Ward's Island Research Articles

Sandor Rado: The Later Years

Sandor Rado: The Later YearsHagop S. MashikianHagop S. Mashikian1 Rockland Children's Psychiatric Hospital, Convent Road, Orangeburg, N. Y. 10962.2 New York School of Psychiatry, Ward's Island, New York 10035.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:July 2017https://doi.org/10.1521/jaap.1.1974.2.1.11PDFPDF PLUS ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations AboutReferencesBulletins of New York School of Psychiatry, New York School of Psychiatry, New York. Google ScholarMinutes and Notes of Faculty Meetings, New York School of Psychiatry, unpublished. Google ScholarRado S. (1956), Psychoanalysis of Behavior, Grune & Stratton, New York. Google ScholarRado S. (1965), Psychoanalysis of Behavior, Vol II, Grune & Stratton, New York. Google Scholar Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 2Issue 1Mar 1974 Information© 1974 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.PDF download

Cerebral amino acid transport in vitro. II. Regional differences in amino acid uptake by slices from the central nervous system of the rat.

Journal of NeurochemistryVolume 12, Issue 7 p. 639-648 CEREBRAL AMINO ACID TRANSPORT IN VITRO–II REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN AMINO ACID UPTAKE BY SLICES FROM THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE RAT G. Levi, G. Levi Department of Biochemistry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York The New York State Research Institute for Neurochemistry and Drug Addiction, Ward's Island, New York, New YorkSearch for more papers by this authorA. Lajtha, A. Lajtha Department of Biochemistry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York The New York State Research Institute for Neurochemistry and Drug Addiction, Ward's Island, New York, New YorkSearch for more papers by this author G. Levi, G. Levi Department of Biochemistry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York The New York State Research Institute for Neurochemistry and Drug Addiction, Ward's Island, New York, New YorkSearch for more papers by this authorA. Lajtha, A. Lajtha Department of Biochemistry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York The New York State Research Institute for Neurochemistry and Drug Addiction, Ward's Island, New York, New YorkSearch for more papers by this author First published: July 1965 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1965.tb04257.xCitations: 41 The valuable help of Dr. J. Kandera is gratefully acknowledged. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume12, Issue7July 1965Pages 639-648 RelatedInformation

Long-term community follow-up of formerly hospitalized psychotic patients.

1 Research Division, Manhattan State Hospital, Ward's Island, New York City. This paper was presented at the Research Conference on Rehabilitation and the Family, Manhattan State Hospital, March, 1962.

AN OFFICIAL REPORT ON NORWEGIAN AND SWEDISH IMMIGRATION, 1870

AN OFFICIAL REPORT ON NORWEGIAN AND SWEDISH IMMIGRATION, 1870 BY A. LEWENHAUPT WITH A FOREWORD BY THEODORE C. BLEGEN In 1870 A. Lewenhaupt, the chargé d'affaires attached to the Swedish-Norwegian legation at Washington, made a report , based upon first-hand observation, on the immigration to the United States from Norway and Sweden, with special reference to the conditions met by the immigrants in America. This report is broad in scope: it examines the situation not only at Castle Garden but also in the areas of the Middle West to which the emigrants went. Lewenhaupťs findings are incisively presented, filled with concrete detail, and clearly of distinct historical interest. It is a sixteen-page pamphlet entitled Indberetning fra hans majestœts chargé d'affaires i Washington angaaende udvandringen fra de Forenede Rig er til de N ordamerikanske For enede Stater (Report from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Washington concerning Emigration from the United Kingdoms to the United States of North America) . I found a printed copy, in Norwegian, preserved in the Norwegian archives , and the present translation, which makes the document available for the first time in English, is based upon this copy.1 After the report proper, Lewenhaupt gives some extracts from American laws in reference to the traveling effects of immigrants and a statistical table having to do with prices of various American products, foods, clothing, and the like in certain selected states in 1869. This material is not included in the translation herewith presented. T. C. B. 1 The translation was made some years ago under my direction by Mr. J. A. Fagereng as part of a University of Minnesota CWA project. 46 REPORT ON IMMIGRATION 47 The Lewenhaupt Account Since immigration constitutes the chief means of contact between the United Kingdoms and the United States of North America, and in view of the fact that current business at the legation consists largely of commissions from the immigrants' relatives in the mother country, I have hereby the honor to present in part some information relative to immigration in general , as well as to render an account of the reason for the delay in the execution of the commissions presented to the legation. Most of the immigrants from the United Kingdoms to America reach New York via England and on English steamships. Last year, however, a small group of about five thousand arrived on American steamships via Copenhagen. At present no immigrants are conveyed directly by steamship from the United Kingdoms to America. As a consequence of this situation, Swedish laws have definitely prohibited the overcrowding of immigrant ships such as prevails in other countries. Meanwhile, the immigrants complain more of the poor food aboard the ships than of the lack of sufficient space. Upon arrival in New York the immigrant vessels land their passengers on a cliff that projects into the harbor; it is called •" Castle Garden.'' There the passengers are received by the emigration commissioners or by a committee appointed by the state of New York, to whom the supervision of immigrants is entrusted . This committee has at its disposal a considerable sum of money; every passenger boat that arrives in New York must pay a fee of 7 rix-dollars, 50 öre (1 specie dollar, 105 Norwegian skiUing ) for each immigrant. This sum, which amounts annually to more than 3,000,000 rix-dollars, Swedish currency (750,000 Norwegian specie dollars), is used for the maintenance and expansion of the immigrant home on Ward's Island, an island situated at the entrance to New York. These fees also defray expenses incurred by the committee for the reception of the immigrants at Castle Garden and for their transportation to other points. All immigrants coming by way of New York have the right to free accommodation, if they need it, on Ward's Island during the first five years of their stay. The accommodations to be had there are necessarily comparable to those received at 48 STUDIES ANDRECORDS poorhouses; if they were otherwise the immigrant house would become overcrowded. The immigration committee's report for last year indicates, nevertheless, that immigrants seek admission to Ward's Island during the winter months in order...

