Volume XXII - Monroe County Library System

Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Serials Collection
THE HOSPITAL REVIEW.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.. SEPTEMBER 15. 1885.
The Hospital Inmates.
On the last Saturday of August we visited
the Hospital and found fifteen patients receiving
treatment in the Male Surgical
Ward. One man was confined to his bed
with a burnt leg, but it was healing and he
was doing well. No death had occurred
during the month, and no patient was very
sick. Since then a boy who was injured
by being run over by an engine, at Fairport,
has died. Three of our boys are still in
this ward. Mr. L., the carpenter, who injured
his back by falling from a ladder, had
improved and returned home. The man
with a fractured hip was better, and had
left. F. P., who fell in a cellar and cut his
head, had been confined to the bed, but was
improving, up and dressed. Mr. H., a conductor
on the Central road, who had been
injured by the cars so that amputation
above the knee had been necessary, was doing
well but had been removed to the Mansard.
The Male Medical Ward had twenty inmates.
The sickest patient was Mr. C, an
aged man, an old resident of Rochester,
who felt that his end was near, and he has
since died. He seemed greatly soothed by
the tender care of his nurse, who gently
ministered to him. Five other patients*
were in their cots ; some with rheumatism
and others were consumptives. One man,
•who had been a great sufferer from rheumatism,
was so much improved that he had
left the bed to whjch for some time he had
been confined. The exzema patient gains
very slowly ; sometimes he improves and
then seems to lose what he has gained.
There were twenty under treatment in
the Female Medical Ward. One had just
died with an ovarian tumor. The woman
who for a long while has been slowly con-
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valescing from pneumonia is now so well
she will soon leave the Hospital. One patient
was under Dr. Rider's care, having
some disease of the eye ; another was a consumptive
; a third had a diseased stomach.
Four patients were confined to their cots.
A new patient had just been received.
The inmates of the Female Surgical Ward
numbered twenty-one. Four of these were
confined to their cots ; one of these was a
consumptive, another had sore thrpat and
was feverish, the third was Katy, the girl
with the burnt limb, and the fourth was
Tilly, who had had a surgical operation
and was rapidly improving. Several children—of
whom we speak elsewhere—were in
this Ward. In the lower cross ward were
two very sick patients, the one a paralytic
and the other a sufferer from consumption.
In the Lying-in Ward were three babies,
three mothers, and three waiting patients.
One of the Pavilions was occupied by a
man recovering from erysipelas.
The Little Folks.
We have them of all ages at the City
Hospital. The youngest, with the exception
of the three babies born within it, is a
little colored girl about two years old. Her
name is Sarah, and she comes from the Orphan
Asylum. She has a curvature of the
spine, is confined to her bed, and is to wear
a plaster of Paris jacket. Lawrence Barnes,
the boy with a broken knee, is improving,
and so is Terrance Martin, whose ankle was
injured by a boy who was coasting down
hill; Terrance goes about on crutches.
Tommy Jones, who fell from a tree and
broke his arm, has gone home, and so has
Gust Grunst, whose limb was amputated
below the knee. Max, the German boy,
whose limbs were paralyzed, walks now
with the use of his crutches ; Freddy Lyons
is improving, and Tommy Heeney changes
but little. Lorenz Fisher, fourteen years
old, has rheumatism in the knees and does
not leave his bed. Sidney Greenslave, the