Lying-In Hospital

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Lying-In Hospital
Geography
Location Manhattan, New York, United States
Organization
Type Specialist
Services
Speciality Maternity hospital
History
Opened1799
Closed1932 (merged with New York Hospital)
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Lying-In Hospital, [1] [2] which was chartered in 1799, was given a strong boost in 1897 with "the magnificent gift of $1,000,000" from J. Pierpont Morgan. [3] [4]

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It relocated [5] more than once, both before and after Morgan's donation. Their focus was expectant women. [6] Lying-In Hospital merged in 1932 with New York Hospital, [5] and the original name was dropped. [7]

Their "Second Avenue, between 17th and 18th Streets" location "was redeveloped as an apartment building in the 1980s." [8]

History

305 Second Avenue building: used by Lying-In Hospital prior to their merger with New York Hospital Lying-in hospital 305 Second Ave with detail.jpg
305 Second Avenue building: used by Lying-In Hospital prior to their merger with New York Hospital

The term Lying-in Hospital pre-existed the one described by The New York Times in their 1865 Death at a private lying-in hospital about a specific impoverished woman's 8th abortion, following which she died. [6] There were other such deaths [9] and facilities, including in other cities. [10]

The best known of these lying-in hospitals, due to extensive documentation, [7] affiliated with New York Hospital in 1799, and ended this initial arrangement in 1827. Other sources and other personnel, in particular two doctors and the father of one of them, [11] reactivated the dormant Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York [12] and, with funding from J. P. Morgan [13] (and later from Morgan's son) acquired a building and in 1932 "became the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of New York Hospital, occupying one of the pavilions along the East River." [7] [14]

It served primarily [15] as a Maternity hospital and was "said to account for 60 percent of all births in Manhattan." [4] Some of their staff did medical research. [16]

For some of their pre-affiliation [17] years they used the name New York Lying-In Hospital. [18]

Others

In addition to the Lying-In Hospital affiliated with New York Hospital [13] there were others, [19] [20] [21] such as "a small lying-in hospital in the vicinity of Bellevue Hospital." [22] Fundraising for these hospitals was covered by The New York Times. [23] [24]