Book Review Lactobacillus Acidophilus . By Nicholas Kopeloff, Ph.D. Associate in Bacteriology, Psychiatric Institute, Ward's Island, New York. The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1926. 212 pages. Price $5.00.

Book Review Lactobacillus Acidophilus . By Nicholas Kopeloff, Ph.D. Associate in Bacteriology, Psychiatric Institute, Ward's Island, New York. The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1926. 212 pages. Price $5.00.

The Manhattan Fire: Some Reflections

The serious outbreak of fire which occurred at the Manhattan State-Hospital, Ward's Island, New York, on February 18, resulting in the death of twenty-four patients and three nurses, recalls the terrible holocaust of Colney Hatch nearly twenty years ago. Although the Press reports which reached this country contained many inaccuracies, yet it is apparent that there are several features of similarity between the two occurrences.

Department of Public Welfare in the City of New York

finished in 1736; by 1746 it was outgrown and required additions. Prior to this date in the early years of the city, the poor had been maintained by the church. From 1695 on, the city appropriated yearly a sum of one hundred pounds or more for the support of the poor, and they appointed an inspector of the poor. But not until 1736 could it be considered as an official part of the city's activities. The Workhouse was supported by a tax upon the inhabitants. By 1775, this tax amounted to 4,233 pounds or about 95 cents per capita. In May, 1796, a new almshouse was finished and used until 1816; this occupied the site where the Courthouse now stands on Chamber Street. About this time the city purchased old Kip's Bay Farm on the East River at the foot of Twenty-Sixth Street, which later became known as Bellevue Hospital. This group comprised two hospitals, an almshouse, a workshop and a school. In 1819, an epidemic of yellow fever forced the addition of a hospital for contagious diseases. In 1828, Blackwell's Island was bought and a penitentiary built and by 1839, a lunatic asylum added. In 1850, it became apparent that a poor farm was necessary and consequently Ward's Island was purchased for that purpose. By 1843, a reorganization was demanded and a special committee investigated and a resolution was passed which provided for an almshouse on Blackwell's Island, a children's and an adult hospital, the lunatic asylum extended, a workhouse, and nurseries and infants' hospital on Randall's Island. It was in 1850 that the city began the practice of subsidizing private institutions for the care of dependents; in that first year a sum of $9,863 was expended. This policy is still continued successfully; in 1920, there were 196 private charitable institutions which accepted public charges for the city. About 1883, a feeling became general that the existing system under which the paupers, criminals, lunatics and the sick poor were cared for by one department, Department of Public Charities and Corrections which was established in 1860, was objectionable so that in 1895 a law providing for the division of the department into two distinct bodies, namely, the Department of Public Charities and the Department of Corrections was passed. The hospitals, almshouse, lunatic asylum and all institutions on Blackwell's Island were placed under the Department of Public Charities and the Department of Corrections managed the penal and reformatory institutions,

REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.

Reviews in This ArticleSome Notes on the State Sale Monopoly and Subsequent Prohibition of Vodka in Russia. By J. Y. Simpson, D.Sc, F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural Science in New College, Edinburgh. Pp.The Six‐Hour Day and Other Industrial Questions. By Lord Leverhulme. With an Introduction by Viscount Haldane of Cloan. Edited by Stanley Unwin. Pp.The Human Needs of Labour. By B. Seebohm Rowntree. Pp.War Neuroses. By John T. MacCurdy, M.D., of the Psychiatric Institute, Ward's Island, New York; and Lecturer on Medical Psychology in Cornell University Medical School, New York. With a Preface by W. H. R. Rivers, M.D., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Pp.Syphilis and Public Health. By Edward B. Vedder, A.M., M.D., Lieutenant‐Colonel, Medical Corps, United States Army. Pp.Criminology. By Maurice Parmelee, Ph.D., Author of “The Science of Human Behaviour,” etc. Pp.Economy of Energy and How to Secure it. By Eustace Miles, M.A. Pp.

