CHARTER OF THE SOCIETY 
OF 
THE lE¥-TOHK HOSPITAL, 
AND THE 
LAWS RELATING- THERETO, 
WITH THE 
BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE INSTITUTION, 
AND THOSE OF THE 
BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE. 
Kcvised asad Passed, ©ccember 2, 1845. 
JOHN R. M’GOWN, PRINTER, 128, FULTON-STREET. - 
NEW-YORK: 
1846. Basement Story 
Booremenl Story 
Sui Basement. 
NORTH HOUSE 
MARINE HOUSE 
HOSPITAL 
Principal Story. 
Principal Steep, 
PrrncyjaZ if tory. NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. CHARTER OF THE SOCIETY 
OF 
THE NE¥-IORK 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; 
JOHN R. M’GOWN, PRINTER, 128, PULTON-STREET. 
1845, THE CHARTER. 
[The passages printed in italics have been repealed or altered by subsequent acts of the legisla- 
ture, 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 Gol- 
den, Esq., our Lieutenant-Governor, and then our com- 
mander-in-chief, of our province of New York, and the 
territories depending 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 be- 
nevolence, bad liberally subscribed towards the same; 
that from the manifest utility of such an infirmary the 
petitioners hoped for further contributions, and that some 
very considerable donations had been then already pro- 
mised, in case the success of the Institution should be 
rendered probable; but that the said monies could not 
be conveniently collected, or the design prosecuted 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 pur- 
poses aforesaid : now we, taking into our royal consider- 
ation, the beneficial tendency of such an Institution with- 
in our said city, calculated for relieving the diseases of 
the indigent, and preserving the lives of many useful 
members of the community, are graciously pleased to 
grant the said humble request of our said loving sub- 
jects : know ye, therefore, that we, of our special grace, 
certain knowledge, and mere motion, have willed, given, 
Petition ot 
Doctors Middle' 
ton, Jones, 'and 
Bard,for a char- 
ter for an Hos- 
pital recited. 
Which, in con- 
sideration of its 
beneficial ten- 
dency, 4 
is granted. 
granted, ordained, constituted, and appointed, and by 
these presents for us, our heirs and successors, do will, 
give, grant, ordain, constitute, and appoint, that the 
Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen 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 Cal- 
vinist Church in our said city, now and for the time be- 
ing ; the Minister of the New Lutheran Church in our 
said city, now and for the time being; the Minister of 
the Anabaptist Congregation in our said city, now and 
for the time being; the Minister of the Scotch Presby- 
terian Church in our said city, now and for the time be- 
ing; and Sir William Johnson, Baronet; John Fother- 
gill, of our city of London, in our kingdom of Great 
Britain, physician; Daniel Horsmanden, John Watts, 
Oliver De Lancey, Charles Ward Apthorp, Roger Mor- 
ris, William Smith, Hugh AYallace, Henry White, Ro- 
bert R. Livingston, Andrew Elliot, Archibald Kennedy, 
Abm. Morder, Philip Livingston, Wrm. Axtell, Jas. Du- 
ane, John Morin Scott, Leonard Lispenard, Simon John- 
son, Thos. Smith, Wm. Bayard, Walter Rutherford, Alex. 
Golden, John Van Cortland, Augustus Van Cortland, 
Wm. 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 Livingston, David 
Clarkson, Walter Franklin, Gerard William Beekman, 
William M’Adara, George Bowne, Nathaniel Marston, 
Lawrence Kortright( George Folliott, David Provoost, 
Cornelius Clopper, John Myer, David Van Horne, Tho- 
mas White, Charles M’Evers, Isaac Low, John Beek- 
man, Richard Sharpe, Thomas Pearsall, Joshua Dela- 
plane, Samuel Bowne, Isaac Sears, Samuel Broome, 
John Thurnam, Jacob Watson, Lewis Pintard, Gerard- 
us Duyckinck, James Beekman, Peter Goelet, William 
Ludlow, Nicholas Stuyvesant, John Harris Cruger, John 
Weatherhead, Theophilact Bache, Samuel Yerplanck, 
THE CHARTER OP THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
Members of 
the Corporation 
named. THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK. HOSPITAL. 
5 
John Crook, Grove Bend, John Alsop, Caspar Wistar, 
Isaac Rosevelt, Evert Banker, Gerardus DePeyster, 
Henry Rutgers the younger, Henry Haydock, Gabriel 
H. Ludlow, Isaac Corsa, Thomas Buchanan, Andrew 
Barclay, John Livingston, Augustus Van Horne, Joseph 
Hallett, Peter Kettletas, Jacob Le Roy, and Abraham 
Duryee, all of our said city of New-York, merchants; 
William Brownejohn, 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, pewter- 
er ; and such other persons as shall be elected and ad- 
mitted hereafter members of the corporation hereby 
erected, be and forever hereafter shall be by virtue of 
’,T,,. . , , 
these presents, one body corporate and politic, in deed, 
fact, and name, by the name, style, and title of *“ The 
o • r 1 TT ■, 7 • 7 J xr 7 ■ 
boc'iety of the Hospital 'in the city oj J\cw- 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 po- 
litic and corporate, in deed, fact, and name, forever ; 
and will give, grant, and ordain, that they and their suc- 
cessors, the society of the Hospital in the city of New- 
York in America, by the same name, shall and may 
, t t n i , 
have perpetual succession; and shall and may, by the 
same name, be persons capable in the law to sue and be 
13 11- ini 
sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answer- 
ed unto, defend and be defended, in all courts, and else- 
where, 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 capable and able in the law to purchase, take, 
hold, receive, and enjoy to them and their successors, 
any messuages, tenements, houses, and real estate what- 
soever, and all other hereditaments of whatsoever na- 
ture, kind and quality 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 whatso- 
ever. Provided always, the clear yearly value of the 
And incorpo- 
rated. 
Style and T- 
itle. 
To have per- 
petual succes- 
sion. 
Capable to sue 
and be sued. 
May hold es- 
tates, 
* 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, sec. 1. p. 15. 6 
THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK. HOSPITAL. 
come does not 
sterhuV‘£o00° 
said real estate doth not at any time exceed the sum of 
five thousand pounds sterling, lawful money of our king- 
dom of Great Britain, above all outgoings 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 estate 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 and charitable ends and purposes above men- 
tioned ; and that it shall and may be lawful for them and 
their successors, 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, hereby erected, shall have 
acquired, by the aid of the legislature of our said pro- 
vince of New-York, by the generous donations of the 
benevolent or otherwise, a proper and convenient 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 relief 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 afore- 
said, 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 corpora- 
tion, of whom there shall be taken and had one presi- 
dent, 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 ap- 
pointed. 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 carrying into execution our royal will and 
pleasure herein, we do hereby assign, constitute, and ap- 
The corpora- 
andsdl estates6 
and have a seal, 
When ground 
maytdbuiidthan 
Hospital, 
which shall be 
York*1 Hospital'. 
For the more 
orderly govern- 
ment of the So- 
ciety there shall 
always be twen- 
Govern‘ 
aPresidont and 
viccPresident, 
a Treasurer or 
Sec^tary THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
point the aforesaid John Watts, Oliver De Lancy, Charles 
Ward Apthorp, Roger Morris, William Smith, Hugh 
Wallace, Henry White, Robert R. Livingston, White- 
head Hicks, Mayor of our said city of New-York, An- 
drew Elliot, Archibald Kennedy, Peter Van Brugh 
Livingston, David Clarkson, Abraham Mortier, Abraham 
Lott, Walter Franklin, Leonard Lispenard, Gerardus 
William Beekman, Philip Livingston, William M’Adam, 
George Bowne, William Axtell, Doctor John Fothergill, 
Nathaniel Marston, Lawrence Kortright, and George 
Folliott, to be the present Governors of the said Hospi- 
tal and corporation; the aforesaid John Watts to be the 
present president; and the aforesaid Andrew Elliottobe 
the present 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, pre- 
sident, vice-president, treasurer 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 ensu- 
ing, and yearly, and every year, forever thereafter on the 
third Tuesday in May in every year, they and their suc- 
cessors, 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 regula- 
tions 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 es- 
tablished 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 and choose as 
aforesaid, one president, and one vice-president, of our 
said incorpoi ation, 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 he treasurer or treasurers of our said cor- ! 
poration, for the ensuing year, and another of the said 
members to be secretary for the ensuing year. Which : 
First Govern- 
ors of the cor- 
poration nam- 
ed. 
President and 
Vice President, 
Treasurer and 
Secretary nam- 
ed, who are to 
remain in office 
until the third 
Tuesday iu 
May, 1772. 
And for keep- 
ing up a succes- 
sion, the society 
is to meet for 
the Election of 
new officers, 
the 3d Tuesday 
in May annual 
Jy 
to elect by bal- 
lot or otherwise 
twenty-six gov- 
ernors, 
and out of the 
governors cho- 
sen to elect a 
President and 
Vice President 
for the ensuing 
year. 
And out of the 
governors or 
memberschoose 
a treasurer. 
And out of the 
members a sec- 
retary. The 
* 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. 8 
THE CHARTER OP THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL, 
new chosen go- 
vernors and of- 
ficers to enter 
immediately on 
their duty and 
remain in office 
one year, or till 
others be cho- 
sen in their 
stead. 
In case of the 
death, removal, 
refusal or neg- 
lect of officers, 
others to be 
chosen in their 
stead within 30 
days after such 
contingency. 
To prevent un- 
due practices in 
such elections, 
the president 
or vice presi- 
dent, with five 
of the govern- 
ors, 
said governors, and other the officers aforesaid, of our 
said corporation, so elected, shall immediately enter upon 
their respective offices, and hold, exercise, and enjoy the 
same respectively, from the time of such elections for 
and during the space of one year, and until other lit per- 
sons shall be elected and chosen in their respective pla- 
ces, according to the laws and regulations aforesaid. 
