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Show HOSPITALS OF N. Y. HAVE TOTAL VALUE OF $91486,323 City Has 210, the First of Which Wa Built 262 Year Ago NEW YORK, March 11 The first hospital in New Tork City was established estab-lished 162 years ago. Today the city has 2io Institutions with a total valua-Uion. valua-Uion. including; public and semiprivate hospitals, of S1.4ft.12S. The richest Institution In the city, according to the Htate board of charities, is the 1-rea-byterian hospital, which hns property valued at nearly $10,000 noo. while the two net are the Mount Klnal and the Montefinre hospital and home for Incurables, In-curables, which have l,54.;46 and 3.SS?.S0. respectively. The origin and development of hospitals hos-pitals In the city have been traced for the department of health by Dr. Charles K. Banker of the division of institutional institu-tional inspection, and Dr. H. o. Mc. Adam, chief of the division. In a bulletin bul-letin they discuss the old days of the city. "On the ioth day of December. 1r,8." according to the physicians, "the Dutch West India company established the -f il" a L h AS ft t iawt is oewr" AlfhfMlffrl' the city ut that time had a population of 1000. the physician In charge of the work had great difficulty In finding places for persons Indentured to the company when they became 1.1. and this, a distinctly private hospital, was opened for them. Nothing further is I mtoui ii rxrepi inai in l oov it l was sold and the patients were removed to lurger and more suitable quarters. FIRST IN 1736. "The first public hospital was completed com-pleted in 171. It wan one room 23 by 2 in a two-story building, the 'Pub'.ick Workhouse and House of Correction of the City of New York. The room contained con-tained six beds and was set apart as an I infirmary and to be used for no other j purpose. This Institution afterwards became be-came known as the almshouse. J "The city had need of a place where i patients suffering from contagious diseases dis-eases could be treated. The infirmary; in the almshouse was not suitable for, the purpose, so. in 1794. it erected a 'pest house' out In the country, on the1 shore of the Kast river. The site chosen! was on r small country estate owned I by Undsley Murray, the granrmarlan.1 which he called Belle Vue. As the city j grew, the almshouse erected in 1736 j became too small and was abandoned in favor of a new and larger building erected about 181 at Belle Vue. which the city had purchased In the meantime. From this humble union of an aim house and a pest house sprung Bellvue hospital, hos-pital, an institution known the world over. WAS COMBINATION. "In the beginning Bellevue was a combination of workhouse, almshouse and hospital, but aa the years passed j by. the hospltaj became the prominent feature of the Institution and eventually the workhouses, almshouse and pest-house pest-house were removed to an Island In the Kast river about two miles to the north, known as Blackwel'.'s Island and Bellevue became what ft is today, a general hospital treating all kinds of cases, except contagious diseases. It has grown until now its buildings cover twelve acres of land. -It has a bed capacity ca-pacity of 1685 patients. During the year 11. there were admitted 3 MAO patients and the city spent more than! ll.r.00,000 for its upkeep. "Let us now go back to an earlier' date and consider the third type of hospital the semlpublic. Aa early asj 1719 certain philanthropic gentlemen of the city led by Dr. Bard, an eminent' surgeon of the day, felt the need of hos- pita! far Hi ties for- patients- who could not properly be sent to the almshouse. so they banded together, raised funds, and erected on Broadway, near what is now Worth street, a hospital known as the New York hospital, to which the first patients were admitted In 1791, A charter was granted to the Society of the New York hospital, by King George III In 1770 for this purpoee. but the actual ac-tual openlnr of the hospital was de-iaved de-iaved by a fire which burned down the, original building while it was being I built. Although hardly more than a tone's throw from the present site of, the Brooklyn bridge, this hospital when! It was erected was so far out of town.' hat two duelists, seeking for a spot in which they could settle their dispute, dis-pute, chose a field hack of it as being, he quietest and most retired place that :hey could find in the city." j FRAININQ SCHOOLS. ! After reporting that the city has some' ixty nurses traning schools in as many j hospitals, the health department Invest- ipMi'T munq inai. "The first ambulance service in the city was instituted in Bellvue in 1869 and covered the whole city. At present the city Is divided Into ambulance districts dis-tricts hv the board of ambulances and these districts are assigned to various public and semi public hospitals by them. Bellevue has the territory east of Fourth avenue and Houston street to Forty-second street and west of Fifth aven-ie from Forty-second street to I'ifty-nlnth street. Let us see what happens when a person Is found on any street of this district til or injured or of unsound mind. The policeman on the beat where the person is found Is notified. noti-fied. He calls up police headquarters, police headquarters telephones Bellevue end notifies the hospital where the case Is. At Bellevue word is Immediately sent to an ambulance driver, a physician phy-sician on ambulance duty and a nurse. Instructing them to go out on the case. "The system has been so perfected that thev are ready almost at once to start out and scurry awav to bring in the patient. Arriving: on the scene, the shulance surgeon and nurse render any pd ndd. a horried examination Is made and. If the doctor decide that further treatment at the hospital Is necessarv, the patient in put Into the ambulance and It starts back to the hospital with a great clanging of its gong to warn other vehicle to get out of the war. It Is not necessary to have a policeman call up headquarters. If he la not about, any good Samaritan may do It. The same general mode of procedure' la followed when a patient, too 111 to go anv other way. is removed to the hospital. |