The Society maintains the New York Hospital ..the House of Relief ..Bloomingdale Hospital for Mental Diseases ..Convalescent cottages .. . wo of thefloors, which are annexed, will explain more fully how the sev-eral requirements of the problem have been met. The letters from Doctor Goldwater and Messrs. McKim,Mead & White appended hereto, give a more detailed descrip-tion of the proposed new buildings; and reference may be madeto these letters for a fuller explanation of the purposes of theseveral parts of the group and the reasons which have deter-mined the adoption of the present plans. It w
The Society maintains the New York Hospital ..the House of Relief ..Bloomingdale Hospital for Mental Diseases ..Convalescent cottages .. . wo of thefloors, which are annexed, will explain more fully how the sev-eral requirements of the problem have been met. The letters from Doctor Goldwater and Messrs. McKim,Mead & White appended hereto, give a more detailed descrip-tion of the proposed new buildings; and reference may be madeto these letters for a fuller explanation of the purposes of theseveral parts of the group and the reasons which have deter-mined the adoption of the present plans. It will be observed that the group of buildings proposedconsists in reality of eight independent buildings, which areall in effect separate; although they are connected witheach other by passages or bridges. They consist of thefollowing: No. 1 Out-Patient, Admitting and Emergency Depart-ments; No. 2 Private Patients Building; No. 3 Childrens Wards, Semi-Private Wards, etc.; No. 4 Public Wards; No. 5 Nurses Home (subsequently to be used for Medi-cal Wards when No. 4 will become a surgicalbuilding purely); No. 6 Psychopathic 3 > > z h a cj uj a. O lo a. «: o THE SOCIETY OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL No. 7 Kitchens, Laundry, Servants Dormitory andOperating Rooms (on the top floor); No. 8 Laboratory Building. With one exception, the purposes of the above-mentionedbuildings are sufficiently explained by their titles, and theywill take the place of other buildings for like purposes now inexistence at 15th and 16th Streets. The one exception isthe building called the Psychopathic Building, which isintended for the care of cases of mental or nervous disease. There is no adequate accommodation now existing in theCity of New York for such cases, except at Bellevue Hospital,where the surroundings are often very undesirable for peopleof education and refinement, and tend to aggravate ratherthan improve the condition of such patients. The non-exist-ence of suitable hospital accommo
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