The Society maintains the New York Hospital ..the House of Relief ..Bloomingdale Hospital for Mental Diseases ..Convalescent cottages .. . m and Dr. William T. Bull. The list of its Governors includes many of the most notablenames among the citizens of New York. Among other formerGovernors, since deceased, are John Jacob Astor, WilliamBayard, Aaron Burr, James W. Beekman, Robert C. Cornell,James Duane, Thomas H. Faile, Philip Flone, Abram S. Hew-itt, John Jay, James Kent, Edward King, William Laight,Lindley Murray, Edwin D. Morgan, William H. Osborn, JohnHarsen Rhoades, John A. Steven
The Society maintains the New York Hospital ..the House of Relief ..Bloomingdale Hospital for Mental Diseases ..Convalescent cottages .. . m and Dr. William T. Bull. The list of its Governors includes many of the most notablenames among the citizens of New York. Among other formerGovernors, since deceased, are John Jacob Astor, WilliamBayard, Aaron Burr, James W. Beekman, Robert C. Cornell,James Duane, Thomas H. Faile, Philip Flone, Abram S. Hew-itt, John Jay, James Kent, Edward King, William Laight,Lindley Murray, Edwin D. Morgan, William H. Osborn, JohnHarsen Rhoades, John A. Stevens, Jackson S. Schultz, Charles 10 THE SOCIETY OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL E. Strong, Frederick D. Tappen, Richard Varick and SamuelWillets. Its Presidents were John Watts, John Alsop, Rich-ard Morris, Issac Roosevelt, Theophylact Bache, Gerard Wal-ton, Matthew Clarkson, Thomas Eddy, Peter Augustus Jay,George Newbold, George T. Trimble, John C. Green, RobertLenox Kennedy, William H. Macy, James M. Brown, RobertJ. Livingston, Merritt Trimble, Sheppard Gandy, CorneliusN. Bliss, Philip Schuyler, Theodorus Bailey Woolsey — allnow dead. 11. THE SUCCESSIVE HOSPITALBUILDINGS THE older residents of this City remember well the mas-sive central building of venerable gray stone that stoodin the midst of grass and trees upon the Hospital prop-erty — just north of Duane Street and discreetly drawn backfrom the continuous roar of Broadway. But for a new porch,it was the original Hospital of Revolutionary days. In due season other buildings, less conspicuous from thestreet, grew up about it on the same plot — and among themwas a Lunatic Asylum, opened in 1808 and capable of accom-modating about seventy patients as lunatics were then by 1815 the demands upon both the Hospital and theAsylum had become so great that a piece of land containingsome twenty-six acres situated on the Harlem Heights aboutseven miles from the City, and fronting on the BloomingdaleRoad, was purchased at $50
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