The hospital future of greater New York : address delivered at the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting of the Woman's Hospital in the State of New York, Wednesday, December 23, 1908 / by W. Gilman Thompson.

  • William Gilman Thompson
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1908
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Credit: The hospital future of greater New York : address delivered at the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting of the Woman's Hospital in the State of New York, Wednesday, December 23, 1908 / by W. Gilman Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WOMAN’S HOSPITAL IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK Wednesday, December 23, 1908 By W. GILMAN THOMPSON, M.D. THE HOSPITAL FUTURE OF GREATER NEW YORK THE hospital future of Greater New York is a subject which ap- peals not alone to those immediately participating in hospital development, but its problems are alike humanitarian and sociological, and are intimately connected with many aspects of the city’s growth. We seem to delight in working out our own salvation in public mat- ters in an amateurish way, without cooperation and without regard to the experience of others. In New York city we witness thirteen differ- ent classes of hospitals under as many types of management, all as sublimely independent of one another as if no other type existed. These are: 1 A group of hospitals under a single Commissioner in the Depart- ment of Public Charities. 2 A group of hospitals for contagious diseases under the Health Board. 3 A group, of four, the Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, under a board of seven trustees. 4 A group of large independent hospitals supported by voluntary aid, and receiving no city funds, of which the Presbyterian and New York Hospitals are types. 5 Hospitals partly supported by the city and partly by private con- tributions. 6 Hospitals based upon anatomical peculiarities, like the Skin and Cancer and the Woman’s Hospitals. 7 Hospitals for specialties, like the New York Eye and Ear. 8 Hospitals based upon linguistic traits, like the French, the [ 1 ]