. New York Nursery and Child's Hospital Annual Report. homes to attend atchildbirth. In 1830 two lots were bought on Orange, now Marion Street,near Prince Street, for $2,750, and a three-story building was built with aforty-five foot front and a depth of sixty feet. This was its headquartersfor fifty-five years. In 1885 it moved to 139 Second Avenue, where it con-tinued its quiet and unostentatious charity until 1899, when it consolidatedwith the New York Infant Asylum. The ministrations of the Marion Street Hospital are now continuedas a part of the work of this corporation. The Nursery and C
. New York Nursery and Child's Hospital Annual Report. homes to attend atchildbirth. In 1830 two lots were bought on Orange, now Marion Street,near Prince Street, for $2,750, and a three-story building was built with aforty-five foot front and a depth of sixty feet. This was its headquartersfor fifty-five years. In 1885 it moved to 139 Second Avenue, where it con-tinued its quiet and unostentatious charity until 1899, when it consolidatedwith the New York Infant Asylum. The ministrations of the Marion Street Hospital are now continuedas a part of the work of this corporation. 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 Du Bois, who for more than thirty years there-after continued as its First Directress. One day, when driving in thestreets of New York City, she was startled by screams from an upperstory of a tenement and looking up saw a child caught by a fallen sashhanging from a window. With the help of neighbors, she broke into the. 59 room and released the child. She found that it had been left alone whileits parents were at work. Inquiries then made showed her the need exist-ing in New York for the proper care of children. In the Annual Report of the Hospital for 1897, Mrs. Du Bois says: Your attention is called to the condition of the poor children of NewYork before the nursery was founded. Dr. Elisha Harris gives the follow-ing statement: In 1854 to 1859 about 1,000 infants were farmed out peryear; ninety out of one hundred would not live to see their first a single hut on the river side about Thirty-fourth Street, it was commonto find four or five young infants lying on the floor, with a single nursewho gave them bottle food until they died. The Almshouse Governorspaid so much a week until they all died. They would be marked dead ontheir books and that was the last of them. The expense in 1859 wasover fifty thousand dollars for the support of
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