Annual report : 1937 / Woman's Hospital in the State of New York.
- Woman's Hospital in the State of New York.
- Date:
- 1937
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report : 1937 / Woman's Hospital in the State of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE WOMAN’S HOSPITAL IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK Founded in 1855 through the efforts of J. Marion Sims, M. D.; in¬ corporated in 1857. The Woman’s Hospital has the distinction of being the first institu¬ tion in the world established by Women “for the treatment of diseases peculiar to women and for the maintenance of a Lying-In Hospital.” Its first site was at Madison Avenue and 29th Street, where a building was rented, equipped for forty patients and opened on May 4, 1855. Twelve years later a building to accommodate seventy-five patients and the necessary staff of officers and nurses was built on land granted by the City, bounded by Park and Lexington Avenues and 49th and 50th Streets, and was opened for patients on October 12, 1867. A second building similar to the first was added in 1877 providing increased accom¬ modations for patients and improved facilities for surgical work and investigation. On the Lexington Avenue site the work of the hospital was continued for thirty-five years. In 1902 the property was sold and the hospital closed temporarily during the erection of its new building on Cathedral Heights. The present hospital building was completed and opened for patients on December 5, 1906. The Nurses’ Home, built largely through the generosity of the late Mrs. Morris K. Jesup on land given by the late Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson, was completed in December, 1914. The Thompson Building, built and equipped by the late Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson, was officially opened on December 9, 1915- This building provided the hospital with extensive pathological laboratories, ten additional private rooms, two additional operating rooms and accom¬ modations for the Out-Patient and the X-Ray Departments. The Out-Patient Building and an extension to the X-Ray Department were completed and opened for patients on March 13, 1929. Present capacity of the hospital: 300 patients. Gynecological Wards. 72 beds Obstetrical Wards. 42 Semi-Private Rooms (Gynecological and Obstet¬ rical) . 20 Private Rooms (Gynecological and Obstetrical)... 63 Recovery, Labor and Isolation Rooms. 15 212 beds Ward and Private Nurseries. 78 bassinets Isolation Nurseries. 10 Total. 300 [4]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31713725_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
