and Delaware. The city of Philadelphia has also a fund, upon which sixteen children may be sent from the Children's Asylum of the Almshouse, by the proper committee, to the Institution. The objects of this Institution are as follows :— 1st. To educate and train in schools and gymnasiums children of weak intellect. 2d. To develop their usefulness through domestic, shop, and farm industries. 3d. To furnish a hospital or asylum for more helpless cases of this infirmity. A large farm is devoted to the buildings, and the Hospital or Asylum branch, now in course of erection, is at a distant point from, and in no wise connected with, the Educational Department. Information may be obtained from the Superintendent, to whom all applications for admission should be addressed. Officers. Superintendent and Physician, Dr. ISAAC N. KERLIN. St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. This Institution is supported by voluntary contributions, and is intended for the treatment of sick and injured children of the poor, without regard to creed, color, or nationality. It consists of a Hospital proper and a Dispensary. The Hospital is located at the N. W. corner of Lawrence and Huntingdon streets, opposite Fairhill Square. It is open, except during the summer, for the reception of all children suffering from non-contagious diseases. Application for admission should be made to the Physician-inCharge. During the hot weather its patients are transferred to the Children's Seashore House, Atlantic City. The Dispensary is open for the gratuitous treatment of poor sick children, except Sundays, from 2 to 3 o'clock P. M., throughout the year. Children's Seashore House at Atlantic City for Invalid Children. This Institution is open each summer from about June 15th until September 15th, and is designed for the treatment of invalid children of both sexes, without regard to creed, color, or nationality. Any child suffering from a non-contagious disease, or from debility, and likely to be benefited by a short residence at the seashore, can be admitted to the House. Applications for admission are received in Philadelphia by the Examining Physicians. A charge of two dollars per week is made for board, washing, medicines, and medical treatment; but a limited number of free and partly paid patients are received, subject in each case to the approval of two Managers. Accommodations have also been provided for mothers with sick infants. Each mother has for herself and child the exclusive use of a little cottage, so placed between the house and the beach as to combine the accommodations of the house with the benefits of the cool and invigorating atmosphere near the surf. The whole charge for a mother, with either one or two children in one of these cottages, is three dollars a week. The above-mentioned rates are not applicable to cases admitted from public institutions; for these a charge nearer the actual cost of maintenance is made by special agreement. Tickets to and from Atlantic City are furnished to patients and their attendants at extremely low rates. The length of time which each child remains in the Institution is determined by the Physician-in-Chief, in accordance with the necessities of the case. Visitors are admitted daily, between 3 and 5 P. M. Physician in Charge. Dr. William H. Bennett, 332 South Fifteenth Street (Atlantic City during the Summer). Examining Physicians. Dr. L. J. Deal, Dr. F. P. Henry. Charles A. Currie, Sanitarium of Philadelphia. LOCATION, POINT AIRY, WINDMILL Island, Delaware River. The object is to afford sick poor children a place where they may obtain fresh and pure air during the warm months. Children and their nurses, etc., are passed to the Sanitarium free on the steamer on presentation of tickets to be obtained of any of the officers or managers. Open from June to October. GENERAL DISPENSARIES. The Philadelphia Dispensary. 127 SOUTH FIFTH STREET. This Institution was founded in 1786. It is supported by private contributions and by income from investments. The Dispensary is open for patients from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. daily except Sunday. The Apothecary Shop is open from 9 A. M. to 64 P. M., and Sunday from 2 to 4 P. M. The benefits of the Dispensary are bestowed upon all applicants where circumstances do not admit of their employing a physician without being burdensome, residing between the Delaware and the Schuylkill, and between the north side of South Street and the south side of Vine Street; the only exceptions being those suffering from delirium tremens or from venereal disease, and mere paupers. The portion of the city above mentioned is divided into six districts, each of which is assigned to one of the Attending or "District" Physicians, who visit at their homes those unable to come to the Dispensary for treat ment. The benefits of the Obstetrical and of the Eye and Ear |