. New York Nursery and Child's Hospital Annual Report. ich sent doctors to the homes of thepoor at the time of childbirth, was begun in present corporation was formed by the consolidation of the Nurseryand Childs Hospital with the New York Infant Asylum which had formerlyconsolidated with the old Marion Street Maternity Hospital. Each of theseinstitutions was a pioneer in its particular line of endeavor. The old Marion Street Maternity Hospital was organized in 1823 andincorporated in 1827 as The New York Female Asylum for Lying-inWomen and was so called for the next seventy years. It
. New York Nursery and Child's Hospital Annual Report. ich sent doctors to the homes of thepoor at the time of childbirth, was begun in present corporation was formed by the consolidation of the Nurseryand Childs Hospital with the New York Infant Asylum which had formerlyconsolidated with the old Marion Street Maternity Hospital. Each of theseinstitutions was a pioneer in its particular line of endeavor. The old Marion Street Maternity Hospital was organized in 1823 andincorporated in 1827 as The New York Female Asylum for Lying-inWomen and was so called for the next seventy years. Its object was: Tofurnish comfortable conditions and skillful attendance to respectable mar-ried women who require an asylum during the period of their confinement,and also to supply competent medical care to deserving married women attheir homes under similar circumstances. It was the first institution ofits kind to care for poor respectable women and was the pioneer in the cityin sending physicians to the homes of the poor to attend at childbirth. In. 13 1830 it bought two lots in Orange, now Marion, Street, near PrinceStreet, for $2,750, and built a three-story building with a forty-five footfront and a depth of sixty feet. This was its headquarters for fifty-fiveyears. In 1885 it moved to 139 Second Avenue where it continued its quietand unostentatious charity until 1899, when it consolidated with the NewYork Infant Asylum. Under the terms of this consolidation one floor of the present buildingwas and still is reserved to continue the ministrations of the Marion StreetHospital. The Nursery and Childs Hospital with the name of The Nurseryfor the Children of Poor Women was founded in 1854 through theefforts of Mrs. Cornelius DuBois, who for more than thirty years thereaftercontinued as its First Directress. One day, when driving in the streets ofNew York City, she was startled by screams from an upper story of atenement and looked up to see a child caught by a fallen sash hangi
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