. History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York (Medical Department of Columbia College). Itwas to be used, under the direction of this Board, for the establishment, in the city of New York, ofa hospital for the reception and relief of sick and dis-eased persons, and for its permanent 1864 the institution was incorporated under thename of the Roosevelt Hospital. The corner stonewas laid in October, 1869; and the building wasopened for the reception of patients November 2d,1871. The hospital consists of a central administrativebuilding fronting on Fifty-
. History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York (Medical Department of Columbia College). Itwas to be used, under the direction of this Board, for the establishment, in the city of New York, ofa hospital for the reception and relief of sick and dis-eased persons, and for its permanent 1864 the institution was incorporated under thename of the Roosevelt Hospital. The corner stonewas laid in October, 1869; and the building wasopened for the reception of patients November 2d,1871. The hospital consists of a central administrativebuilding fronting on Fifty-ninth street, with an ex-tension in the rear, flanked by three parallel pavil-ions, two on the eastern and one on the western side. FIFTY-NINTH STREET 189 The central building, four stories in height, containsoffices, reception and examination rooms, the apothe-carys laboratory and dispensing room, the superin-tendents apartments, rooms for the meetings of theTrustees and the Medical Board, an operating theatre,and two surgical wards for women and children. Therear building is occupied by steam boilers and the. Roosevelt the northeast. warming and v(,ntilating machinery, the laundr)-, l^ak-ery, kitchen and servants sleeping rooms. The pavilion next the administration building onthe east is of four stories, containing medical wardslor male and female patients, nurses rooms, andapartments for the house staff; that still farther to theeast, near Ninth Avenue, is a one-story building for IQO THE COLLEGE LN surgical patients ; and that on the west, also of onestory, is for the treatment of out-door cases. The hospital contains altogether nearly one hun-dred and seventy beds ; and for the year 1887 therewere admitted and discharged over two thousand fivehundred patients. Staff of the Roosevelt HospitalIN 1888. John T. Metcalfe, , Consultiitg Addis Emmet, , Thomas M. Markoe, , Consulting F. Weir, , William H. Draper, ,
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