e age of three or
four years, when they are transferred to the Nurseries mentioned above.
The Hospital is a large and handsome brick building, and will accommodate
several hundred children and their nurses.

The Idiot Asylum is a large brick building, with accommodations for
several hundred patients. It contains at present about 150 of these,
whose ages vary from six to thirty years. They represent nearly all the
different phases of idiocy, and are well cared for. Some of them have
been greatly improved in mind by the treatment and discipline pursued.

LII. BENEVOLENT AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.

It would be simply impossible to present within the limits of a single
chapter, or indeed in half a dozen chapters of the size of this, a
description of the Benevolent and Charitable Institutions of New York.
We can do no more than glance at them. Besides the institutions already
mentioned, there are twenty-one hospitals, twenty-three asylums,
seventeen homes, five missions, industrial schools, and miscellaneous
societies, making a total of sixty-six institutions, or with those
already noticed, a total of nearly one hundred benevolent, charitable,
penal, and reformatory institutions supported by the city and people of
New York.

Among the hospitals the largest and oldest is the New York Hospital,
formerly located on Broadway opposite Pearl street. The Hospital is in
charge of the medical faculty of the University of New York. At present
the operations of this institution are entirely suspended, and will not
be resumed until the completion of new buildings, the old ones having
been sold and pulled down.

The Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, is a branch of the New York
Hospital. It is situated on One-hundred-and-seventeenth street, between
Tenth and Eleventh avenues. It is one of the most complete
establishments in the world, and is admirably conducted.

Bellevue Hospital, on the East River, at the foot of Twenty-sixth street,
is one of the largest in the city. It will accommodate 1200 patients,
and is conducted by the Commissioners of Charities and Corrections.
There is no charge for treatment and attendance, everything being free.
The hospital is in charge of the most distinguished physicians of the
city, and as a school of clinical instruction ranks among the first in
the world. The course is open to the students of all the medical schools
in the city.

[Picture: BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM