Hare: A Study of Handicapped Children 41 



State 



Year 

 Opened 



A VF R A HTT' 



-i I V CiXV/WjJl; 



Number of 

 Children 



Convalescent Hospitals 



New York (Coney Island) . 



1904 



42 



1. 



Sea Breeze Hospital. 



(Garden City) . . 



1891 



45 



2. 



House of St. Giles the 











Cripple. 



(Port Jefferson). 



1907 



110 



3. 



St. Charles Hospital 











for Crippled Chil- 











dren. 



(West Haverstraw) 



1900 



61 



4. 



State Hospital for 











the Care of Crip- 











pled and Deformed 











Children. 



(White Plains) . . 



1904 



94 



5. 



Country Branch and 











Industrial School 











of the New York 











Orthopedic Dispea- 











sary and Hospital. 



Pennsylvania 











(Philadelphia) 



1906 



96 



1. 



Widener Memorial 











School for Crippled 











Children. 



(Pittsburgh). 



1902 



45 



2. 



Industrial Home for 











Crippled Children. 



(Sewickley). . 



1897 



27 



3. 



Sewickley Fresh Air 











Home. 



Institutional cases of crippled children are registered and 

 statistical information in regard to them is more readily ob- 

 tained than concerning non-residential cases. However, it is 

 known that the number of ''out patients" far exceeds the num- 

 ber of institutional cases receiving surgical care. 'The most 

 important provisions for medical supervision of crippled chil- 

 dren not living in institutions are the dispensary services."" 

 Statistics comparing the number of admissions of 9 dispensa- 

 ries and the 37 crippled children institutions shows "a total 

 of 34,392 different out-patients — as against 4,901 patients 

 resident in the entire 37 institutions".' A statement made 

 by many surgeons is "that while dispensary care may be ade- 

 quate for som.e cases, it can be safely substituted for institu- 



' Reeves, Care and Education of Crifjplcd Children, p. 33. 

 ^Ibid., p. 34, 