* And in case any of the said persons hy these presents 
nominated and appointed to the respective offices afore- 
said, or who shall hereafter he elected and chosen thereto, 
respectively, shall die, or on any account he removed from, 
such offices respectively, hefore the time of their respective 
appointed services shall he expired, or refuse or neglect to 
act in and execute the office for which he or they shall he 
so elected and, chosen, or is or are herein nominated and 
appointed; then our royal will and pleasure is, and we 
do hereby direct, ordain, and require our said corpora- 
tion, 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 ordain and require, that upon every vacancy in the 
office of president, the vice-president, and any five of the 
governors of our said corporation and Hospital, for the 
time being ; and upon every vacancy in the office of vice- 
president, governor, and in any other of the offices afore- 
said, 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 
newspapers printed in this colony, at least seven days be- 
fore 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 be- 
fore the day appointed for such election, at two or more 
’ of the most public places in our said city of New- York ; 
. hereby giving and granting that such person and per- 
| sons as shall be so chosen from time to time, by the ma- 
jority of such of the members of our said corporation as 
shall in such case, meet in manner hereby directed, by bal- 
lot, or in such other manner and form as shall be directed 
to give seven 
thJnewspapers 
of the day and 
ecMffiraiioiding 
the election, 
and the persons 
then chosen, to 
hold their offi- 
ces from the 
time of election 
* See Act to amend the charter of the New-York Hospital, passed March 20th, 
1828, p. 16. THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
9 
by any of the by-laws or regulations of our said corpo- 
ration, shall have, hold,, exercise and enjoy such the office 
or offices to which he or they shall he so elected and, cho- 
sen from the time of such election until the third Tuesday 
in May thence next ensuing, and until other or others he 
legally chosen in his or their /dace or stead, as fully and, 
amply as the person or persons in whose place he or they 
shall he chosen, could or might have done hy virtue of 
these presents. And, we do hereby will and direct, that 
this method shall forever hereafter he used for filing up 
all vacancies in the said offices, between the annual elec- 
tions above directed: provided nevertheless, that as reel! 
in the elections last, mentioned, as in the annual elections 
above mentioned, no person shall he elected, to the of ice of 
president or vice-president, unless he then he 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 every presi- 
dent, vice-president, governor, treasurer and secretary 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-president 
of our said corporation for the time being, or of the pre- 
ceding 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 
pleasure is, and we do hereby for us, our heirs and suc- 
cessors, 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 of- 
fice 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 pro- 
per, the governors of the said corporation and Hospital 
for the time being, giving them at the least one day’s no- 
tice 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 together, 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 
tln”J 
May then next 
'which method 
of .election for 
cid" t"P bTil- 
wa>'s Pructiced- 
elections or at 
tionsTe” chosen 
j °r 
unless he be a 
governor- 
Governors and 
officers to take 
m””ourovfuith- 
£“,J^Js°fmance 
The President. 
°Prnc‘“ the*vice 
President, 
may summon 
t^mecL0™ 
ffivin:r at ]eagt 
onedays’notice. 
Sev*'n of the 
governors, of 
whom the Pre- 
®idei?‘ or vice- 
President,to bo 
always one, 
uI^ake a 10 
THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
shall always be one, shall forever hereafter be a legal 
meeting of the said corporation; 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 autho- 
rized to do, act, transact, manage, and perform, in as 
full and ample manner as if all and every the governors 
and members of the said corporation were present, and 
’ consenting thereto : saving and except always the elect- 
ing of governors, and other the offices above mentioned of 
our said corporation : and also, saving and except the 
: giving, granting, selling, or otherwise aliening any of the 
estate, real or personal, of our said corporation : and the 
leasing, demising, or disposing 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 con- 
currence and approbation of the majority of the whole 
number of the governors of our said corporation for the 
j 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 leased, demised, or in 
any wise disposed of for any longer term than one year, 
without the like concurrence and approbation of the ma- 
jority 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 succes- 
sors, urdain and appoint, and give and grant to the So- 
ciety 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 presi- 
dent, the vice-president, 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, establish, and ordain, from time to 
time, and at all times hereafter, such laws, constitutions, 
ordinances, regulations, and statutes, for the better gov- 
ernment of the officers, members, and servants of the 
said corporation, and of the patients from time to time 
admitted into the said Hospital ; for fixing and ascer- 
j 
adJoun°Wer ° 
corporation, 
except choos- 
and ogtherroffi- 
cers> 
and except 
granting lands, 
&c. fora longer 
terra than one 
year. 
„ ... 
Noneofthees- 
tate of the cor- 
dCiposed of but 
by consent of 
the whole'gov- 
emors. 
The governors 
mayga meetl"S 
under the seal 
ot the corpora- 
tion, make by- 
good govern*5 
ment thereof; 
of its members, 
officers, and THE CHARTER OP THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
tabling the places of meeting of our said corporation, 
on the days and times of the elections above-mentioned; 
and for regulating the mode and manner 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 beneficial designs of the 
said corporation ; and the same, or any of them, to al- 
ter, amend, or repeal from time to time, as they, or a 
major part of them so met as aforesaid shall judge most 
conducive to the benefit of the said charity ; provided 
such laws, constitutions, regulations, ordinances, and sta- 
tutes, be not repugnant to the laws of that part of our 
kingdom of Great-Britain called England, nor of this 
our province of New-York.—And we do further 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 pre- 
sident, or vice-president, for the time being, shall always 
he 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 appoint 
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 physi- 
cians 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, 1 
for us, our heirs and successors, grant and ordain, that 
when, and as often as any president, vice-president, gov- ’ 
ernor, treasurer, secretary, physician, or surgeon of the ! 
said corporation, shall become unfit or incapable to ex- | 
ecute their said offices, respectively, or shall misdemean i 
themselves in their said ofiices, respectively, contrary to ; 
any the by-laws or regulations of our said corporation, 
or refuse or neglect the execution thereof, and thereupon 
servants, and of 
the patients lo 
he admitted. 
The places and 
mode of elec- 
tion. 
The manage- 
ment and dispo- 
sition of the 
funds and char- 
ities, and all 
other business, 
for the good of 
tho corporation 
and the same a- 
gain repeal and 
amend. 
Such by-law* 
not to be repug- 
nant to the laws 
of England of 
this colony. 
The governors 
to appoint the 
number oi'phy- 
sicians and sur- 
geons to attend 
the patients. 
also an apothe- 
cary, a steward, 
and matron, 
and again dis- 
place and ap- 
point others itt 
their stead. 
The president, 
vice-president, 
governor,treas- 
urer, secretary, 
physician, or 
surgeon, inca- 
pable ofserving 
or niisdemean- 
ing himself. THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL, 
a complaint or charge in writing shall he exhibited1 
against him or them, by any member of our said corpo- 
ration, at any legal meeting of the governors of our said 
corporation 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 proof, to 
suspend or discharge such president, vice-president, gov- 
ernor, treasurer, secretary, physician, or surgeon, from 
their offices respectively, although the yearly or other 
time for their respective services, shall not he expired ; 
any thing before in these presents contained to the con- 
trary thereof in any wise notwithstanding; Provided 
always, that no president, vice-president, governor, phy- 
sician or surgeon, shall be suspended or discharged at 
any meeting, without the concurrence and approbation 
of the majority of the whole number of the governors of 
the said corporation, nor without having a copy of the 
complaint or charge against him, at least six days before 
such examination ; and an opportunity 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 Idospital in the city of New- 
York in America,” and their successors forever, 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-president 
of the said corporation shall always be one, being con- 
vened and met together, as aforesaid, so as to he a legal 
•p. T • O 
meeting ox 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 corpora- 
tion, 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 sai^ 
may upon com- 
plaint, exami- 
nation, anti tine 
proof be sus- 
pended. 
by a majority 
of governors. 
inlegaUnc 
may, by major- 
chooso new 
members, 
And under their 
te! admit us 
c=ety*t0 the6o' THE CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
13 
•governors of tlie said corporation and Hospital, .shall 
"° , 1 . 
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 giv- 
•en ; 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 present Charter, shall be deemed, adjudged, 
und 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 chari- 
table Institution; and that this our present grant, being 
entered on record, as is hereinafter expressed, shall be 
forever hereafter good and effectual in the law, accord- 
ing to our royal intent and meaning herein before declar- 
ed ; and without any other license, grant, or confirma- 
tion from us, our heirs or successors, hereafter by the 
said corporation to be had or obtained, notwithstanding 
any mis-recitals, non-recitals, not-naming, or mis-naming, 
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, ordi- 
nance, or provision, or other matter or thing to the con- 
trary 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 province to be 
hereunto affixed, and the same to he entered of record, 
in our secretary’s office for our said province of New- 
York, in one of the Books of Patents there remaining. 
Witness our right trusty and right well-beloved cousin 
John, Earl of Dunmore, our captain-general and Gov- 
ern or-in-ebief, 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 con- 
sent of our council for our said province of New-York, 
the thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one 
thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, and of our 
reign the eleventh. 
The governors 
to render ac- 
counts to the 
proceedings 
('1cu"rt‘jireuat<> 
ia 
favor of the So- 
cietJ’ 
tert/oTrocord 
shall be cffioctu- 
‘a 111 law‘ ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. 
AN ACT for the better and more permanent support of the Hos- 
pital in the City of New-York. 
Passed March 14th, 180 G. 
Whereas it has become necessary, on account of the increasing 
number of patients in the Hospital, in the city of New-York, to 
enlarge the same, by erecting additions thereto, for the more con- 
venient 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 Hos- 
pital 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 Gov- 
ernors 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, repre- 
sented in Senate and Assembly, That the Treasurer of this state 
shall every year hereafter, until the year one thousand eight hun- 
dred 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 quarterly payment to be made on the 
first day of May next; which said annual sura of twelve thousand 
five hundred dollars, shall become chargeable upon the duties on 
sales at public auction or vendue in the said city of New-York. 
11. 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. 
HI. And be it further enacted, That the Governors of the said 
Hospital shall make an annual report of the state of that institution 
to the legislature. 15 
AN ACT to alter the Style and Title of the Society of the Hos- 
pital in the City of New- York, in America, and to amend the 
Charter thereof 
Passed March 9th, 1810. 
ACTS OP THE LEGISTATURE. 
Whereas “ the Society of the Hospital in the city of New-York 
in America,” by their petition under their common seal, have re- 
presented to the legislature, that doubt had arisen whether the 
election of members under a by-law of the said corporation, exist- 
ing for many years past, had been made in strict conformity with 
the charter of the said society, and that their franchises under the 
said charter 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 
misconstruction; 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 hy the people of the State of New-York, repre- 
sented in Senate and Assembly, That the said corporation shall for- 
ever hereafter be known and distinguished by the name and style 
of “the Society of the New-York Hospitaland 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, with- 
out any seizure or forejudger of their franchises, liberties or privi- 
leges, or being thereof excluded or ousted, for or upon any pre- 
tence of any forfeiture or misdemeanor at any time heretofore 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 mis- 
user or other cause of forfeiture had heretofore occurred ; 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 committed. 
