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- ↑ "THAW FLOODS HOSPITAL; Six Feet of Water Surround Kingston Avenue Institution. Three Brooklyn Fire Engines Barely Able to Keep It Below the Floors Where Many Patients Are Being Cared For". New York Times . February 27, 1902.
- ↑ "Communicable Cases Off: Kingston Avenue Hospital Lists Fewest in 10 Years". New York Times . April 22, 1940.
- ↑ "TB Patients Moved - 28 Children Taken to Kings County Hospital Center". New York Times . January 26, 1956. p. 19.
- ↑ "INFANT PARALYSIS STARTS A CLEANUP; City Departments Unite In Efforts to Impose Sanitation in Crowded Districts. 47 NEW CASES FOUND Health Commissioner Warns the Public That Adults Are Not Immune from It". New York Times . July 1, 1916.
many old tenements and garbage and ashes are deposited in the halls
- ↑ "Plagues and People: Week 8". June 30, 1916.
Facilities Provided for More Complete Isolation and Better Nursing
- ↑ "HER CHILD, THOUGH WELL, IN CONTAGION HOSPITAL; Mrs. Hoe May Ask Brooklyn Court to Free Him. THINKS SPITE RESPONSIBLE She Had Complained to Health Commissioner Darlington Alleging Neglect by Local Officials". New York Times . June 23, 1905.
- ↑ "DENIES POLITICIANS OUSTED DR. REGAN; Harris Says Their Only Effort in Case Has Been to Ask His Reinstatement at Hospital. DOCTOR REVIEWS RECORD Removed Superintendent Insists Kingston Av. Institution Was Improved by Him". New York Times . November 20, 1927.
- ↑ "DR. REGAN ADMITS DISOBEYING WYNNE; Ousted Hospital Head Gave Larger Doses of Anti-Toxin Than Superior Advised. HE KEPT OUTSIDE OFFICE Court Tells His Counsel That "Actual Malice" Must Be Proved in $200,000 Slander Suit". New York Times . April 8, 1932.
