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outlay of $2,500,000 and there will be accoinmodation for i,ooo 

 patients in the eight pavilions. Contracts for two of these pavilions 

 have been let and will l)e paid for by a fund raised by the New York 

 Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. The new 

 hospital will be turned over to the city of New York and will be con- 

 ducted by Bellevue and Allied Hospitals. The plans include an 

 immense playground running back to Jamaica Bay for the use of the 

 public. 



Credit is due to Dr. John Winters Brannan, of New York, presi- 

 dent of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, for much of the great work 

 which has so far taken about nine years to accomplish and for which 

 America will be justly proud. 



Encouraged by the success at Sea Breeze, another hospital for 

 surgical tuberculosis in children was started six years ago at Port 

 Jefferson, on the north shore of Long Island, opposite the Sound. 

 The situation is said to be ideal. It accommodates two hundred 

 children and is a handsome fireproof structure. It is called St. 

 Charles' Hospital ; it is under the active care of the " Daughters 

 of Wisdom," a Roman Catholic Society. The children, according 

 to Dr. Wallace, receive every physical, mental, spiritual and indus- 

 trial care necessary to produce good moral men and women. It is 

 an active orthopedic hospital admitting any deserving case and 

 keeping him there until the lesions are healed. Patients in advanced 

 stages of bone tuberculosis are received as well as those with pul- 

 monary complication. Under the good hygienic surroundings at 

 St. Charles' Hospital, the children have shown great improvement 

 in every way. Dr. Wallace adds : " The removal of the diseased bone 

 with the knife is no longer attempted, because such a procedure not 

 only takes away the root from which the bone grows, but also fails 

 to eradicate the aft'ected area. Reliance must therefore be placed 

 on other than cutting methods for local treatment of the affected 

 parts." Immobilization by plaster-of-Paris, properly applied and 

 fresh air on the shore of Long Island Sound, conjoined with every 

 other hygienic aid possible, constitute the line of treatment. 



The New York Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled has lately 

 removed to a new site on a hill near the East River, where the 

 outdoor treatment for the tuberculous cripple is carried out as well 

 as it can be in a large city. 



In England it has long been customary to send scrofulous children 

 and those with surgical tuberculosis to the eastern and southeast 

 coast. At Margate the Royal Sea-Bathing Hospital, founded by 



