 3 and 5 P. M. St. Peter's Hospital was established in 1864, for the gratuitous care of the sick poor from 5 years ot age and up. It has 3,228 patients.

It received during 1897, from the city charter appropriations, from excise, contributions, total received, total expenditures, property value, $475,200. Sister Gonsalva, superior. The Brooklyn Hospital, one of the oldest institutions tn the city, is situated at Raymond street and DeKalh avenue. It was established In 1845, for the purpose of giving medical and surgical aid to the poor, and is non sectarian. It has 1,529 Inmates.

During the year 1897 it received from the city charter excise, contributions, endowments, total, total expenditures, $48, 324. Property value, $355,172. William G. Low Is president; C. V.

Dudley, superintendent. There is a Training School for Nurses In conjunction with the Brooklyn Hospital, at DeKalb avenue and Raymond street. It was established in 1879 and has 17 nurses in training; 40 persons were assisted in 1897; the contribution were total receipts, current expenses, building and im provments, $13,600. Total, Mrs. W.

G. Low Is president; Miss M. Isabel Merritt, superintendent The Kings County Hospital, which i6 under charge of the Commission of Charities and Corrections, is situated between Albany avenue and Clove road and was established 1840. Its object is to care for, assist and treat the sick; poor. It has 6,051 inmates; 4,259 persons were assisted in 1897 and 250, 000 prescriptions were distributed.

Jesse T. Duryea, M. la medical superintendent. The Brooklyn E. D.

Dispensary and Hospital is situated at 106 112 South Third street It was established In 1851, to give medical and surgical aid to the poor. It has 503 inmates. The work of the combined Institutions during the year 1897 shows the following: 15,800 persons assisted, 16,400 prescriptions given, 2,700 visiU to patients at home. Received from the city, from excise, private contributions, total, $9,980. Current expenses, $11,000.

Property value, $20,000. P. Bendernagel. president; L. Weagand, superintendent.

Catharine's Hospital and Dispensary is located on Bush wick avenue between Ten HOAGLAND LABORATORY, HENRY STREET. Homo in South Brooklyn does a splendid work and its managers have earned the respect and gratitude of a large class of people who have heen helped or cured of disease within its homelike walls. New York will now he able to boast almost double its former number of hospitals, almshouses, asylums and dispensaries as a result of consolidation. The following figures give some idea of the equipment of the Borough of Brooklyn in this respect: Almshouses and homes for the 14 Hospitals and iniirmaries 30 Dispensaries 2j Asylums Training schools for nurses 6 Children's homes 34 Total 112 This does not include the various reformatories conducted by charitable organizations. parties.

The members during the past summer have enjoyed vacation trips to camp, at Northfleld, under the supervision of Mr. D. L. Moody, at Waccabac Lake, N.Y., and at Bellhaven Lodge, Bellport, L. I.

A summer headquarters at Bath Beach was established last season at the Manor, foot of Bay Eleventh street, under the care of the Central Branch secretaries, and members, especially wheelmen, took frequent advantage of the opportunity for bathing and for social gatherings and entertainments on the lawn of Ibe Manor. The intellectual side of association life has also received full attention. The library ot 14,006 volumes, the reference room and the reading room, are well adapted to the wants of the student. The members are aided In their search by frequent additions oX reading lists, and the library is proving.