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References

  1. ↑ "Lying-In Hospital Prepares to Move - 134-Year-Old Institution Will Be Part of 3-Unit Merger on East River Front - Once An Almshouse Ward - Famous Maternity Centre to Go On With Graduate and Nurse Training Courses". The New York Times . August 7, 1932. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Hospital Moves 52 To Its New Home - Manhattan General Patients Are Taken Safely to Former Lying-In Building - Shift Is Made In Four Hours - Four Ambulances Make 10 Trips Each Between East 90th St. and Stuyvesant Square". The New York Times . July 27, 1936. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ "MR. MORGAN'S BENEFICENCE; WHAT THE LYING-IN HOSPITAL WILL DO WITH $1,000,000. The Managers Had Planned a Fine Institution, but Had Not Expected So Speedy Fruition of Their Hopes". The New York Times . January 15, 1897.
  4. 1 2 Nadine Brozan (January 22, 2006). "A Chance to Return to Your Roots". The New York Times .
  5. 1 2 "CANCER CLINIC BUYS LYING-IN PROPERTY; Announces $5,000,000 Drive to Remodel, Equip and Endow Stuyvesant Park Site. REMOVAL IS SET FOR 1931 Purchase Made Possible by Sale of 5th Av. Realty and Lying-In Merger With New York Hospital. Lack of Space Cited. $5,000,000 Needs Listed". The New York Times . September 12, 1929.
  6. 1 2 "LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.; DEATH AT A PRIVATE LYING-IN HOSPITAL. An Unknown Woman the Victim of Malpractice The Body to be Seen in Hudson-street". The New York Times . July 21, 1865.
  7. 1 2 3 "The Record of the Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York" (PDF). 1799-1989, 1390.75 Linear Inches (318 Volumes, 34 Boxes)
  8. ↑ Ronnie Koenig (May 12, 2017). "When Home Was a Hospital". The New York Times .
  9. ↑ "MALPRACTICE MURDER IN THE FIFTEENTH WARD; Mysterious Marriage, Death and Preparations for Funeral at Midnight. A Physician Makes a False Certificate and the Body is Taken Out of the City. CAPT. NATANIEL R. MILLS IN PURSUIT. Arrests by Coroner Wildey and the Police". The New York Times . September 28, 1865.
  10. ↑ "MRS. SWIFT IS DEAD; WIDOW OF THE PACKER; Helped Lying. In Hospital in Chicago, as Well as Home for Crippled Children". The New York Times . January 27, 1935.
  11. ↑ Drs James Wright Markoe and Samuel W. Lambert: "SECURING NEW STAFF FOR LYING-IN HOSPITAL; No Difficulty for Governors to Fill Vacancies, Says One. DIRECTOR MARKOE UPHELD; Eleven of Medical Board Who Resigned on Friday Will Not Discuss the Affair". The New York Times . March 15, 1905.
  12. ↑ "Lying-In Hospital Appea: Fund of $250,000 needed for Care of Babies at Institution". The New York Times . April 23, 1922.
  13. 1 2 "DR. MARKOE FAMOUS IN HIS PROFESSION; Physician of J. Pierpont Morgan, Who Aided Him in Lying-In Hospital Work". The New York Times . April 19, 1920.
  14. ↑ Records for the closed hospital: "Where to Find Medical Records for Closed Hospitals in New York State" (PDF). Retrieved November 26, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Actress Critically Ill; Appeal for Blood Donors Made in Behalf of Mary Martin". The New York Times . May 30, 1945.
  16. ↑ "GROW HUMAN TISSUE OUTSIDE THE BODY; Two Lying-In Hospital Physicians Succeed Where Others Had Failed". The New York Times . June 3, 1914.
  17. ↑ pre-SECOND-affiliation
  18. ↑ "Dr. Nelson B. Sackett, Gynecologist, Is Dead". The New York Times . April 22, 1982.
  19. ↑ "His Work in Medical Films". The New York Times . April 3, 1942. Chicago Lying-In Hospital
  20. ↑ "DR. JOSEPH DELEE, OBSTETRICIAN, DIES; Famed Chicago Specialist, 72, Devoted Half-Century to the Care of Mothers and Babies AIDED AT 8,000 DELIVERIES Founded Lying-In Hospital for Needy -- Taught at Chicago, Northwestern Universities". The New York Times . April 3, 1942.
  21. ↑ "Three Girls and a Boy Are Delivered in Two Minutes as Many Doctors Watch -- Father Is an Analyst With SEC". The New York Times . November 2, 1944. Quadruplets .. Philadelphia Lying-In Hospital .. for the first time on record in such a multiple birth a Caesarian operation was performed.
  22. ↑ "THE GRAND JURY'S EYES OPENED; THE NECESSITY FOR A SMALL LYING-IN HOSPITAL BELLEVUE HOSPITAL IN A DEPLORABLE CONDITION BLACKWELL'S ISLAND INSTITUTIONS A PUBLIC DISGRACE". The New York Times . March 30, 1877.
  23. ↑ "GAYETIES OF MIDWINTER; Pageant of Costumes for Lying-In Hospital on Thursday Night -- British Ball on Friday -- International Dances at Consumer's League Ball on Tuesday -- Benefit Concert at Mrs. Whitelaw Reid's House". The New York Times . January 4, 1914.
  24. ↑ "COLOMBE'S BIRTHDAY" ACTED AT THE HUDSON; Lying-In Hospital Beneficiary of Browning Matinee. AUDIENCE MOSTLY WOMEN Play of Small Dramatic Value Earnestly Acted by a Well-Selected Cast". The New York Times . December 18, 1906.


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