Lying-In Hospital

Defunct Manhattan hospital

Hospital in New York, United States

Lying-In Hospital

Geography
Location| Manhattan, New York, United States
Coordinates| 40°44′05″N 73°59′01″W﻿ / ﻿40.7347°N 73.9835°W﻿ / 40.7347; -73.9835
Organization
Type| Specialist
Services
Speciality| Maternity hospital
History
Opened| 1799
Closed| 1932 (merged with New York Hospital)
Links
Lists| Hospitals in New York State

Lying-In Hospital[1][2] was a maternity hospital in Manhattan. Chartered in 1799, it was given a strong boost in 1897 with "the magnificent gift of $1,000,000" from J. Pierpont Morgan.[3][4]

It relocated[5] more than once, both before and after Morgan's donation. Their focus was expectant women.[6] Lying-In Hospital merged in 1932 with New York Hospital,[5] and the original name was dropped.[7]

Their "Second Avenue, between 17th and 18th Streets" location "was redeveloped as an apartment building in the 1980s."[8]

## History

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305 Second Avenue building: used by Lying-In Hospital prior to their merger with New York Hospital

The term Lying-in Hospital pre-existed the one described by The New York Times in their 1865 Death at a private lying-in hospital about a specific impoverished woman's 8th abortion, following which she died.[6] There were other such deaths[9] and facilities, including in other cities.[10]

The best known of these lying-in hospitals, due to extensive documentation,[7] affiliated with New York Hospital in 1799, and ended this initial arrangement in 1827. Other sources and other personnel, in particular two doctors and the father of one of them,[11] reactivated the dormant Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York[12] and, with funding from J. P. Morgan[13] (and later from Morgan's son) acquired a building and in 1932 "became the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of New York Hospital, occupying one of the pavilions along the East River."[7][14]

It served primarily[15] as a Maternity hospital and was "said to account for 60 percent of all births in Manhattan."[4] Some of their staff did medical research.[16]

For some of their pre-affiliation[17] years they used the name New York Lying-In Hospital.[18]

## Others

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In addition to the Lying-In Hospital affiliated with New York Hospital[13] there were others,[19][20][21] such as "a small lying-in hospital in the vicinity of Bellevue Hospital."[22] Fundraising for these hospitals was covered by The New York Times.[23][24]

## See also

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* General Lying-In Hospital
* Providence Lying-In Hospital