11. And he 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 Maxxh, 1810. 
Be it enacted hy the People of the State of New- York, represent- 
ed in Senate and Assembly, That there shall be paid to the trea- 
surer 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 thousand five hundred dollars per annum, for the space 
of ten years from the passing of this act, to be paid quarter year- 
ly, in fonr equal payments, and the first quarter to be paid on the 
first day of August next, and quarterly thereafter, for and during 16 
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. 
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 sth section of the Act, entitled “An Act re- 
specting navlg.ible communications between the great Western and Northern Lakes and the 
Atlantic Ocean,” passed April 15, 1817. 
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 in- 
creased number, become wholly inadequate for the purpose for 
which it is intended, 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 
humanity, and the interest of the state, require that fit provision 
should be made for the care and cure of insane persons : There- 
fore, 
Be it enacted by the people of the State of New-York, represent- 
ed 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 Socie- 
ty of the New-York Hospital, in quarter yearly payments, out of 
any monies in the treasury of this state, not otherwise appropria- 
ted, the annual sum of ten thousand dollars, the first quarter yearly 
payment to be made on the first day of May next, which said an- 
nual 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 State of New- York represented 
■in Senate and, Assembly, That in the event of any vacancy hap- 
pening 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 Hospital” 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 
corporation; and that all other rules, and regula- 
tions 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 go- 
vernors of the Society of the New-York Hospital, at which 
election three inspectors (being members and not govern- 
ors,) to be appointed by the governors, at the stated meet- 
ing 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 
opened at noon, 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 in- 
spectors a ballot containing the names of not more than 
twenty-six persons, as governors; and the inspectors shall 
deposit 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 poll of the said election shall be closed, the in- 18 
spectors 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 great- 
est majority of all the votes given ; and shall deliver a cer- 
tificate 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 reason, 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 monthly meeting as may be convenient, 
shall elect by ballot another member of this corporation to 
fill said vacancy; but no person shall be thus elected un- 
less by a majority of the whole number of governors. 
4. At the first meeting of the governors, after every an- 
nual election, there shall be chosen, by ballot, by a ma- 
jority of all the governors, one President, one Vice Presi- 
dent, one Treasurer, and one Secretary. 
CHAPTER 11. 
Of the Oath or Affirmation to he taken hj 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 tenor following, viz : “I do swear (or 
affirm) that I will faithfully and duly execute the office of 
of the Society of the New-York Hospital, accord- 
irig to the best of my ability.” 19 
2. Every president, vice-president, governor, treasurer, 
and secretary shall take the said oath or affirmation, before 
he act in his office. 
CHAPTER 111. 
Of the President and Vice-President. 
1. The president may call a meeting of the governors 
whenever 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 
governors, and shall preserve order therein ; he shall no- 
minate all committees, 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 suc- 
ceed to all his rights and duties. 
4. The president and vice-president shall visit the Hos- 
pital 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 governors. 
CHAPTER IV. 
1. A monthly meeting of the governors shall be held in 
the governors’ room, at the Hospital, on the first Tuesday 
in every month, at half-past four o’clock in the afternoon. 
Of the Governors. 
2. Seven governors, including the president or vice- 
president, shall be a quorum for transacting all business, 
except the election of officers, the alienating 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, physi- 20 
clan, or surgeon, for which purposes the consent of a ma- 
jority of all the governors shall be necessary. 
3. The governors shall annually elect, by ballot, four 
physicians and six surgeons to the hospital, and also a 
physician to have the sole care of the insane in the Bloom- 
ingdale Asylum, who shall receive commissions under 
the seal of the corporation: and every physician and sur- 
geon, hereafter to be elected, shall hold his office until 
the first stated monthly meeting of the governors, to be 
held after the next ensuing annual election, and until a new 
election shall be had. But no person shall be appointed 
physician or surgeon unless he shall have been nominated 
to that place, at a previous monthly meeting. 
4. If any officer, physician, or surgeon, shall become un- 
fit to execute his office, or shall misdemean himself in his 
office, contrary to any of the by-laws of this corporation, or 
refuse or neglect to execute the same, the visiting commit- 
tee, or any member of the corporation, may exhibit against 
him a complaint in writing 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 service of 
the said notice) for the person complained of to make his 
defence before the governors : and the governors, having 
examined 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 
governors shall appoint a superintendent, or steward, matron, 
assistant superintendent, chaplain, apothecary, clerh, and librari- 
an for the Hospital, and curator of the pathological cabinet; 21 
also awarden and matron for the Bloomingdale Asylum, who 
shall hold their offices during the pleasure of the governors ; 
a committee of the Bloomingdale Asylum, and also a person 
or persons, to be chosen by ballot, to supply the Hospital 
with medicines. 
6. There shall also be appointed at the same meeting a 
committee, to be denominated the Cabinet Committee, to 
consist of one of the governors, one physician, and one sur- 
geon of the Hospital; whose duty it shall be to have the 
general care and superintendence of the cabinet, and to re- 
port to the monthly meeting of the governors, in January of 
each year, the general condition of the cabinet, with an ac- 
count of its expenses. 
7. 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 phy- 
sician, and one surgeon of the hospital, whose duty it shall 
be to purchase books, to take the general care and super- 
intendence of the library, and to report to the monthly 
meeting of the governors in January, in each year, a state- 
ment of the amount received and expended on account of 
the library during the year. 
8. There shall be a visiting committee, to consist of three 
governors, to serve three months, one of them to be ap- 
pointed at each monthly meeting, in place of the one whose 
term of service shall then expire. 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, in place of the one whose term of service shall 
then expire. 
9. At the monthly meeting, in December, in each year, 
a committee shall be appointed to audit the accounts of the 
hospital, and to make an inventory of all the real and per- sonal 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 follow- 
ing : and another committee shall also be appointed to draft 
the annual report of the state of the hospital, to be laid be- 
fore the legislature. This draft shall be presented to the 
governors at their next monthly meeting, or at the one fol- 
lowing. One of the governors, one physician, and one sur- 
geon shall be appointed to prepare a table of the diseases 
of the patients in the Hospital during the year. 
10. Every committee, whether standing or special, shall 
report in writing, upon every subject referred to them. 
11. At each monthly meeting, the minutes of the visiting 
committee, of the inspecting committee, and of the Bloom- 
ingdale Asylum committee shall be produced, that the 
governors may be informed of their proceedings. 
12. The governor’s room shall be kept solely for the use 
of the governors, and no other person shall be permitted to 
use it, without the permission of the visiting committee. 
13. The president, vice-president, treasurer, and secre- 
tary shall be a committee of the sinking fund, and shall 
have charge of said fund, and shall report the state of the 
same, with their proceedings, to the monthly meeting of 
the governors in the month of January, in each year. 
CHAPTER Y. 
Of the election of Members. 
1. Whenever a governor shall propose a person to be 
elected a member of this corporation, he shall be balloted 
for at a monthly meeting of the governors; and if there 
shall be a majority of the whole number of governors in his 23 
favor, lie shall be duly elected: and having paid forty 
dollars to the treasurer, for the use of the hospital, within 
three months thereafter, shall be admitted a member, and 
receive from the secretary a certificate of such election, 
under the common seal; but in default of such payment, 
said election shall be void. The governors may, however, 
in any particular instance, dispense with said payment, 
and immediately receive the member elected. 
CHAPTER VI. 
Oj 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 corporation. 
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 in- 
sert in the margin opposite to them respectively, their 
amounts and dates, and the names of the persons to whom 
they are payable, 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 the drafts 24 
of the superintendent for the expenses of his department, 
provided the same be approved by the chairman, or some 
other member of the visiting committee, signified by his 
endorsement thereon. 
7. The treasurer shall pay no other monies, without a 
resolution of the board of governors, or a written order 
from the visiting committee, or from the committee of the 
Bio mingdale 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 
corporation. 
2 He shall attend the meetings of the society and of 
the governors, take minutes of the proceedings of each 
meeting, and see that the clerk transcribes them into a book 
provided for that purpose. 
S. I mmediately 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 spe- 
cial. he shall send notice of the time and place of such 
me< ig to each of the governors. 
5. At every meeting he shall read the minutes of the pre- 
ceding 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. 25 
7. He shall furnish certificates to the members of the 
corporation in the manner prescribed by the by-laws. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Of the Visiting Committee. 
1. The visiting committee shall meet twice in every week, 
at the hospital. If any member of the committee shall be 
unable 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 re- 
gard to the existing circumstances of the hospital; but they 
shall admit no person, without a previous examination by 
one of the physicians and surgeons, or by the house-phy- 
sician, or house-surgeon. 
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 security, as they may deem requisite; but 
this and the last preceding article shall not apply to the 
admission of patients into the Bloomingdale Asylum, which 
is solely entrusted to the Asylum Committee. 
4. They shall carefully inquire of every pauper previous 
to admittance, whether he arrived at this port within 
two years, in order, if that shall appear to be the fact, that 
the superintendent may apply to the consignee bonding for 
such passenger, for an engagement to pay his board. 
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 may come before them; which book 
must be laid before the governors, at every monthly 
meeting. 6. They shall give such orders and establish such regu- 
lations as they shall think proper, to carry into effect the 
objects of this institution ; provided such orders and regu- 
lations be not inconsistent with the charter and by-laws. 
7. On every visiting day, they shall inquire of the phy- 
sicians 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 hos- 
pital ; and shall direct all such to be discharged, so that no 
improper objects be permitted to remain. 
8. The committee may direct the superintendent to give 
some relief, in money or clothes, to patients, who, from ex- 
treme 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 off the premises without leave, 
be guilty of drunkenness, profane swearing, or otherwise 
misbehave, the committee ma3r, at their discretion, dis- 
charge 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 frequently remind the superintendent and 
other officers of the house, of the necessity of attention, econ- 
omy, cleanliness and good conduct in the discharge of their 
several duties. 
12. Whenever they may think it necessary that a spe- 
cial meeting 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-surgeons, or any 
of their assistants, or apothecary shall neglect any of the 27 
duties prescribed to Him, or refuse to comply with any rea- 
sonable request of the visiting committee or superintendent, 
the visiting committee may suspend the offender, and re- 
port the case to the next monthly meeting of the gover- 
nors ; and the vacancy, in the mean time, shall be supplied 
by such person as the committee may appoint. 
14. The committee shall, on each visiting day, insert in 
a book kept for that purpose, the times of their own attend- 
ance, of that of the physicians and surgeons, and of the 
senior and junior assistants. 
15. The visiting committee shall have the charge and care 
of the property of the hospital, and the general superintend- 
ence 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 executed. 
CHAPTER IX. 
Of the Inspecting Committee. 