NOTE ON THE INCIDENCE OF STATUS LYMPHATICUS IN DEMENTIA PRAECOX

In a study of the clinical diagnosis of status lymphaticus based on the physical findings in 1,000 male patients in the alcoholic wards of Bellevue Hospital in New York, I noted¹that among the patients referred to these wards were frequently to be found border-line cases, which on further study were properly classed as psychopathic cases instead of individuals of normal mentality who were toxic and irresponsible as a result of narcotic or alcoholic drug addictions. Among these psychopathic patients, cases of dementia praecox were common, and in seeking an opportunity to study a larger group of such cases with a view to determining the incidence of status lymphaticus, I obtained permission through the courtesy of Dr. Wm. Mabon and the resident physicians at the State Asylum at Ward's Island to examine such inmates as were definitely classed as having dementia praecox. No cases of doubtful diagnoses were

THE NEUROSEROLOGICAL FINDINGS IN TABES, GENERAL PARESIS, CEREBROSPINAL SYPHILIS, AND OTHER NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES

This communication is the record of a laboratory equipped for serological work. It does not concern itself with the post-mortem findings, nor does it attempt to discuss the clinical distinctions of the diseases scheduled. The material was obtained from the Neurological Institute and in a measure from the Manhattan State Hospital, Ward's Island. The interesting work of Plaut has shown the necessity of a more definite laboratory knowledge of tabes, general paresis and cerebrospinal lues. In the above mentioned work there is little to help one in the differentiation between difficult cases of paresis and cerebrospinal syphilis, nor do other writers shed much light on the situation from a laboratory standpoint. The material analyzed in this communication, 340 cerebrospinal fluids and as many serums, we have divided into four groups or types: The negative types. The positive types. The aberrant types. The post-therapeutic

HYDROTHERAPY AS PRACTICED IN THE MANHATTAN STATE HOSPITAL

Through the courtesy of Dr. William Mabon, superintendent and medical director, and Miss Townsend, superintendent of nurses, we are enabled to give the following description of methods used in the hydrotherapy room of the Manhattan State Hospital on Ward's Island, N. Y.

AN UNUSUAL CASE OF FRACTURE OF THE SKULL.

I have to beg the indulgence of the Academy for bringing up in a very new and crude way a history of a case which has always been extremely interesting to me, and I will explain how it is that I am unable to give more complete data of the case. It is a case of fracture of the skull which occurred during my service at the State Emigrant Hospital, New York, when that institution was located upon Ward's Island and under the government of the New York commissioners of immigration. Some three or four years following my service the department was taken out of the hands of the New York State commissioners of immigration and put into the hands of a single-headed commission which was under the general government, and the hospital was removed from Ward's Island to Ellis Island in the harbor so that my data in regard

Report of the Surgeon-General of the United States Navy — The City Insane Asylums on Ward's Island, New York — The Berlin Medical Society on Diphtheria Antitoxin — The Position of the Philadelphia Hospital Trustees — Medical Notes

Report of the Surgeon-General of the United States Navy — The City Insane Asylums on Ward's Island, New York — The Berlin Medical Society on Diphtheria Antitoxin — The Position of the Philadelphia Hospital Trustees — Medical Notes

TRICHINOSIS TREATED BY FOWLER'S SOLUTION OF ARSENIC.

In the New York<i>Medical Journal</i>, September 19, is reported a case of trichinosis treated byFowler'ssolution of arsenic, with recovery. The reporter isDr. W. H. Merrill, of Pepperell, Massachusetts, and the patient was an inmate of the Ward's Island Hospital, an Italian immigrant aged twenty-five years. The cause of the disease was believed to be the ingestion of Bologna sausage, which took place about twenty days before the admission to hospital; the partaking of the sausage in this instance, more than any other former ones, was emphasized by the fact that the man was made unwell by it; he had vomiting, diarrhœa, anorexia and gastric pain, also later some hoarseness and cough. At the time of admission, the muscular and articular symptoms strongly favored the diagnosis of trichinosis, which was confired on the second day by the harpooning of a muscular specimen from the patient's right biceps.

Bibliographical Notices A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood . By J. Lewis Smith, M.D., Curator to the Nursery and Child's Hospital, New York; Physician to the Infant's Hospital, Ward's Island, &amp;c. 8vo. pp. 620. Philadelphia. 1869.

Bibliographical Notices A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood . By J. Lewis Smith, M.D., Curator to the Nursery and Child's Hospital, New York; Physician to the Infant's Hospital, Ward's Island, &amp;c. 8vo. pp. 620. Philadelphia. 1869.

Bibliographical Notices Sea-Sickness: Its Causes, Nature, Symptoms and Treatment, derived from Experience and Observation . By Ml. Nelken, Doctor Medicinæ of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, France; of the Faculty of Medicine in Wurzburg, Bavaria; and Resident Surgeon in the New York State Hospital, Ward's Island. New York: Stringer &amp; Townsend. 1856. pp.32.

Bibliographical Notices Sea-Sickness: Its Causes, Nature, Symptoms and Treatment, derived from Experience and Observation . By Ml. Nelken, Doctor Medicinæ of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, France; of the Faculty of Medicine in Wurzburg, Bavaria; and Resident Surgeon in the New York State Hospital, Ward's Island. New York: Stringer &amp; Townsend. 1856. pp.32.