. New York Nursery and Child's Hospital Annual Report. A Boarding-out Baby. Twins. carried through, but his widow secured a charter in 1865 and a buildingfor the Asylum was rented at 104th Street and West End Avenue. struggled with the problems for two years, when she died,and the work was abandoned. In 1871 the Society was the Annual Report of 1873 says: Our aim is to thwart and preventsuicide, infanticide and murder, those demons that follow hard upon thetrack of the unfortunate, and to shield, save and restore them as well asto protect their innocent offspring. S
. New York Nursery and Child's Hospital Annual Report. A Boarding-out Baby. Twins. carried through, but his widow secured a charter in 1865 and a buildingfor the Asylum was rented at 104th Street and West End Avenue. struggled with the problems for two years, when she died,and the work was abandoned. In 1871 the Society was the Annual Report of 1873 says: Our aim is to thwart and preventsuicide, infanticide and murder, those demons that follow hard upon thetrack of the unfortunate, and to shield, save and restore them as well asto protect their innocent offspring. Soon the work was extended to caring for destitute children. Themortality of these children in the institutions on the Island was admittedto be nearly 100 per cent. The nurses were women committed fordrunkenness and the food of the children was ordinary cows milk. Inthe summer months, very few children survived to the end of the monthof August. The revived Asylum rented a building at No. 24 Clinton Place, nearBroadway, and began operations. The result
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