CHARTER OF THE SOCIETY 
OF 
THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL, 
AND THE 
LAWS RELATING THERETO, 
WITH THE 
BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE INSTITUTION, 
AND THOSE OF THE 
BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE. 
REVISED AND PASSED NOVEMBER 16, 1838. 
NEW.YORK: 
MAHLON DAY, PRINTER, 374 PEARL-STREIT. 
1839. CHARTER OF THE SOCIETY 
S t>F 
THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL, 
AND THE 
LAWS RELATING THERETO, 
WITH THE 
BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE INSTITUTION, 
AND THOSE OF THE 
BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE. 
NE W-YORK: 
MAHLON DAY, PRINTER, 374 P E A R L- S T R E E T. 
1838. THE CHARTER. 
[The passages printed in italics have been repealed or altered by subsequent acts of the 
legislature, which are reprinted after this charter.] 
George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and 
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. 
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting : 
Whereas our loving subjects Peter Middleton, 
John Jones, and Samuel Bard, of our city of New-York, 
physicians, by their humble petition presented unto our 
trusty and well-beloved Cadwallader Colden, Esq., our 
Lieutenant-Governor, and then our commander-in-chief, 
of our province of New-York, and the territories depend- 
ing thereon in America, and read in our council for our 
said province, on the ninth day of March, which was in 
the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 
seventy, did, among other things, in substance, set forth, 
that there had been a subscription set on foot by them, for 
the purpose of erecting a public Hospital in our said city 
of New-York, and that sundry public spirited persons, 
influenced by principles of benevolence, had liberally sub- 
scribed towards the same ; that from the manifest utility of 
such an infirmary the petitioners hoped for further contri- 
butions, and that some very considerable donations had 
been then already promised, in case the success of the 
Institution should be rendered probable ; but that the said 
monies could not be conveniently collected, or the design 
pro'secuted with vigor, unless a corporation should be 
formed for that purpose ; and therefore the petitioners 
humbly prayed our Letters Patent, forming a corporation 
for the purposes aforesaid: now we, taking into our royal 
consideration the beneficial tendency of such an Institu- 
tion within our said city, calculated for relieving the dis- 
eases of the indigent, and preserving the lives of many use- 
ful members of the community, are graciously pleased to 
grant the said humble request of our said loving subjects : 
know ye therefore, that we, of our special grace, certain 
knowledge, and mere motion, have willed, given, granted, 
ordained, constituted, and appointed, and by these pre- 
sents for us, our heirs and successors, do will, give, grant, 
ordain, constitute, and appoint, that the Mayor, Recorder, 
Petition of 
Doctors Middle- 
ton, Jones, and 
Bard, fora char- 
ter for an Hospi- 
tal recited. 
Which, in con- 
sideration of its 
beneficial ten- 
dency, 
is granted. 4 
THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
Members of 
naem^orporanon 
Aidermen and Assistants of our city of New-York, in 
America, now and for the time being ; the Rector of Trinity 
Church in our said city, now and for the time being , the 
President of King's College in our said city, now and for the 
time being; the Senior Minister of the Reformed Protestant 
Dutch Church in our said city now and for the time being ; 
the Minister of the ancient Lutheran Church in our said 
city, now and for the time being ; the Minister of the 
French Church in our said city, now and for the time 
being ; the Senior Minister of the Presbyterian Church in 
our said city, now and for the time being; the Minister of 
the Moravian Church in our said city, now and for the time 
being ; the Minister of the German Reformed Calvinist 
Church in our said city, now and for the time being; the 
Minister of the New Lutheran Church in our said city, 
now and for the time being; the Minister of the Anabap- 
tist Congregation in our said city, now and for the time 
being ; the Minister of the Scotch Presbyterian Church in 
our said city, now and for the time being; and Sir Wil- 
liam Johnson, Baronet; John Fothergill, of our city of 
London, in our kingdom of Great Britain, physician ; 
Daniel Horsmhnden, John Watts, Oliver De Lancey, 
Charles Ward Apthorp, Roger Morris, William Smith, 
Hugh Wallace, Henry White, Robert R. Livingston, 
Andrew Elliot, Archibald Kennedy, Abraham Mortier, 
Philip Livingston, William Axtell, James Duane, John 
Morin Scott, Leonard Lispenard, Simon Johnson, Tho- 
mas Smith, William Bayard, Walter Rutherford, Alex- 
ander Colden, John Van Cortland, Augustus Van Cort- 
land, William Livingston, Abraham Mesier, Richard 
Morris, John Bogert, and John Moore, all of our said 
city of New-York, esquires ; Abraham Lott, esquire, 
treasurer of our said province ; Peter Van Brugh Li- 
vingston, David Clarkson, Walter Franklin, Gerard Wil- 
liam Beekman, 'William M'Adam, George Bbwne, Na- 
thaniel Marston, Lawrence Kortright, George Folliott, 
David Provoost, Cornelius Clopper, John Myer, David 
Van Horne, Thomas White, Charles M'Evers, Isaac Low, 
John Beekman, Richard Sharpe. Thomas Pearsall, Joshua 
Delaplane, Samuel Bowne, Isaac Sears, Samuel Broome, 
John Thurnam, Jacob Watson, Lewis Pintard, Gerardus 
Duyckinck, James Beekman, Peter Goelet, William Lud- 
low, Nicholas Stuyvesant, John Harris Cruger, John 
Weatherhead, Theophilact Bache, Samuel Verplanck, John 
Crook, Grove Bend, John Alsop, Caspar Wistar, Isaac 
Rosevelt, Evert Banker, Gerardus De Peyster, Henry 
Rutgers the younger, Henry Haydock, Gabriel H. Lud- 
low, Isaac Corsa, Thomas Buchanan, Andrew Barclay, 
John Livingston, Augustus Van Horne, Joseph Hallet, THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
5 
Peter Kettletas, Jacob Le Roy, and Abraham Duryee, all 
of our said city of New-York, merchants ; William Browne- 
john, of our said city of New-York, druggist ; John Leake, 
of our said city of New-York, mariner ; George Harrison, 
of our said city of New-York, brewer ; Walter Du Bois, 
and Nicholas Jones, both of our said city of New-York, 
gentlemen ; and Francis Bassett, of our said city of New- 
York, pewterer ; and such other persons as shall be elected 
and admitted hereafter members of the corporation hereby 
erected, be and forever hereafter shall be by virtue of these 
presents, one body corporate and politic, in deed, fact, and 
name, by the name, style, and title of *" The Society of 
the Hospital in the city of New- York in America," and 
them and their successors and by the same name, we do 
by these presents, really and fully make, erect, create, 
constitute, and declare one body politic and corporate, in 
deed, fact, and name, forever : and will give, grant, and 
ordain, that they and their successors, the society of the 
Hospital in the city of New-York in America, by the same 
name, shall and may have perpetual succession ; and shall 
and may, by the same name, be persons capable in the law 
to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and 
be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all courts, 
and elsewhere, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, 
pleas, causes, matters, and demands whatsoever, as fully 
and amply as any other our liege subjects of our said pro- 
vince of New-York, may or can sue or be sued, implead 
or be impleaded, defend or be defended by any lawful ways 
or means whatsoever. And that they and their successors, 
by the same name, shall forever hereafter be persons ca- 
pable and able in the law to purchase, take, hold, receive, 
and enjoy to them and their successors, any messuages, 
tenements, houses, and real estate whatsoever, and all 
other hereditaments of whatsoever nature, kind and quali- 
ty they be in fee simple, for term of life or lives, or in any 
other manner howsoever. And also, any goods, chattels, 
and personal estate whatsoever. Provided always, the 
clear yearly value of the said real estate doth not at any 
time exceed the sum of five thousand pounds sterling, law- 
ful money of our kingdom of Great Britain, above all outgo- 
ings and reprises. And that they and their successors, by 
the same name, shall have full power and authority to give, 
grant, sell, lease, demise, and dispose of the same real es- 
tate and hereditaments whatsoever, for life or lives or years 
or forever. And also, all goods, chattels, and personal es- 
tate whatsoever at their will and pleasure, as they shall 
judge to be most beneficial and advantageous to the good 
ratejnd incorf°' 
Style and Ti- 
tle- 
To have pr e 
tuai succession, 
and^s^0sue 
h 
tatcSjay ° eS 
provided the 
y^y in' 
exceed 50001. 
sterling, 
corpora. 
tion may lease 
aud B«n estates. 
* See Act to alter the style and title of the Hospital of the city of New-York, 
and to amend the charter thereof, passed March 9th, 1810 : sect. 1. p, 15. 6 
THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
and charitable ends and purposes above mentioned ; and 
that it shall and may be lawful for them and their succes- 
sors, forever, hereafter, to have a common seal to serve for 
the causes and business of them and their successors, and 
the same seal to change, alter, break, and make new, from 
time to time, at their will and pleasure. And our royal 
will and pleasure is, that when our said corporation, here- 
by erected, shall have acquired, by the aid of the legisla- 
ture of our said province of New-York, by the generous do- 
nations of the benevolent, or otherwise, a proper and con- 
venient piece of ground in and near our said city of New- 
York, and funds sufficient, without injuring the said charity, 
to admit of the erecting an Hospital for the reception and re- 
lief of sick and diseased persons, that the said society do 
erect within our said city of New-York, an Hospital for the 
said purposes ; which we will shall forever hereafter be called 
by the name of " The New-York Hospital." And that 
it shall and may be lawful for our said corporation from 
time to time, and at all times hereafter, to erect for their 
use and convenience, any other house, houses, or buildings 
whatever. And for the better carrying into execution the 
purposes aforesaid, our royal will and pleasure is, and we 
do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant, 
to the society of the Hospital in the city of New-York, in 
America, and their successors forever, that there shall be 
forever hereafter belonging to our said corporation, twenty- 
six Governors of the said Hospital and corporation, of 
whom there shall be taken and had one president, and one 
vice-president, and who shall conduct and manage the 
affairs and business of the said Hospital and corporation in 
manner as hereafter is declared and appointed. And 
also, that there shall be forever hereafter, one or more 
treasurer or treasurers, and one secretary, belonging to 
our said corporation. And for the more immediate carry- 
ing into execution our royal will and pleasure herein, we 
do hereby assign, constitute, and appoint the aforesaid 
John Watts, Oliver De Laney, Charles Ward Apthorp, 
Roger Morris, William Smith, Hugh Wallace, Henry 
White, Robert R. Livingston, Whitehead Hicks, Mayor 
of our said city of New-York, Andrew Elliot, Archibald 
Kennedy, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, David Clarkson, 
Abraham Mortier, Abraham Lott, Walter Franklin, Leo- 
nard Lispenard, Gerardus William Beekman, Philip Li- 
vingston, William M'Adam, George Bowne, William 
Axtell, Doctor John Fothergill, Nathaniel Marston, Law- 
rence Kortright, and Geome Folliott, to be the present 
Governors of the said Hospital and corporation ; the 
aforesaid John Watts to be the present president; and the 
and have a seal. 
When ground 
ma°btRbuiki^'an 
Hospital, 
which shall be 
catied the New- 
For the more or- 
derly govern- 
ment of the So- 
ciety there shall 
always be twen- 
ty-sixGo vernors 
a President and 
Vice President, 
a Treasurer or 
Treasurers, and 
ecre y. 
o^th^corpora3 
tion named. 
President ana 
Treasurer and 
Secretary nam- 
rem^nVoffice THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
7 
aforesaid Andrew Elliot to be the pt esent vice-president; 
the aforesaid Peter Van Brugh Livingston, to be the 
present treasurer; and the aforesaid John Moore, to be 
the present secretary of our corporation hereby erected. 
Which said governors, president, vice-president, treasu- 
rer and secretary, shall hold, possess, and enjoy their said 
respective offices until the third Tuesday in May, now 
next ensuing. And for the keeping up the succession in 
the said offices, our royal will and pleasure is, and we do 
hereby for us, our heirs and successors, establish, direct, 
and require of and give and grant to the said society of 
the Hospital in the city of New-York in America, and 
their successors forever, that on the said third Tuesday 
in May now next ensuing, and yearly, and every year, 
forever thereafter on the third Tuesday in May in every 
year, they and their successors, shall meet at the said 
Hospital, or at some other convenient place in our said 
city of New-York, to be fixed and ascertained by some 
of the by-laws or regulations of our said corporation, and 
there, by the majority of such of them as shall so meet, 
shall by ballot, or in such other manner and form as shall 
be directed and established by any [of] the by-laws or 
regulations of our said corporation, elect and choose 
twenty-six of their members, to be governors of our said 
corporation and Hospital for the ensuing year :* and also 
out of the said governors so elected and chosen, shall elect 
j j r 1 1 • • 
ana choose as ajoresaia, one president} ana one vice presi- 
dent, of our said incorporation, for the ensuing year, And 
also, shall then and there, elect and choose, as aforesaid, 
one or more of the said governors or members at large, 
of our said corporation, to be treasurer or treasurers of 
J , 1- r Ji • , ,7 
our said corporation, jor the ensuing year, and another oj 
the said members to be secretary for the ensuing year. 
Which said governors, and other the officers aforesaid, of 
our said corporation, so elected, shall immediately enter 
upon their respective offices, and hold, exercise, and en- 
joy the same respectively, from the time of such elections 
for and during the space of one year, and until other fit 
persons shall be elected and chosen in their respective 
places, according to the laws and regulations aforesaid, 
'[And in case any of the said persons by these presents nomi- 
nated and appointed to the respective offices aforesaid, or 
ivho shall hereafter be elected and chosen thereto, respective- 
ly, shall die, or on any account be removed from such ojji- 
n the 3d Tnps 
day in May, 1772. 
And for keep- 
ing UP.a suc<?es- 
is to meet for the 
of new 
0 
the 3d Tuesday in 
Mayannua,'y 
to elect by ballot 
or otherwise, 
and out of he 
governors chosen 
t0 e,ect a pLesi' 
dent and Vice Pre- 
sjdent for the en- 
suing year. 
bers choose a 
treasuyer- 
And out of the 
members a seere- 
tary- The new 
anTofficerTTo"^^ 
ter immediately 
°"n^r fn^office 
one year, or till 
gtea^ 
m in 'case of the 
death, removal, re-^ 
others1 to 
be chosen in their 
®tead W1thin thirty 
contingency. 
* See Act to alter the style and title of the Society of the Hospital, 
and amend the charter thereof, passed March 9, 1810, sect. ii. p. 15. 
t See Act to amend the charter of the New-York Hospital, passed 
March 20th, 1828, p. 16. 8 
THE CHARTER OE THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
To prevent un- 
due practices in 
such elections, the 
president or vice- 
president, witli five 
of the governors, 
ces respectively, before the lime of their respective appoint- 
, ed services shall be expired, or refuse or neglect to act in 
and execute the office for which he or they shall be so 
: elected and chosen, or is or are herein nominated and ap- 
pointed ; then our royal will and pleasure is, and we do 
hereby direct, ordain, and require our said corporation, to 
meet at the place for the time being appointed, for the said 
annual elections, and choose other or others of the members 
of our said corporation, in the place and stead of him 
or them so dying, removed, refusing or neglecting to act, 
within thirty days next after such contingency; and in 
this case, for the more due and orderly conducting such 
elections, and to prevent any undue proceedings therein, we 
do hereby give full power and authority to, and or- 
dain and require, that upon every vacancy in the office 
of president, the vice-president, and any five of the gover- 
nors of our said corporation and Hospital, for the time 
being ; and upon every vacancy in the office of vice-presi- 
dent, governor, and in any other of the offices aforesaid, 
the president and any five of the said governors for the 
time being, shall appoint the time for such election and 
elections, and cause public notice thereof to be given, by 
publishing the same in one or more of the public newspa- 
pers printed in this colony, at least seven days before the 
day appointed for such election; or in case it shall so 
happen that at any time or times hereafter, there be no 
such newspapers printed in this colony, then by affixing 
up notices in writing at the least seven days before the 
day appointed for such election, at two or more of the 
most public places in our said city of Neiv- York; hereby 
firing and granting that such person and persons as shall 
e so choeen from time to time, by the majority of such of 
the members of our said corporation as shall in such 
case, meet in manner hereby directed, by ballot, or in such 
other manner and form as shall be directed by any of the 
by-laws or regulations of our said corporation, shall have, 
hold, exercise and enjoy such the office or offices to which 
he or they shall be so elected and chosen from the time of 
such election until the third Tuesday in .May thence next 
ensuing, and until other or others be legally chosen in his 
or their place or stead, as fully and amply as the person or 
persons in ivhose place he or they shall be chosen, could or 
might have done by virtue of these presents. And we do 
hereby will and direct, that this method shall forever here- 
after be used for filling up all vacancies in the said offices, 
between the annual elections above directed : provided never- 
theless, that as ivell in the elections last mentioned, as in 
the annual elections above mentioned, no person shall be 
to give seven days 
notice in the news- 
papers of the day 
and place appoint- 
ed for holding the 
election, 
and the persons 
then chosen, to 
hold their offices 
from the time of 
election, 
until the third 
Tuesday in May 
then next follow- 
ing. 
Which method of 
election for filling 
up vacancies to be 
always practised. 
But no person 
shall at such elec- 
tions or the annual 
elections be cho- 
sen President or 
Vice-President,un- 
less he be a gov- 
ernor. THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
9 
elected to the office of president or vice-president, unless he 
then be a governor of our said corporation and Hospital. 
And our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby for us, our 
heirs and successors, direct, ordain, and require, that eve- 
ry president, vice-president, governor, treasurer and se- 
cretary of our said corporation, to be elected by virtue of 
these presents, shall, before they act in their respective 
offices, take an oath, (or if any of them shall be of the 
people called Quakers, or Unitas Fratrum,) an affirmation, 
to be to them administered by the president or vice-pre- 
sident of our said corporation for the time being, or of 
the preceding year, (who are hereby severally authorized 
to administer the same,) for the faithful and due execution 
of their respective offices, during their continuance in the 
same respectively. And further, our royal will and plea- 
sure is, and we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, 
ordain and appoint, and give and grant to the Society of 
the Hospital, in the city of New-York, in America, that 
the president of the said corporation for the time being, 
and in case of a vacancy in the said office of president, 
or in case of his sickness or absence, the vice-president 
of our said corporation shall, and may from time to time, 
as occasion may require, summon and call together, at 
such days and places within our said city of New-York, 
as they shall respectively think proper, the governors of 
the said corporation and Hospital for the time being, 
giving them at the least one day's notice thereof; and 
we do hereby require them to meet accordingly, and give, 
grant, and ordain, that any seven or more of the said 
governors of our said corporation, being so convened to- 
gether, of whom the president of our said corporation for 
the time being, or in case of a vacancy in the said office, 
or the sickness or absence of the said president, the vice- 
president for the time being shall always be one, shall 
forever hereafter be a legal meeting of the said corpora- 
tion ; and they, or the major part of them so met, shall have 
full power and authority to adjourn from day to day, or for 
any other time, as the business of our said corporation 
may require ; and to do, execute, transact, manage, and 
perform, in the' name of our said corporation, all and 
every act and acts, thing and things whatsoever, which 
our said corporation are or shall, by virtue of these our 
Letters Patent, be authorized to do, act, transact, man- 
age, and perform, in as full and ample manner as if all 
and every the governors and members of the said corpo- 
ration were present, and consenting thereto: saving and 
except always the electing of governors, and other the 
officers above mentioned of our said corporation : and 
also, saving and except the giving, granting, selling, or 
The President, 
or in his absence, 
the Vice-President 
may summon the 
governors to meet. 
giving at least one 
day's notice. 
Seven of the go- 
vern ors. of whom 
the President or 
Vice-President, to 
be always one,shall 
make a quorum, 
have power to ad- 
journ, 
and transact the 
business of the 
corporation, 
except choosing 
governors and oth- 
er officers, 10 
THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
and ex-ept grant- 
ing lands, &c. for a 
longer tern than 
one year. 
otherwise aliening any of the estate, real or personal, of 
our said corporation: and the leasing, demising, or dis- 
posing of any of the Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, 
real or mixed estate of our said corporation, for any 
longer term or time than one year; our royal will and 
pleasure being, that none of the estate, real, personal, or 
mixed of our said corporation, be sold, or in any wise 
aliened, but by and with the concurrence and approbation 
of the majority of the whole number of the governors of 
our said corporation for the time being, first obtained at 
some legal meeting of our said corporation , and. that none 
of the real or mixed estate of our said corporation, be leas- 
ed, demised, or in any wise disposed of for any longer term 
than one year, without the like concurrence and approba- 
tion of the majority of the whole number of the governors 
of our said corporation for the time being, first obtained as 
aforesaid. And further, we do hereby for us, our heirs 
and successors, ordain and appoint, and give and grant to 
the Society of the Hospital in the city of New-York, in 
America, that at any, and every such legal meeting of 
any seven or more of the governors of our said corpora- 
tion, of whom the president of our said corporation for the 
time being, or in case of a vacancy in the said office, or 
the sickness or absence of the said president, the vice-pre- 
sident, for the time being, shall always be one, it shall and 
may be lawful for them, in writing under the common seal 
of our said corporation, to make, frame, constitute, estab- 
lish, and ordain, from time to time, and at all times here- 
after, such laws, constitutions, ordinances, regulations, and 
statutes, for the better government of the officers, mem- 
bers, and servants of the said corporation, and of the pa- 
tients from time to time admitted into the said Hospital; 
for fixing and ascertaining the places of meeting of our 
said corporation, on the days and times of -the elections 
above-mentioned; and for regulating the mode and man- 
ner of making such, and all other the elections in our 
said corporation ; the management and disposition of 
the funds and charities, and all other the business and 
affairs whatever of our said corporation, as they, or the 
major part of them, so legally met, shall judge best for 
the general good of the said corporation, and profitable 
for the more effectual promoting the charitable and bene- 
ficial designs of the said corporation : and the same, or 
any of them, to alter, amend, or repeal from time to 
time, as they, or a major part of them so met as afore- 
said shall judge most conducive to the benefit of the said 
charity; provided such laws, constitutions, regulations, 
ordinances, and statutes, be not repugnant to the laws of 
that part of our kingdom of Great-Britain called England, 
None of the es- 
tate ofthe corpo- 
ration, to be dispo- 
sed of but by con- 
sent of the majori- 
ty of the whole 
governors. 
The governors 
in legal meeting, 
may 
under the seal of 
the corporation, 
make by-laws for 
the good govern- 
ment thereof; 
of its members, of- 
ficers, and servants, 
and of the patients 
to be admitted. 
The places and 
mode of election. 
The management 
and disposition of 
the funds and char- 
ities, and all other 
business, *br the 
good of the corpo- 
ration,and the same 
again repeal and 
amend. 
Such by law s not 
to be repugnant to 
the laws of Eng- 
land or thia colony. THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL 
11 
nor of this our province of New-York.-And we do fur- 
ther will and grant, that the said governors of the said 
corporation for the time being, or any seven or more of 
them, so legally met and convened as aforesaid, of whom 
the president, or vice president, for the time being, shall 
always be one, as aforesaid, shall have the full and sole 
power and authority for ever hereafter, by the majority of 
their voices from time to time, to elect, nominate, and ap- 
point such and so many physicians and surgeons, as they 
shall judge necessary to attend the said Hospital, and the 
sick and diseased patients from time to time admitted to 
the benefits of the said charity ; and to appoint the phy- 
sicians and surgeons so elected, their respective powers, 
authorities, business, trusts, and attendances; and also to 
appoint an apothecary, a steward, and matron, of and for 
the said Hospital; and from time to time to appoint them, 
the said apothecary, steward, and matron, and each 
of them, their respective powers, authorities, business, 
trusts, and attendances ; and to displace and discharge 
the apothecary, steward, and matron, from the service of 
the said Hospital, and to nominate and appoint other or 
others in their places and stead. And we do further, of 
our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, 
for us, our heirs and successors, grant and ordain, that 
when, and as often as any president, vice-president, 
governor, treasurer, secretary, physician, or surgeon of 
the said corporation, shall become unfit or incapable to 
execute their said offices, respectively, or shall misdemean 
themselves in their said offices, respectively, contrary to 
any the by-laws or regulations of our said corporation, or 
refuse or neglect the execution thereof, and thereupon a 
complaint or charge in writing shall be exhibited against 
him or them, by any member of our said corporation, at 
any legal meeting of the governors of our said corpora- 
tion and Hospital, as aforesaid, that it shall and may be 
lawful for the president or vice-president and governors, 
or the major part of them, then met, or at any other legal 
meeting of our said corporation from time to time, and 
upon examination and due pi oof, to suspend or discharge 
such president, vice-president, governor, treasurer, secre- 
tary, physician, or surgeon, from their offices respectively, 
although the yearly or other time for their respective 
services, shall not be expired; any thing before in these 
presents contained to the contrary thereof in any wise 
notwithstanding; Provided always, that no president, 
vice-president, governor, physician, or surgeon, shall be 
suspended or discharged at any meeting, without the con- 
currence and approbation of the majority of the whole num- 
ber of the governors of the said corporation, nor without 
The governors 
to appointthe num- 
ber of physicians 
and surgeons to at- 
tend the patients. 
also an apothecary, 
a steward, and mat- 
ron, 
and again displace 
and appoint others 
in their stead. 
The president, 
vice-president, 
governor, treasu- 
rer, secretary, phy- 
sician, or sui geon, 
incapable ofser ving 
or inisdemeaniug 
himself, 
may upon com- 
plaint, examina- 
tion, and due proof 
be suspended, 
by a majority of 
governors. 12 
THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
having a copy of the complaint or charge against him, at 
least six days before such examination ; and an opportu- 
nity to be fully heard in his defence. And for the keeping 
up and preserving, forever hereafter, a succession of 
members of the said corporation, our will and pleasure is, 
and we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, ordain, 
give, and grant, to " The Society of the Hospital in the 
city of New-York in America," and their successors for- 
ever, that it shall and may be lawful at all time and times 
hereafter, forever, for any seven or more of the governors 
of our said corporation, for the time being, of whom we 
will the president, or, in case of his absence, sickness, or 
a vacancy in the said office of president, the vice-presi- 
dent of the said corporation shall always be one, being 
convened and met together, as aforesaid, so as to be a 
legal meeting of our said corporation, as above mentioned, 
to elect and choose by the majority of their voices, and in 
such manner and form, and upon such terms and condi- 
tions as shall be directed, ordained, and established for 
that purpose, by any the said by-laws, statutes constitu- 
tions, or ordinances of the said corporation, and admit 
under the common seal of our said corporation, such and 
so many persons to be members of the said corporation, 
as they shall think beneficial to the laudable designs of the 
said corporation. Which persons and every of them, so 
from time to time elected, chosen, and admitted, shall, 
by virtue thereof, and of these presents, be vested with 
all the powers, authorities, and privileges, which any 
member of the said corporation is hereby invested with. 
And our will and pleasure further is, that the said gover- 
nors of the said corporation and Hospital, shall yearly and 
every year, give an account in writing, of the several 
sums of money by them received and expended, by virtue 
of these presents, or any authority hereby given ; and 
of the management, application, and disposition of the 
revenues and charities aforesaid, to the general assembly 
of our said province, for the time being, or to such person 
or persons as the said general assembly shall, from time 
to time, appoint to receive and audit the same accounts, 
when they, the governors of our said Hospital shall be 
thereunto required by the said general assembly of our 
said province. And further, we do by these presents, for 
us, our heirs and successors, give and grant unto the 
said Society of the Hospital, in the city of New-York in 
America, and their successors forever, that this our pre- 
sent Charter, shall be deemed, adjudged, and construed 
in all cases, most favorably, and for the best benefit and 
advantage of our said corporation, and for the promoting 
the good end and designs of this charitable Institution ; 
The governors in 
legal meeting may, 
by majority of voi- 
ces, choose new 
members, 
And under their 
seal admit as many 
as they shall deem 
beneficial to the so- 
ciety. 
The governors to 
render accounts to 
the general assem- 
bly, <if all their pro- 
ceedings, when 
thereunto required. 
The charter tn be 
construed in favor 
of the society. THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
13 
and that this our present grant, being entered on record, 
as is hereinafter expressed, shall be forever hereafter 
good and effectual in the law, according to our royal intent 
and meaning herein before declared ; and without any other 
license, grant, or confirmation from us, our heirs or suc- 
cessors, hereafter by the said corporation to be had or ob- 
tained, notwithstanding any mis-recitals, non-iecitals, not- 
naming, or misnaming, or any of the aforesaid offices, 
franchises, privileges, immunities, or other the premises, 
or any of them ; and although no writ of ad quod Damnum 
or other writs, inquisitions, or precepts, hath been upon 
this occasion had, made, issued, or prosecuted; any 
statute, act, ordinance, or provision, or other matter or 
thing to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. 
In testimony whereof, we have caused these our Letters 
to be made Patent, and the great seal of our said pro- 
vince to be hereunto affixed, and the same to be entered 
of record, in our secretary's office for our said province 
of New York, in one of the Books of Patents there re- 
maining. Witness our right trusty and right well-beloved 
cousin John, Earl of Dunmore, our captain-general and 
Governor-in-chief, in and over our said province of New- 
York, and the territories depending thereon in America, 
Chancellor and Vice-Admiral of the same, at our fort in 
our city of New-York, by and with the advice and consent 
of our council for our said province of New-York, the 
thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thou- 
sand seven hundred and seventy-one, and of our reign the 
■eleventh. 
and being entered 
on record, shall be 
effectual in law. 14 
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. 
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. 
AN ACT for the belter and more permanent support of the Hospital 
in the City of New-York. 
Passed March 14th, 1806. 
Whereas it has become necessary, on account of the increasing 
number of patients in the Hospital, in the city of New-York, to en- 
large the same, by erecting additions thereto, for the more convenient 
accommodation of the sick and disabled, and particularly, to provide 
suitable apartments for the maniacs, adapted to the various forms and 
degrees of insanity : And whereas, the said Hospital is an institution 
of great public utility, and humanity, as well as the general interests 
of the state, requires that fit and adequate provision should be made 
for the support of such an infirmary for sick and insane persons : 
Therefore, the better to enable the Governors of the said Hospital, 
by means of a permanent fund, to maintain and improve the said 
Hospital, 
I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represent- 
ed in Senate and Assembly, That the Treasurer of this state shall 
every year hereafter, until the year one thousand eight hundred and 
fifty-seven, upon the warrant of the comptroller, pay to the treasurer 
of the Society of the Hospital in the city of New-York, in America^ 
for the use of the said corporation, in quarter yearly payments, out of 
any monies in the treasury of this state not otherwise appropriated, the 
annual sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars; the first quar- 
terly payment to be made on the first day of May next; which said 
annual sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars, shall become 
chargeable upon the duties on sales at public auction orvendue in the 
said city of New-York. 
II. And be it further enacted, That the act, entitled " An act 
to continue the provision for the public Hospital, in the city of New- 
York," passed the 2d March, 1805, be and the same is hereby re- 
pealed. 
III. And be it further enacted, That the Governors of the said Hos- 
pital shall make an annual report of the state of that institution to 
the legislature. 
AN ACT to alter the Style and Title of the Society of the Hospital 
in the City of New-York, in America, and to amend the Charter 
thereof 
Passed March 9th, 1810. 
Whereas " the Society of the Hospital in the city of New-York 
in America," by their petition under their common seal, have re- ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. 
15 
presented to the legislature, that doubt, had arisen whether the elec- 
tion of members under a by-law of the said corporation, existing for 
many years past, had been made in strict conformity with the char- 
ter of the said society, and that their franchises under the said char- 
ter might thereby be rendered insecure, and have prayed that their 
said franchises may be confirmed to them and secured from the 
consequences of any mistake, or any future inaccuracy or miscon- 
struction ; and also that the legislature would be pleased to change 
the name and style of the said corporation, and to amend their charter 
in the manner hereinafter mentioned ; therefore, 
I. Be it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, repre- 
sented in Senate and Assembly, That the said corporation shall 
forever hereafter be known and distinguished by the name and 
style of "the Society of the New-York Hospital;" and by that 
name shall continue and be a body corporate and politic, and sue 
and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered 
unto, without any seizure or forejudger of their franchises, liber- 
ties or privileges, or being thereof excluded or ousted, for or upon 
any pretence of any forfeiture or misdemeanor at any time here- 
tofore done, committed or suffered ; and the said corporation shall 
and may have and enjoy all their rights, grants, franchises, lands, 
tenements, hereditaments, and estates whatsoever, in like manner, 
as if no misuser or other cause of forfeiture had heretofore occur- 
red ; and all the acts of said corporation shall be and hereby are 
confirmed and declared to be as valid to all intents and purposes as 
if no misuser or other cause of forfeiture had happened or been com- 
mitted. 
II. And be it further enacted, That hereafter the president, vice- 
president, treasurer and secretary of the said corporation, shall be 
elected by the governors of the same, and not, as heretofore, by the 
members of the said corporation at large. 
AN ACT for the further support of the New-York Hospital. 
Passed 23d March, 1810. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented 
in Senate and Assembly, That there shall be paid to the treasurer of 
the New-York Hospital, for the time being, out of the monies arising 
from the duties on goods sold in the city of New-York, three thou- 
sand five hundred dollars per annum, for the space of ten years from 
the passing of this act, to be paid quarter yearly, in four equal pay- 
ments, and the first quarter to be paid on the first day of August next, 
and quarterly thereafter, for and during the above term of ten years.; 
Provided always, That at any time within the period aforesaid, the 
legislature may repeal this act. 
NOTE.-The above Act was repealed by the 5th section of the Act, entitled 
" An Act respecting navigable communications between the great Western and 
Northern Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean," passed April 15, 1817. 16 
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. 
AN ACT to enable the Society of the New-York Hospital to erect a 
new building for the accommodation of insane patients. 
Passed April 17, 1816. 
Whereas the Governors of the New-York Hospital have repre- 
sented to the Legislature, that the building heretofore erected for the 
accommodation of insane patients, has, by reason of their increased 
number, become wholly inadequate for the purpose for which it is in- 
tended, that they are desirous of erecting another building for the 
said purpose, and have purchased a very eligible site for the same, but 
that the funds of the institution being merely sufficient for its ordinary 
expenses, they are unable, without aid of the Legislature, to carry 
their intention into effect: 
And whereas, there is no other institution in the state in which 
such patients can be taken care of and relieved : And whereas hu- 
manity, and the interest of the state, require that fit provision should 
be made for the care and cure of insane persons : Therefore, 
Be it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, represented 
in Senate and Assembly, That during the period mentioned in the first 
section of the act, entitled " An act for the better and more permanent 
support of the Hospital in the city of New-York," the Treasurer of 
this state shall pay to the treasurer of the Society of the New-York 
Hospital, in quarter yearly payments, out of any monies in the 
treasury of this state, not otherwise appropriated, the annual sum of 
ten thousand dollars, the first quarter yearly payment to be made on 
the first day of May next, which said annual sum shall be chargeable 
upon the duties on sales at public auction or vendue in the said city 
of New-York : Provided always, that all payments heretofore directed 
by law, to be made out of the aforesaid duties for the support of 
charitable institutions in the city of New-York, shall be made previous 
to the payment of the sum hereby granted to the said Society of the 
New-York Hospital. 
AN ACT to amend the Charter of " the Society of the New-York 
Hospital.'' 
Passed 20th March, 1828. 
Be it enacted by the people of the Slate of New-York represented 
in Senate and Assembly, That in the event of any vacancy happen- 
ing in the Board of Governors of the New-York Hospital, either by 
death, resignation, or otherwise, such vacancy may be filled, until the 
next annual election, by the Board of Governors for the time being, 
any thing in the Charter of " the Society of the New-York Hospi- 
tal" to the contrary notwithstanding. BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 
Be it ordained by the Governors of the Society of the New- 
York Hospital, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of 
the same, That the following rules and regulations be, and they 
are hereby established, as laws and ordinances of the said cor- 
poration ; and that all other by-laws, rules, and regulations 
heretofore made, be, and the same are hereby repealed. 
CHAPTER I. 
Of the Election of Governors and Officers. 
1. On the third Tuesday in May, in each year, an election 
shall be held at the New-York Hospital, for twenty-six Gover- 
nors of the Society of the New-York Hospital, at which elec- 
tion three inspectors (being members and not governors,) to be 
appointed by the Governors, at the stated meeting immediately 
preceding the election, or such of them as may attend, shall 
preside. But in case neither of them should attend, then the 
members of the Society convened, shall appoint any two of their 
number to act as inspectors, and preside at the said election. 
2. The poll of the said election for governors shall be open- 
ed at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and closed at two o'clock 
in the afternoon, on the same day : and every member of this 
corporation who shall vote at the said election, shall deliver to 
the inspectors a ballot containing the names of not more than 
twenty-six persons, as Governors: and the inspectors shall de- 
posit all the ballots so delivered to them in a box ; and shall 
insert the names of the persons so voting as aforesaid, in a poll 
list, to be kept by them for that purpose. And so soon as the 18 
poll of the said election shall be closed, the inspectors shall 
open and count the said ballots, and shall openly declare the 
names of the twenty-six persons who shall be found to have 
been elected Governors, by the greatest majority of all the votes 
given ; and shall deliver a certificate thereof, under their hands, 
to the secretary, to be by him laid before the Governors, at their 
next meeting. 
3. In case the election of any of the said Governors shall be 
declared void, such Governor shall be removed from the exercise 
of his office. And whenever any Governor shall for any rea- 
son, be removed, or shall die, or resign, or refuse, or neglect to 
act in, and execute the office for which he was chosen, then 
the Governors at their next monthly meeting, after it shall 
have been ascertained and recorded in their book of minutes 
that the office has become vacant, or as soon after that month- 
ly meeting as may be convenient, shall elect by ballot another 
member of this corporation, a Governor in place of the person 
whose office shall become vacant as aforesaid, but no person 
shall thus be elected a Governor unless there shall be given for 
him the votes of a majority of the whole number of Governors. 
4. At the first meeting of Governors, after every annual elec- 
tion, there shall be chosen by ballot by the majority of the Go- 
vernors present, one President, one Vice-President, one Trea- 
surer, and one Secretary. 
CHAPTER IL 
Of the Oath or Affirmation to be taken by the Officers of 
this Corporation. 
1. The president and vice-president, for the time being, and 
the president and vice-president, of the preceding year, shall 
respectively have power to administer to each of the officers 
mentioned in the next section, an oath or affirmation of the te- 
nor following, viz : " I do swear (or affirm) that 1 will faithful- 19 
ly and duly execute the office of of the Society of the 
New-York Hospital, according to the best of my ability." 
2. Every president, vice-president, governor, treasurer, and se- 
cretary, shall take the said oath or affirmation, before he acts in 
his office. 
CHAPTER III. 
Of the President and Vice-President. 
1. The president may call a meeting of the governors, when- 
ever he shall think necessary, and may appoint the time and 
place of such meeting, (provided the latter shall be in the city of 
New-York,) giving, at least, one day's notice thereof. 
2. The president shall preside at all meetings of the gover- 
nors, and shall preserve order therein ; he shall nominate all com- 
mittees, except such as shall be chosen by ballot. 
. 3. When the office of president shall be vacant, or when the 
president shall be absent, the vice-president shall succeed to all 
his rights and duties. 
4. The president and vice-president shall visit the Hospital 
and the Bloomingdale Asylum, at least once in every month, to 
inspect the general state of the institution, and shall report their 
observations thereon to the next monthly meeting of the Gover- 
nors. 
CHAPTER IV. 
Of the Governors. 
1. A monthly meeting of the governors shall be held in the 
governor's room, at the Hospital, on the first Tuesday in every 
month, at half past four o'clock in the afternoon. 
2. Seven governors, including the president or vice-president, 
shall be a quorum for transacting all business, except the alien- 20 
ating any of the real or personal estate of the corporation, or the 
leasing any of the real or mixed estate thereof, for a longer term 
than one year, or for the suspending or discharging an officer, 
physician, or surgeon, for which purposes the consent of a ma- 
jority of all the governors shall be necessary. 
3. The governors shall annually appoint, by ballot, few phy- 
siciaus and six surgeons to the Hospital, and also a resident 
physician to have the sole care of the insane in the Blooming- 
dale Asylum, who shall receive commissions under the seal of 
the corporation y and every physician and surgeon, hereafter to 
be appointed, snail hold his office until the first stated monthly 
meeting of the governors, to be held after the next ensuing an- 
nual election, or unless re-elected, until another is appointed in 
his stead. But no person shall be appointed physician or sur- 
geon, unless he shall have been nominated to that place, at a 
previous monthly meeting. 
4. If any officer, physician, or surgeon, shall become unfit to 
execute his office, or shall rnisdemean himself in his office, con- 
trary to any of the by-laws of this corporation, or refuse or neg- 
lect to execute the same, the visiting committee, or any member 
of the corporation, may exhibit against him a complaint in wri- 
ting to the governors, at a legal meeting; and thereupon a notice 
of the said complaint shall be given to the person complained of, 
and a time shall be appointed (not less than six days after ser- 
vice of the said notice) for the person complained of to make his 
defence before the governors : and the governors, having exam- 
ined into the truth of the complaint, and heard the defence of the 
party accused, if any shall be made, may, with the concurrence 
and approbation of a majority of the whole number of governors, 
upon such examination, and due proof, suspend or discharge the 
officer, physician, or surgeon, complained of as aforesaid. 
5. At the monthly meeting in June, in each year, the govern- 
ors shall appoint a superintendent or steward^matron, apothe- 
cary clerk, and librarian for the Hospital, add a warden and 21 
matron for the Bloomingdale Asylum, who shall hold their offi- 
ces duiing the pleasure of the governors; a- committee of the 
Bloomingdale Aryhwnr and also a person or persons, to be chosen 
by ballot, to supply the Hospital with medicines./. The governors 
shall also at the same meeting, take order -for obtaining the ser- 
vices of a chaplain to the Hospital, and for prescribing the duties 
to be performed by him. 
6. At the same monthly meeting of the governors, a com- 
mittee shall be appointed, to be denominated the " Library 
Committee," to consist of three of the governors, one physician, 
and one surgeon of the Hospital, whose duty it shall be to pur- 
chase books, and to take the general care and superintendence 
of the library, and to report to the monthly meeting of the gov- 
ernors in January, in each year, a statement of the amount 
received and expended on account of the library during the year. 
7. There shall be a visiting committee, to consist of three 
governors, to serve th*ree months, one of them to be appointed 
at each monthly meeting. There shall also be an inspecting 
committee to consist of two governors, to serve two months, 
one of them to be appointed at each monthly meeting. 
8. At the monthly meeting, in December, in each year, a 
committee shall be appointed to audit the accounts of the Hospi- 
tal, and to make an inventory of all the real and personal estate 
belonging to the corporation, a schedule of all the deeds, bonds, 
&c. in the custody of the treasurer, and a general statement of 
the accounts: which inventory, schedule, and statement shall be 
made up and produced by them, at the next monthly meeting, 
or at the one following : and another committee shall also be 
appointed to draft the annual report of the state of the Hospital 
to be laid before the legislature. This draft shall be presented 
to the governors at their next monthly meeting, or at the one 
following. One governor, one physician, add one surgeon 
shall he appointed to prepare a table uf the diseases of the 
patients in the Hospital during the year.\ 22 
9. Every committee, whether standing or special, shall report 
in writing, upon every subject referred to them. 
10. At each monthly meeting, the minutes of the visiting 
committee, of the inspecting committee, and the Bloomingdale 
Asylum committee shall be produced, that the governors may be 
informed of their proceedings. 
11. The governor's room shall be kept solely for the use of 
the governors, and no other person (except the librarian when 
necessarily employed in the library) shall be permitted to use it, 
without the permission of the visiting committee. 
12. ,The\nresident, vice-president, treasurer, and secretary shall 
Be a-'commiHee of the sinking fund, and shall have charge of 
said fuud, and shall report tKe state of die same, with their pro- 
ceedings to the rhonthly meeting of the governors in the month 
of January, in each year. ' / 
CHAPTER V 
Of the Election of Members. 
1. Whenever a governor shall propose a person to be elected a 
member of this corporation, he shall be ballotted for at a monthly 
meeting of the governors; and if there shall be a majoiity of 
votes in his favor, he shall be duly elected. 
, AM o-* * H-MV* 
2.-If the --penw so elected, shall at any time previous to his 
election, have paid into the treasury the sum of forty dollars,, 
he shall, immediately upon his election, be admitted a member 
of the corporation, and shall receive from the secretary a certi- 
ficate of such admission, under the common seal. But if such 
payment has not been made, then the member elect, shall, with- 
in three months after his election, pay the said sum of forty 
dollars to the treasurer^ and upon the governors being informed 
that such payment hath been made, they shall order him to 
be admitted, and he shall receive a certificate as aforesaid. And 
unless such payment shall be made within the three months 23 
the election of the person so making default, shall be voidh; but 
the governors may in any particular instance in their discretion 
dispense with such payment, and order the member elect to be 
admitted immediately. No person hereafter elected shall be 
deemed a member of this corporation, until he shall be admitted 
as aforesaid. 
CHAPTER VI. 
Of the Treasurer. 
1. The treasurer shall give security to be approved by the 
governors, for the faithful performance of his trust. 
2. He shall have the custody of all bonds, title deeds, and 
other papers and documents relating to the property of the cor- 
poration. 
3. He shall open an account with one of the banks in the 
city of New-York, in the name of this corporation ; and he shall 
deposit all monies, immediately upon his receiving them in such 
bank. 
4. He shall keep a book containing blank checks ; and in 
drawing for money he shall use the said checks, and insert in 
the margin opposite to them respectively, their amounts and 
dates, and the names of the persons to whom they are payable3 
and on what account. 
5. He shall cause a book to be kept, at the Hospital, by the 
clerk, for the sole purpose of keeping an account with the bank ; 
and he shall cause the clerk to enter in such book, all deposits 
made and checks drawn, with their amounts, dates, and the 
names of the persons to whom they are payable. 
6. The treasurer shall, from time to time, pay such sums as he 
shall think necessary to defray the expenses of the superinten- 
dent's department. 
7. The treasurer shall pay no other monies, without a resolu- 
tion of the board of governors or a written order from the visiting 24 
committee, or from the committee of the Bloomingdale Asylum, 
for expenditures in their department. 
8. The treasurer shall cause to be kept at the Hospital a 
journal and a ledger, in which shall be contained an account of 
receipts, an account of expenditures, an account with the bank, 
an account with the superintendent, and such other accounts as 
may be necessary. 
CHAPTER VII. 
Of the Secretary. 
1. The secretary shall have the custody of the seal of the cor- 
poration. 
2. He shall attend the meetings of the society and of the go- 
vernors, and take minutes of the proceedings of each meeting, 
and see that the clerk transcribes them into a book provided for 
that purpose. 
3. Immediately after the election of governors and other officers, 
he shall give notice to the different persons elected. 
4. On the day preceding every meeting, stated or special, he 
shall send notice of the time and place of such meeting to each 
of the governors. 
5. At every meeting he shall read the minutes of the prece- 
ding meeting at length. 
6. He shall cause the reports to the legislature, and the annual 
state of the Hospital, to be regularly entered upon the minutes. 
7. He shall furnish certificates to the members of the corpora- 
tion in the manner prescribed by the by-laws. 
VIII. 
Of the Visiting Committee. 
1. The visiting committee shall meet twice in every week, 25 
at the hospital. If any member of the committee should be un- 
able to attend, he shall procure some other governor to attend, in 
his stead. 
2. They shall receive or reject applicants for admission, as in 
their discretion they shall think advisable, having regard to the 
existing circumstances of the hospital; but they shall admit no 
person, without a previous examination by one of the phy- 
sicians and surgeons, or by the house-physician, or house-sur- 
geon. 
3. They shall also determine whether the applicant shall be 
received as a pauper or pay-patient; and in the latter case, they 
shall agree upon the price to be paid weekly, and take such se- 
curity, as they may deem requisite ; but this and the last prece- 
ding article shall not apply to the admission of patien^ in the 
Bloomingdale Asylum, which is solely entrusted to the asylum 
committee. 
4. They shall carefully inquire of every pauper previous to ad- 
mittance, whether he has arrived at this port within two years, 
and if that shall appear to be the fact, they shall make a minute 
thereof in their book, and direct the clerk to enter the name of 
such pauper in the book as an emigrant, and to inquire of the 
superintendent of the alms-house, the name of the owner of the 
vessel in which the pauper has arrived, or of his security, which 
shall be entered on the admission book, in order that payment 
may be obtained on the bond given to the corporation of the city 
of New-York, pursuant to the laws of the state. 
5. They shall keep a book of minutes, and enter therein the 
names of all patients received or discharged, and of such other 
business as comes before them ; which book must be laid before 
the governors, at every monthly meeting. 
6. They shall give such orders and establish such regulations 
as they shall think proper, to carry into effect the objects of this 
institution ; provided such orders and regulations are not incon- 
sistent with the charter and by-laws. 26 
7. On every visiting day, they shall inquire of the physicians 
and surgeons, or, in their absence, of the house-physician, or 
house-surgeon, whether any of the pauper patients are incurable, 
or in a condition to leave the Hospital; and shall direct all such 
to be discharged, so that no improper objects be permitted to re- 
main. 
8. The committee may direct the superintendent to give some 
relief, in money or clothes, to patients, who, from extreme poverty, 
or circumstances of peculiar distress, may need such aid at the 
time of their discharge. But they are to exercise great caution 
in affording such assistance, lest it should encourage improper or 
too frequent applications. 
9. If any patient shall go out without leave, be guilty of drunk- 
enness, profane swearing, or otherwise misbehave, the committee 
may, at their discretion, discharge him. 
10. They shall take care that the patients in each ward are 
supplied with Bibles, and such other religious books as they may 
think useful. 
11. They shall have the general charge and care of the proper- 
ty of the Hospital; and shall frequently remind the superintend- 
ent and other officers of the house, of the necessity of attention, 
economy, cleanliness, and good conduct in the discharge of their 
several duties. 
12. Whenever they may think it necesary that a special meet- 
ing of the governors should be called, they shall apply for that 
purpose to the president, or, in his absence, to the vice-president. 
13. In case the house-physician, house-surgeon, or apothecary, 
shall neglect any of the duties prescribed to him, or refuse to 
comply with any reasonable request of the superintendent, the 
visiting committee may suspend the offender, and report the case 
to the next monthly meeting of the governors ; and the vacancy, 
in the mean time, shall be supplied by such person as the com- 
mittee may appoint. 
14. The committee shall, on each visiting day, insert in a book 27 
kept for that purpose, the times of their own attendance, and of 
that of the physicians and surgeons. 
15. The visiting committee shall have the general superin- 
tendence of the buildings and other improvements belonging to 
this corporation, except the Bloomingdale Asylum, and it shall be 
their duty to see that all such repairs or alterations as may be 
directed by the governors be faithfully and economically ex- 
ecuted. 
CHAPTER IX. 
Of the Inspecting Committee. 
1. It shall be the duty of the inspecting committee to inquire 
whether the by-laws and regulations of the governors relative to 
the management and economy of the house, are carried into 
effect. 
2. They shall visit the wards in the hospital at least once a 
week, and also the wardgjantl cells of the Bloomingdale Asylum, 
at least once-^uonth;! inquire into the behavior of the superin- 
tendent, warden, matrons, and nurses, towards the patients; 
examine particularly, whether economy be observed ; and as to 
the cleanliness of the halls, wards, apartments, and beds ; whether 
the floors are frequently washed, and the walls white-washed ; 
whether the bread and other provisions are of good quality ; 
whether the patients are allowed a sufficient quantity ; whether 
they are regularly attended by the physicians and surgeons, and 
whether the apothecary's shop is kept neat and in good order. 
They are also to inquire whether any improvements can be made 
for the greater comfort of the patients. 
3. They shall inquire particularly whether the wards are pro- 
perly ventilated, so that they may be supplied with pure and 
wholesome air, and shall prohibit the patients from using the 
fires or stoves in their wards for culinary purposes. 
4. At least once in each month, they shall examine the house- 28 
physician and house surgeon, as to the performance of thei 
respective duties, and as to the daily attendance and behavior of 
the pupils intended as candidates for the offices of house-physician 
and house surgeon. 
5. They shall keep a book of minutes, and enter therein their 
proceedings and observations, relative to all the objects of their 
appointment, which book shall be laid before the governors, at 
every monthly meeting. 
CHAPTER X. 
Of the Consulting Physicians and Surgeons. 
1. The consulting physicians and surgeons shall be considered 
as counsellors, and shall be invited to attend at all capital opera- 
tions in the hospital. 
2. They may recommend persons to be admitted as patients, 
in like manner as the governors. 
3. E^ch consulting physician and surgeon, shall have the 
privilege of introducing three of his students gratis, to see the 
practice of the house, and to the use of the library for one year 
in like manner as the physicians and surgeons of the hospital. 
CHAPTER XI. 
Of the Physicians and Surgeons. 
1. The physicians and surgeons shall make such arrange- 
ment among themselves, that the hospital may be attended in the 
manner hereinafter directed. 
2. One physician shall visit every medical patient who may be 
afflicted with an acute disease, at least once every day, and oftener 
if necessary ; and every medical patient in the hospital, without 
exception, twice in every week. 
3. At such visits, the attending physician shall inquire, whe- 29 
ther his directions and prescriptions have been carefully observed. 
He shall attend to the neatness and ventilation of the wards, and 
give such directions on those subjects, as may be necessary, to 
the superintendent. He shall direct the house-physician to re- 
port to the superintendent such patients as are in a proper condi- 
tion to leave the hospital. 
4.- Two surgeons, shall constantly be in attendance on the 
Hospital, one-of whom shall have the charge of all the surgical 
wards in the Marine Department, and of the Ward No. 2, in the 
main building, the other shall have charge of all the other sur- 
gical wards in the main building. The choice of attendance for 
the term, on either of these two divisions, shall be settled by 
agreement between themselves, or by lot. They shall both visit 
the hospital, at least, three times a week, and oftener when ne- 
cessary, and every surgical patient under their care respectively, 
without exception, at least, once a week. At such visits, they 
shall attend to the ventilation and neatness of the surgical wards, 
and give such directions on tl^ese subjects, as may be necessary, 
to the superintendent, and they shall direct theiwrespective house- 
surgeon|, to report to the superintendent, such surgical patients as 
may be in a proper condition to leave the hospital. 
5. The times of their attendance shall be so arranged by the 
physicians and surgeons, respectively, as not to interfere with each 
other, and so that the students, who attend the practice of the 
house, may accompany them in their visits to the patients. 
6. If any physician or surgeon shall be prevented from attend- 
ing in his turn, he shall procure some other belonging to the hos- 
pital to attend in his stead. 
7. The attending physician and surgeons shall be present at 
the regular meetings of the visiting committee, to confer with 
them on the management of the house, and to examine appli- 
cants for admission. 
8. No capital operation, except in cases of immediate danger, 
shall be performed, without the previous approbation of at least 30 
two surgeons, nor without inviting all the physicians and sur- 
geons belonging tc the hospital, to be present at the operation. 
9. No drugs or medicines shall be purchased without a written 
order, entered by the attending physician, an attending surgeon, 
or the physician of the Bloomingdale Asylum, in a pass-book 
kept for that purpose. 
10. The attending physician and surgeon shall, on the first 
Monday in every month, inspect the apothecary's shop, and see 
that it is kept in proper order, and that good medicines are regu- 
larly supplied, and shall report all neglects and improprieties on 
these subjects, whether in the persons furnishing the medicines, 
or in the apothecary, to the governors, at their next monthly 
meeting. 
11. Each of the attending physicians and surgeons shall re- 
port in writing to the governors, after his tour of attendance is 
completed, the general condition of the hospital during that 
period ; and this report shall state, whether the house-physician 
and the house-surgeons, and their assistants, have discharged 
their respective duties, with skill and fidelity; and whether the 
nurses have treated the sick with humanity, and shall also con- 
tain such suggestions and remarks as shall appear to him to be 
useful. 
12. At the close of every year, a table of the diseases of the 
patients in the Hospital, and in the Bloomingdale Asykrni, during 
the year then expired, shall be made out and duly arranged, in 
order that the same may be published with the general account of 
the state of the Hospital, which table shall be prepared by one 
governor, one physician, and one surgeon, to be appointed for 
that purpose by the governors. 
13- In order to render the hospital, as far as may consist with 
the welfare of the patients, conducive to the advancement of 
medical science, one or more of the physicians, and one tor more 
of the surgeons, may upon, application, receive from the gover- 
nors permission to give clinic^ lectures, and the physicians and 31 
surgeons so permitted, shall be entitled to perform their tour of 
duty (Turing the usual period of public instruction, and shall attend 
such of the wards, as may be assigned to them respectively by 
the governors. The clinical lectures shall not be given at such 
an hour as will interfere with the visits to the wards, and the per- 
mission to deliver them may be withdrawn by the governors 
whenever the interest of the institution shall in their opinion re- 
quire it. 
14. The physicians and surgeons may recommend persons to 
be admitted as patients, in like manner as the governors. 
CHAPTER XII. 
Of the House-Physician and House-Surgeons. 
1. There shall be appointed one house-physician, and two 
house-surgeons, each of whom shall serve one year. The term 
of service of each of the house surgeons shall be equally divided 
between the two surgical divisions of the hospital, to the end, that 
each house-surgeon shall reside, and serve six\months in the 
main building, and six months in the marine department. 
The Visiting Committee shall assign to the house-surgeons the 
division of thd hospital, in which they are respectively to com- 
mence their term of service. No person shall be appointed to the 
office of house-physician, or of a house-surgeon, until he shall 
have attained the age of twenty-one years, nor until he shall have 
laid before the governors satisfactory testimonials of his good moral 
character, and also a certificate in the following form. 
" We do hereby certify, that A. B. hath been a private pupil of 
C. D., a practising physician, (or surgeon, as the case may be,) 
for the space of three years, that he has passed his examination 
for a degree, or for a license, and that we believe him to possess 
skill and ability to execute the office of a house-physician (or 
house-surgeon, as the case may be,) and we do recommend him 
to the governors for said office." Which certificate shall be signed 32 
by at least three physicians of the hospital, if the candidate is 
recommended for the office of house physician, and by at least 
four surgeons of the hospital, if he is recommended for the office 
of house-surgeon. 
2. The house-physician and house-surgeons shall visit their 
respective wards once at least every morning and evening; and 
be prepared to report a state of the patients to the visiting physi- 
cians and surgeons. They shall see that the medicines sent to 
the sick are regularly taken, and that they are administered with 
care and neatness, and without delay. 
3. No medicines, wine, or spirits, shall be prescribed or admin- 
istered to the patients, nor any surgical operation performed, (ex- 
cept in cases of emergency,) without the special direction of the 
attending physicians or surgeons ; to whom such cases when they 
occur shall be immediately reported. 
4. In any medical or surgical case of emergency, the house- 
physician and house-surgeon shall request the immediate attend- 
ance of the attending physician or surgeon, and if he cannot 
be found, of any other of the physicians or surgeons of the hos- 
pital. 
5. They shall not remove patients from one ward into another, 
without the approbation of the superintendent. 
6. It shall be their duty to report the disease, of which any pa- 
tient dies, to the clerk, in order that the register may be regularly 
kept. 
7. They shall report, in writing, to the superintendent, such pa- 
tients as may, under special circumstances, have been received, 
during his absence, that he may lay the same before the visiting 
committee at their next meeting. 
8. Neither the house-physician nor house-surgeon shall dis- 
charge a patient; this being the exclusive duty of the superin- 
tendent. 
9. They shall not be absent at the usual hours of attendance 
of the physicians and surgeons, and whenever either of them 33 
goes out, he shall leave notice with the superintendent or matron, 
where he may be found ; and in no case shall all of them be ab- 
sent at the same time, except in attending the regular medical 
and surgical lectures given in this city, and for which purpose, 
permission must first be obtained from the board of governors. 
They must be in the Hospital at a seasonable hour in the even- 
ing, and never sleep out of the house. 
10. They shall not engage in any other business than that of 
the Hospital, nor shall they practise out of the house. 
11. It shall be the particular duty of the^iouse physician to 
keep the electrical and galvanic apparatus always in perfect order, 
and faithfully ta apply them when directed. 
12. The house surgeon residing in the main building, shall 
have charge of all surgical instruments belonging to the house, 
and shall be responsible for them and for their good order. He 
shall keep an account of them, stating when, and from whom 
they were received, and their prices ; and shall never suffer them 
to be lent or used out of the house. 
13. It shall be the particular duty of the house-physician or 
house-surgeon, (as the case may be medical or surgical,) to attend 
to the faithful application of the baths, at the temperature, 
and in the manner prescribed by the attending physician or sur- 
geons. 
CHAPTER XIII 
Of the Assistants to theHouse-Physicianand House-Surgeons. 
1. There shall be appointed every year, one senior, and one 
junior assistant,,to the house physician ; and one senior, and one 
junior assistant, to each house-surgeon. 'The term of service of- 
the assistants to the house-surgeons, shall be equally divided be- 
tween the two surgical divisions of the Hospital, so that they 
shall serve six months in each, and pass from one division to the 
other, at the same time with the house-surgeons, respectively, to 34 
whom they are assistants. TEvery person to be appointed a senior 
assistant shall have walked the house one year as a junior, before 
he shall be eligible to the office of senior assistant, so that the 
assistant who may be so appointed, shall walk the house two 
years before he shall be eligible to the office of house-physician, 
or house-surgeon, as the case may be, and no person shall be ap- 
pointed assistant to the house-physician, or to either of the house- 
surgeons, until he shall have laid before the governors a certificate. 
In the case of a candidate for the office of senior assistant as 
follows: 
" We do hereby certify, that A. B. hath been a private pupil of 
C. D., a practising physician, (or surgeon, as the case may be,) 
for the space of three years, that he has passed his examination 
for a degree, or for a license, and that we believe him to be well 
qualified for a senior assistant to the house-physician, (or house- 
surgeon, as the case may be,) and we do recommend him to the 
governors for said office." And in the case of a candidate for the 
office of junior assistant:-11 We do hereby certify, that A. B. 
hath been a private pupil of C. D., a practising physician, (or sur- 
geon, as the case may be,) for two years, during which time he 
has attended the daily practice of the New-York Hospital for 
one year, and has attended one complete course of lectures in 
college-and we do further certify, that on the 
day of at a meeting held at the Ntew-York Hospital/to which 
all the physicians (or surgeons, as the case may be,) of the hos- 
pital were invited, and at which we were present, we did examine 
the said A. B. that we believe him to be well qualified for a 
junior assistant to the house-physician, (or house-surgeon, as the 
case may be,) and we do recommend him to the governors for 
said office." Which certificate for senior and junior assistants, 
respectively, shall in each case be signed by at least two physi- 
cians of the hospital, if the candidate is recommended for the 
office of assistant to the house-physician, and by at least three 
surgeons of the hospital, if recommended for assistant to a house- 
surgeon. 35 
2. The assistants shall respectively attend the house-physician 
and house-surgeon in their morning visits to the patients, and 
they shall also attend at the hospital at twelve o'clock, and at such 
other times as the attending physician or surgeon may direct, 
provided however that if the junior assistants shall be attending 
lectures, they may be excused by the visiting committee during 
the hours that lectures are delivered, from attending the house- 
physician or house-surgeon in their visits to the patients. 
3. The senior assistant to the house-physician, shall, under 
the direction of the attending physician, keep a register of all 
medical cases which occihr in the hospital, in books which shall 
be neatly bound, and kept in the library of the hospital. In this 
register shall be entered the name, age, and occupation of each 
patient, the probable cause and history of his disease, the reme- 
dies used before and after his admission, the name of the attend- 
ing physician or surgeon, his daily reports on the case, the ter- 
mination of the disease, either in recovery, relief, or death, and 
such other circumstances as may tend to illustrate the case, and 
the nature of the disease. 
4. Each of the senior assistants to the house-surgeons, shall, 
under the directions of the surgeons attending on their respective 
divisions, keep a similar report of the chirurgical cases, in their 
respective divisions, and shall record all operations therein. 
5. No such medical or surgical assistant, shall be eligible to the 
office of house-physician, or house-surgeon, unless he shall have 
kept the prescribed register to the satisfaction of the attending 
physicians and surgeons respectively, which shall be duly cer- 
tified to the board of governors, by the physicians or surgeons 
before his election. 
6. Such pupils as intend to be candidates for the office of assist- 
ants, must attend at the hospital daily, at the same hours with 
the attending physician and surgeon, and must be present at all 
operations performed by the surgeons. 36 
CHAPTER XIV. 
Of Students admitted to see the Practice of the House. 
1. Any student of medicine, upon paying to the treasurer ten 
dollars, shall receive a ticket entitling him to visit and see the 
practice of the house, for one year, subject to the regulations of 
the hospital, or, on the payment of six dollars, to the same privi- 
lege during the months of November, December, January, and 
February. 
I 2. Any student of medicine, upon paying the sum of two dol- 
lars and fifty cents, shall be entitled to the use of the library for 
one year, subject to the regulations of the hospital for the time 
being. 
3. Three students of each of the physicians and surgeons of 
the hospital, shall be entitled to receive from the treasurer, gra- 
tis, a ticket, admitting him to see the practice of the house, and 
to the use of the library for one year, on his producing to the 
treasurer a certificate from the physician or surgeon, stating that 
the student is regularly entered with him as a student for at least 
two years. 
4. No student shall be entitled to visit the Bloomingdale Asy- 
lum, without leave from the physician of the asylum, or one of 
the asylum committee. 
5. No student shall be entitled to attend the hospital, except 
at the hours of prescription or operation. Every student shall 
produce his ticket to the porter, at the gate, and shall behave with 
decorum and propriety. And if any student shall infringe any 
of the regulations of the hospital, or be guilty of profane swear- 
ing, or improper conduct, it shall be the duty of the superintend- 
ent to report him to the visiting committee, who may give orders 
to exclude him, in future, from the hospital. And that he may 
be informed of the regulations to which he is subject, every stu- 
dent shall be furnished by the treasurer with a copy of this by- 
law. 37 
'CHAPTER XV. 
Of the Apothecary. 
1. The apothecary shall compound and make up all medicines 
prescribed, agreeably to the formulae from time to time directed 
by the physicians and surgeons of the hospital. He shall deliver 
no medicines which are not ordered by the attending physicians 
or surgeons, and shall permit no medicines to be carried out of 
the house, except to out-door patients. He shall put up the me- 
dicines intended for each ward separately, and shall annex to 
them labels, containing the names of the patients for whom they 
were respectively prescribed ; and, when necessary, directions 
for taking them. And he shall send them to each ward by the 
orderly man, to be by him distributed to the patients. 
2. He shall regularly attend the shop, and never be absent, 
without the superintendent's permission. -^He shall keep the shop, 
and every thing appertaining to it, clean and in perfect order. 
He shall carefully observe economy in every thing relating to 
his department; be particularly prudent and careful in the deli- 
very of medicines, and permit no patient to enter the shop unne- 
cessarily. 
3. He shall cause all articles purchased for his department, to 
be immediately entered, by the persons of whom they are pur- 
chased, in a pass-book provided for that purpose, with the date, 
quantity, kind, and price of the articles. 
4. He shall keep a book, in which the attending physician or 
surgeon shall enter his directions for the purchase of medicines, 
&c. with the date and quantity to be purchased, and signed with 
the initials of his name. And the apothecary shall purchase of 
the persons appointed for that purpose by the governors, and of 
none other, the articles so ordered ; but he is strictly forbidden to 
purchase any thing, except in pursuance of such directions pre- 
viously entered as aforesaid. 38 
5. No person shall be appointed/apothecary, unless he is 
twenty-one years of age, nor until he' has produced sufficient tes- 
tinaonials of, his good moral character, and has obtained a certifi- 
cate, signed by at leas/ two physicians and two surgeons of the 
hospital, in the following form / 
" We do hereby certify, that at a meeting held at the New- 
York hospital, on the clay of 18 , to which 
all the physicians and surgeons of the said hospital were invited, 
and at which we were present, we did examine A. B., and did 
find him competent to execute the office of apothecary of the said 
hospital. And we do recommend him to the governors for that 
office." yr 
6. The apothecary shall give a bond, in the^penalty of two 
hundred and fifty dollars, for the faithful perfornmrse. of the 
duties of Ins office, and that he will not cease to perform the du- 
ties, Without giving two months' notice of his intention to leave 
his employment. 
CHAPTER XVI. 
Of the Superintendent or Steward. 
1. The superintendent shall be the steward of the hospital. 
He shall have the general charge thereof; and see that the regu- 
lations of the governors, and the directions of the visiting commit- 
tee are carried into effect. 
2. He shall purchase, under the directions of the visiting com- 
mittee or treasurer, fuel, provisions, and all other stores, for the 
use of the hospital, except medicines. 
3. He shall keep, under his key, all wines, spirits, sugar, mo- 
lasses, unmade linen, and blanketing, and all other stores and 
necessaries. 
4. He shall see that the outer-gates are locked at a seasonable 
hour every evening. 
5. He shall suffer no patient to go out of the house, without 
his special permission. 39 
6. He shall visit every ward at least once a day, and oftener, 
if necessary. 
7. He shall have power to hire and dismiss all the nurses and 
servants employed in or about the hospital; subject, however, to 
such orders as the visiting committee shall think proper to give. 
And it shall be his duty to discharge all such of them as shall be 
guilty of profane swearing, drunkenness, bringing spirituous 
liquors clandestinely into the house, or other gross misconduct. 
And he is to report his proceedings on all these subjects to the 
visiting committee. 
8. He shall take particular care that no wine or spirits are used 
in the hospital, except by the direction of the physicians or sur- 
geons, for the use of the patients. 
9. He shall cause the hospital to be completely white-washed 
every spring -«md autumn ; and the walls of every ward to be 
white-Washed four feet upwards frum the Jloor, once in winter, 
and at least once- in July, and in each of tB^ two succeeding 
months. r 
10. He shall y hew there is-ne chaplain in attendant appoint 
in each ward one of the most discreet patients to read the Bible to 
the other patients, and he shall see that it is read conformably to 
the regulations respecting patients ; and where any patient is 
dangerously ill, he shall inquire, whether he is desirous to con- 
verse with any religious person ; and shall invite the person de- 
sired by the patient to attend ; and while such person is present, 
shall see that the other patients in the ward behave with decorum. 
11. When a patient is discharged, the superintendent shall 
cause his name to be entered in the book provided for that pur- 
pose, mentioning him as cured, relieved, incurable, eloped, or 
disorderly. 
12. On the decease of a patient, the superintendent shall 
cause his name, and the time of his decease, to be entered in 
the register, the body to be conveyed, as soon as conveniently 
may be, to the dead-house, and there safely kept, until deliver- 40 
ed to the hearse, or to the friends of the deceased, for interment ; 
and he shall be particularly responsible for the execution of this 
duty. 
13. If the house-physician, house-surgeon, clerk, 
students attending the house, or other persons belonging to it, 
shall use profane language, disregard the by-laws and regula- 
tions, or otherwise misbehave, it shall be the duty of the super- 
intendent to report the offenders, in writing to the visiting 
committee. 
14. When a patient dies, leaving clothes or other articles of 
value, the superintendent shall report the same to the visiting 
committee, who shall make a minute of such report in their book, 
and give him the necessary directions. 
CHAPTER XVII. 
Of the Matron. 
1. The matron shall visit the wards in the Hospital, every day, 
and see that they are properly attended by the nurses. 
2. She shall oversee all the female patients and servants, and 
take care that the wards, apartments, beds, clothes, linen, and 
other things are kept clean. All the patients, nurses, and ser- 
vants must be obedient and submissive to her. 
3. The female nurses must not be absent without leave of the 
matron. 
4. She must take care of all the household goods and furni- 
ture. 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
Of the Clerk. 
1. Il shall be the duty of the clerk, on the day following each 
meeting of the governors, to enter in their journal, a fair copy of 
the minutes taken by the secretary, together with such reports 
and other papers, as the secretary shall direct. 41 
2. He shall furnish the chairman of every committee appoint- 
ed by the governors, with a copy of the minutes relating to their 
appointment, and he shall notify every person appointed on each 
of the standing committees, of their appointment. 
3. He shall enter in the book for recording ordinances, all 
by-laws that may, from time to time, be passed by the govern- 
ors ; and such entry shall be made by him immediately after 
the passing of said by-law. He shall enter in the book for record- 
ing ordinances, all orders enjoining special duties to be performed 
by any of the standing committees, or by any of the officers or 
servants of the Hospital, which orders must be recorded in a part 
of said book separate from the by-laws. 
4. He shall transcribe, under the direction of the secretary, 
such minutes of the governors, as may relate to the visiting 
committees into their book of minutes, and he shall copy all mi- 
nutes of that committee on the day of their meeting ; and shall 
enter in the register, kept for that purpose, the admissions and 
discharges of patients, immediately after they have been received 
or discharged. 
5. He shall keep the books of accounts, and collect all monies 
due from the pay-patients, in such manner as the treasurer may 
direct. 
6. He shall, every three months, furnish the secretary with 
the names of such seamen as die in the Hospital, to the end that 
they may be published. 
7. He shall lay on the table, in the governor's room, at every 
monthly meeting, the following books, viz : the Journal or Mi- 
nutes of the Governors ; the Minutes of the Visiting Commit- 
mittee ; the. Minutes of the Inspecting Committee ; the Minutes 
of th'e Bloomingdale Asylum GemmUtee ; the Book of By-laws ; 
the Book containing the Minutes of the attendance of the 
Visiting Committee and of the Physicians and Surgeons ; 
the Bank Book and the Leger. 42 
CHAPTER XIX. 
Of the Orderly Stun. 
The visiting committee shall appoint? an orcerly-man, who 
shall assist in the apothecary's shop, in ill things appertaining 
to that department. When not occupied in the apothecary's de- 
partment, he shall perform any services for the benefit of the 
hospital, required of him by the superintendent, house-physi- 
cian, and house-surgeon. 
CHAPTER XX. 
Of the Patients. 
1. No patient shall leave the house, unless by-permission of 
the superintendent; nor play at any game of hazard within the 
hospital; nor introduce any spirituous liquors into the house. 
2. No patient shall enter the kitchen, or any of the servants' 
apartments, under any pretence whatever, except by order of the 
superintendent or matron. 
3. No male patient shall go into the women's apartments, or 
wards, nor any female patient into those of the men. 
4. No patient shall smoke tobacco in the house, except with 
the consent of the attending physician or surgeon. 
5. Such patients as, in the opinion of the attending physician 
or surgeon, are able, shall assist in nursing others, washing and 
ironing the linen, washing and cleaning the rooms, and in such 
other services as the superintendent or matron may require. 
6. When there is no chaplain in atlenriddance to perform 
public-worship, the Superintendent, on Sunday, at ten o'clock in 
the morning, and at three in the afternoon, shall appoint a suitable 
person for each ward, to read audibly some chapters in the bible 
to the patients, who are to attend thereto with decency and res- 43 
pect; and it is also recommended to the patients, as often as cir- 
cumstances will permit, to read the Holy Scriptures themselves 
on other days of the week. 
7. If any patient shall not conform to the foregoirig' regula- 
tions ; or shall use profane or indecent language, or get drunk, 
or behave rudely, or indecently, the superintendent shall make 
report thereof to the visiting committee ; who may discharge 
such patient; or, with the consent of ■gtoTOHTOf, the superin- 
tendent may immediately discharge him. 
8. No officer or servant of this institution, shall accept any 
gift or bequest from any patient, except with the approbation of 
the visiting committee. 
XXL 
Of the Admission of Patients. 
1. Any governor, physician, or surgeon of the Hospital may 
recommend patients to be admitted, but the visiting committee 
may refuse or admit patients so recommended, at their discre- 
tion. 
2. In any extraordinary or pressing case, where great incon- 
venience would result from waiting for the approbation of the 
visiting committee, any governor, physician, or surgeon of the 
Hospital, may direct the superintendent to receive a patient im- 
mediately. And in case of sudden accidents, the superintendent 
may receive patients without recommendation. But the super- 
intendent must give early information of every such case to the 
visiting committee, who may permit the patient to remain in 
the house, or not, as shall appear to them discreet and proper. 
3. When the patient's case requires immediate admittance, 
the governor, physician, or surgeon recommending him, is to 
add to his recommendation the following directions : " The su- 
perintendent is desired to receive the person above recommend- 
ed, until the visiting committee attend." 44 
A Inhabitants of the state, not resident in the city of New- 
^ork, to be admitted into the Hospital, must be recommended 
by a justice of the^peacey-and aLleastone overseer of the pdor 
of the town in which they reside: and they must bring with 
them cases of their diseases drawn up by a physiciah or surgeon. 
5. No persons shall be admitted whose cases are judged to be 
,incurable, nor any whose cases do not require the particular 
benefits of an hospital; nor shall any who have the small pox, 
or measles^e received into the house. 
6. Young children shall not be received with their mothers, 
unless such children are also patients. 
^7. Patients unable to pay for their board and maintenance, 
may be received as paupers ; but such as are able to pay for 
„/he same, in part or in whole, shall be received as pay-patients, 
on such terms as may be agreed on by the visiting committee, 
who are to take sufficient security for their performance. 
8. The applicants must attend at the Hospital.porrTOTsday 
or Friday, in order to be examined by the attending physician 
or surgeon. 
Form of Recommendation. 
New-York, day of one thousand eight 
hundred I recommend to be admitted 
into the New-York Hospital if shall appear to you 
a proper object, after having been examined by the physicians 
or surgeons. 
To the visiting committee 
of the New-York Hospital. 
Form of Security for Pay-Patients. 
being admitted a patient in the New-York 
Hospital, at my request, I, A. B. residing at No. in 
street, do hereby promise to provide with sufficient 45 
clothing while there ; to pay to the T. reasurer of the said Hos- 
pital per week for board during 
continuance there, to cause to be removed when discharged, 
and to pay the expense of burial, if die there. Witness 
my hand the day of 18 
9. Nothing in this chapter shall apply to the admission of 
insane patients. 
CHAPTER XXII, 
Of the Library/ 
1. Before the librarian enters on the execution (/f his office, he 
shall give sufficient security, to be approved of by the visiting 
committee, in a sum not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, 
that he will indemnify this corporation for any; loss or damage 
which may be sustained by his negligence of misconduct as 
librarian. 
2. The librarian shall keep every work in the library, plain- 
ly numbered on a label on the back, and also on the inside of 
every volume ; and he shall cause to be written or printed on the 
title page of each volume, " The Property of the -New^Y-ork 
Hospkal.")), IhfCitu - 
3. He shall keep ah accurate catalogue of the books in the 
library, containing the title, author, size, number, and number of 
volumes of each work. He shall keep a book containing printed 
receipts ; and every person who shall borrow a book from the 
library, shall sign a receipt for the same. 
4. The librarian shall annually account for the library, to the 
library committee, and shall at the same time report to the com- 
mittee an account of all books then out of the library, to whom 
and when they were lent. 
5. Books shall be taken from the library on such days only 
as the library committee shall direct; and at hours not interfering 
with the visiting committee, or the attending physician or sur- 46 
geon : but a governor, physician or surgeon of the Hospital, may 
borrow books from the lib; ary at any time. 
6. Books may be loaned from the library, only to the gover- 
nors ; to the physicians and surgeons; to their private pupils, 
subject to the regulations and restrictions contained in the 
ninth section ; to the house-physician, house-surgeon, aput+rrCT- 
ry, and other officers of the Hospital ; to those physicians and 
surgeons who may have formerly been physicians or surgeons 
to the establishment ; to those who may have served in the 
Hospital, in the capacity of house-physician or house-surgeon 
for -six_months, to the. satisfaction of the governors, on the con- 
ditions and under the regulations directed in the ninth section ; 
to persons to whom the privilege has been especially granted by 
the governors ; and to those who shall acquire it in the manner 
prescribed in the next succeeding section. Every other person 
admitted to the use of the libra; y, not being a student of medicine, 
shall pay to the treasurer fi<u Mihais, for which he shall receive a 
ticket expressing that he is entitled to the use of the library for 
one year. 
7. Every person who shall make a donation to the library, 
of books on medicine, surgery, or such subjects as are connected 
with medicine and surgery (to be approved of by the library 
committee) to the amount of twenty-five dollars, or who shaU 
pay to the treasurer the same amount in money, shall be entitled 
to the use of the library, under the regulations provided as to stu- 
dents. 
8. Of voluminous collections of distinct books or papers, no 
person shall be allowed to have out more than one volume, at one 
time; nor shall any person, except a governor, physician, or 
surgeon of the Hospital, take out more than a single volume, at 
one time, of any kind. 
9. No student shall take out any book, without previously 
depositing with the librarian, a sum of money, amounting at 
least, to one third more than the value of the whole work to 47 
which the volume belongs : but a student may be relieved from 
the necessity of making such a deposit, by leaving with the li- 
brarian, an engagement signed by some respectable, permanent 
resident in the city, in the following form : 
" A. B., being permitted to use the library belonging to the 
Society of the New-York Hospital, I do hereby promise to pay 
to the treasurer of the said Sjaciely, all such fines and forfei-* 
tures, as the said A. B. may become liable to, by virtue of the 
by-laws and ordinances of the said society relating to the li- 
brary. 
" Dated the day 18 
10. With respect to the following works, yjz : Medical Com- 
mentaries and Annals of Medicine ; Physical Essays of Edin- 
burgh ; Medical Observations and Inquiries of London ; tdl 
Memoirs of Medical or Philosophical Sdcieties, Journals, Reposi- 
tories, Reviews, and'Magazines ; and all such other works as the 
library committee shall direct, when a deposit is to be made, its 
amount shall be five dollars for one octavo volume, and ten dol- 
lars for a quarto. 
11. A folio may be kept out four weeks; a quarto, three 
weeks ; an octavo or duodecimo, two weeks ; and if any volume 
is detained longer, the person who took it out shall pay a weekly 
fine of twenty-five cents for every week beyond the time above 
specified, until it is returned. 
12. If a book shall not be returned within three months, it 
shall be considered as lost, and the person who took it out shall 
forfeit his deposit if he has made any ; and if not, then a sum 
equal to what the deposit would have amounted to, if any had 
been made. 
13. If any person shall lose one or more volumes of any set 
of books, he may give to the library anew set equally good with 
the former; and shall thereupon receive the remainder of the 
broken set; but unless he immediately does this, he shall incur 
the forfeiture mentioned in the last foregoing section, and the im- 
perfect set shall be retained. 48 
14. The books maked thus * in the catalogue, shall be read 
in the library alone ; and students may be admitted into the 
library to peruse those books, but on no other account whatever. 
The register of cases, or any other manuscript books, are not to 
be taken out of the library, without the special permission of the 
governors. 
15. When any book is damaged, the librarian shall report the 
fact to the library committee, who shall determine the fine to be 
paid by the borrower. 
16. Every person, who shall refuse or neglect to conform to the 
regulations contained in this chapter, may be refused the further 
use of the library, by the library or visiting committee. 
17. When any misunderstanding takes place on the subjects 
provided for in this chapter, it shall be decided by the library or 
visiting committee. 
18. All fines and forfeitures imposed in this chapter, are 
appropriated to the use of the library. The librarian is to col- 
lect and pay them over to the library committee, to whom he is 
also to render an account every month, of such as have been 
incurred. 
CHAPTER XXIII. 
BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE. 
1. The Bloomingdale Asylum Committee shall consist of six 
Governors of the New-York Hospital, not more than four of 
whom, shall be re-eligible, at the election at the stated meeting of 
the board, in June. 
2. The Asylum Committee shall have charge of the Bloom- 
ingdale estate, and of all its buildings and appurtenances, subject 
always, however, to the orders, rules and regulations of the 
Board of Governors, every member of which may at all times 
visit and inspect the establishment, and examine all the books, 
documents and proceedings of the Committee. 49 
3. The Asylum Committee are authorized to make such 
rules and regulations as they may judge proper for their own 
government, and for the better government of the establishment, 
its officers, servants and patients. Provided such rules and re- 
gulations be not inconsistent with the charter of this corpora- 
tion, or with the rules and regulations hereby established, or 
which may, at any time, hereafter be established by the Board 
of Governors. And the said Board may, at any of its stated 
meetings, alter, or repeal any rule or regulation made by the 
Asylum Committee, provided one month's notice of such altera- 
tion or repeal shall have been given by the member intending 
to submit the same. 
4. The Asylum Committee shall meet at least once a month 
at the Asylum, on a stated day, to be fixed by their own regula- 
tions ; and two of the members, to be called the "Weekly Com- 
mittee," shall attend at the Asylum at least once a week. The 
Asylum Committee shall make such arrangements among them- 
selves, as that one new member shall be put on the weekly 
committee the first week in every month. 
5. The Weekly Committee, at each visitation, shall make a 
thorough examination of each house and see every patient; and 
shall make a report of their having done so ; which report shall 
be noted in the book of minutes of the Asylum Committee. 
G. Any member of the Asylum Committee shall receive or 
reject applications for admission into the Asylum as in his discre- 
tion he shall think advisable. He shall make agreements for the 
terms on which patients shall be received, and take a money de- 
posit or security for the performance thereof, in the form and 
manner prescribed by the Asylum Committee. 
7. Patients shall be discharged, only, under the order of the 
Weekly Committee or Asylum Committee; who shall adopt 
such regulations as shall prevent the discharge of any patient 
without the due notice to friends, or provision made for a safe 50 
return to them, or a conveyance to the Alms House, in all cases 
where such precaution may be deemed necessary. 
8. The Asylum Committee shall, at each monthly meeting 
examine the accounts of the institution. They shall keep a 
book of minutes of their proceedings, and shall cause proper 
books of accounts to be kept of all the receipts and expenditures. 
They shall also cause to be kept at the Asylum, books in which 
shall be noted the names of the patients admitted and discharged, 
and the attendance of the members at the weekly and month- 
ly meetings. 
9. The Asylum Committee shall not, in anyone month, ex- 
pend more than one hundred dollars in repairs or for improve- 
ments, without a special order of the Board of Governors. 
10. They shall draw orders, signed by the Chairman, or in his 
absence by one of the committee, on the treasurer of the Hos- 
pital, in favor of the Warden, for such sums as may be neces- 
sary for the current expenses of the institution. 
11. The Asylum Committee shall appoint one of its mem- 
bers to be their secretary, who shall keep the minutes of the 
meetings of the Committee. He shall also provide all the ne- 
cessary books for the establishment, and see that they are kept 
agreeable to these regulations. 
12. It shall be the duty of the Asylum Committee to provide, 
at an expense not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars 
per annum, a Clergyman of respectable standing, to perform re- 
ligious services in the Asylum once every Sabbath ; at which 
all persons residing on the premises may attend, excepting only 
such patients as, in the opinion of the Resident Physician, would 
not be benefited thereby. 
13. The Asylum Committee shall set apart for the use of the 
patients, a suitable apartment in the building for a Reading 
Room and Library; and shall procure such books, periodical 
publications and newspapers, as may be considered serviceable for 
them ; but the yearly disbursements for these objects shall not 
exceed seventy-five dollars. 51 
Of the Resident Physician. 
1. There shall be appointed annually by the Board of Gover- 
nors, at the regular meeting in the month of June, a physician, 
to be called the Resident Physician of the Asylum. 
2. He shall reside in the Asylum, and devote the whole of his 
time, without any other employment, to the duties of his appoint- 
ment : nor shall he unnecessarily absent himself from the house, 
and, in no case, be absent a night, without the consent of the 
Committee. 
3. He shall be the superior officer of the institution, and shall 
have charge of all articles belonging to the medical department; 
he shall make a suitable classification of the patients, and be 
accountable for both their medical and moral treatment ; the 
latter, however, subject to the supervision of the Asylum Com- 
mittee. 
4. He shall endeavor to procure a history of the malady of every 
patient, including its origin, progress and treatment to the time of 
admission. This statement, with any circumstances or peculiari- 
ties tending to elucidate the case, he shall record in a register to 
be kept in the Asylum for that purpose. The treatment pursued 
after admission in each case, with the result, shall afterwards be 
added. It shall further be his duty to record at length in another 
register all remarkable cases, and to deposit the same in the Asy- 
lum library. 
5. He shall, at each monthly meeting of the Asylum Com- 
mittee, report in writing the number of patients admitted and 
discharged during the preceding month, and also a general 
statement of their cases. And, at the expiration of each year, 
he shall furnish a summary statement of all patients received, 
discharged, recovered, or who have died since the last annual 
report. 
6. He shall direct what medicines are to be provided for the 
use of the establishment, and present a list of those^ wanted to 52 
the Asylum Committee, which list shall be entered in a book kept 
for the purpose. 
7. He shall also have the authority, under the direction of the 
Asylum Committee, and under such regulations as they shall 
prescribe, to hire or discharge all the attendants on the patients ; 
that is, all persons directly emnloyed in the management of them. 
Of the Warden. 
1. The Warden shall be appointed annually by the Board of 
Governors at the monthly meeting in June, but may be removed 
at any time : he shall act as steward of the house, and, under 
the direction and supervision of the Asylum Committee, shall 
have charge and custody of the buildings and furniture, as also, 
of the farm, farmhouses, garden, green house, and other property 
on the premises. 
2. He shall purchase under the direction of the Weekly Com- 
mittee, fuel, provisions, and all other stores, (except medicine) for 
the use of the Asylum : for which purpose he shall receive from 
time to time, such sums as the Asylum Committee may think 
necessary. 
3. He shall have authority, under the direction and control of 
the Asylum Committee, to hire and discharge an assistant stew- 
ard, and all other servants employed in and about the Asylum, 
or on the premises, except the attendants on the patients ; but he 
shall not give higher wages than may be established by the Asy- 
lum Committee for their respective employments, without the 
consent of the Weekly Committee. 
4. He shall report at each meeting of the Weekly Commit- 
tee, the name of each patient received, discharged, escaped, or 
deceased. And he shall keep a book in such form as the Se- 
cretary of the Asylum Committee shall direct; in which he 
shall make the like entries respecting the patients ; also of the 
pay agreed for, and the names and residence of the sureties for 
payment. 53 
5. He shall also keep accounts of all his expenditures and 
receipts ; and shall furnish to the Asylum Committee at their 
monthly meeting for June, September, December, and March, 
an abstract shewing all balances then due the Asylum ; he shall 
likewise furnish from time to time, a separate statement of the 
expenditures on the farm and garden, and of the produce 
thereof. 
6. He shall use his best endeavors to carry into effect the gene- 
ral system of moral treatment, as laid down by the Resident 
Physician, and attend, in all things to the directions of the Asy- 
lum Committee. He shall also visit, at least once in each day, all 
rooms occupied by male patients, and particularly attend to the 
cleanliness of those patients, their galleries, apartments, beds, and 
other things about the establishment. 
Of the Matron. 
1. The Matron shall be appointed, and may be removed in 
like manner with the Warden. She is to consider herself bound 
by all rules and regulations regarding the Warden, which may 
be applicable to her department. 
2. She will devote her whole time to the affairs of the institu- 
tion : the first object of her care will be the moral treatment and 
comfort of the female patients, and she is not to be absent from 
the house during the absence of the Warden. 
3. She is to consider herself especially responsible for the 
cleanliness of the female side of the house, for the management 
of the kitchen, and for the care of the household goods, furniture, 
and linen. 
4. She is to inspect all the female departments, and see each 
female patient at least once every day, and as much oftener as 
occasion may require. 54 
Of the Patients. 
1. Pay patients only shall be received into the Asylum ex- 
cept by express direction of the Board of Governors. Paupers 
from any part of the State shall be admitted at the lowest rate 
for which they can be supported, on the order of the Overseers 
of the poor whence they are sent; which order shall be held as 
security for the maintenance of such pauper. All other classes 
shall be received on such terms as may be agreed on, but for a 
period not less than thirteen weeks : and the payment for this 
period shall be made in advance ; and no part thereof shall be 
refunded, should the patient be removed within the said time, un- 
less by the express direction of the Asylum Committee. The 
Weekly Committee may, in special cases, accept a bond with 
competent sureties in lieu of the advance required. 
2. Ail patients shall be subject to such rules and regulations as 
the Asylum Committee may establish respecting them. 
Of Visitors. 
Visitors shall not be admitted into tbe Bloomingdale Asylum, 
or on the grounds, without a written permit from one of the 
Governors; nor be permitted to see any patient without the con- 
sent of the resident physician. 
CHAPTER XXIV. 
Of Ordinances and Resolutions. 
1. All ordinances shall be copied in a book provided for that 
purpose, and each ordinance so copied shall have the seal of the 
corporation affixed thereto, and signed by the secretary. 55 
2. All resolutions making alterations in any of the existing 
by-laws, or any new by-law that may be passed, shall be put in 
the form of an ordinance, and all such ordinances shall be copied 
in the book of ordinances. 
3. No alteration or amendment bhall be made to the by-laws, 
without notice thereof being given at least one month. AN ACCOUNT 
OF THE 
NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
In the year 1770, some of the most respectable and public spirited 
inhabitants of the city of New-York subscribed considerable sums 
of money, for the purpose of erecting and establishing a public Hos- 
pital ; and a petition was presented by Peter Middleton, John Jones, 
and Samuel Bard,* three eminent physicians, to Lieutenant Governor 
Colden, then commander-in-chief of the province of New-York, for a 
charter of incorporation, which was, in consequence, granted the fol- 
lowing year, by the Earl of Dunmore, Governor and commander-in- 
chief of the province. 
By this charter, dated the 13th of June, 1771, the mayor, recorder, 
aldermen and assistants, of the city of New-York, the rector of 
Trinity Church, the different ministers of the several other city 
churches, the president of King's (now Columbia) College, and a 
number of the principal and most respectable inhabitants of the city, 
were named as members, and incorporated, by the name of the 
"Society of the Hospital in the city of New-York in America."! 
Twenty-six governors were also named, for the management of the 
affairs and business of the institution, who held their first meeting on 
the 25th of July, 1771. 
* From the following' extract from a medical discourse, delivered by Dr. Middle- 
ton, in King's (now Columbia) College, on the 3d of November, 1769, it appears that 
the first suggestion relative to the establishment of a Hospital, was made by Dr. 
Bard. " The necessity and usefulness," says Dr. Middleton, " of a public infir- 
mary, has been so warmly and pathetically set forth, in a discourse delivered by Dr. 
Samuel Bard, at the college commencement, in May last, that his excellency, Sir 
Henry Moore, immediately set on foot a subscription for that purpose, to which him- 
self, and most of the gentlemen present, liberally contributed. His excellency also 
recommended it, in the most pressing manner, to the assembly of the province, as an 
object worthy of their attention; and the corporation of the city have given assuran- 
ces of granting a very valuable and commodious lot of ground for erecting the build- 
ing upon ; so that there is now almost a certain prospect of this benevolent and hu- 
mane foundation soon taking place: and as it is to be on the most catholic and un- 
exceptionable plan, it is to be hoped, that it will meet with the countenance and en- 
couragement of every compassionate and good member of society, whatever party 
or denomination he may choose to be distinguished by on other occasions." 
t By an act of the legislature, passed Maren 9th, 1810, the name of the corporation 
has been changed to that of " The Society of the New- York Hospital." 58 
Through the influence of Dr. John Fothergill and Sir William 
Duncan, considerable contributions were made to the Society, by 
many inhabitants of the city of London, and other places in Great 
Britain, and in 1772, the legislature of the province of New-York 
granted an annual allowance of 800 pounds (2,000 dollars) in aid of 
the institution, for twenty years. 
In 1773, the governors of the Hospital purchased of Mrs. Barclay 
and Mr. Rutgers, five acres of ground, for the erection of a suitable 
edifice. A plan of a building having been procured by Dr. Jones, 
the foundation was laid, the 27th of July, 1773 ; but on the 25th of 
February, 1775, when it was almost completed, the building acciden- 
tally took fire and was nearly consumed. 
By this misfortune the society suffered a loss of seven thousand 
pounds ; and the execution of their benevolent plan would have 
been wholly suspended, had not the legislature, in March 1775, 
generouslj' granted them the sum of 4000 pounds towards rebuild- 
ing the house, and repairing the loss they had sustained. But the 
war between Great Britain and the colonies, which took place in 
the same year, prevented the completion of the edifice. During the 
war, the house was occupied by British and Hessian soldiers as bar- 
racks, and occasionally as an hospital. 
The effects of the war on the circumstances of our citizens, and 
the general derangement of affairs, prevented any attention to the 
institution, and it was not until the 3d of January, 1791, that the 
house was in proper condition to receive patients, when eighteen were 
admitted. 
The annuity granted by the provincial legislature, ceased with the 
commencement of hostilities between Great Britain and the colonies ; 
but the legislature of the state, on the 1st of March 1788, directed 
eight hundred pounds, during four years, from the 1st February, 
1788, to be paid to the Hospital, out of the moneys arising from the 
excise in the city of New-York. The legislature, by a subsequent 
act, passed the 11th April, 1792, for the better support of the Hospi- 
tal, granted twTo thousand pounds a year, for five years, payable out 
of the city excise. 
By an act passed the 31st of March, 1795, the legislature repeal- 
ed the act of the 11th April, 1792, as to future payments, and 
granted to the Hospital four thousand pounds annually for five 
years, payable out of the duties on sales at public auction, in the city 
of New-York. An additional sum of one thousand pounds a year, 
for four years, was granted 11th April, 1796, payable out of the 
same fund. And on the 20th March, 1801, the annual allowance of 
$12,500 was continued for five years from the first of February,1800. 
On the 2d March, 1805, an act was passed continuing this sum for 
five years longer. In consequence of the representation of the 
governors, of the necessity of providing more suitable apartments for 
lunatics, the legislature, on the 14th of March, 1806, passed an act, 
directing the sum of 12,500 dollars annually to be paid out of the 
duties on sales at auction, to the treasurer of the Hospital, in quarterly 59 
payments, until the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty- 
seven ; and the act of the 2d March, 1805, was at the same time re- 
pealed. 
By an act passed the 30th March, 1797, for the establishment and 
support of a lazaretto, the masters and wardens of the port of New- 
York were authorized to receive of the masters, officers, seamen, and 
passengers, of every vessel entering the port of New-York, a certain 
sum for each person, which was directed to be paid to the commission- 
ers of the health office, for the relief of sick seamen and foreigners 
admitted into the lazaretto ; and the surplus, if any, was directed to 
be paid to such seamen and foreigners as might be patients in the 
Hospital. 
By an act passed April 1st, 1796, for regulating the port of New- 
York, the Harbour Master was directed to pay certain fines therein 
mentioned, to the treasurer of the New-York Hospital. 
By an arrangement between the treasury department of the United 
States and the Hospital, made in 1799, the sick and disabled seamen 
at the port of New-York, are received into the Hospital, and enjoy all 
its advantages. The collector of the port, under the direction of the 
Secretary of the treasury of the United States, pays out of the Hos- 
pital money collected and received by him, three dollars per week, for 
the board and maintenance of such seamen, with medicine and other 
charges. 
But the collector, since July, 1804, has refused to pay for more 
than a limited number at any time. The governors, however, con- 
sidering every seaman who has paid hospital money to the collector 
of the United States as having a just claim on the government of the 
United States for hospital relief, have not hitherto refused admittance 
to seamen, beyond the number limited ; trusting to the justice of the 
national legislature for remuneration of the sums expended in the sup- 
port of such seamen, beyond the amount received from the collector. 
Without the aid which has thus been afforded to them, many of this 
useful and meritorious, though careless and improvident class of men, 
must have been abandoned, in disease and poverty, to the casual and 
precarious relief of common charity. 
In 1801, an agreement was made between the New-York Hospital, 
and the Governors of the Lying-in Hospital, by which the existing 
funds of the latter were to be paid to the use of the former institution, 
on condition that a lying-in ward should be established ; and a suita- 
ble ward for that purpose was accordingly fitted up, and opened for the 
reception of patients. 
In consequence of the recommendation of the medical faculty of 
Columbia College, the Governors of the Hospital, in August, 1796, 
appropriated the sum of five hundred dollars towards the purchase 
of a .Medical Library ; to which the members of that faculty con- 
tributed books from their private libraries, and part of their fees of 
public instruction. An hospital library was thus established, which 
was further augmented by the purchase of the medical library of the 
late Dr. Romayne in 1800, and by the accession, in 1805, of the library 60 
of a private association of physicians, under the name of the Medi- 
cal Society of New-York, who gave their books on condition that 
they and such of their sons as should become practitioners of medi- 
cine in the city of New-York, should have free use of the Hospital 
Library. In 1805, the Governors appropriated the annual sum of 
two hundred and fifty dollars for the purchase of books ; and large 
additions have been made to it, by purchases and donations from time 
to time, so that, including the valuable Botanical Library of Dr. Ho- 
sack, purchased by the Hospital, the library now contains about 4000 
volumes, among which are some of the rarest and most splendid 
works in Medical Science. 
At present the library depends for its support and increase on the 
proceeds arising from the sale of tickets to students of medicine, 
which permits them to see the practice of the house, and to take 
books from the library. The monies thus accruing are appropriated 
to the purchase of such medical and scientific publications as may be 
designated by the Library Committee, to the payment of the librari- 
an's salary, and sundry contingencies. 
The price of tickets is ten dollars per annum, or six dollars for the 
privileges above specified, during the months of November, Decem- 
ber, January, and February, that is, during the season of medical 
lectures. Tickets are also issued for the use of the library alone for 
five dollars the year, and each consulting physician, and each attend- 
ing physician or surgeon, has the privilege of admitting three of his 
own students to see the practice of the house, and to the use of the 
library gratis. 
The annual average expenditures and receipts on account of the 
purchased books are now from four to five hundred dollars. 
As there existed no institution in the State, for the reception and 
cure of the insane, the Governors were induced to appropriate apart- 
ments in the Hospital for patients of that description ; but as the 
building was not designed for that purpose, the accommodations 
were found to be extremely inconvenient and inadequate ; and the 
applications for the admission of insane persons, constantly increasing, 
it was resolved in 1806, that if the legislature would lend its aid for 
that purpose, by further contribution, or by giving greater permanence 
to the existing allowance, to erect a separate building, to be exclusive- 
ly appropriated to the reception of that unfortunate class of persons. 
An application was accordingly made to the legislature, who passed 
an act, on the 14th March, 1806, continuing an annual provision for 
the Hospital, payable cut of the duties on sales at auction, in the city 
of New-York until the year 1857. The Governors immediately 
proceeded to lay the foundation of the proposed edificb, denominated 
the " Lunatic Asylum" which was completed, so as to be opened for 
the reception of patients on the 15th July, 1808, when nineteen wTere 
removed from the other building, and forty-eight more admitted, mak- 
ing the whole sixty-seven. The whole cost of the Asylum was 
about fifty-six thousand dollars. 
To assist the Governors to discharge the debts contracted in 61 
building the Asylum, the Legislature, by an act passed the 23d of 
March, 1801, granted to the hospital the sum of $3,500 per annum 
for ten years, payable quarterly, out of the duties on goods sold at 
auction in the city of New-York. But by the fifth section of " the act 
respecting a navigable communication between the great western and 
northern lakes and the Atlantic Ocean," passed the 15th of April, 
1817, the Hospital was deprived of this allowance. 
In 1815, in consequence of a communication sent to the governors 
of the hospital by one of the members, the late venerable and philan- 
thropic Thomas Eddy, showing the advantages that might be pro- 
duced by introducing a course of moral treatment for the lunatic pa- 
tients, more extensive than had hitherto been practised in this country, 
and similar to that pursued at " The Retreat," near York in England ; 
and proposing that a number of acres of ground near the city should 
be purchased, and suitable buildings erected for the purpose ;* a com- 
mittee was appointed by the Governors to consider of the plan pro- 
posed, and to report their opinion thereon. This committee, having 
approved of the plan, and recommended its adoption, the Governors 
resolved to carry it into effect, if they could obtain the aid of the 
Legislature. Application having been made for that purpose, an act 
was passed the 17th April, 1816, granting to the hospital the yearly 
sum of $10,000, until the year 1857, to enable the Governors to erect 
further and more extensive accomodations for insane patients. Thirty- 
nine acres of land, on the Harlem Heights, about seven miles from the 
city, were accordingly purchased, at $240 per acre, as a site for the 
proposed institution. The distance being thought by some to be 
greater than was desirable, twenty acres of ground on the East river, 
two miles nearer the settled parts of the city, were purchased ; but 
after a more particular examination, it was found not to be adapted, 
in all respects to the plan contemplated ; and it was afterwards sold 
at a profit of two thousand dollars. After again inspecting the differ- 
ent places on York Island, and on the opposite side of the East river, 
which were supposed to afford suitable situations for such an estab- 
lishment, it was determined, on a comparison of them with the one 
already purchased at Harlem, that the latter was, on the whole, 
preferable. On exploring the ground, however, for the purpose of 
laying the foundation of the intended building, the soil was discovered 
to be generally wet, coveting a stratum of hard granite, lying about 
two feet below the surface ; it was, therefore, deemed unfit for the 
purpose. Another piece of ground, not far from the same spot, and 
nearer to the Hudson, containing about twenty-six acres, fronting on 
the Bloomingdale road, near the seven milestone, after being thorough- 
ly explored, was found to be remarkably dry and pleasant, and from 
its elevated situation, affording an extensive and delightful view of 
the river and the adjacent country. This place was purchased at 
five hundred dollars per acre, and some small pieces of ground ad- 
joining have since been added, making the whole quantity about 
eighty acres. On this spot the corner-stone of a building for the ac- 
* The Governors directed a number of copies of this communication to be printed. 62 
commodation of insane patients was laid, on the 7th day of May, 1818. 
From the various plans of an edifice, which were laid before them, the 
Governors selected one that appeared to be the most eligible ; but on 
further consideration, it was laid aside, as being far too expensive, and 
not perfectly calculated to carry into effect the design of the proposed 
establishment. At the request of the Governors, several plans were 
drawn by a member of the board* one of which, as being the least 
costly, and most consonant to their views, was adopted. This plan 
comprehends a centre building, and is 211 feet in length and 60 deep, 
with two wings, each placed at a distance from the principal 
building. 
Towards the close of the year 1820, the main edifice was com- 
pleted, and was opened for the accommodation of patients in the 
month of June, 1821, when it received the name of the "Bloom- 
ingdale Asylum." In 1830, a wing wholly detached from the main 
building, and used for more violent insane male patients, was added ; 
and in 1837, an additional building was erected for the use of the fe- 
males of the same class, at an expense of near $20,000 ; making the 
cost of all the buildings and improvements, up to the 1st of January, 
1839, about $200,000, including bedding, furniture, and other things 
necessary for the accommodation of its inmates. 
In order to meet these heavy expenditures, the Governors of the 
Hospital were under the necessity of borrowing $137,000 on bond 
and mortgage, at an interest of six per cent., payable quarterly. And 
sundry further sums were also borrowed at different times from the 
banks. The surplus of the annuity granted by the Legislature for 
this purpose, beyond what is consumed in the payment of interest, 
has been set apart as a sinking fund to redeem this debt, and confided 
to the care of a committee of the Governors, styled the " Commis- 
sioners of the Sinking Fund of the New-York Hospital." The sum 
borrowed of the banks has been repaid, and the sinking fund invest- 
ed in shares of Bank of America stock, in certificates of the New- 
York Life Insurance and Trust Company, and in bonds and mortga- 
ges, and amounted, on the 31st of December, 1838, to $111,000. 
In the summer of 1821, the patients were transferred from the 
Insane Hospital in town to the Asylum erected at Bloomingdale. 
The former, in 1825, after undergoing a thorough alteration, was 
converted into an extremely convenient and comfortable hospital for 
the accommodation of sick and disabled seamen, to whose benefit it 
has ever since been exclusively appropriated under the name of the 
"Marine Department of the New-York Hospital." 
The affairs of the Hospital are under the management of twenty- 
six Governors, who meet on the first Tuesday in every month at the 
Hospital: their services are gratuitous. 
Persons laboring under incurable ailments, or diseases of any kind, 
are not admitted into the Hospital, being regarded as fitter objects for 
the Alms House ; and because their admission might, after a time, 
defeat the very purpose of the institution, which is intended as an in- 
firmary for the reception and cure of such as require medical or sur- 
* Thomas C. Taylor, elected one of the Governors in May, 1317. 63 
gical treatment, uncommon diseases and accidents, and the restraint 
and management requisite for lunacy. Sick women, who have young 
children, are not received with their children, unless the child as well 
as the mother is a proper patient. Persons having the small- 
pox, measles, or any infectious or contagious disease, are not admitted 
into the Hospital. 
Every applicant for admission must bring with him a recommenda- 
tion from one of the Governors, or a physician or surgeon of the Hos- 
pital, except in behalf of the insane, when the application must be 
made to the committee of the Insane Asylum. In cases of sudden 
accidents, patients may be received by the superintendent without a 
recommendation, until the next meeting of the Visiting Committee, 
who decide on the propriety of the patient's remaining in the house. 
A Governor, physician, or surgeon may also give a special recom- 
mendation in cases requiring the immediate admission of a patient. 
A Visiting Committee, consisting of three Governors, attend the 
Hospital on Tuesday and Friday in every week, at 11 o'clock in the 
morning, for the purpose of admitting patients, who are previously 
examined by one of the attending physicians or surgeons, or by the 
house physician or house surgeon. Such persons as are unable to 
pay for their board and maintenance are received as paupers; but 
such as are able to pay, in part or in whole, are admitted as pay-pa- 
tients on such terms as may be agreed on by the Visiting Committee, 
who take security for the performance. This committee have the 
general care and charge of the Hospital, receive all applications or 
complaints, and direct all the officers and servants in the discharge of 
their respective duties. 
There is also an Inspecting Committee, consisting of two Gover- 
nors, who visit the Hospital at least once a week, to inquire whether 
the by-laws and regulations relative to the management and economy 
of the house are duly observed and carried into effect; and particular- 
ly to examine into the conduct of the officers, servants, and nurses, to 
see that the patients have not been neglected, and to hear their com- 
plaints, and to report them, with their observations, to the Governors 
at their next meeting. 
It is also the duty of the President and Vice-President of the Hos- 
pital to visit and inspect the house once in every month, and to report 
to the Governors at the ensuing monthly meeting- 
There are four physicians and six surgeons who attend the hos- 
pital. They are selected from the most eminent of the profession, 
and annually appointed by the Governors. One physician is required 
to visit every medical patient, affected with any acute disease, at least 
once a day, and oftener, if necessary ; and every medical patient 
without distinction, must be visited, at least three times a week Two 
surgeons must visit the Hospital, at least three times a week, and every 
surgical patient, once a week. The physicians and surgeons per- 
form these services gratis. The incidental advantages of such an 
appointment, in regard to their profession, afford them some remune- 
ration. 64 
There are also a House Physician and two House Surgeons, residing 
constantly in the Hospital, who are appointed for one year. They 
are generally young men; and the qualifications required are that 
they shall have attained twenty-one years of age, have been pupils of 
a practising physician or surgeon for three years, during which time 
they must have attended a complete course of lectures in one of the 
colleges, have attended the daily practice of the Hospital for one year, 
have passed their examination for a degree or for a license, have been 
examined and recommended by the physicians and surgeons, and 
produce satisfactory testimonials of their good moral character. 
An apothecary, who resides in the house, is appointed by the Gov- 
ernors, and must be examined and recommended by the physicians 
and surgeons, and produce satisfactory testimonials of his good cha- 
racter, before he is admitted. He has the charge of the apothecary's 
shop, and compounds and makes up all medicines prescribed, accor- 
ding to the directions of the physicians and surgeons. The house 
physician and house surgeons are required to visit the wards, at least, 
every morning and evening, and to be prepared to report the state of 
the patients to the attending physicans and surgeons ; and they must 
see that the medicines prescribed are sent to the patients, and duly 
administered. 
The superintendent, who is the steward of the hospital, and the 
matron are charged with the domestic management and economy of 
the institution, and an assistant to the superintendent aids in the man- 
agement of the marine department. 
The ground on which the Hospital stands, is an area, about 455 
feet in length, and 440 feet in breadth ; bounded in front on Broadway, 
in the rear on Church-street, northerly on Anthony-street, and south- 
erly on Duane-street. Part of this area, fronting on Broadway, is at 
present owned and occupied by individuals, leaving an avenue of about 
90 feet, leading from Broadway, which is planted with a double row 
of trees. 
The ground belonging to the Hospital, was enclosed with a brick 
wall in 1801. 
The site of the Hospital is elevated, being considerably above the 
level of Church-street, and about 600 yards distant from the Hudson 
river. It is one of the most open and airy situations in the city ; and 
possesses great advantages for the enjoyment of fresh and salu- 
brious breezes. 
The principal building, denominated the Hospital, is of gray stone, 
and in the simple Doric style. It extends in front, 124 feet, is 50 feet 
deep in the centre, and 86 feet deep at the wings, which project on 
each side. It consists of three stories above the basement; a third 
story having been added in 1803, when it became necessary to put on 
a new roof. The height above the ground, is about 52 feet. The 
basement story, which is about ten feet high, contains a larger and a 
smaller kitchen, a laundry, bathing room, three store-rooms, and two 
wards, fitted up for the temporary accommodation of patients whose 
particular disease renders it necessary to remove them from intercourse 65 
with others. The principal story is about 14 feet high. In the cen- 
tre is a hall and staircase, a room for the Governors, which contains 
the library, a parlor and bed-room lor the superintendent and matron, 
an apothecary's shop, and a room for the clerk. In each story of each 
wing, are two wards, 3G feet in length, and 24 feet in breadth, oppo- 
po. ite to each other, and opening into passages, extending from one 
end of the house to the other, and communicating by a staircase. On 
the second and third floors of the centre, are rooms for the accommo- 
dation of the house physician, house surgeon, apothecary, and differ- 
ent officers and servants ; in the second story, on the westerly side, is 
a large room set apart as a consulting room for the physicians and 
surgeons and for a reading-room, where are deposited such books as 
are more frequently in demand by students attending the Hospital; 
(the most costly books of reference and those more rarely used, filling 
the cases of the apartment used for a library and the meetings of the 
governors;) and in the third story looking to the north-west, is the 
theatre for surgical operations, fitted up so as to accommodate about 
two hundred persons. It is well lighted by a large window in the 
pediment, which has been substituted for a skylight in the roof, by re- 
quest of the surgeons. This building contains 15 wards for the sick, 
13 of which are each 36 feet long and 24 feet broad, in which about 150 
patients may be comfortably accommodated. There are about 20 
other rooms, of different dimensions, besides the consultation room 
and theatre for surgical operations. 
During the autumn of 1829, the wings of the Hospital were con- 
siderably extended, and the additional space thus gained was convert- 
ed into nurses' rooms, apartments for baths, and water closets ; a 
freer ventilation was also greatly promoted by enlarging the windows 
in the northern and southern extremities of the building, &c., for 
which and sundry other repairs, the sum of $7128 was expended. 
The edifice is crowned with a handsome cupola, which affords a 
most extensive and picturesque view of the city, harbour, and adja- 
cent country. There is an excellent kitchen-garden ; and the grounds 
are laid out in walks, planted with fruit and ornamental trees, for the 
benefit of convalescent patients. There is also a large and well-con- 
structed ice-house, a bathing house, and convenient stables. 
The building denominated the Marine Department, is also of gray 
stone. It is situated on the southerly side of the ground at a short 
distance from the principal building, and corresponding with it, in its 
exterior appearance, and style of architecture. 
This building, on account of the declivity of the ground, has a sub- 
basement, besides a basement and two principal stories. Its length is 
90 feet, it is 40 feet deep in the centre, and 65 feet at the wings, which 
project 12| feet on each side. The sub-basement contains 10 rooms, 
11 feet long, and 8| feet wide, and 9 feet high; 3 rooms, 16 J feet 
long, and 11| feet wide, and a kitchen 28| feet long and 16| feet 
wide. There is a hall running through the centre, from one end to 
the other, into which the doors of the rooms or cells open, opposite to 
the windows. All the rooms or cells, except the four largest, and 
those in the upper story, are arched with brick, and the walls are also 66 
brick, white washed ; so that there is no wood, and the floors being 
filled with brick, the building is completely fire-proof; and the pa- 
tients, while they have sufficient heafi in the winter season, cannot 
possibly set fire to any part of the ouilding. The basement story 
contains the same number of rooms, and of the same size with those 
in the sub-basement. In each of the two principal stories, are also ten 
rooms, 11 feet long, and 8| feet wide, two rooms, 17 feet long, and 111 
feet wide, and two rooms 24 feet long, and 17 wide, which open into a 
hall 11 feet wide. The height of the principal story is 14^, and of 
the upper story, 12-' feet. 
The height of the building, from the ground, in front, is about 46 
feet. It contains thirteen large and sixteen small rooms, which are 
appropriated to sick seamen, and in which about 125 patients can be 
comfortably accommodated ; besides which there are a number of 
adjoining apartments, for bathing rooms, water closets, nurses bed- 
rooms, &c. 
The Bloomingdale Asylum is built of stone, three stories high and 
about 211 feet long, finished in a style plain, but neat, and contains 
accommodations for about two hundred patients. It is situated in one 
of the most healthful and beautiful spots on the island of New-York ; 
commanding an extensive and variegated prospect. Annexed to it 
are about forty acres of land, a portion of which is laid out in 
walks and gardens. The Trustees of Columbia College having pre- 
sented to the governors the plants that remained in the conservatory 
of the botanic garden, these have been placed in a proper building, 
and contribute to the embellishment of the place, and the amusement 
of the patients. 
With every local advantage, the governors have adopted the sys- 
tem of moral treatment which the legislature had in view when 
they provided for this Institution ; but without neglecting any of the 
aids which the science of medicine can afford. The patients are 
arranged in classes according to the form which their particular mania- 
cal delusions have asssumed-whether monomania, mania, dementia, 
idiotism, or delirium apolu ; and treated in that manner which seems 
best adapted to dissolve their morbid associations of ideas, in lestoring 
the power and habit of self-control; in substituting agreeable reflec- 
tions and sensations for those which are painful and irritating, in in- 
ducing a habit of employing their judgment, which, like every other 
faculty, is strengthened by exercise. The means of effecting these 
ends must be adapted to the case of each patient, and are of course 
extremely various. Harsh treatment, and all needless restraint is 
avoided. Chains are not used ; even confinement to the cells is sel- 
dom resorted to. The violent and noisy male patients who might 
have an injurious effect upon convalescents, are placed in a separate 
wing, at some distance from the main building, with detatched yards ; 
a similar arrangement is also made as to violent female patients. 
As much liberty as is consistent with safety, is allowed to the pa- 
tients ; many are permitted to leave the house, and to employ them- 
selves in the garden, or on the farm. They are taken out to ride in a 
carriage kept for that purpose ; occupations of different kinds are 67 
afforded them, and they are permitted to partake of various innocent 
amusements ; they are allowed to dine together in classes, and every 
thing that can appropriately contribute to their comfort is particularly 
attended to; the bible is occasionally read to them, and on the Sab 
bath a minister of the gospel is provided for the benefit of those who 
are susceptible of profiting by his instructions ; the foundation of a 
library has also been laid by donations from various friends of the In- 
stitution, and a reading-room, with news-papers and magazines, is 
established, which are not void of benefit to those who are capable of 
using it. 
Formerly there was a consulting as well as a resident physician, 
who visited the Asylum twice oi three times a week, or as often as 
was deemed necessary, but in 1830 this office was abolished, since 
when the control of the medical department of the Institution has been 
placed under the charge of the resident physician. 
With the view of increasing the usefulness of this Asylum, the go- 
vernors of the Hospital engaged Dr. James Macdonald (who for se- 
veral years had charge as resident physician of the insane patients, 
and who had minutely studied all the establishments for the insane 
in this country) to visit Europe, for the purpose of examining the 
hospitals for lunatics, and making himself acquainted with the 
economy, management, and mode of cure practised in the best institu- 
tions of the kind there. He sailed in July, 1831, and after an 
absence of fifteen months, having visited the most celebrated hospi- 
tals for lunatics in France, England, and Italy, returned and resumed 
the charge of the Bloomingdale Asylum. He continued for some years 
after his return to act as chief officer of the Institution, and freely com- 
municated the knowledge that he had acquired, and the result of his 
experience in the treatment and cure of the insane. Dr. Benj. Ogden, 
who was favorably known as a person of experience in this department, 
was appointed to succeed Dr. Macdonald, and is now the chief officer 
of the Institution, and directs the medical and moral treatment of the 
patients. A warden and matron have charge of every thing that con- 
cerns the household department, with the exception of the hiring and 
dismissal of servants and attendants upon the patients, and the whole 
is superintended by the "Bloomingdale Asylum Committee," which 
Committee attend weekly or oftener if necessary at the Bloomingdale 
Asylum, and report monthly their proceedings to the Board of Gover- 
nors. 
The benefits of such establishments as the New-York Hospital 
and Asylum are too obvious to every benevolent and reflecting mind, 
to require the aid of particular description. Notwithstanding the 
provisions made for the relief of the indigent in the different towns 
and counties, and the numerous charitable associations, public and 
private, which reflect so much honor on the state ; so numerous are 
the objects which solicit the aid of the benevolent, to mitigate their 
distress ' so various are the accidents of life, and so diversified the 
forms of human misery, that such institutions are indispensable in 
the great system of public charity. Various causes conspire to ren- 
der public hospitals peculiarly necessary in a great city, the capital of 68 
a commercial, populous, and flourishing state. It is there adventu- 
rers, and persons from distant countries, resort to better their fortunes, 
or to engage in more congenial pursuits. It is the capital which re- 
ceives most of the emigrants from foreign countries, driven from their 
homes by poverty, misfortune, or crime ; or impelled to seek, in a dis- 
tant land, a more secure enjoyment of political and religious freedom, 
or a more advantageous exercise of their various trades and profes- 
sions. The immense business carried on in such a commercial and 
growing city, in navigation, ship building, architecture, manufactures, 
and all the auxiliary arts and trades, while it attracts great numbers 
from the neighboring states in search of employment, and the pursuit 
of gain, must give rise to frequent accidents and diseases, for'which 
many who are destitute of friends and relations, can find no cure or 
relief but in a public hospital. 
There is another point of view in which this hospital may also be 
regarded as an institution of great public utility. The central posi- 
tion of this city, in regard to other parts of the United States, and the 
easy and convenient access to it, at all seasons, render it an admirable 
situation for an establishment of a school of medicine. The gover- 
nors of the hospital, regarding the improvement of medical science as 
a most important, though an incidental object, of the institutions under 
their care, have given, and still continue to give every advantage to 
the teachers and professors of medical science, which can be afforded, 
consistent with the primary object of the institution, the relief of the 
diseased ; and the students of medicine derive the most important aids 
in their studies, from attending on operations, visiting the sick, hearing 
clinical lectures, and having access to a large and most valuable 
library. 
Founded and supported on the principles of the Christian religion 
and general benevolence, without respect to any sects or distinctions, 
political, civil, or religious, all persons whose maladies render them 
fit objects for such a charity, are considered as equally entitled to the 
benefits of this Hospital. 
By this humane and useful institution, the rich and the benevolent 
have it in their power to alleviate the real and oppressive misery of the 
poor, with the pleasing assurance, that while they are indulging the 
finest feelings of the heart, and fulfilling the great duty of Christiani- 
ty, their charity will not be abused, nor their bounty misapplied. In- 
deed, when the object of this bounty, and the manner in which it 
is bestowed, are considered, it must be a consoling reflection, that in 
no other way could private or public contributions be so efficaciously 
and beneficially applied, or produce so much real and unmixed good 
to the community* 
♦ It may not be improper to inform those who may feel disposed to contribute to 
this institution, by will, that the following-is a proper form of a devise for that pur- 
pose :-Item: 1 give and bequeath to " the Society of the New-York Hospital," the 
sum of GOVERNORS AND OFFICERS 
OF 
THE SOCIETY OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
A. D. 1836-9. 
GEORGE NEWBOLD, President. 
ISAAC CAROW, Vice-President. 
JOHN ADAMS, Treasurer. 
ROBERT I. MURRAY, Secretary. 
THOMAS BUCKLEY, 
NAJAH TAYLOR, 
PHILIP HONE, 
JOHN B. LAWRENCE, 
JONATHAN GOODHUE, 
GULIAN C. VERPLANK, 
BENJAMIN W. ROGERS, 
HENRY I. WYCKOFF, 
THOMAS R. SMITH, 
JAMES LOVETT, 
JAMES HEARD, 
ROBERT C. CORNELL, 
BENJAMIN L. S '.VAN, 
JAMES F. DEPEYSTER, 
NATHANIEL RICHARDS, 
JOHN A. STEVENS, 
STEPHEN ALLEN, 
RICHARD M. LAWRENCE, 
SAMUEL F. MOTT, 
AUGUSTUS FLEMING, 
FREDERICK SHELDON, 
JACOB HARVEY. 
Consulting Physician. 
T HOMAS COCK, M. D. 
Consulting Surgeon. 
VALENTINE MOTT, M. D. 
Attending Physicians. 
FRANCIS U. JOHNSTON, M. D. 
JOSEPH M. SMITH, M. D. 
JOHN B. BECK, M. D. 
JAMES MACDONALD, M. D. 
Attending Surgeons. 
ALEX. H. STEVENS, M. D. 
JOHN C. CHEESMAN, M. D. 
J. KEARNY RODGERS, M. D. 
ALFRED C. POST, M. D. 
RICHARD K. HOFFMAN, M. D. 
GURDON BUCK, JR., M. D. 
BENJAMIN OGDEN, M. D. Physician to the Bloomingdale Asylum. 
Resident Physician. 
Resident Surgeons. 
WILLIAM H. MAXWELL, M. D. 
JOHN S. HEARD, M. D. 
JAMES B. GOULD, M. D. 
NOAH WETMORE, Superintendent. 
F.DWARD L. SCHIEFFEL1N, Assistant Superintendent. 
THOMAS W. USTICK, Apothecary. 
WILLIAM H. WAKEMAN, Clerk. 
JOHN L. VANDERVOORT, M. D. Librarian. 
REV. Ju. HOWE, Chaplain. 
Bloomingdale Asylum Committee. 
STEPHEN ALLEN, 
NAJAH TAYLOR, 
NATHANIEL RICHARDS, 
SAMUEL F. MOTT, 
BENJAMIN L. SWAN, 
RICHARD M. LAWRENCE. 
G. BRADLEE POLLOCK, Warden to the Bloomingdale Asylum. GOVERNORS 
OF THE 
SOCIETY OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
The following is a List of the names of the Governors, from the commence- 
ment of the Institution to the 1st January, 1839, with the date of their respec- 
tive elections, and the length of time they continued in office. 
Governors. Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. 
A. 
Charles Ward Apthorp . . 1770 1784 14 years 
William Axtell .... 1770 1784 14 years 
John Alsop 1784 1788 4 years 
Gilbert Aspinwall . . . 1799 18 )9 
Gilbert Aspinwall .... 1811 1812 
Gilbert Aspinwall . . . 1815 1819 
15 years Died in office 
John Atkinson • . . . . 18l 0 1809 9 years 
John Aspinwall .... 1814 1817 3 years 
John Adams 1818 20 years Continues in office 
Stephen Alien .... 1823 1830 
Stephen Allen . ... . 1835 
10 years Continues in office 
Gerardus William Beekman 1770 1777 7 years 
B. 
George Bowne 1770 1784 
George Bowne .... 1785 1797 
26 years 
William Bayard .... 1777 1784 
William Bayard .... 1800 1802 
Robert Bowne 1784 1818 34 years Died in office 
Aaron Burr 1784 1792 8 years 
James Beekman .... 1785 1787 2 years 
Theophylact Bache . . . 1785 1797 12 years 
Thomas Buchanan . . . 1785 1800 15 years 
Francis Bassett .... 1785 1787 2 years 
William Backhouse . . . 1787 1792 5 years 
Nicholas Bayard . . . 1794 1798 4 years 
John Barrow 1795 1807 12 years 
Samuel Bowne .... 1796 1797 1 year 
Walter Bowne 1800 1805 5 years 
Dr. Samuel Bard . . . 1801 1802 1 year 
Rev. Abraham Beach . . . 1801 1806 5 years . . 
Thomas Buckley, . . . 1802 36 years Continues in office 
John Bogert 1804 1817 13 years 
John L. Bowne .... 1810 1815 5 years 
Abraham Barker • . . . 1813 1816 3 years 
9 years 71 
Governors Elected. Resigned Served the Institution. 
Robert H. Bowne .... 1815 1827 12 years 
William Bayard, jr. . . 1818 1823 5 years 
C. 
David Clarkson .... 1770 1777 7 years 
Matthew Clarkson . . . 1792 1822 30 years 
John Campbell 1794 1797 3 years 
John 13. Coles 1796 1798 2 years 
Isaac Collins 1800 1808 8 years 
John T. Champlin . . . 1801 1811 10 years 
John G. Coster 1801 1803 2 years 
Samuel Corp 1801 1802 1 year 
Richard Cunningham . . 1812 1814 2 years 
Cadwallader D. Colden . 1812 1827 15 years 
Nathan Comstock .... 1818 1823 5 years 
Duncan P. Campbell . . 1818 1827 9 years 
John Clark, jr 1819 1834 15 years 
Isaac Carow 1826 12 years. Continues in office. 
Robert C. Cornell .... 1832 6 years. Continues in office. 
D. 
Oliver Delancey .... 1770 1784 14 years 
Elias Desbrosses, .... 1775 1778 3 years. Died in office 
James Duane 1784 1789 . 5 years 
William Denning .... 1784 1792 
William Denning . . . 1805 1811 $14 7eals 
Jacob De la Montagne . . 1797 1802 5 years 
Frederick De Peyster . . 1809 1818 9 years 
Cornelius Dubois .... 1814 1818 4 years 
James F. Dcpeyster . . . 1827 11 years. Continues in office 
17 
E. 
Andrew Elliott ..... 1770 1784 14 years 
Lawrence Embree . . . 1784 1796 12 years 
William Edgar 1787 1798 11 years 
Thoms Eddy 1793 1827 34 years. Died in office 
William Edgar, jr. ... 1819 1823 4 years 
F. 
Walter Franklin .... 1770 1781 11 years. Died in office 
Dr. John Fothergill {London) 1770 1773 3 years 
George Folliott .... 1770 1784 14 years 
Samuel Franklin .... 1781 1794 13 years 
Sampson Fleming . . . 1789 1792 3 years 
Gabriel Furman .... 1794 1797 3 years 
Thomas Franklin . . . 1796 1798 ) 
Thomas Franklin . . • . 1803 1829 ?ears 
John Franklin .... 1806 1808 2 years 
Matthew Franklin . . . 1807 1815 8 years 
Moses Field 1817 1818 1 year 
Augustus Fleming . . . 1837 1 year Continues in office 
G. 
Hugh Gaine . . , . . 1790 1806 16 years 
John 1. Glover 1796 1802 6 years 
Archibald Gracie . . . 1802 1803 1 year 
Jonathan Goodhue . . . 1823 15 years. Continues in office 
H. 
Whitehead Hicks . . . 1770 1781 11 years. Died in office 
Henry Haydock .... 1777 1794 17 years 
Joseph Hallett .... 1785 1787 2 years 
Abijah Hammond .... 1794 1795 1 year 
Henry Haydock, jr. . . . 1797 1802 5 years 
Valentine Hicks .... 1809 1812 3 years 
Philip Hone 1823 15 years Continues in office 
James Heard 1829 9 years. Continues in office 
John Hone 1831 1832 1 year. Died in office 
Jacob Harvey 1838 Continues in office 72 
Governor*. Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. 
J. 
James Jauncey 1777 1784 7 years 
Samuel Jones 1781 1790 
Samuel Jones 1792 1794 
8 years 
John Jay ...... 1787 1789 2 years 
William Jauncey .... 1797 1802 5 years 
John Jones 1799 1802 3 years 
William Johnson .... 1804 1824 20 years 
Peter A. Jay 1809 1833 24 years 
Edward R. Jones .... 1834 1837 3 years 
K. 
Lawrence Kortright. . . 1770 1786 16 years 
Archibald Kennedy . . . 1770 1779 9 years 
John Keese 1787 1794 7 years 
William Kenyon .... 1795 1797 2 years 
Rev. John C. Kunzie . . 1797 1806 9 years 
James Kent 1797 1798 
James Kent 18z7 1830 
John Kane 1806 1809 3 years 
4 yeats 
Robert R. Livingston . . 1770 1776 6 years. Dicdinoffice, 
Abraham Lott 1770 1777 
Abraham Lott 1784 1787 
Leonard Lispenard . . . 1770 1777 
Leonard Lispenard . . . 1784 1787 
10 years 
10 years 
Philip Livingston .... 1770 1777 7 years 
Peter Van Brugh Livingston 1770 1777 
Peter Ven Brugh Livingston 1784 1785 
John Livingston .... 1777 1786 9 years 
William Laight .... 1787 1803 16 years 
8 years 
R R. Livingston, jr. . . . 1787 1794 7 years 
John Lawrence .... 1787 1794 7 years 
Jonathan Little .... 1798 1803 
Jonathan Little 1806 1826 
25 years. Died in office 
Richard R -Lawrence . . 1798 1799 1 year 
Dr. John C. Lettsoin {London) 1800 1804 4 years 
Herman Lc Roy .... 1803 1804 1 year 
Jacob Le Roy 1804 1805 1 year 
John B. Lawrence . . . . 1808 30 years. Continues in office 
James Lovett 1824 14 years. Continues in office 
Edward W. Laight . . . 1830 1831 half a year 
Richard M. Lawrence . . 1837 1 year. Continues in office 
Roger Morris 1770 1773 
Roger Morris 1777 1784 
M. 
10 years 
Abraham Mortier .... 1770 1771 1 year. Died in office 
William McAdam . • . 1770 1780 10 years. Died in office 
Nathaniel Marston . . . 1770 1772 2 years 
John Murray 1773 1775 
John Murray 1781 1809 
30 years. Died in office 
David Matthews .... 1776 1784 8 years 
Charles McEvers .... 1777 1784 7 years 
Robert Murray 1784 1787 3 years 
Lindley Murray .... 1784 1785 1 year 
Richard Morris .... 1784 1793 9 years 
William Maxwell .... 1784 1792 8 years 
Alexander McDougall . . 1784 1786 2 years 
John Murray, jr 1787 1819 32 years. Died in office 
Alexander McComb . . 1788 1792 4 years 
William Minturn .... 1796 1802 6 years 
JohnMcVicar .... 1798 1802 4 years 
Benjamin G. Minturn . . 1799 1802 3 years 
Robert Mott 1800 1802 2 years 
Samuel Mansfield . . . 1803 1809 6 years 73 
Governors. Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. 
M. 
Andrew Morris 1804 1823 19 years 
John R. Murray .... 1806 1837 31 years 
Samuel Mott 1810 1814 4 years 
Peter Mesier ..... 1810 1819 9 years 
Robert I. Murray .... 1816 22 years. Continues in office 
JohnM'Combjr 1818 1837 19 years 
Samuel F. Mott 1837 1 year. Continues in office 
N. 
George Newbold .... 1808 1810 
George Newbold .... 1811 
29 years. Continues in office 
O. 
Samuel Osgood .... 1792 1795 3 years 
P. 
Thomas Pearsall .... 1772 1777 ? 
Thomas Pearsall .... 1784 1795 $ 
16 years 
Daniel Phoenix 1784 1787 3 years 
Edmund Prior 1795 1803 8years 
Jotham Post 1795 1796 
Jotham Post 1801 1802 
Elijah Pell 1798 1799 1 year 
William Post 1800 1805 5 years. Diedinoffice 
John B. Provost .... 1802 1805 3 years 
Henry Postjr 1803 1810 7 years 
2 years 
Benjamin D. Perkins . . . 1808 1809 
Benjamin D. Perkins . . 1810 1310 
1 i years. Died in office 
Isaac Roosevelt 1774 1777 
Issac Roosevelt .... 1784 1794 
R. 
13 years 
Walter Rutherford. . . . 1784 1788 4 years 
Alexander Robertson . . 1790 1793 3 years 
Cornelius Ray 1792 1797 5 years 
Moses Rogers 1792 1799 7 years 
Henry Rutgers 1794 1798 4 years 
William Robinson . . . 1797 1802 5 years 
Herman G. Rutgers . . . 1801 1803 2 years 
John P. Ritter 1806 1813 7 years 
Benjamin W. Rogers. . . 1818 20 years. Continuesin office 
Nathaniel Richards . . . 1827 11 years. Continues in office 
William Smith 1770 1777 
William Smith .... 1779 1784 
s. 
12 years 
William Shotwell .... 1794 1795 1 year 
Peter Schermerhorn. . . 1795 1802 7 years 
Pascal N. Smith 1799 1802 3 years 
James Scott 1802 1814 12 years 
Jacob Sherred 1809 1819 10 years 
Ebenezer Stevens. . . . 1809 1823 14 years. Died in office 
Allen Shepherd 1809 1810 1 year 
Rev. F. C. Schaeffer. . . 1819 1827 8 years 
Thomas R Smith. . . . 1822 16 years. Continues in office 
Benjamin L. Swan . . . 1827 11 years. Continues in office 
John A. Stevens .... 1828 10 years. Continues in office 
Peter G. Stuyevesant. . . 1833 1838 5 years 
Frederick Sheldon , . . 1837 1 year. Continues in office 
John Thurston 1797 1804 7 years 
<1 ajah Taylor ..... 1810 28 years. Continues in office 
Thomas C. Taylor . . . . 1817 1829 12 years 
George Taylor .... 1827 1827 j year 
T. 
u. 
William Ustick 1777 1784 7 years 
William Ustick, Jr. . . . 1779 1802 3 years 
Augustus Van Cortlandt . 1777 1786 9 years 
V. 74 
Governors* Elected. Resigned Served the Institution, 
Augustus Van Horn . . 1780 1785 
Augustus Van Horn . . 1793 1794 
Richard Varick .... 1794 1795 
Richard Varick .... 1802 1804 
6 years 
Gulian Verplanck . . . 1798 1799 1 year 
Wynant Van Zandt, jr. . . 1806 1808 2 years 
Gulian C. Verplanck . . 1823 15 years. Continues in office. 
3 years 
W. 
Hubert Van Wagenen . . 1835 1837 2 years 
John Watts...... 1770 1784 14 years 
Hugh Wallace 1770 1784 14 years 
Henry White 1770 1773 
Henry White 1777 1784 
10 years 
Jacob Walton 1773 1777 4 years 
Gerard Walton 1789 1799 10 years 
Robert Watts 1791 1792 1 year 
James Watson ..... 1792 1799 
James Watson • . . . 1801 1802 
8 years 
William W. Woolsey . . 1799 1802 
William W. Woolsey . . 1829 1834 
Gilbert C. Willett .... 1794 1797 3 years 
8 years 
Joshua Waddington. . . 1801 1802 1 year 
Henry I. Wyckoff . . . 1802 1809 
Henry 1. Wyckoff . . . 1830 
15 years. Continues in office 
Dr. Hugh Williamson . . 1814 1819 5 years. Died in office 
Ezra Weeks 1823 1834 11 years 
Charles Wilkes 1827 1828 1 year OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS 
O F 
THE SOCIETY OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
PRESIDENTS. Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. 
John Watts 1770 1784 14 years 
John Alsop 1784 1788 4 years 
Richard Morris . . . . 1788 1790 2 years 
Isaac Roosevelt .... 1790 1794 4 years 
Theophylact Bache . . . 1794 1797 3 years 
Gerard Walton .... 1797 1799 2 years 
Matthew Clarkson . > . 1799 1822 23 years 
Thomas Eddy .... 1822 1827 5 years 
Peter Augustus Jay . . . 1827 1833 6 years 
George Newbold . . . 1833 5 years. In office 
VICE-PRESIDENTS. 
Andrew Elliott 1770 1784 14 years 
Abraham Lott .... 1784 1787 3 years 
Richard Morris 1787 1788 1 year 
Isaac Roosevelt .... 1788 1790 2 years 
Theophylact Bache . . . 1790 1794 4 years 
Gerard Walton .... 1794 1797 3 years 
Matthew Clarkson . . . 1797 1799 2 years 
Hugh Gaine 1799 1805 6 years 
Robert Bowne ..... 1805 1818 13 years 
Thomas Eddy 1818 1822 4 years 
Peter Augustus Jay . . . 1822 1827 5 years 
Thomas Buckley .... 1827 1S33 6 years 
Najah Taylor 1833 1S37 4 years 
Isaac Carow ..... 1837 1 year. In office 
TREASURERS. 
Peter Van Brugh Livingston 1770 1777 7 years 
Henry Haydock .... 1777 1792 15 years 
John Murray 1792 1808 16 years 
Thomas Eddy 1808 1818 10 years 
John Adams 1818 20 years. In office 
ASSISTANT TREASURERS. 
Benjamin W. Rogers . . . 1818 1822 4 years 
Robert H. Bowne . . . 1822 1827 5 years 
SECRETARIES. 
John Moore 1770 1784 14 years 
John Murray, jr 1784 1787 3 years 
John Keese 1787 1794 7 years 
Thomas Eddy 1794 1799 5 years 
John Barrow 1799 1800 1 year 
Thomas Eddy 1800 1806 6 years 
Henry Post, jr 1806 1807 1 year 
Thomas Buckley.... 1807 1824 17 years 
Robert I. Murray .... 1824 14 years. In office 76 
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. 
The following are the names of the gentlemen who have served the Institu- 
tion as Physicians and Surgeons, in the order of their appointment, together 
with the date of resignation or death, and their respective periods of service. 
Physicians and Surgeons. Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. 
P. Samuel Bard 1774 1797 23 years 
P. Peter Middleton 1774 1791 17 years 
P. John Jones 1774 1791 17 years 
P. Malachi Treat 1774 1794 20 years 
P. John Charlton 1791 1792 1 year 
P. Thomas Jones 1791 1792 
S. Thomas Jones 1792 1795 
4 years 
S. Richard Bayley 1792 1805 13 years 
S. James Tillery 1792 1792 1 month 
S. Wright Post 1792 1821 
Cons'g. S. Wright Post 1821 1828 
S. Ric'd. S. Kissam 1792 1796 
S. Ric'd. S. Kissaml797 1822 
36 years. Died in office 
P. Samuel Nicholl 1792 1796 4 years 
P. WilliamB. Smithl792 1796 4 years 
P. J. R. B. Rodgers 1794 1807 13 years 
S. Samuel Borrowe 1795 1817 22 years 
S. ValentineSearnanl796 1817 21 years. Died in office 
P. Elihu H. Smith 1796 1798 2 years. Died in office 
P. Sam. L. Mitchill 1796 1817 21 years 
29 years. Died in office 
P. David Hosack 1797 1806 
P. David Hosack 1817 1826 
Cons'g. P. David Hosack 1826 
25 years. Died in office 
P. Wm. Hamersleyl798 1817 
Cons'g. P. Wm. Hamersleyl821 
31 years. Died in office 
P. Edward Miller 1806 1812 6 years. Died in office 
P. Jas. S. Stringhaml807 1817 10 years. Died in office 
P. to L. A. Arch'd Bruce 1808 1817 9 years 
P. John C. Osborn 1809 1817 8 years Died in office 
P. Benjamin Dewittl809 1810 1 year 
S. Valentine Mott 1817 1837 
Cons'g. S. Valentine Mott 1837 
20 years. 
Continues in office 
as Cons'g. Surg'n. 
P. John Watts 1817 1829 
Cons'g. P. John Watts 1829 1831 
S. Alex. H. Stevens 1817 20 years. Continues in office 
14 years. Died in office 
P. John Neilson 1817 1819 
P. to L. A. John Neilson 1819 1829 
C. P. to B. A. Jolin Neilson 1829 1830 
13 years 
P. to L. A. William Handy 1817 1819 2 years 
P. Peter C. Tappen 1817 1824 7 years 
p. Thomas Cock 1819 1834 
Cons'g. P. Thomas Cock 1834 
S. Jno.C.Cheesmanl821 17 years. Continues in office 
S. J. K. Rodgers 1822 16 years. Continues in office 
p. Sam. W. Moore 1824 1828 4 years. 
p. Stephen Brown 1826 1832 6 years 
p. Fr. U. Johnston 1828 10 years. Continues in office 
16 years. 
Continues in office 
as Cons'g. Phs'n. 
P. toB. A. Jas. Macdonald 1829 1830 
Jas. Macdonald 1832 1837 
p. Joseph M. Smithl829 9 years. Continues in office 
p. John B. Beck 1832 6 years. Continues in office 
P. to B. A. Guy C. Bayley 1830 1832 2 years 
p. Edw. Delafield 1834 1838 4 years 
S. Alfred C. Post 1836 2 years. Continues in office 
S. R. K Hoffman 1836 2 years. Continues in office 
7 years 77 
Physicians and Surgeons. Elected. Resigned Served the Institution. 
S. John G. Adams 1837 1837 
S. Gurdon Buck, jr.1837 1 year. Continues in office 
P. to B. A. Benj. Ogden 1837 1 year. Continues in office 
P Jas. Macdona'd 1838 Continues in office 
NOTE. The above abbreviations are: P. for Physician, S. for Surgeon, 
Cons'g. P. Consulting Physician, Cons'g. S. Consulting Surgeon, B. A. Bloom- 
ingdale Asylum, L. A. Lunatic Asylum. 
The New-York Hospital was first opened for the reception of 
patients, in January, 1791, at which time a number were admitted. 
Statement of patients admitted into and discharged from the New-York Hospital, 
from February 1st, 1792, to December 31st, 1821, including the Insane 
Patients during that period. 
Admitted. 
Cured. 
Relieved. 
Discharged 
by request. 
Disorderly ft 
eloped. 
Improper 
| objects. 
Died. 
From Feb. 1, 1792, to Feb. 1, 1793 
1793, to Jan- 31, 1794 
••••Jan. 31, 1794, 1795 
1795, .....1796 
1796, 1797 
1797, 1798 
1798, 1799 
*1801, 1802 
1802, .1803 
1803, 1804 
During the year 1804 
1805 
1807 
1808 
1809 
1810 
1811 
1813 
1814 
1315 
1816 
1818 
236 
566 
419 
514 
510 
472 
503 
974 
956 
876 
1068 
1026 
1039 
1011 
1115 
1067 
1069 
1391 
1245 
1121 
926 
1547 
1705 
1510 
1721 
1725 
1648 
1631 
130 
135 
296 
293 
314 
296 
349 
561 
654 
668 
835 
730 
674 
672 
723 
777 
768 
1043 
904 
699 
586 
1026 
1159 
1099 
1210 
1319 
1324 
1220 
18 
26 
30 
33 
45 
60 
4: 
146 
88 
46 
62 
55 
38 
39 
58 
45 
53 
42 
99 
97 
104 
132 
65 
125 
132 
78 
64 
111 
5 
22 
17 
17 
9 
12 
12 
0 
0 
0 
42 
83 
no 
81 
64 
116 
95 
76 
64 
no 
74 
133 
224 
144 
118 
130 
97 
129 
8 
15 
13 
35 
50 
41 
33 
98 
65 
43 
62 
118 
122 
76 
63 
51 
56 
68 
43 
38 
28 
46 
58 
43 
56 
39 
37 
22 
4 
0 
10 
5 
3 
0 
0 
17 
28 
9 
9 
14 
7 
6 
25 
17 
22 
32 
n 
21 
20 
16 
25 
23 
21 
38 
19 
23 
23 
52 
65 
110 
56 
57 
65 
105 
106 
88 
159 
150 
143 
139 
123 
109 
95 
149 
156 
128 
122 
162 
163 
113 
148 
137 
139 
166 
29,591 20,464 1932 
R 
19&4 
emair 
1417 
ling- 
435 
3228 
131 
*No returns appear on the minutes from 1799 to 1S01. 78 
Statement of Patients admitted into and discharged from the New- York Hospital, 
from 31s£ December, 1821, to 31sl, December, 1837. 
Year. 
Admitted. 
Cured. 
Relieved. 
Request. 
Improper 
objects 
Disorderly & 
eloped. 
Died. 
1822.... 
.... 1386... 
... 979 . 
.... 138... 
... 96.... 
.. 17.... 
.... 109 
1823.... 
.... 1312..., 
... 922.. 
.... 132... 
.... 71... 
... 19.... 
... 27.... 
137 
1824.... 
.... 1425.... 
... 987... 
... 187... 
... 52.... 
.. 25.... 
... 20.... 
165 
1825.... 
.... 1700.... 
... 1270... 
.... 122... 
... 58.... 
.. 29.... 
... 18.... 
.... 182 
1826.... 
... 1773... 
... 1284.. 
.... 123... 
.... 72.... 
.. 25.... 
... 22.... 
.. .. 198 
1827.... 
.... 1792.... 
... 1333.. 
... 172... 
... 68.... 
.. 26.... 
... 13.... 
202 
1828.... 
.... 1805... 
... 1376.. 
. . 123... 
... 56.... 
.. 31.... 
... 25.... 
.... 193 
1829.... 
.... 1637.... 
... 1268... 
.... 84... 
... 52.... 
.. 32.... 
... 31.... 
.... 167 
1830.... 
.... 1690.... 
... 1258... 
.... 101... 
.. 126. .. 
.. 21 
... 38.... 
.... 150 
1831... 
.... 1870.... 
.. 1381... 
... 112 .. 
...139.... 
.. 29.... 
... 18.... 
.... 159 
1832. .. 
.... 1763.... 
... 1388... 
... 94... 
... 70. .. 
.. 65 
... 20.... 
.... 165 
1833.... 
.... 1852.... 
... 1396... 
.... 108... 
...102.... 
.. 68 
... 30.... 
. .. 146 
1834.... 
.... 1721.... 
.. 1266... 
... 69... 
...154.... 
.. 32 
... 46.... 
.... 174 
1835.... 
.... 1837.... 
.. 1431... 
... 72... 
...101.... 
.. 14 
... 25.... 
.... 169 
1836.... 
.... 1987.... 
.. 1503... 
.... 122... 
...101.... 
.. 15 
.. 25.... 
.... 197 
1837.... 
.... 1769.... 
.. 1305... 
.... 140... 
...121.... 
.. 24 
.. 15.... 
.... 191 
- ■ 
- 
- 
■ I- ■- 
1 ■ - 
27,319 
20 347 
1,899 
1,439 
472 
403 
2,704 
Admitted, from 1st Feb. 1792, to 31st Dec. 1821 29,591 
" " 31st Dec, 1821, " " " 1837 27,319 
RECAPITULATION. 
DISCHARGED, aS 
Cured, from 1st Feb. 1792, to 31st Dec. 1821 20,464 
" " 31st Dec. 1821, " " " 1837 20,347 
56,910 
Relieved from 1st Feb. 1792, to 31st Dec.1821 1,932 
" " 3lst Dec. 1821, " " " 1837 1,899 
40,811 
By Request,from 1st Feb. 1792, to31st Dec.1821 1,984 
" " 31st Dee. 1821, " " " 1837 1,439 
3,831 
As Improper objects fi om 1st Feb. 1792, to 31st Dec. 1821... 435 
" " " 31st Dec, 1821," " " 1837... 472 
3,423 
As Disorderly or eloped, fm. 1st Feb. 1792, to 31st Dec. 1821. 1,417 
" " " 31st Dec. 1821, to " " 1837. 403 
907 
Died from 1st Feb. 1792, to 31st Dec. 1821 3,228 
" " 31st Dec. 1821, to " " 1837 5,704 
1,820 
5,932 
56,724 
Remaining 31st December, 1837, 186 
56,910 
In the first part of the preceding Table are included 1553 Lunatics, who were admit- 
ted into the Old Asylum, which was then a ward of the Hospitnl. 
Lunatics admitted previously to the year 1811 643 
Lunatics admitted in the year 1811 108 
« « " " 1812 127 
« « " " 1813 105 
« « " " 1814 104 
« « " " 1815 69 
« « " " 1816 49 
« •< " " 1817 49 
« « " " 1818 75 
« « « " 18'9 77 
<> « " " 1820 87 
« " " " 182), previously to 27th July, 60 
1553 79 
Of whom were cured 704 
Relieved 239 
Discharged by request .. 278 
Were improper objects 61 
Disorderly or eloped 65 
Died 154 
1501 
And transferred to Bloomingdale Asylum 52 
BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM. 
Discharged Improper 
In the year. 
Admitted. 
Cured. 
Improved, by request. objects. 
Eloped. 
Died. 
1821 
...123 
..19.. 
7 9 .. 3 .. 
.. 0 
0 
1822 
.. J 02 
22 !8. 0 
.... 1 
1823 
151 
SR 
. 15 5" A 
R 
5 
1824 
.. J21 
. .48.. 
27 22 . 0 . 
.. 8 
. 11 
1825 
. .71.. 
42 63 0.. 
0 
. . 3 
1826 
...142 
..69.. 
18 42.... 0.. 
.. 2 
.. 11 
1827 
...134 
.67.. 
26 34 0 
4 
9 
1828 
...134 
...59.. 
29 28........ 0.. 
1 
...13 
1829 
.. . 91 
. .49. . 
19 19 ... 0.. 
.. .. 1 
. . 9 
1830 
...134 
. 56.. 
41 on n 
... 7 
1831 
...151 
..76.. 
17 29 4.. 
o 
... 19 
1832 
...118 
..44.. 
31 26 13.. 
,. 6 
... L5 
1833 
...138 
..58.. 
10 15........ 2.. 
3 
. .10 
1834 
...102 
..51.. 
16 16 20.. 
2 
. .14 
1835 
...138 
..58.. 
11 12 0... 
3 
. .13 
1836 
...121 
..66.. 
26 16 0.. 
. 1 . 
14 
1837 
...112 
..50.. 
12 32 0... 
2 
..13 
- ■ - 
. ■ 
■ ■ ■ II - 
- 
. 
2,148 
944 
367 436 42 
41 
173 
Opened,for the reception of Lunatics, on the 27th of July, 1821. 
Lunatics admitted into Bloomingdale Asylum, and discharged therefrom. 
RECAPITULATION. 
Admitted, from 27th July, 1821, to 31st Dec. 1837 2,148 
Cured 944 
Improved 367 
Discharged by request of friends 436 
Improper objects 42 
Eloped 41 
Died 173 
Discharged, 
2,003 
31st December, 1837-Remaining 145 
2,148 
Total number of patients admitted into the New-York Hospital, 
from the time it was first opened until the 31st Dec. 1837. 56,920 
Ditto. . .. Insane .... Bloomingdale Asylum .. . ditto.. do. 2,148 
GENERAL RECAPITULATION. 
59,068 
Total discharged from the New-York Hospital and Bloom- 
ingdale Asylum, to 31st Dec. 1837. 
As Cured N. Y. H... 40,811 4- B. A. 944= 41,755 
As Relieved do. 3,831 -J- do. 367= 4,198 
By Request do. 3,423 4- do. 436= 3,859 
As improper objects. do. 907 4- do. 42= 959 
As disorderly or eloped do. 1,820 -j- do. 41= 1,861 
As dead do. 5,932 do. 173= 6,105 
58,737 
Dec. 31st, 1887. Remaining in New York Hospital 186 x 
145 in Bloomingdale Asylum 331 
59,068 80 
NATIVITY OF PATIENTS. 
Daring the last 45 years, 56,910 patients have been admitted into the 
New-York Hospital, of Whom there were- 
Natives of the United States 29,870 
44 " England 4,511 
44 44 Wales 190 
44 44 Scotland 1,551 
44 44 Ireland 13,791 
20,043 
44 44 the West Indies 810 
44 *4 Nova Scotia 163 
44 44 the Ocean 50 
44 44 Africa 279 
44 44 the East Indies 274 
44 44 Germany 1,362 
44 44 Holland 387 
44 " Prussia 283 
553 
2 032 
44 44 Denmark 362 
44 44 Norway 283 
44 44 Finland 5 
44 44 Sweden 883 
1533 
41 44 Russia 80 
44 44 Poland 41 
44 44 France 855 
44 41 Switzerland 46 
121 
901 
" " Italy 289 
44 44 Spain 193 
44 " Portugal 287 
44 44 Sicily 24 
44 44 Austria 21 
814 
*4 " Mexico 20 
56,910 81 
Account of Supernumerary Seamen received into the N. Y. Hospital, exceeding the number paid for by the Collector, Funeral Expenses, Sfc. 
9,500 02 
5641 26 
NOTE. By a Law of the United States, every Seaman in the Merchant Service pays 20 cents per month (deducted out of their wages) for their 
support, if sick or disabled. This not beina sufficient for the support of all who applied for Hospital relief, the Governors admitted the number enumera- 
ted above, being supernumerary, or more than what has been yearly paid for by the United States. They conceive they have an equitable claim on gov- 
ernment, for the maintenance of the seamen thus admitted, amounting to fifteen thousand one hundred and forty-one dollars 28 cents, as will appear from 
die preceding statement, and they have repeatedly petitioned Congress, but as yet have not succeeded in obtaining payment. 
$15,14128 
Admitted from 27th November, 1804, to 31st March, 1805, 65 seamen, 285 weeks 0 days, at $3 per week, burials, &c. 8 87100 
do 1st do 1805, to 12th Dec. 1805, 32 seamen, 105 do 0 do do do do 32129 
do 1st January 1806, to 31st do 1806, 80 seamen, 659 do 0 do do do do 2026 01 
do 1st * do 1807, to 31st do 1807, 46 seamen, 169 do 0 do do do do 518 29 
do 1st do 1808, to 31st do 1808, 367 seamen, 1477 do 6 do do do do 4548 57 
do 1st do 1809, to 31st do 1809, 90 seamen, 232 do O do do do do 706 00 
do 1st do 1810, to 31st do 1810, 112 seamen, 166 do 2 do do do do 508 86 
1202 85 
J 422 28 
379 00 
850 00 
do 1st do 1819, to 31st do 1819, 89 seamen, at $3 per week, 1104 42 
682 71 
do 1st do 1812, to 31st do 1812, 261 seamen, 384 do 2 at S3 per week, 1152 85 
10 Burials at $5 each 50 00 
do 1st do 1811, to 31st do 1811, 201 seamen, 280 do 0 do do do 840 00 
2 Burials at $5 each 10 00 
do 1st do 1816, to 31st do 1816, 182 seamen, 462 do 3 at S3 per week 1387 28 
7 Burials at $5 each 35 00 
do 1st do 1817, to 31st do 1817, 45 seamen 123 do 0 at $3 per week, 369 00 
2 Burials, at $5 each 10 00 
do 1st do 1818, to 31st do 1818, 41 seamen, 217 do 4 at $3 per week, 672 71 
2 Burials, at $5 each 10 00 82 
MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF 
The following official persons, for the time being, are .Members of the 
Society of the New-York Hospital, by virtue of the Charter, viz. 
The Mayor of New-York, 
" Recorder do 
" Aidermen do 
" Assistants do 
" Rector of Trinity Church, 
" President of Columbia College, 
" Senior Minister of the Reformed Dutch Protestant Church,, 
" Minister of the Ancient Lutheran Church, 
" Senior Minister of the Presbyterian Church, 
" Minister of the German Reformed Calvinist Church, 
" Minister of the New Lutheran Church, 
" Minister of the Anabaptist Congregation, 
" Minister of the French Church, 
" Minister of the Moravian Church, 
" Minister of the Scotch Presbyterian Church. 
Members of the Society of the New- York Hospital. 
The asterisk * denotes that the persons to whose name it is prefixed is dead. 
A. 
*Charles Ward Apthorp, 
*William Axtel, 
*John Alsop, 
*Francis Atkinson, 
*Josiah Adams, 
*Gilbert Aspinwall, 
*John Atkinson, 
*William Adamson, 
John Jacob Astor, 
*John Aspinwall, 
Stephen Allen, 
John Adams, 
Samuel Akerly, 
*James Anderson, 
David Austin, 
Saul Alley, 
Moses Allen, 
William Adamson, jun. 
B. 
*Samuel Bard, 
*William Bayard, 
*.Tohn Bogert, 
*Gerard William Beekman, 
*George Bowne, 
*John Beekman, 
*Samuel Bowne, 
*Samuel Broome, 
*Samuel Bowne, jun. 
* James Beekman, 
*Theophylact Bache, 
*Grove Bend, 
*Evert Bancker, 
*Thomas Buchanan, 
*Andrew Barclay, 
* William Brownjohn, 
* Francis Bassett, 
*Dr. John Bard, THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
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c 
*Dewitt Clinton, 
Isaac U. Coles, 
*Alexander Colden, 
* David Clarkson, 
*Cornelius Clopper 
*John Harris Cruger, 
*John Crook, 
*Isaac Corsa, 
*Peter Clopper, 
♦Henry Cruger, 
*Robert Crommelin, 
♦Matthew Clarkson, 
*Henry Cruger, jun. 
*Cadwallader Colden, 
♦Major Edward Clark, 
* Daniel Cotton, 
*James Constable, 
* William Constable, 
*Francis Childs, 
*Isaac Cock, 
*John B. Coles, 
♦John Clark, 
*Samuel Corp, 
♦John T. Champlin, 
♦John G. Coster, 
♦Isaac Collins, 
♦John Church, 
♦Uriah Oliver Champlin, 
Thomas Collins, 
♦Richard Cunningham, 
Israel Corse, 
♦John Clarke, jun. 
Willet Coles, 
Levinus Clarkson, 
Duncan Pearsall Campbell, 
William Cairnes, 
Peter Crary jun. 
Isaac Carow, 
♦Thomas Cadle, 
* James Conklin, 
David Clarkson, 
Matthew Clarkson, jun. 
William Bayard Clarkson, 
♦Cadwallader D. Colden, 
*William Backhouse, 
*Dirk Brinkerhoof, 
*Benjamin Booth, 
* Abraham Brinkerhoof, 
*Walter Buchanan, 
*Goldsbrow Banyer, 
Gerard G. Beekman, 
*G. G. Beekman, jun. 
*James Bowne, 
*James Buck, 
*Samuel Burling, 
♦Robert L. Bowne, 
*Thomas H. Brantingham, 
*Thomas B. Bridgen, 
* William Bowne, 
*Robert Bowne, 
Joseph Byrnes, 
*Samuel Belamy, 
*Samuel Bowne, 
*John Barrow, 
Walter Bowne, 
*Aaron Burr, 
William Bayard, jun 
Thomas Buckley, 
*John Bogert, 
John L. Bowne, 
Abraham Bell, 
*Abraham Barker, 
*J. E. K. Berck, 
Egbert Benson, 
*Divie Bethune, 
Robert H. Bowne, 
Benjamin Butler, 
♦Joseph Blackwell, 
Abraham Brinkerhoff, jun. 
♦Philip Brasher, 
James Boyd, jun. 
James Boorman, 
Robert Blake, 
♦John Bolton, 
J. D. Beers, 
William G. Bucknor, 
♦Michael Burnham, 
♦James Boggs. 84 
MEMBERS OF THB SOCIETY OF 
Benjamin U. Coles, 
William Crary, 
George Chance, 
Nathan Comstock, 
Thomas S. Clarkson, 
Isaac Collins, 
Stacey B. Collins, 
Joseph B. Collins, 
Thomas G. Crary, 
Robert C, Cornell, 
♦John S. Crary, 
John M'Comb, 
Henry Casy. 
D. 
♦Oliver Delancey, 
♦Joshua Delaplaine, 
♦James Duane, 
♦Gerardus Duyckinck, 
♦Gerardus Depeyster, 
♦Abraham Duryee, 
♦Walter Du Bois, 
William Duncan, London, 
♦Elias Desbrosses, 
George Duncan, 
*R. H. John Lord Drummond, 
♦Frederick Depeyster, 
♦Daniel Dunscomb, jun. 
♦Jacob Doty, 
Patrick Dennis, 
David L. Dodge, 
♦John B. Dash, 
James F. Depeyster, 
Robert G. L. Depeyster, 
Frederick Depeyster, jun. 
Abraham Depeyster, 
Matthew L. Davis, 
Cornelius Dubois, 
Rufus Davenport, 
Jacob Drake, 
♦John Delafield. 
E. 
♦Andrew Elliott, 
♦Lawrence Embree, 
♦William Edgar, 
♦Thomas Eddy, 
*Effingham Embree, 
♦Thomas Ellison, 
John Elliott, 
♦William Edgar, jun. 
F. 
♦John Fothergill, M. D. London, 
* Walter Franklin, sen. 
♦George Folliott, 
♦Samuel Franklin, 
♦Sampson Fleming, 
♦Thomas Franklin, 
♦Col. Edward Fanning, 
♦Johnson Fairholme, 
Thomas Fisher, 
♦Henry Franklin, 
♦Francis Fleming, 
Caleb Frost, 
♦George Fox, 
♦Thomas Franklin, jun. 
♦John Franklin, 
John Franklin, jun. 
♦Abraham Franklin, 
♦Matthew Franklin, 
*Whitehead Fish, 
*George Fitch, 
♦Moses Field, 
John W. Francis, M. D. 
Samuel Flewwelling, 
♦John Fleming. 
Preserved Fish, 
Hickson W. Field, 
Hamilton Fish, 
Augustus Fleming. 
G. 
♦Peter Goelet, 
♦Hugh Gaine, 
*Andrew Gautier, 
♦Nicholas Gouverneur, 
♦Robert Gray, 
♦Edward Goold, 
♦Adam Gilchrist, 
♦John J. Glover, 
♦Archibald Gracie, THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
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*John Greene, 
Cornelius Grinnel, jun. 
Maltbie Gelston, 
George Griswold, 
*John Greenfield, 
John Graham, 
John P. Groshon, 
Jonathan Goodhue, 
Nathaniel L. Griswold, 
William Green, of England, 
George Griffin, 
Peter Goelet, jun. 
*Peter P. Goelet, 
John L. Graham, 
James L. Graham. 
H. 
*Daniel Horsemanden, 
*Henry Haydock, 
*Joseph Hallett, 
*George Harrison, 
*Whitehead Hicks, 
*Jacob Hallett, 
*Abijah Hammond, 
Nathaniel Hawxhurst, 
*Henry Haydock, jun. 
John Hunter, 
*David Hosack, M. D. 
Benjamin Huntington, 
Goold Hoyt, 
*Henry Hammond, 
Valentine Hicks, 
*01iver Hicks, 
Philip Hone, 
John Haggerty, 
*William Hartshorn, 
*John Hone, 
*Elias Haines, 
*William Hill, 
*Samuel Hicks, 
*Isaac Hyer, 
Jacob Halsey, 
* William Hammersley, M. D. 
Alexander Eddy Hosack, M. D. 
James Heard, 
Isaac S. Hone, 
Jacob Harvey, 
William Howard, 
John C. Hamilton, 
Silas Holmes, 
J. 
*John Jones, M. D. 
*Sir William Johnson, Baronet, 
*Simon Johnston, 
*Nicholas Jones, 
*James Jauncey, 
*Sainuel Jones, 
*John Jay, 
*Charles Ingliss, 
*Thomas Jones, 
*Col. Thomas James, 
*John Jones, 
*William Jauncey, 
*Horace Johnston, 
*Amasa Jackson, 
William Johnson, 
Peter A. Jay, 
Samuel Jones, jun. 
*Joshua Jones, 
Napthali Judah, 
Isaac Iselin, 
John Jones, 
*Edward R. Jones, 
*Sylvanus F. Jenkins, 
*James Jenkins, 
John Johnston, 
Jeromus Johnson. 
K. 
*Archibald Kennedy, 
*Lawrence Kortright, 
*Peter Kettletas, 
*John Keese, 
*William Kenyon, 
*John Knox, 
Joseph Kettletas, 
*John Tabor Kemp, 
*Robert J. Kemble, 
Isaac Kibbe, 
*Benjamin Kissam, 
*William Kelly, 
*John Kane, 86 
MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF 
*Peter Kemble, 
James Kent, 
Elias Kane, 
John G. King, 
Joseph Kernochan, 
*Henry Kneeland, 
James G. King. 
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L. 
*Robert R. Livingston, 
*PhiIip Livingston, 
*Loenard Lispenard, 
*William Livingston, 
*Abraham Lott, 
*Peter Van Brugh Livingston, 
*Isaac Low, 
*William Ludlow, 
*Gabriel H. Ludlow, 
*John Livingston, sen. 
*Jacob Le Roy, 
*John Leake, 
*William Laight, 
*John Lawrence, 
*Dr. John C. Lettsom, London, 
*John H. Livingston, D. D. 
*John Laboyteux, 
*Philip P. Livingston, 
Robert P. Livingston. 
*Robert R. Livingston, jun. 
*Richard R. Lawrence, 
*Caleb Lawrence, 
*Catharine Lawrence, 
*Cornelius P. Low, 
Leffert Lefferts, 
*John Lamb, 
*Daniel Ludlow, 
*Nicholas Low, 
*William Lawrence, 
John B. Lawrence, 
*Dirk Lefferts, 
*Herman Leroy, 
*Jonathan Little, 
*William Lovett, 
Richard M. Lawrence, 
*Thomas Lawrence, 
*John T. Lawrence, 
*Gulian Ludlow, 
*Edward Lyde, jun. 
William Leffingwell, 
*David R. Lambert, 
Robert Lenox, 
*Elisha Leavenworth, 
Thomas H. Leggett, 
James Lovett, 
*Jacob Lorillard, 
Joseph Lloyd, 
Jonathan H. Lawrence, 
Henry Laverty, 
*JohnG. Leake, 
Herman Le Roy, jun. 
Eleazer Lord, 
*General Lafayette, 
Cornelius W. Lawrence, 
David Lee, 
John W. Leavitt, 
Rufus L. Lord, 
Edward W. Laight, 
Gideon Lee, 
Wm. Beach Lawrence, 
M. 
*Peter Middleton, M. D. 
*Roger Morris, 
*Abraham Mortier, 
*Abraham Mesier, 
*Richard Morris, 
John Moore, 
*William M'Adam, 
*Nathaniel Marston, 
*John Myer, 
*Charles M'Evers, 
*Alexander M'Dougall, 
*John Murray, jun. 
*Lindley Murray, 
* William Maxwell, 
*Robert Murray, 
*John Murray, 
* Alexander M'Comb, 
* William Minturn, 
*John M'Vicar, 
Benjamin G. Minturn, 
*Robert Mott, 
*John Marslin, THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
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*Thomas Maule, 
*Mary M'Evers, 
Mordecai Myers, 
*Samuel Mansfield, 
*Andrew Morris, 
John R. Murray, 
James Magee, 
Nathaniel G. Minturn, 
Samuel Mott, 
*Peter J. Munro, 
*Peter Mesier, 
*James M'Vicar, 
Stephen B. Munn, 
*Jonas Minturn, 
John Mason, 
*Samuel L. Mitchell, M. D. 
*John B. Murray, 
Benjamin Marshall, 
*Samuel M'Coun, 
John M'Comb, 
John Mason, jun. 
Samuel S. W. Moore, M. D. 
Robert I. Murray, 
Samuel F. Mott. 
N. 
William Neilson, 
George Newbold, 
John Nielson, M. D. 
Russel H. Nevins. 
O. 
*Samuel Osgood, 
Thomas L. Ogden, 
* Andrew Ogden, 
David B. Ogden, 
William Osborn. 
P. 
* David Provost, 
*Thomas Pearsall, 
*Lewis Pintard, 
*John Pell, 
*DanieI Phoenix, 
*Joseph Pearsall, 
Edmund Prior, 
Frederick Pigou, 
*Thomas Pearsall, 
*Frederick Philips, 
*Elijah Pell, 
* William Post, 
Henry Postjun. 
*Benjamin Douglass Perkins, 
* Jotham Post, jun. 
Allison Post, 
*Thomas C. Pearsall, 
*William Pluyment, 
Nathaniel Prime, 
Isaac Pierson, 
Amos Palmer, 
Gideon Pott, 
*Wright Post,M. D. 
Henry Parish, 
J. Philips Phoenix, 
Stephen Price, 
Thomas W. Pearsall, 
R. 
* Walter Rutherford, 
*Isaac Roosevelt, 
*Henry Rutgers, jun. 
*Alexander Robinson, 
*Cornelius Ray, 
*Moses Rogers, 
*Jacobus Roosevelt, 
*Elizabeth Richards, 
*Henry Rutgers, 
*John Reid, 
Nehemiah Rogers, 
* William T. Robinson, 
*Herman G. Rutgers, 
*John Peter Ritter, 
*Sylvester Robinson, 
Wm. H. Robinson, 
John W. Russell, 
Benjamin W. Rogers, 
*Jacob Le Roy, 
*William Rogers, 
Nathaniel Richards, 
Jacob Radcliff, 
*George Richards, 
Henry Remsen, 
*Philip Rhinelander, 
John Rathbone, jun. 88 
MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF 
*Henry Rogers, 
Morris Robinson, 
*Peter Remsen, 
Robert Ray. 
S. 
*William Smith, 
*John Morris Scott, 
*Thomas Smith, 
*Richard Sharpe, 
*Isaac Sears, 
*Nicholas Stuyvesant, 
*Gerard Stuyvesant, 
*Miles Sherbrook, 
*Christopher Smith, 
*William Shotwell, 
George Stafford, 
*Jesse Smith, 
*William Seton, 
* Edmund Seaman, 
*Comfort Sands, 
*William Shedden, 
*Henry Sadler, 
*Thomas Stoughton, 
Christopher M. Slocum, 
John Stiles, 
*Ebenezer Stevens, 
*James R. Smith, 
Reuben Smith, 
*Peter Schermerhorn, 
*Pascal N. Smith, 
*James Scott, 
*Allen Shepherd, 
* Jacob Sherrerd, 
*Jacob Schieffelin, 
*Gamaliel Smith, 
*Garrit Stephens, 
*Drake Seymour, 
Isaac Sebring, 
*John Slidell, 
Benjamin Strong, 
* Robert Seaman, 
Jesse Scofield, 
Jacob Storm, 
Ferdinand Suydam, 
Stephen Storm, 
*James Sterling, 
Josiah Sturges, 
*Thomas H. Smith, jun. 
*Nathaniel Smith, 
Alexander H. Stevens, M. D. 
*Rev. Dr. John Stanford, 
Thomas R. Smith, 
Peter Sharpe, 
Garrit Storm, 
*Peter Skinner, 
Benjamin L. Swan, 
John A. Stevens, 
George Strong, 
Joseph S. Shotwell, 
Frederick Sheldon, 
John Suydam, 
Thomas Suffern 
Peter G. Stuyvesant, 
T. 
*John Thurman, 
*John Thurston, 
*John Titus, 
*.Tohn Townsend, 
Najah Taylor, 
*Robert Troup, 
*Jeremiah Thompson, 
*Francis Thompson, 
Thomas C. Taylor, 
George Taylor, jun. 
Samuel Tuke, of the city of 
York, England, 
Hugh K. Toler, 
Wilson Taylor, 
Joseph R. Taylor, 
Elihu Townsend, 
Frederick A. Tracy, 
Jonathan Thompson, 
*Elisha Tibbits, 
U. 
*William Ustick, 
*William Ustick, jun. 
*Benjamin Underhill, 
*Gustaphus Epsom. 
V. 
Jacobus Van Zandt, THE NEW-TORE HOSPITAL 
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*John Van Cortlandt, 
*Augustus Van Cortlandt, 
♦David Van Horne, 
*Samuel Verplanck, 
*Augustus Van Horne, 
* Henry Van Vleck, 
*Theodorus Van Wyck, 
♦Peter Vandervoort, 
♦James Van Varick, 
♦Gulian Verplanck, 
♦Richard Varick, 
♦John Van Blaroom, 
♦Wynant Van Zandt, jun. 
William Vandervoor^ 
♦John V. B. Varick, 
Gulian C. Verplanck, 
Myndert Van Schaick, 
♦William L. Vandervoort, 
Hubert Van Wagenen. 
W. 
♦John Watts, 
♦Hugh Wallace, 
♦Henry White, 
♦Thomas White, 
♦Jacob Watson, 
♦John Weatherhead, 
♦Caspar Wistar, 
Erasmus Williams, 
♦Thomas Wooldridge, 
♦Richard Waldron, 
♦William Walton, 
♦Gerard Walton, 
♦Isaac L. Winn, 
* Robert Watts, 
*Gilbert C. Willett, 
*James Watson, 
*Charles Watkins, 
William W. Woolsey, 
Joshua Waddington, 
Henry I. Wyckoff, 
* Jacob Walton, 
*Henry Ward, 
*John R. Wheaton, 
Eliphalet Williams, 
♦Charles "Wilkes, 
Lemuel Wells, 
Stephen Whitney, 
Ezra Weeks, 
•Oliver Wolcott, 
Samuel Wood, 
*John G. Warren, 
* Jasper Ward, 
♦Isaac Wright, 
Samuel Ward, 
Thomas W. Ward, 
♦Cornelius Williams, 
Isaac W ood, M. D. 
♦John W'atts, M. D. 
A. W. V. Worey, 
*Dr. Hugh Williamson, 
Abijah Weston, 
Joseph Walker. 
Y. 
*Richard Yates, 
*Lawrence Yates, 
Hamilton Young.