## References

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1. ^ "Lying-In Hospital Prepares to Move - 134-Year-Old Institution Will Be Part of 3-Unit Merger on East River Front - Once An Almshouse Ward - Famous Maternity Centre to Go On With Graduate and Nurse Training Courses". The New York Times. August 7, 1932. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
2. ^ "Hospital Moves 52 To Its New Home - Manhattan General Patients Are Taken Safely to Former Lying-In Building - Shift Is Made In Four Hours - Four Ambulances Make 10 Trips Each Between East 90th St. and Stuyvesant Square". The New York Times. July 27, 1936. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
3. ^ "MR. MORGAN'S BENEFICENCE; WHAT THE LYING-IN HOSPITAL WILL DO WITH $1,000,000. The Managers Had Planned a Fine Institution, but Had Not Expected So Speedy Fruition of Their Hopes". The New York Times. January 15, 1897.
4. ^ a b Nadine Brozan (January 22, 2006). "A Chance to Return to Your Roots". The New York Times.
5. ^ a b "CANCER CLINIC BUYS LYING-IN PROPERTY; Announces $5,000,000 Drive to Remodel, Equip and Endow Stuyvesant Park Site. REMOVAL IS SET FOR 1931 Purchase Made Possible by Sale of 5th Av. Realty and Lying-In Merger With New York Hospital. Lack of Space Cited. $5,000,000 Needs Listed". The New York Times. September 12, 1929.
6. ^ a b "LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.; DEATH AT A PRIVATE LYING-IN HOSPITAL. An Unknown Woman the Victim of Malpractice The Body to be Seen in Hudson-street". The New York Times. July 21, 1865.
7. ^ a b c "The Record of the Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York" (PDF). "1799-1989, 1390.75 Linear Inches (318 Volumes, 34 Boxes)"
8. ^ Ronnie Koenig (May 12, 2017). "When Home Was a Hospital". The New York Times.
9. ^ "MALPRACTICE MURDER IN THE FIFTEENTH WARD; Mysterious Marriage, Death and Preparations for Funeral at Midnight. A Physician Makes a False Certificate and the Body is Taken Out of the City. CAPT. NATANIEL R. MILLS IN PURSUIT. Arrests by Coroner Wildey and the Police". The New York Times. September 28, 1865.
10. ^ "MRS. SWIFT IS DEAD; WIDOW OF THE PACKER; Helped Lying. In Hospital in Chicago, as Well as Home for Crippled Children". The New York Times. January 27, 1935.
11. ^ Drs James Wright Markoe and Samuel W. Lambert: "SECURING NEW STAFF FOR LYING-IN HOSPITAL; No Difficulty for Governors to Fill Vacancies, Says One. DIRECTOR MARKOE UPHELD; Eleven of Medical Board Who Resigned on Friday Will Not Discuss the Affair". The New York Times. March 15, 1905.
12. ^ "Lying-In Hospital Appea: Fund of $250,000 needed for Care of Babies at Institution". The New York Times. April 23, 1922.
13. ^ a b "DR. MARKOE FAMOUS IN HIS PROFESSION; Physician of J. Pierpont Morgan, Who Aided Him in Lying-In Hospital Work". The New York Times. April 19, 1920.
14. ^ Records for the closed hospital: "Where to Find Medical Records for Closed Hospitals in New York State" (PDF). Retrieved November 26, 2020.
15. ^ "Actress Critically Ill; Appeal for Blood Donors Made in Behalf of Mary Martin". The New York Times. May 30, 1945.
16. ^ "GROW HUMAN TISSUE OUTSIDE THE BODY; Two Lying-In Hospital Physicians Succeed Where Others Had Failed". The New York Times. June 3, 1914.
17. ^ pre-SECOND-affiliation
18. ^ "Dr. Nelson B. Sackett, Gynecologist, Is Dead". The New York Times. April 22, 1982.
19. ^ "His Work in Medical Films". The New York Times. April 3, 1942. "Chicago Lying-In Hospital"
20. ^ "DR. JOSEPH DELEE, OBSTETRICIAN, DIES; Famed Chicago Specialist, 72, Devoted Half-Century to the Care of Mothers and Babies AIDED AT 8,000 DELIVERIES Founded Lying-In Hospital for Needy -- Taught at Chicago, Northwestern Universities". The New York Times. April 3, 1942.
21. ^ "Three Girls and a Boy Are Delivered in Two Minutes as Many Doctors Watch -- Father Is an Analyst With SEC". The New York Times. November 2, 1944. "Quadruplets .. Philadelphia Lying-In Hospital .. for the first time on record in such a multiple birth a Caesarian operation was performed."
22. ^ "THE GRAND JURY'S EYES OPENED; THE NECESSITY FOR A SMALL LYING-IN HOSPITAL BELLEVUE HOSPITAL IN A DEPLORABLE CONDITION BLACKWELL'S ISLAND INSTITUTIONS A PUBLIC DISGRACE". The New York Times. March 30, 1877.
23. ^ "GAYETIES OF MIDWINTER; Pageant of Costumes for Lying-In Hospital on Thursday Night -- British Ball on Friday -- International Dances at Consumer's League Ball on Tuesday -- Benefit Concert at Mrs. Whitelaw Reid's House". The New York Times. January 4, 1914.
24. ^ "COLOMBE'S BIRTHDAY" ACTED AT THE HUDSON; Lying-In Hospital Beneficiary of Browning Matinee. AUDIENCE MOSTLY WOMEN Play of Small Dramatic Value Earnestly Acted by a Well-Selected Cast". The New York Times. December 18, 1906.

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