Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1915 — Criticizes Hospitals. [ARTICLE]

Criticizes Hospitals.

Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt has given much time and money to the question of the selling of drugs and the treatment of those who become victims, which the city of New York takes care She now declared the maimer In which the city of New York takes care of the drug “fiends” S-hideous farce. After ten days the victims are sent out of the hospitals “cured,” and she says they leave shattered in nerve and unable to fight against the drag. Katherine Bement Davis, commissioner of charities in New York, says that between 35 and 50 per cent of all the criminals are drug fiends.