The Society maintains the New York Hospital ..the House of Relief ..Bloomingdale Hospital for Mental Diseases ..Convalescent cottages .. . nch for the year were .... $254, The receipts from patients (chiefly from privatepatients) were 105, Leaving a deficit of $148, to be made up from the income of investments. This sum isthe income (at four per cent) of more than $3,500,000. The Society has hitherto received no support from the Cityauthorities, and its income has now become insufficient for itsmaintenance. With the increasing growth of the City, and —what is perhaps a more u


The Society maintains the New York Hospital ..the House of Relief ..Bloomingdale Hospital for Mental Diseases ..Convalescent cottages .. . nch for the year were .... $254, The receipts from patients (chiefly from privatepatients) were 105, Leaving a deficit of $148, to be made up from the income of investments. This sum isthe income (at four per cent) of more than $3,500,000. The Society has hitherto received no support from the Cityauthorities, and its income has now become insufficient for itsmaintenance. With the increasing growth of the City, and —what is perhaps a more urgent reason — with the rapid develop-ment of new methods of caring for the sick, this Society can nolonger meet the just demands upon it, without recourse to thegenerosity of the public-spirited citizens of the predecessors, more than a hundred and forty years ago,,laid the foundation of the present noble system for the reliefof suffering in its various forms; and the people of New Yorkhave never yet failed to supply the means for the essentialdevelopment of the material requirements of the New YorkHospital. 18. sa^a^i^^^^^iaaaaa^isaasaaaaaaaMeaaaaiaasMaaMaMi^M^^cifieaaeaasiafieMgiiM ^N^SNN\\WW^


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