City Hospital - New York, NY - American Guide Series on Waymarking.com

Taken from Wikipedia, "City Hospital (also known as Island Hospital or Charity Hospital) was a historic hospital on Roosevelt Island, Manhattan in New York City. Originally named Penitentiary Hospital and located on what was then known as Blackwell's Island, the first hospital was built in 1832 to serve the prisoners housed at Blackwell's Penitentiary. After the hospital was destroyed by a fire in 1858, architect James Renwick, Jr. designed a new building to be called City Hospital, on which prisoners completed construction in 1861. It served both inmates and New York City's poorer population. In 1870, the hospital was renamed Charity Hospital and a medical superintendent was hired after the quality of care was criticized. The city changed the name of the island to Welfare Island to reflect the mission of the institutions located there."

"The eighteen light-gray buildings of New York City Hospital occupy the southern eld of the island. This is a hospital of a thousand beds with a resident staff of 53 doctors and a visiting staff of 203. It was founded as a Penitentiary Hospital in 1832. Despite an early history of scandal and mismanagement, it has come to be recognized after more than a hundred years of existence, as one of America's fine hospitals, and its staff includes many eminent physicians." -- New York City, 1939

Book: New York City Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 422 Year Originally Published: 1939

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