1. It shall be the duty of the inspecting committee to in- 
quire 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, dead-house and grounds of 
the hospital at least once a week, and also the wards, rooms, 
other apartments and grounds of the Bloomingdale Asy- 
lum, at least once a month; inquire into the behavior 
of the superintendent, warden, matrons, and nurses, to- 
wards 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 28 
and other provisions are of good quality; whether the pa- 
tients 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 shall also inquire whether any improvements 
can be made for the greater comfort of the patients. 
3. They shall inquire particularly whether the wards, 
water closets, bathing closets and dead house are kept in 
good condition and are properly ventilated, so that they may 
be supplied with pure and wholesome air, and shall pro- 
hibit the patients from using the fires or stoves in their 
wards for culinary purposes : and also see that the grounds 
are kept in good order. 
4. At least once in each month, they shall examine the 
house-physician and house-surgeons, as to the performance 
of their respective duties, and as to the daily attendance 
and behavior of the assistants 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 ob- 
jects of their appointment, which book shall be laid before 
the governors, at every monthly meeting; and also before 
the visiting committee at their semi-weekly meetings. 
CHAPTER X. 
Of the Consulting Physicians and Surgeons. 
1. The consulting physicians and surgeons shall be con- 
sidered as counsellors, and shall be invited to attend at all 
capital operations in the hospital. 
2. They may recommend persons to be admitted as pa- 
tients, in like manner as the governors. 
3. Each consulting physician and surgeon, shall have 29 
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, 
whether his directions and prescriptions have been care- 
fully observed. He shall attend to the neatness and venti- 
lation of the wards, and give such directions on those sub- 
jects, as may be necessary, to the superintendent. He 
shall direct the house-physician to report to the superin- 
tendent such patients as are in a proper condition to leave 
the hospital. 
4. Two surgeons shall constantly be in attendance on 
the hospital, one of whom shall have the charge of the 
first surgical division, consisting of all the surgical wards 
in the main building, also, No. 10, and part of No. 2, in the 
north house. The other surgeon shall have charge of the 
second surgical division, comprising all the surgical wards 
in the marine house, also No. 7, and part of No. 2, in the 
north house; and no change in these divisions shall be 
made without the sanction of the visiting committee, to be 
reported to the Board for their confirmation. The choice 
of attendance for the term, on either of these two divisions, 30 
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 necessary, 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 these subjects, as may be necessary, to 
the superintendent, and they shall direct their respective 
house-surgeons, to report to him, 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 inter- 
fere 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. It shall be their duty, during their respective terms of 
attendance, to prescribe and direct the treatment of all the 
patients under their care, but in case of emergency, admit- 
ting of no delay, the attending physician or surgeons being 
absent, the house-physician or house-surgeons may prescribe 
and report to the attending physician or surgeons at their 
first visit. 
7. If any physician or surgeon shall be prevented from 
attending in his turn, he shall procure one of the other physi- 
cians or surgeons belonging to the hospital to attend in his 
stead. 
8. The attending physician and surgeons shall be pre- 
sent at the regular meetings of the visiting committee, to 
confer with them on the management of the house, and to 
examine applicants for admission. 
9. No capital operation, except in cases of immediate 
danger, shall be performed, without the previous approba- 
tion of at least two surgeons, nor without inviting all the 31 
physicians and surgeons belonging to the hospital, to be 
present at the operation; nor shall any operation be per- 
formed, other than by the attending surgeons, except in 
cases of imminent danger, and in their absence, when the 
house-surgeons may act. 
10. Each of the attending physicians and surgeons shall 
report in writing to the governors, after his tour of attend- 
ance 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 assist- 
ants, and the apothecary, have discharged their respective 
duties, with skill and fidelity ; and whether the nurses have 
treated the sick with care and humanity, and shall also 
contain such suggestions and remarks as shall appear to 
him to be useful. 
11. At the close of every year, a table of the diseases of 
the patients in the hospital, and in the Bloomingdale Asy- 
lum, 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 of the governors, one 
physician, and one surgeon, to be appointed for that pur- 
pose by the governors. 
12. In order to render the hospital, so far as may con- 
sist with the welfare of the patients, conducive to the ad- 
vancement of medical science, the physicians and surgeons 
may provide among themselves adequate and regular prac- 
tical instruction, by observations accompanying operations 
and prescriptions, by clinical lectures, or otherwise, to the 
students admitted to see the practice of the house, during 
the ordinary periods of lectures at the medical institutions 
of the city, and longer, if deemed expedient. Due notice of 
the time and period of such instruction shall be given, and, 
when announced, shall be punctually observed. 32 
13. It shall be the express duty of the physician or sur- 
geon to guard against any examinations of patients by pu- 
pil£ except under his own inspection ; and against all acts 
calculated to alarm, or injure the patients: and in cases 
where any observations, in their presence might have an 
injurious tendency, they shall be postponed to the halls or 
theatre. 
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 commit- 
tee shall assign to the house-surgeons the division of the 
hospital, in which they are respectively to commence their 
term of service. No person shall be appointed to the office 
of house-physician, or of house-surgeon, until he shall 
have attained the age of twenty-one years, nor until he 
shall have laid before the governors satisfactory testimo- 
nials 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, 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 that he has kept the prescribed register to 33 
our satisfaction, and we do recommend him to the gover- 
nors for said office.” Which certificate shall be signed by 
at least three physicians of the hospital, if the candidate be 
recommended for the office of house physician, and by at 
least four surgeons of the hospital, if he be 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 the state of the patients 
to the visiting physician 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. In any medical or surgical case of emergency, the 
house-physician and house-surgeon shall request the imme- 
diate attendance of the attending physician or surgeon, and 
if he cannot be found, of any other of the physicians or 
surgeons of the hospital. 
4. They shall make the entries in the admission and dis- 
charge books, according to the prescribed forms, review 
and correct the cases taken and copied by the assistants, 
and report the same when completed, to the attending phy- 
sician or surgeon at his next visit. 
5. They shall record all prescriptions in a book to be 
kept for that purpose. 
6. They shall not remove patients from one ward into 
another, without the approbation of the superintendent. 
7. It shall be their duty to report the disease, of which 
any patient dies, to the clerk, in order that the register may 
be regularly kept. 
8. They shall report, in writing, to the superintendent, 
such patients as may, under special circumstances, 
have been received, during his absence, that he may lay 34 
the same before the visiting committee at their next 
meeting. 
9. Neither the house-physician nor house-surgeons shall 
discharge a patient; this being the exclusive duty of the 
superintendent. 
10. They shall not be absent at the usual hours of attend- 
ance of the physicians and surgeons, and whenever either 
of them intends to go off the premises, he shall leave notice 
with the superintendent, and the house-physician, or house- 
surgeon, where he may be found; and in no case shall all 
of them be absent at the same time. They must be in the 
hospital at a seasonable hour in the evening, and never 
sleep out of the house. 
11. They shall not engage in any other business than that 
of the Hospital, nor shall they practice out of the house. 
12. It shall be the particular duty of the house-physician 
to keep the electrical and galvanic apparatus always in per- 
fect order, and faithfully to apply them when directed, or 
cause them to be so applied by his assistants. 
13. 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 pri- 
ces ; and shall never suffer them to be lent or used out of 
the house. He shall, on giving up his charge, furnish to 
his successor an inventory of all the instruments belonging 
to the house, which inventory shall be countersigned by 
his successor, and then exhibited to the visiting committee, 
under whose direction it shall be kept on file. 
14. He shall keep a pass book, in which shall be entered 
a statement of all new instruments which shall be ordered 
for the use of the hospital. 35 
15. It shall be the particular duty of the house-physiclan 
or house-surgeon, (as the case maybe medical or surgical,) 
to attend to the faithful application of the baths, at the tem- 
perature, and in the manner prescribed by the attending 
physician or surgeons. 
CHAPTER XIII. 
Of the Assistants to the House-Physician and House-Surgeons. 
1, There shall be appointed every year, one senior, and 
one junior assistant, to the house-physician ; and one se- 
nior, and one junior assistant to each house-surgeon. The 
term of service of the assistants to the house-surgeons, shall 
be equally divided between 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 whom they are 
assistants. Every person to be appointed a senior assist- 
ant, shall have walked the house one year as a junior, be- 
fore 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 appointed assistant to the house-phy- 
sician, 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 assist- 
ant to the house-physician, (or house-surgeon, as the case 36 
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:—“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 two years, 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 New-York Hospital, to which all 
the physicians (or surgeons, as the case may be,) of the 
hospital were invited, and at which we were present, we 
did examine the said A. 8., 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 physicians of the hospital, if the 
candidate be recommended for the office of assistant to the 
house-physician, and by at least three surgeons of the hos- 
pital, if recommended for assistant to a house-surgeon. 
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 the 
regular hour of the visit of the attending physician or sur- 
geon, and at such other times as he may direct; provided, 
however, that if the junior assistants shall be attending lec- 
tures, they may be excused by the visiting committee du- 
ing 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, un- 
der the direction of the attending physician, keep a register 
of all medical cases which occur in the hospital, in books 
which shall be neatly bound, and kept in the library of the hospital, making the entry therein so soon as practicable 
after admission. In this register shall be entered the name, 
age, and occupation of each patient, the probable cause and 
history of his disease, the remedies used before and after 
his admission, the name of the attending physician or sur- 
geon, his daily reports on the case, the termination 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 chirurgi- 
cal 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 certified 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 assistants, 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 : but 
in case no such candidates, being competent, shall offer, this 
requisition may be dispensed with. 
CHAPTER XIV. 
Of Students admitted to see the Practice of the House. 
1. Any student of medicine, upon paying to the treasurer 
eight dollars, shall receive a ticket entitling him to visit and 
see the practice of the house, and to the use of the library, 
for one year, subject to the regulations of the hospital. 38 
2. For the use of their students, each physician and sur- 
geon shall be entitled annually, without charge, to three of 
the above described tickets. 
3. No student shall be entitled to visit the Bloomingdale 
Asylum, without leave from the physician of the asylum, 
or one of the As}dum Committee. 
4. No student shall be entitled to attend the hospital, ex- 
cept at the hours of prescription, operation, or lecture. 
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 swearing, or improper con- 
duct, it shall be the duty of the superintendent to report 
him to the visiting committee, who may give orders to ex- 
clude him, in future, from the hospital. And that he may 
be informed of the regulations to which he is subject, every 
student shall be furnished by the superintendent with a 
copy of this by-law. 
CHAPTER XV. 
Of the Apothecary. 
