An Account Of Social Stock

Take a rapid account of social stook in New York city. Blackwell's island, two miles long, ninety aeros in extent, studded f rom prul to ead with the epileptic, paral ytic, maternity and charity hospitals. th New York pcnitentiary sprawling from shore to shore; the alins house, the work house, and the womeó's lunatic asylum, anditsgrowing population of more than 7,000. Then there lies Ward's island, 260 acres, with lunatic asylunis for males, andths Homeopathie hos.pital, and 3, 000 inmates. Separated by Heil Gate is Randall's island, with infants' and the Island hospitals, an inxane asylum for idiota, a branch of the penitentiary, an insane asylum for the young, and the House of Refuge. Then we reach Ricker's island, of sixty acres, exclusively used for correctional Institutions. Still further ftfty acres with a hospital for incurables; a branch workhouse and a lunatic asylum with 3,500 inmates, and - the ghastly end of the procession - the potter's field, 600 aci-es close along the city,