- Of these in hospitals. . . 269
- In asylums. . . 115
- In houses of refuge. . . 252
- 636
- During the year 1883 the emigrants received on the
- Island were cared for as follows:
- Treated in hospitals. . . 4,373
- Treated in asylums. . . 339
- Sheltered in houses of refuge. . . 1,966
- Total. . . 6,678
- Island were cared for as follows:
Since 1874, 2933 persons have been buried in the cemetery on the Island.
CONCLUDING REMARKS.
We have endeavored, in the preceding pages, to give our Members an interesting and instructive picture of the activity and the extent of the work of the German Society during the hundred years of its existence. The attentive reader must have observed how much can be accomplished by perseverance and by united forces, and what great results can be attained from small beginnings, when benevolent efforts meet with appreciation and assistance from all those whose favorable circumstances admit of their devoting practical sympathy to the welfare of the needy and destitute. Originally founded for the purpose of aiding and advising a few emigrants at the end of their long and dangerous voyage, the Society has since then extended its usefulness to a well-organized Charity Department, the Labor Bureau—at present in Castle Garden—the Bureau of Information, with its wide-spread activity in all directions, the beneficent Care of the Sick, and the Banking Department, which guarantees prompt and reliable attention to all money matters, and offers undoubted security.
There is probably no city in the world in which more is done for the relief of the poor than in New York, and the German charitable societies occupy an honorable position among its benevolent institutions; nevertheless, we cannot conceal from ourselves that there still remains much to be done, and that the German Society should not relax its efforts to extend its sphere of action in new directions.