1. The apothecary shall compound and make up all me- 
dicines prescribed, agreeably to the formulas from time to 
time directed by the physicians and surgeons of the hospi- 
tal. He shall deliver no medicines which are not ordered 
by the attending physician or surgeons, or house-physician 
or house-surgeons, and shall permit no medicines to be car- 
ried out of the house, except to patients taking their dis- 
charge, and under the direction of the attending physician 
or surgeons. He shall put up the medicines intended for 
each ward separately, and shall annex to them labels, con- 39 
taining the names of the patients for whom they were re- 
spectively 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 ab- 
sent without the superintendent’s permission. He shall 
keep the shop, and every thing appertaining to it, clean and 
in perfect order, which shall remain open from 7 o’clock in 
the morning till 8 o’clock in the evening, in his charge. He 
shall carefully observe economy in every thing relating to 
his department; be particularly prudent and careful in the 
delivery of medicines, and permit no patient to enter the 
shop unnecessarily. No liquid medicines shall be put up. 
in larger quantity than a 4 oz. phial will contain. 
3. He shall ordinarily procure the medicines required for 
the use of the house, from the person or persons appointed 
by the governors to supply them; but it shall be his duty 
to ascertain the lowest market price of all important arti- 
cles, and to procure them from such sources as may be 
most favorable, with the assent of the visiting committee. 
4, He shall cause all medicines and other articles purv 
chased for Ids department, to be immediately entered, by 
the persons of whom they were purchased, in a pass-book 
provided for that purpose, or in a bill of parcels, with the 
date, quantity, kind, and price of the articles. 
5. He shall keep a daily record of meteorological obser- 
vations ; and shall furnish a monthly transcript thereof to the 
board, at their stated meetings, in order that an abstract 
may be entered on their minutes. 
6. No person shall be appointed apothecary, unless he be 
twenty-one years of age, nor until he shall have produced 
sufficient testimonials of his good moral character, and have 40 
obtained a certificate, signed by at least 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 day of 18 , 
to which all the physicians and surgeons of the said Hospi- 
tal were invited, and at which we were present, we did 
examine A. 8., and did find him competent to execute the 
office of apothecary of the said Hospital. And we do re- 
commend him to the governors for that office.” 
7. The apothecary shall give a bond, in the penalty of 
two hundred and fifty dollars, for the faithful performance 
of the duties of his office, and that he will not cease to per- 
form those duties, 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 hos- 
pital. He shall have the general charge thereof and of all the 
premises, and see that the regulations of the governors, and 
the directions of the visiting committee are carried into effect. 
2. He shall keep in a book provided for that purpose, a 
regular account of all monies received and disbursed by 
him on behalf of the hospital, and also to contain a record 
of all such contracts as he may have been authorized by 
them to make, which book, with the vouchers, shall be laid 
before the visiting committee every month, for their exami- 
nation. 
3. All amounts coming into his hands he shall deposite 
with the treasurer, to be by him placed to the credit of the 
Hospital. 41 
4. Whenever money may be required for the use of the 
house, he shall make his draft on the treasurer for such 
sums as may be, from time to time, required for that pur- 
pose ; but such draft shall first receive the approbation of the 
chairman, or some other member of the visiting committee, 
signified by his endorsement thereon; he shall account in 
his statement of receipts and expenditures for all monies so 
received, which statement, with his vouchers, shall be laid 
before the visiting committee at their monthly meetings. 
5. He shall purchase, under the directions of the visiting 
committee, fuel, provisions, and all other stores, for the 
use of the hospital, except medicines. 
6. He shall keep under his key, all wines, spirits, sugar, 
molasses, unmade linen, and blanketing, and all other stores 
and necessaries. 
7. He shall see that the outer gates are locked at a sea- 
sonable hour every evening. 
8. He shall suffer no patient to go out of the house, with- 
out his special permission. 
9. He shall offer to receive for safe keeping, any money 
belonging to patients admitted into the house. 
10. He shall visit every ward at least once a day, and 
oftener, if necessary. 
11. 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 those who shall be guilty of profane swearing, 
drunkenness, bringing spirituous liquors clandestinely into 
the house, or other gross misconduct; nor shall any nurse 
leave the house without his permission. And he shall report 
his proceedings on all these subjects to the visiting commit- 
tee without delay. 42 
12. He shall not permit any person whatever, excepting 
such of the officers and servants of the hospital enumerated 
in these regulations, as are entitled thereto, and the mem- 
bers of his own family to take their meals, or sleep in the 
hospital, or occupy any part of the premises, without ex- 
press permission of the visiting committee, entered upon 
their minutes, or of the board of governors ; and he shall 
submit to the monthly meeting of the governors a census of 
all persons employed in or upon the premises, their rates 
of wages,—and of all persons whatsoever residing in the 
building except the patients. 
13. He shall take particular care that no wine or spirits 
are used in the hospital, except by the direction of the phy- 
sicians or surgeons, for the use of the patients. 
14. He shall cause the hospital to be completely white- 
washed every spring and autumn ; and the walls of every 
ward to be white-washed four feet upwards from the floor, 
once in winter, and at least once in July, and in each of the 
two succeeding months. 
15. He shall, when there is no chaplain in attendance, 
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 when any patient is dangerously ill, he shall inquire, 
whether he is desirous to converse with any religious per- 
son ; and shall invite the person desired by the patient to 
attend ; and while such person is present, shall see that the 
other patients in the ward behave with decorum. 
16. When a patient is discharged, the superintendent shall 
cause the name to be entered in the book provided for that 
purpose, mentioning the patient as cured, relieved, incura- 
ble,, eloped, or disorderly, with the date of such discharge. 
17. On the decease of a patient, the superintendent shall 43 
cause the name, and the time of the decease, of such patient 
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 delivered to the hearse, or to the friends 
of the deceased, for interment; and he shall be particular- 
ly responsible for the execution of this duty. No post-mor- 
tem examination shall be made without the express per- 
mission of the superintendent. 
IS. If the house-physician, house-surgeon, clerk, apothe- 
cary, students attending the house, or other persons belong- 
ing to it, shall use profane language, disregard the by-laws 
and regulations, or otherwise misbehave, it shall be the 
dnty of the superintendent to report the offenders, in wri- 
ting, to the visiting committee. 
19. 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 re- 
port in- their book, and give him the necessary directions. 
CHAPTER XVII. 
Of the Matron. 
1. The matron shall visit all the wards in the Hospital, 
having female nurses, every day, and see that they are pro- 
perly 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 servants must be obedient and submissive to her. 
3. She must lake care of all the household goods and 
furniture. 44 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
Of the Assistant Superintendent. 
1. It shall be the duty of the Assistant Superintendent to 
look especially to the condition of the marine department; 
and to attend to the wants and comforts of the seamen. 
2. He shall distribute regularly to the nurses of the re- 
spective wards, all the articles of food ordered for the pa- 
tients ; and shall have in charge all the bedding, and linen, 
provided for their use. 
3. He shall take charge of the clothing of deceased pa- 
tients, and deliver it, when applied for, to their relatives. 
4. He shall assist the superintendent generally in the 
discharge of his duties, in such manner as he may direct. 
CHAPTER XIX. 
Of the Clerk. 
1. It shall be the duty of the clerk, on the day following 
every 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. 
2. He shall furnish the chairman of every committee ap- 
pointed by the governors, with a copy of the minutes relat- 
ing to their appointment, and he shall notify every person 
appointed on each of the standing committees, of his ap- 
pointment. 
3. He shall enter in the book for recording ordinances, 
all by-laws that may, from time to time, be passed by the 
governors; and such entry shall be made by him immedi- 
ately after the passing of said by-law. He shall also enter 
therein all orders enjoining special duties to be performed 45 
by any of the standing committees, or by any of the offi- 
cers or servants of the hospital, which orders must be re- 
corded in a part of said book separate from the by-laws. 
4. He shall transcribe for the use of the visiting commit- 
tee, under the direction of the secretary, such minutes of 
the governors, as may relate to their duties, and he shall 
copy all minutes of that committee on their day of 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 Jour- 
nal or Minutes of the Governors ; the Minutes of the Visit- 
ing Committee ; the Minutes of the Inspecting Committee ; 
the Minutes of the Bloomingdale Asylum Committee; the 
Book of By-laws ; the Book containing the minutes of the 
attendance of the Visiting Committee and of the Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, and of the Senior and Junior Assist- 
ants ; the Bank Book, Journal, and Leger. 
CHAPTER XX. 
Of the Orderly Man. 
The visiting committee shall appoint an orderly-man, 
who shall assist in the apothecary’s shop, in all things ap- 
pertaining to that department. When not occupied in the 46 
apothecary’s department, he shall perform any services 
for the benefit of the Hospital, required of him by the super- 
intendent, house-physician, and house-surgeons. 
CHAPTER XXI. 
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 ser- 
vants’ apartments, under any pretence whatever, except 
order of the superintendent or matron. 
3. No male patient shall go into the women’s apart- 
ments, or wards, nor any female patient, in those of the 
men. 
5. When there is no chaplain in attendance 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 respect; and it is also recom- 
mended to the patients, as often as circumstances will per- 
mit, to read the Holy Scriptures themselves on other days 
of the week. 
4. No patient shall smoke tobacco in the house. 
6. If any patient shall not conform to the foregoing regu- 
lations ; 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 a 47 
governor, the superintendent may immediately discharge 
him. 
8. No officer or servant of this institution, shall accept 
any gift or bequest from any patient, except with the appro- 
bation of the visiting committee. 
CHAPTER XXII. 
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 discretion. 
2. In any extraordinary or pressing case, where great 
inconvenience would result from waiting for the approba- 
tion of the visiting committee, any governor, physician, or 
surgeon of the hospital, may direct the superintendent to 
receive a patient immediately. And in case of sudden ac- 
cidents, the superintendent may receive patients without 
recommendation. But he 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 admit- 
tance, the governor, physician, or surgeon recommending 
him, will add to his recommendation the following direc- 
tions : “ The superintendent is desired to receive the per- 
son above recommended, until the visiting committee 
attend.” 
4. No person shall be admitted, whose case is judged 
to be incurable, unless there be urgent symptoms, which, 
in the opinion of the attending physician, or surgeon, are 48 
capable of being relieved ; nor any whose case does not 
require the particular benefits of a hospital; nor shall any 
who have the small pox, or measles, or any malignant or 
contagious fever, be received into the house. 
5. Young children shall not be received with their moth- 
ers, unless such children are also patients. 
6. Patients unable to pay for their board and main- 
tenance, may be received as paupers ; but such as are able 
to pay for the 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. 
