1190.
St. Luke’s Hospital. 2-cent tax stamp on verso.
Hospitals, Institutions
1191.
St. Luke’s Hospital.
5085.
South View of City Hospital and Grounds.
5087.
Perspective View of Duane Street, showing portion of City Hospital.
5088.
Portion of City Hospital, South side on Duane Street.
5090.
City Hospital entrance, View from Broadway.
5091.
City Hospital Entrance.
5092.
City Hospital, View from North side.
8051.
St. Matthew’s Hospital, Lexington Ave.
8668.
New York State Women’s Hospital.
9192.
Mount Sinai Hospital.
9193.
Mount Sinai Hospital.
9194.
Old Men and Women’s Hospital, Lenox Hill.
11787.
Howard Mission and Home for Little Wanderers, 225 East 11th St. near Third Ave.
11787.
Howard Mission, New York.
12121.
No. 356. French Hospital.
12215.
Quarantine Grounds, Staten Island, N.Y.
12300.
St. Luke’s Hospital N. York.
12301.
St. Luke’s Hospital. Corridor. Founded in 1858, located at 54th St. & 5th Ave.
12302.
St. Luke’s Hospital. Children’s Hall. Founded in 1858, located at 54th St. & 5th Ave.
12303.
St. Luke’s Hospital. Women’s ward getting ready for prayers. Founded in 1858, located at 54th St. & 5th Ave.
12304.
St. Luke’s Hospital. Women’s ward getting ready for prayers. Founded in 1858, located at 54th St. & 5th Ave.
12305.
St. Luke’s Hospital. “Dick & Susie.” Founded in 1858, located at 54th St. & 5th Ave.
12306.
St. Luke’s Hospital. Corridor. Founded in 1858, located at 54th St. & 5th Ave.
12313.
New York Hospital. In Broadway, between Duane and Worth Streets.
12521.
Department of Public Charities & Corrections, Hospital for the Reception of Sunstruck Patients.
12551.
Broadway Hospital.
12641.
Roosevelt Hospital.
12643.
Saint Luke’s Hospital.
12670.
Eye & Ear Infirmary.
12683.
St. Luke’s Hospital.
12688.
Blind Asylum.
13009.
Lenox Hospital, NY.
13016.
Homeopathic Hospital, Ward’s Island, NY.
13017.
Homeopathic Hospital, Ward’s Island, NY. This building began its life for a different purpose.
In the late nineteenth century the belief that alcoholism could be cured by confinement led to the establishment of inebriate asylums. In 1864 judges were granted the power to commit alcoholics to asylums. In the Textbook of Temperance (1869), Lees proclaims, “At last physiologists and statesmen have begun to acknowledge that the drinker’s appetite is a true mania and must be treated as such. Hence the establishment of ‘Inebriate Asylums’ in various parts of the States.” The Asylum on Ward’s Island was opened in 1868 by the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction, becoming the third in New York State. In New York and its Institutions, 1609-1871 (1872), Richmond chronicles its opening, “On the 21st of July 1868 the Asylum was formally opened to the public with appropriate services and on the 31st of December the resident physician reported 339 admissions. During 1869 1,490 were received and during 1870 1,270 more were admitted.”
While most patients were transferred from the Workhouse, there were also three classes of paying patients, with voluntary attendance of some. However, the Commissioners and the Attending Physician of the Inebriate Asylum came to agree with prevailing expert opinion that stricter confinement was necessary. Richmond explains, “The rules of the Institution were at first exceedingly mild. The patients were relieved from all irksome restraints, paroles very liberally granted and every inmate supposed intent on reformation. But this excessive kindness was subject to such continual abuse that to save the Institution from utter demoralization a stricter discipline was very properly introduced.”
As forcible detention came to lose favor as a means of treating alcoholism, the Inebriate Asylum closed in 1875. The building temporarily housed the overflow of patients from the Insane Asylum, also located on Ward’s Island, before becoming the Homeopathic Hospital the same year. The Homeopathic Hospital was renamed Metropolitan Hospital in 1894 when it moved to Blackwell’s Island, marking the beginning of Metropolitan’s affiliation with New York Homeopathic Medical College (now New York Medical College).
13032.
St. Johnland. Front of Mansion. In 1866, Protestant Episcopal Reverend William Augustus Muhlenberg (1796-1877) established St. Johnland to provide for the needs of the poor. The facility included buildings for elderly men, children, and young boys across 500 acres on the north shore of Suffolk County in the area now known as Kings Park. The general purpose was described at the time as “providing homes for the deserving and industrious poor who wish to escape the horrors of tenement houses; to afford a country refuge for the sick children of St. Luke’s Hospital… and to establish a home for old men, for whom, at the time the community was established, no place could be found but the Almshouse.” In 1870, The Society of St. Johnland was incorporated by the State of New York as a non-profit organization, governed by a voluntary Board of Trustees. Over the years, the original purpose of caring for the needy, young and old, was maintained. In the early 1950s, the Board of Trustees faced a dilemma: caring for the two disparate age groups required separate staffs. As much as the Board wanted to maintain the original purpose, they acknowledged that the quality of care would suffer if they did this. The Board resolved to specialize in care for the elderly. From that time until the mid-1970s, approximately 90 residents at any given time were cared for at St. Johnland. In the early 70s, the Board recognized the need to streamline the care by having one building as well as the need to upgrade the facility. Just after Christmas in 1975, the residents moved into the new and larger facility which is currently in use. Since that time, additional services have been added to the skilled nursing facility. In the 1990s, a Head Injury Rehabilitation Unit and an Alzheimer’s / Dementia Unit were added. A subacute care program was added in 2004. St. Johnland also provides services to those living at home in the community through two adult day care programs. Currently, St. Johnland accommodates more than 350 people each day with these services. The original philosophy of caring for the needy continues.
13033.
St. Johnland.
13034.
St. Johnland. Group of Youngest Boys, West Wing Division, 1873.
13035.
St. Johnland.
13036.
St. Johnland. Front View of the Inn.
13037.
St. Johnland. “Cove House”-Mt. St. John in the distance. Potato harvesting.
20215.
11725. Cathedral of St. John the Divine and St. Luke’s Hospital, Morningside Heights.
20238.
174. Det Norske Hospital, 4th Ave., Bklyn. In 1883 the Norwegian Hospital was founded by Sister Elizabeth Fedde. It grew and moved several times and is now serving a large part of Brooklyn in seven different languages as the NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn.
20340.
The Cornell Medical Center.