Street Cleaning- Department. When the case was called in the court 

 a laugh went round, for there was nothing- for the court to do. 



Caring for Smallpox. 



In the winter of 1874-5, 3,000 cases of smallpox were reported, 

 with 1,200 deaths. The patient.s were sent to Black well's Island 

 and were nursed by the "seven day drunks." The principal medi- 

 cine administered consisted of whisky. The nurses drank most of 

 this. The tales of the cruelty and indifference with which the in- 

 valids were treated reached the poorer sections of the city and the 

 families of the patients refused to report them. As a consequence 

 the first intimation of the presence of a smallpox case came when 

 an entire tenement had been infected. The patients were under 

 the rule of the Department of Charities. One afternoon at 4 o'clock 

 Dr. Chandler received a telegram that a bill had been passed at Al- 

 bany and signed by the Governor giving the Health Department 

 jurisdiction. He had himself vaccinated, and visited the hospital 

 for smallpox so that he might see for himself the true state of af- 

 fairs, seeing then a case of smallpox for the first time. At the 

 request of Health Commissioner Stephen Smith and himself. Arch- 

 bishop McCloskey furnished fourteen Sisters of Charity to take the 

 place of the "seven day drunk" nurses. Instead of having an 

 ambulance back up to a tenement to take a man away he put into 

 commission a well a^^pointed carriage with two handsome gray 

 horses and a man in liverv on the box. As a consequence small- 

 pox patients went awav in stvle and the presence of the sisters 

 gave assurance to the poor of the east side that they would be 

 properlv treated. Thereafter no effort was made to conceal cases 

 of smallpox, general vaccination was resorted to and within a few 

 montlis the disease had disappeared from Manhattan T'^land. 



Friends in Every Pharmacy. 



In conclusion. Dr. Chandler said, "Wherever I see the green and 

 red lights of the apothecary in New York there I know I have a 

 friend. I never go into a drug store but that some one comes up 

 and tells me he was of the class of '69, of '80. or possibly a junior 

 student still. Sometimes they are boys but newly matriculated at 

 college. Sometimes thev are old gray haired men -whose stooping 

 shoulders and faltering footsteps make them seem older than I 

 myself: always they are friends. This has been my highest re- 

 ward, this has been mv most cherished compensation. The feeling 

 that I mav have helped in the upbuilding of the institution, have 

 aided in the formation of the minds of the rising generation of 

 pharmacists and that this help has brought me the friendship of 

 my students is a source of pride and will remain a source of pleas- 

 ure so long as T live. Although this has been announced as a fare- 

 well address, I shall not say farewell, for so long as I am able to go 

 anywhere, T shall come to the meetings of the New York College 

 of Pharmacv, there to meet the friends of a lifetime, dear friends, 

 from whom I hope never to part." 



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