7. The applicants must attend at the hospital, on Tues- 
day 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 phy- 
sicians 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. 8., residing at No. in 
street, do hereby promise to provide with sufficient 
clothing while there; to pay to the Treasurer of the said 
Hospital per week for board during con- 
tinuance there, to cause to be removed when discharg- 49 
Ed, and to pay the expense of burial, if die there. Wit- 
ness my hand the day of 18 
8. Nothing in this chapter shall apply to the admission 
of insane patients. 
CHAPTER XXIII. 
Of the Library. 
1. Before the librarian enter on the execution of his 
office, he shall give sufficient security, to be approved of 
by the visiting committee, in a sum not less than two hun- 
dred and fifty dollars, that he will indemnify this corpora- 
tion for any loss or damage which may be sustained by his 
negligence or misconduct as librarian. 
2. The librarian shall keep every work in the library, 
plainly 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 Proper- 
ty of the New-York Hospital.” 
3. He shall keep an 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 committee 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; but a gover- 50 
nor, physician or surgeon of the hospital, may borrow 
books from the library at any time. 
6. Books may be loaned from the library, only to the 
governors ; to the physicians and surgeons ; to their private 
pupils, subject to the regulations and restrictions contained 
in the ninth section; to the curator ; to the house-phy- 
sician, house-surgeon, apothecary, 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 capa- 
city of house-physician or house-surgeon for six months, to 
the satisfaction of the governors, on the conditions and un- 
der 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 library, not being a stu- 
dent of medicine, shall pay to the treasurer five dollars, for 
which he shall receive a ticket expressing that he is enti- 
tled to the use of the library for one year. 
7. Every person who shall make a donation to the libra- 
ry 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 shall pay to the treasurer the same amount 
in money, shall be entitled to the use of the library, under 
the regulations provided as to students. 
8. Of voluminous collections of distinct books or papers, 
no person shall be allowed to have out more than one vol- 
ume, at one time ; nor shall any person, except a governor, 
physician, or surgeon of the hospital, take out more than a 
single volume, of any kind, at one time. 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 which the volume belongs; or he may leave in lien 
thereof, with the librarian, an engagement signed bv some 
respectable, permanent resident in the city, in the following 
form : 
“ A. 8., 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 Society, all such Ones 
and forfeitures, as the said A. B. may become liable to, by 
virtue of the by-laws and ordinances of the said society 
relating to the library. 
“ Dated the day of 18 
10. With respect to the following works, viz: Medical 
Commentaries and Annals of Medicine ; Physical Essays 
of Edinburgh ; Medical Observations and Inquiries of Lon- 
don ; all Memoirs of Medical or Philosophical Societies, Jour- 
nals, Repositories, 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 dollars 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 be detained longer, the person who took it out shall 
pay a weekly fine of twenty-five cents for every week be- 
yond the time above specified, until it be 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 amount- 
ed to, if any had been made. 52 
13* If any person shall lose one or more volumes of any 
set of books, he may give to the library a new set equally 
good with the former; and shall thereupon receive the re- 
mainder of the broken set; but unless he immediately do 
this, he shall incur the forfeiture mentioned in the last fore- 
going section, and the imperfect set shall be retained. 
14. The books marked thus* in the catalogue, shall be 
read in the library only, unless by the written permission 
of two members of the library committee, addressed to the 
librarian. 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 re- 
port 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 sub- 
jects 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 oi the library. The librarian shall 
collect and pay them over to the library committee, to 
whom he shall also render an account every month, of such 
as have been incurred. 
CHAPTER XXIV, 
Of the Hospital Cabinet* 
1. The hospital cabinet, consisting of preparations in 
healthy and morbid anatomy, of casts, models, delineations. 53 
paintings, and prints illustrative of anatomy and other 
branches of medical science, shall be under the general 
care and superintendence of the cabinet committee, and 
under the immediate charge of the curator, who shall be 
appointed by the governors on the recommendation of the 
physicians and surgeons. 
2. It shall be the duty of the curator to attend all 
the post-mortem examinations and all surgical operations 
in the hospital; and he shall collect, prepare, and deposit 
in the cabinet, all such specimens occurring in, or presented*’ 
to the hospital, as are thought worthy of preservation ; 
each with its appropriate label, and reference to the cata- 
logue. 
3. He shall keep an analytical catalogue of all the pre- 
parations, and other articles in the cabinet, and shall 'here- 
in briefly note the most important facts so far as ascertained 
in relation to each specimen, with .further reference, when 
necessary, to the case book of the hospital. 
4. He shall see that every article, belonging to the cabi- 
net, is kept in proper order ; and that no part of the collec- 
tion be at any time removed therefrom ; and shall open the 
cabinet for the inspection of visitors, at such times as may 
be determined by the cabinet committee. 
5. All pathological specimens occurring in the hospital, 
shall be at the disposal of the cabinet committee; and no 
specimen worthy of a place in the cabinet, shall, or? any 
account, be removed from the hospital. 
6. All preparations, and other articles received for de- 
posit in the cabinet, shall be considered the property of 
the hospital, but such of them as are presented, may be 
marked by the name of the donor, or that of the individual, 
by whom they were prepared or collected. 54 
7. The cabinet shall at all times be accessible to the 
governors, to the physicians and surgeons, and to the su- 
perb.indent of the hospital; and shall be open toother 
visitors at such times only as the cabinet committee shall 
direct. 
Note. —The words “ physician” and “ surgeons, ” wherever used in these By- 
Laws, shall be understood as applying only to the attending physician and attend- 
ing surgeons of the hospital. 
At a Monthly Meeting of the Governors of the New-York Hospital, 2d Month, 
(February) 6th, 1821, 
Resolved, That each Nurse who shall hereafter remain in the Hospital five 
years, and, during that time, shall faithfully and satisfactorily perform his or her 
duty, shall immediately on the expiration of the said five years, be thereafter al- 
lowed an increase of monthly wages, equal to fifty per cent, on the amount of his car 
her former monthly compensation. And all such Nurses who shall hereafter remain 
ten years, and shall during that period, faithfully and satisfactorily perform their 
respective duties, shall thenceforth be paid a further additional monthly compensa- 
tion of thirty-three and one-third per cent, on the amount of his, or her monthly 
'wage ;, for the five years immediately preceding: and furtli** <fcat all Nurses who 
shall remain in the Hospital twenty years, and shall during said term faithfully and 
satisfactorily perform their respective duties, shall thereafter be entitled to receive 
from the Hospital, an Annuity of twenty-five dollars, and in case of disability to 
obtain a decent support, and the want of means adequate thereto, the same shall be 
comfortably supported through life in the Hospital. 
Extract from the Minutes, 
THOMAS BUCKLEY, Secretary. 
CHAPTER XXV. 
BLOOMIN.GMLE 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. Ha tu kt a. Ip n © astthit hi . 
Bio o mi n £ dal e.N.Y. 55 
2. The Asylum Committee shall have charge of the 
Bloomingdale estate, and of all its buildings and appur- 
tenances, 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. 
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 es- 
tablishment, its officers, servants and patients. Provided 
such rules and regulations be not inconsistent with the 
charter of this corporation, or with the rules and regula- 
tions hereby established, or which may, at any time here- 
after, be established by the Board of Governors. And the 
said Board may, at any of its stated meetings, alter, or re- 
peal any rule or regulation made by the Asylum Commit- 
tee, provided one month’s notice of such alteration or re- 
peal shall have been given by the member intending to sub- 
mit 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 regulations ; and two of the members, to be called 
the “Weekly Committee,” shall attend at the Asylum at 
least once a week. The Asylum Committee shall make 
such arrangements among themselves, 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 pa- 
tient so far as may be expedient; and shall make a report 
of their having done so ; which report shall be noted in the 
book of minutes of the Asylum Committee. 56 
6. Any member of the Asylum Committee shall receive 
or reject applications for admission into the Asylum as in 
his discretion he shall think advisable. He shall make 
agreements for the terms on which patients shall be receiv- 
ed, and take a money deposit or security for the perform- 
ance 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 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 meet- 
ing, 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 re- 
ceipts 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 monthly 
meetings. 
9. The Asylum Committee shall not, in any one month* 
expend more than one hundred dollars in repairs or for 
improvements, without a special order of the Board of 
Governors. 
10. The Asylum Committee shall appoint one of its 
members to be their secretary, who shall keep the minutes 
of the meetings of the Committee. He shall also provide 
all the necessary books for the establishment, and see that 
they are kept agreeable to these regulations. 
11. 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 stand- 
ing, to perform religious services in the Asylum once 
every Sabbath; at which all persons residing on the pre- 
mises may attend, excepting only such patients as, in 
the opinion of the Physician, would not be benefitted 
thereby. 
12. The Asylum Committee shall set apart for the use of 
the patients, a suitable apartment in the building for a Read- 
ing Room and Library; and shall procure such books, pe- 
riodical publications and newspapers, as maybe considered 
serviceable for them; but the yearly disbursements for 
these objects shall not exceed seventy-five dollars. 
Of the Physician. 
1. There shall be appointed annually by the Board ot 
Governors, at the regular meeting in the month of June, a 
physician, to be called the 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 appointment: 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 super- 
vision of the Asylum Committee. 
4. He shall endeavor to procure a history of the malady 
of every patient, including its origin, progress and treat- 
ment to the time of admission. This statement, with any 58 
circumstances or peculiarities 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 re- 
gister all remarkable cases, and to deposit the same in the 
Asylum library. 
5. He shall, at each monthly meeting of the Asylum 
Committee, report in writing the number of patients ad- 
mitted 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 the Asylum Committee, which list shall be en- 
tered 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 employed 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, farm-houses, 
garden, green-house, and other property on the premises. 59 
2. He shall purchase under the direction of the Weekly 
Committee, 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 Asy- 
lum Committee may think necessary. 
3. He shall have authority, under the direction and con- 
trol of the Asylum Committee, to hire and discharge an 
assistant steward, and all other servants employed in and 
about the Asylum, or on the premises, except the attend- 
ants on the patients ; but he shall not give higher wages 
than may be established by the Asylum Cornmtttee for 
their respective employments, without the consent of the 
Weekly Committee. 
4. He shall report at each meeting of the Weekly Com- 
mittee, the name of each patient received, discharged, es- 
caped, or deceased. And he shall keep a book in such form 
as the Secretary 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. 
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 showing 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 general system of moral treatment, as laid down by 
the Physician, and attend, in all things, to the directions of 
the Asylum 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, 60 
their galleries, apartments, beds, and other things about 
the establishment. 
