Following the institutions in charge of the Governors of the Alms-house is the New York State Emigrants’ Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York City, under the direction of the Commissioners of Emigration, in the reports whereof the following cases of venereal disease are noted:
| 1853 | 657 | |
| 1854 | 732 | |
| 1855 | 856 | |
| 1856 | 511 | |
| 1857 | 559 |
The New York Hospital, Broadway, next claims attention. The reports for the under-mentioned years give the number of venereal cases as follows:
| 1852 | 478 | |
| 1853 | 338 | |
| 1856 | 372 | |
| 1857 | 405 |
These embrace the principal public hospitals of New York. There are other institutions, such as St. Luke’s Hospital, St. Vincent’s Hospital, the Jews’ Hospital, etc., but they are of recent origin, and their practice will not form an element in this calculation.
The dispensaries of the city relieve yearly a large amount of sickness. In the New York Dispensary, Centre Street, the cases of venereal disease are reported as follows:
| 1855 | 1154 | |
| 1856 | 1393 | |
| 1857 | 1580 |
This gives an average of about three per cent. of all the patients treated.
The Northern Dispensary, Waverley Place, does not publish any detailed report of the diseases treated, and to make an estimate it will be necessary to assume that the proportion is the same as in the New York Dispensary, namely, three per cent. By this rule the following results are obtained: