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Indiana University Studies 



State 



Year 

 Opened 



Average 



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Maine (Portland) 



1908 



57 



Children's Hospital. 



Minnesota (St. Paul) 



1897 



63 



State Hospital for In- 









digent Crippled and 









Deformed Children. 



Nebraska (Lincoln) 



1905 



70 



Nebraska Orthopedic 









Hospital. 



New Jersey (Newark) 



1891 



45 



Home for Crippled 









Children. 



New Jersey (Orange) 



1903 



10 



New Jersey Orthope- 









dic Hospital and 









Dispensar}' . 



New York (New York City) . . 



1906 



49 



Hospital for Deformi- 









ties and Joint Dis- 









ease. 



New York (New York City) . . 



1863 



192 



Hospital for the Rup- 









tured and Crippled. 



New York (New York City) . . 



1866 



62 



New York Orthopedic 









Dispensary and 









Hospital. 



Washington (Seattle) 



1907 



27 



Children's Orthopedic 









Hospital. 



Illinois (Chicago) 



1892 



87 



Home for Destitute 









Crippled Children. 



After the infantile paralysis epidemic in 1916, there were 

 approximately 15,000 crippled children left with the stamp 

 of paralysis. It was natural that at this time greater interest 

 should be taken in providing adequate measures to relieve 

 these handicapped youngsters, and in securing every possible 

 treatment that human care could supply. But during war 

 time building of every kind was suspended, and the expense 

 of establishing hospitals was prohibitively high. In 1914, in 

 the above-mentioned Russell Sage Foundation Survey, an 

 estimate v/as determined of the cost of orthopedic hospitals.^ 

 The average cost of hospital per child was found to be $2,747, 

 and of a convalescent hospital $1,294. The current average 

 expense annually per child was estimated for hospitals at 

 $570, and for convalescent hospitals $348. In this connection 



° Reeves, Care and Education of Crippled Children, p. 99. 