Of the Matron. 
1. The Matron shall be appointed, and may be removed 
n like manner with the Warden. She is to consider her- 
self bound by all rules and regulations regarding the War- 
den, which may be applicable to her department. 
2. She will devote her whole time to the affairs of the 
institution: 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 house- 
hold 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. 
Of the Patients. 
1. Pay patients only shall be received into the As}dum 
except 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 or- 
der 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 refund- 61 
Ed, 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 re- 
quired. 
2. All patients shall be subject to such rules and regu- 
lations as the Asylum Committee may establish respect- 
ing them. 
Of Visitors. 
Visitors shall not be admitted into the Bloomingdale Asy- 
lum, or on the grounds, without a written permit from one 
of the Governors; nor be permitted to see any patient 
without the consent of the physician. 
CHAPTER XXVI. 
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. 
2. All resolutions making alterations in any of the exist- 
ing by-laws, or any new by-law that may be passed, shall 
be put in the form of an ordinance, and all such ordinan- 
ces shall be copied in a book of ordinances. 
3. No alteration or amendment shall be made to the by- 
laws, unless a month’s previous notice of such intention be 
given at a meeting of the Board. AN ACCOUNT 
THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
In the year 1770, some of the most respectable and public 
spirited inhabitants of the city of New-York subscribed consider- 
able sums of money, for the purpose of erecting and establishing 
a public Hospital; and a petition was presented by Peter Middle- 
ton, John Jones, and Samuel Bard,* three eminent physicians, to 
Lieutenant-Governor Golden, then administering the government 
of the colony of New-York, for a charter of ncorporation, which 
was, in consequence, granted the following 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, re- 
corder, aldermen and assistants, of the city of New-York, the rec- 
tor of Trinity Church, one minister from each of the other churches 
of different denominations then in the city, 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 
* From the following extract from a medical discourse, delivered by Dr. Middleton, 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 infirmary, has been so warmly and pathetically set forth, in a dis- 
course delivered by Dr. Samuel Bard, at the college commencement, in May last, that his excellen- 
cy, Sir Henry Moore, immediately set on foot a subscription for that purpose, to which himself 
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 assurances of granting a very valuable and commodi- 
ous lot of ground for erecting the building upon; so that there is now almost a certain prospect of 
this benevolent and humane foundation soon taking place ; and as it is to be on the most catholic 
and unexceptionable plan, it is to be hoped, that it will meet with the countenance and encour- 
agement of every compassionate and good member of society, whatever party or denomination 
he may choose to be distinguished by on other occasions. 64 
city of New York in America.”* Twenty-six governors were also 
named, for the management of the affairs and business of the insti- 
tution, who held their first meeting on the 25th July, 1771. 
Through the influence of Dr. John Fothergill and Sir William 
Duncan, considerable contributions were made to the Society, by 
many inhabitants 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 insti- 
tution for twenty years. 
In 1773, the governors of the Hospital purchased of Mrs. Bar- 
clay 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 28th of February, 1775, when it was almost completed, the 
building accidentally took fire and was nearly consumed. 
By this misfortune the society suffered the loss of seven thous- 
and pounds, ($17,500); and the execution of their benevolent plan 
would have been wholly frustrated, had not the legislature, in March, 
1775, granted them the sum of 4000 pounds towards rebuilding the 
house, and repairing the loss they had sustained. But the war of 
Independence which took place in the same year, prevented the 
completion of the edifice. During the war, the building was occu- 
pied by British and Hessian soldiers as barracks, and occasionally 
as an hospital. 
The effects of the war on the condition of our city, and the gene- 
ral derangement of affairs, prevented any attention to the institution 
for some years, 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 Ist of March 
1788, directed eight hundred pounds, during four years, from the 
* By an act of the Legislature, passed March 9th, 1810, the name of the corporation has heea 
changed to that of “ The Society of the New-York Hospital." 65 
Ist February, 1788, to be paid out of tbe moneys arising from the 
excise in tbe city of New-York, The legislature, by a subsequent 
act, passed tbe lltb April, 1792, “For the better support of the 
Hospital,” granted two 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, ($10,000) 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 ($2,500) a year, for four years, was granted 11th April, 1796, 
payable out of the same fund. 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 insane patients, the legislature, on the 14th 
of March, 1806, passed an act, directing the sum of $12,500 
annually to be paid out of the duties on sales at auction, to the 
treasurer of the Hospital, in quarterly payments, until the year one 
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; and the act of the 2d of 
March, 1805, was at the same time repealed. 
By an act passed the 30th March, 1797, for the establishment 
and support of a lazaretto, the masters and wardens of thexport of 
New-York were authorized to receive from the masters, officers, sea- 
men, 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 commissioners 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 as might 
be patients in the Hospital. 
By an act passed April Ist, 1796, for regulating the port of 
New-York, the Harbour Master was directed to pay such fines as 
might be incurred under that act to the treasurer of the New-York 
Hospital. 
By an arrangement between the treasury department of the Uni- 
ted States and the Hospital, made in 1799, and since continued by 66 
subsequent arrangement from time to time with the Secretary of the 
Treasury, 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 Hospital money 
collected and received by him, for the board and maintenance of 
such seamen, with medicine and other charges, at a regular stipu- 
lated price, which has never exceeded three dollars per week for 
each patient. 
The number allowed and paid for has often been limited by the 
collector, according to the receipts from the funds at this port. The 
governors, however, considering every seaman who has paid hospi- 
tal money to the collector of the United States as having a just claim 
on the government of the United States for hospital relief, have 
never refused admittance to seamen, beyond the number limited; 
trusting to the justice of the national legislature for remuneration of 
the sums expended in the support 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 re- 
lief of common charity. 
A large and substanti a building, erected on the southern part of 
the hospital ground in 1806, for the pui'pose of an Asylum for insane 
patients, being rendered useless for that object in 1821 by the estab- 
lishment of the large institution out of town, (as afterwards more 
fully stated,) the governors in 1825, thoroughly repaired and remed- 
ied it, as a hospital for seamen, to which object it has since been 
entirely devoted, under the name of the “ Marine Department of 
the New-York Hospital.” The seamen are thus enabled to re- 
ceive all the advantages of a separate establishment devoted to 
their use, and fitted to their peculiar wants, combined with the no 
less important advantages of the regular official superintendence 
and inspection of the Grovernors of the Hospital, and the attend- 
ance of experienced and skilful physicians and surgeons employed 
in its duties. In 1840, the governors finding that, with the growth 67 
of the city, any unusual occurrence of accident or disease often 
overcrowded the wards of the main building, and that besides, the 
variety of diseases, and the difference of habits and characters of the 
patients made a more thorough separation of patients in different 
wards, very desirable, determined upon erecting another edifice. 
This was completed in 1841, being placed on the north side of the 
spacious grounds, and corresponding in general appearance with 
the marine building. This building, erected at an expence of about 
850,000, varying a good deal in its interior arrangements and con- 
struction from the other buildings, affords great additional accommo- 
dation, together with the means of such disposition of the wards 
and division of the patients as greatly conduce to their recovery or 
comfort. 
During the same period, another stone outbuilding was fitted up 
for post mortem examinations, for the delivery of lectures on such 
examinations, and for the purposes of medical instruction, affording 
also accommodation for the coroner and his jury on the frequent 
occasion of their service on deaths arising from accident. 
The same building also affords ample space for the arrangement 
of a pathological cabinet. This was gradually formed from the 
more remarkable cases of morbid anatomy occurring in the hos- 
pital, has now become very valuable, and is every year increasing 
in extent and usefulness. 
In preparing the additional edifices for the reception of patients, 
the governors had taken care to introduce the various modern im- 
provements in the mode of warming and ventilating, in baths, and 
other conveniences which have been suggested and approved by 
modern science in its application to architectural and sanatory pur- 
poses. The large centre hospital edifice was originally constructed 
on a plan which is in its general disposition probably the very best 
that can be desired for a hospital, in a single building; but, like all 
the best hospitals in Europe and America of that or prior date of 
construction, it was deficient in many of the minor arrangements so 
conducive to the comfort and health of the patients. These defects 
were gradually remedied by various alterations, and especially by 68 
the enlargement of the projection of the north and south wings, for 
places for baths, water closets, and nurses’ rooms, adjoining to each 
large ward. Finally, when in 1843, after the Croton water had 
been fully introduced throughout the city, the governors were ena- 
bled by means of a very liberal arrangement with the city corpora- 
tion, to add largely to the comfort as well as the economy of the 
whole establishment, and especially of the original hospital building, 
by an abundant and constant supply of this excellent water through- 
out the wards, for hot and cold bathing, and every other purpose of 
comfort and cleanliness. This was affected at a large expenditure, 
but in the most substantial and convenient maimer, most amply re- 
paying the pecuniary cost, even in the economical arrangements of 
the establishments, and above all estimate in its usefulness for the 
sanitary condition of the hospital. 
In 1801, an agreement was made between the New-York Hos- 
pital, 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 suitable ward for that purpose was accordingly fitted up, and 
opened for the reception of patients. This continued in operation 
for above twenty years, and doubtless in many respects fulfilled the 
benevolent intentions of the founders of this charity. But various 
inconveniences having been found to arise from its connection with 
the hospital, it was finally determined to close the ward, and relin- 
quish the fund, which might be more beneficially employed else- 
where. This was done with the full concurrence of the officers of 
the Lying-in Hospital. 
Upon the recommendation of the medical faculty of Columbia 
College, the Governors of the Hospital, in August, 1796, appropria- 
ted the sum of five hundred dollars towards the purchase of a MedL 
cal Library; to which the members of that faculty contributed 
books from their private libraries, and part of their fees of public 
instruction. An hospital library was thus instituted, 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 69 
library of a private association of physicians, then called “ The 
Medical Society of New-York,” who gave their books on condition 
that they and such of their sons as should become practitioners of 
medicine 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 other larger additions were afterwards made to it, by special 
purchases and donations from time to time, amongst which was the 
valuable Botanical Library of Dr. Hosack, bought by the Hospital. 
For some years past there have been appropriated for the sup- 
port and increase of this library all the proceeds arising from the 
sale of tickets to students of medicine, which permit them to see 
the practice of the house, to attend the clinical instruction, and 
to take books from the library. The monies thus accruing are ap- 
propriated to the purchase of medical and scientific publications 
selected by the Library Committee, (composed of three governors, 
one physician, and one surgeon,) to the payment of the librarian’s 
salary, binding, and other contingencies. 
The annual average expenditures and receipts on account of the 
purchase of books are now from five to eight hundred dollars. 
