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Title: New York Nursery and Child's Hospital Annual Report
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: New York Nursery and Child's Hospital
Subjects: New York Nursery and Child's Hospital Maternal health services Child health services Charities, Medical--New York (State)--New York Foundlings care Child care
Publisher: New York Nursery and Child's Hospital
Contributing Library: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Samuel J. Wood Library
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remeeting with the same success in saving child life. In 1872, the New York Infant Asylum bought the property where thepresent Hospital stands, at Amsterdam Avenue and 61st Street, for $55,000—$16,500 cash and the balance on mortgage—but the building was not occu-pied until April, 1873. The house at No. 24 Clinton Place was not aban-doned, however, until 1878. In 1899, the New York Infant Asylum consolidated with the old MarionStreet Maternity Hospital and the cash realized from the sale of the MarionStreet property, some $75,000, together with $18,000 donated for the pur-pose, was used to help build part of the present Hospital building. In 1910 the New York Infant Asylum was consolidated with the Nurseryand Childs Hospital under the name of New York Nursery and ChildsHospital. Under this consolidation the work of the two corporations hasbeen continued and enlarged. The work of the Hospital can be classified asfollows: (1) A Lying-in Hospital; (2) A Hospital for sick children; 16
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A new arrival in the Premature Nursery (3) A Boarding-Out Department, supplanting the nursery in thebuilding. The foundling children are placed in suitable homes and theirgeneral welfare supervised by visitors from the hospital; (4) An Outside Obstetrical Department, continuing the work begunby the Old Marion Street Maternity Hospital. Physicians connected withthe staff are sent to the homes of those who apply for aid; (5) The training of nursery maids, who, after a systematic course inthe care of young children, are open to employment in private families. There are always from eighty to one hundred sick children in the wardsof the Hospital. They are roomed in the three childrens wards on the sev-enth floor, and sometimes another ward in the quarantine building is pressedinto service. The shelter on the roof of the old building is also devoted tothe children. The entire childrens service is under the supervision of agraduate nurse who is aided by the girls who are in training as nurse

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