The library now consists of mote than five thousand volumes, 
confined entirely to medicine and surgery and those collateral 
branches of science (as chemistry, botany, etc.) specially connected 
with the healing art. It is believed to be as useful and complete in 
this department as a library can be made in that number of volumes, 
and contains many of the most splendid and costly works on ana- 
tomy and'natural history. During the last year the governors have 
fitted up, in the large hospital building, two spacious apartments, 
one above the other, communicating by a central spiral staircase, 
and deposited the library in them, the lower room being used as a 
reading and consultation chamber. 
Ore of these apartments had originally been fitted up as an ope- 
rating r' na or theatre for surgical operations before the students 
attending the practice of the house, but being found too small and 
incommodious for the increased number of students attending the 
two medical schools of this city, a new and more commodious and 70 
well-lighted semi-circular theatre, exceedingly well adapted for the 
purposes of such practical surgical instruction, was fitted up in the 
north end of the old hospital. 
Clinical instruction, both medical and surgical, has long been re- 
gularly given on the cases arising in the practice of the house, to 
the medical students admitted to attend. This has been found here, 
as in other great cities, the most valuable adjunct to the public in- 
struction of teachers in the medical schools, and the present officers 
of the hospital have been zealous to make this branch of instruc- 
tion commensurate with the advance of medical knowledge, and 
the increased demand for higher professional education. 
Cherishing the memory of many names distinguished for benevo- 
lence and talent, who have formerly served the institution as its 
Presidents, Physicians, or Surgeons, the governors have taken 
pleasure in adorning the room in which the monthly meetings are 
held with the portraits of many of these eminent men. That room 
now presents a collection of portraits by Jarvis, Sully, Peale, Dun- 
lap, Ingham and Inman, full of the most interesting recollections of 
public service and professional eminence. 
As there existed no institution in the State, for the reception and 
cure of the insane, the Governors at an early period appropriated 
apartments in the Hospital for patients of that description; but as 
the building was not designed for that purpose, the accommoda- 
tions 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 exclusively appropriated to the reception of that 
unfortunate class of patients. 
An application was accordingly made to the legislature, who 
passed an act, on the 14th March, 1806, continuing an annual pro- 
vision for the Hospital, payable out of the duties on sales at auc- 
tion, in the city of New-York until the year 1857. The Gover- 
nors immediately proceeded to lay the foundation of the proposed 
edifice, denominated the “ Lunatic Asylumwhich was com- 71 
pleted, so as to be opened for the reception of patients on the 15th 
July, 1808, when nineteen were removed from the other building, 
and forty-eight more admitted, making 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 
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,” pass- 
ed the 15th of April, 1817, the Hospital was deprived of this 
allowance. 
In 1815, in consequence of a communication to the governors 
of the hospital from one of the board, the late venerable and 
philanthropic Thomas Eddy, showing the advantages that might 
be produced by introducing a course of moral treatment for the 
insane patients, 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 committee was appointed to consider 
of the plan proposed, 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 aid from 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 $lO,OOO, until 
the year 1857, to enable the Governors to erect further and more 
extensive accommodations 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 purchas- 
* The Governors directed a number of copies of this communication to be printed. 72 
Ed ; but after a more particular examination, it was found not to be 
adapted, in all respects, to the plan contemplated ; and it was after- 
wards sold at a profit of two thousand dollars. After again inspect- 
ing the different places on Manhattan Island, and on the opposite 
side of the East river, which were supposed to afford suitable situa- 
tions for such an establishment, 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, how- 
ever, for the purpose of laying the foundation of the intended 
building, the soil was discovered to be generally wet, covering a 
stratum of hard granite, lying about two feet below the surface j 
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 thoroughly 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 hun- 
dred dollars per acre, and some small pieces of ground adjoining 
have since been added, making in all about eighty acres. 
On this spot the corner-stone of a building for the accom- 
modation 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 ex- 
pensive, 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, (Thomas C. 
Taylor, architect,) one of which, judged to be the least costly, and 
most consonant to their views, was adopted. This plan compre- 
hends 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, 1321, when it received the name of the “ Bloom- 73 
ingdale Asylum.” In 1830, awing wholly detached from the main 
building, and used for more violent insane male patients, was ad- 
ded; and in 1837, an additional building was erected for the use 
of the females of the same class, at an expense of near $20,000 ; 
making the cost of all tne buildings and improvements, tip to 
the Ist of January, 1839, about $200,000, including bedding, fur- 
niture, 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 >ond 
and mortgage, at an interest of six. per cent., payable quarterly. 
Sundry further sums were also borrowed at different dues 
from the banks. The surplus of the annuity granted by the Leg- 
islature for this purpose, beyond what is consumed in the pa; nent 
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 “ Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the New York 
Hospital.” This fund was invested in shares of Bank of America 
stock, in certificates of the New-York Life Insurance and Trust 
Company, and in bonds and mortgages, until it could be applied to 
liquidate the debt. This has at length been so far effected that the 
only remaining debt on the first of January, 1845, of those con- 
tracted either for the additional buildings in the city, or for the land 
and buildings at Bloomingdale, was a bond for $45,000, to neet 
which, when due, the commissioners then held an invested fund of 
$16,320, which, with the surplus of 1845, and receipts from new 
members during that year, will reduce the debt outstanding on 
January, 1846, to $lB,OOO. 
lu 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, as before stated, into an extremely convenient and com- 
fortable hospital for the accommodation of sick and disabled seamen. 
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. 74 
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 infirmary for the reception and cure of such as re- 
quire medical or surgical treatment, uncommon diseases, and acci- 
dents, 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 infections 
or contagious disease, are not admitted into the Hospital. 
Every applicant for admission must bring with him a recommen- 
dation from one of the Governors, or a physician or surgeon of the 
Hospital, except in regard to the insane, when the application must 
be made to the committee of the Bloomingdale Asylum. In cases 
of sudden accidents, patients maybe 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 recommendation in cases requiring the immediate admission 
of a patient. 
A Visiting Committee, consisting of three Governors, attend the 
Hos :lal 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 gratuitously ; but 
such as are able to pay, in part or in whole, are admitted as pay- 
patients on such terms as may be agreed on by the Visiting Com- 
mittee, who take security for the performance. This committee 
have the general care and charge of the Hospital, receive all ap- 
plications 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 Go- 
vernors, 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 ef- 
fect ; and particularly to examine into the condition of the wards, 
the conduct of the officers, servants, and nurses, to see that the pa- 
tients have not been neglected, to hear their complaints, 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 
Hospital to visit and inspect the houses 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 re- 
quired to visit every medical patient, affected with any acute dis- 
ease, 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 perform these services gratis. The inci- 
dental advantages, however, of such an appointment, in regard to 
their profession, afford them some remuneration. 
There are also a house-physician and two house-surgeons, re- 
siding 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 
medical lectures, 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 
Governors, and must be examined and recommended by the phy- 
sicians and surgeons, and produce satisfactory testimonials of his 
good character, before he is admitted. He has the charge of the 76 
apothecary’s shop, and compounds and makes up all medicines 
prescribed, according to the directions of the physicians and sur- 
geons. The house-physician and house surgeons are required to 
visit the wards, at least every morning and evening, and to be pre- 
pared to report the state of the patients to the attending physicians 
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 
management 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 Broad- 
way, and in the rear on Church-street, northerly on Anthony-street, 
and southerly on Duane-street. Part of this area, fronting on 
Broadway, is at present owned and occupied by individuals, leaving 
an avenue of about 00 feet, leading from Broadway, which is plant- 
ed with a double row of elms. 
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 salubrious 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 base- 
ment; 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 bakery, three store 
rooms, and two wards, fitted up for the temporary reception of cer- 
tain classes of cases requiring peculiar treatment. The principal 77 
story is about 14 feet high. In the centre is a hall and staircase, 
a room for the Governors, a parlor and dining-room for the super- 
intendent and matron and other officers of the house, an apothe- 
cary’s shop, and a room for the clerk. In each story of each wing, 
are two wards, thirty-six feet in length, and twenty-four feet in 
breadth, opposite to each other, and opening into passages, ex- 
tending from one end of the house to the other, and communica- 
ting by a staircase. On the second and third floors of the centre, 
are rooms for the accommodation of the superintendent and 
matron, the house-physician, apothecary, and different officers 
and servants, and the library apartments; and in the third 
story looking to the north, is the theatre for surgical operations, fit- 
ted up so as to accommodate about four hundred persons. This 
building contains fifteen wards for the sick, thirteen of which are 
each thirty-six feet long and twenty-four feet broad, in which about 
150 patients may be comfortably accommodated. There are about 
twenty other rooms, of different dimensions, besides the consulta- 
tion room and library, and theatre for surgical operations. 
During the autumn of 1829, the wing's of the Hospital were con- 
siderably extended, and the additional space thus gained was con- 
verted 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 $7,128 was 
expended. 
The edifice is crowned with a handsome cupola, which affords a 
most extensive and picturesque view of the city, harbour, and ad- 
jacent 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. 
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 correspond- 
ing with it, in its exterior appearance, and style of architecture. 
This building, on account of the declivity of the ground, has a 78 
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 1-2 feet on each side. The sub-basement 
contains 10 rooms, 11 feet long, and 8 1-2 feet wide, and 9 feet 
high; three rooms, 16 1-2 feet long, and 11 1-2 feet wide, and a 
kitchen 28 1-2 feet long and 16 1-2 feet wide. There is a hall run- 
ning 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 
wards and rooms, except the four largest, and those in the upper sto- 
ry, are arched with brick, and the walls are also brick, white-washed ; 
so that there is no wood, and the walls being filled with brick, the 
building is completely fire-proof. The basement story contains the 
same number ofrooms, and of the same size with those in the sub-base- 
ment. In each of the two principal stories, are also ten rooms, 11 
feet long, and 8 1-2 feet wide, two rooms, 17 feet long, and 11 1-2 
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 1-2, 
and of the upper story 12 1-2 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’ bedrooms, &c. 
Corresponding with this in its general architectural character, 
though differing in size and in many minor details, is the new or 
North Hospital, erected in 1841. It is placed on the north side of 
the main building, facing and parallel to the Marine Department. 
It is built of blue granite, and the brown Connecticut sand-stone. 
It is ninety-three feet by sixty-three, and three stories high, exclu- 
sive of the basement story. It is calculated to accommodate in 
the most comfortable manner, and in a great variety of rooms, ad- 
mitting much classification and separation, about one hundred and 
fifteen patients. It was erected at an expense of nearly $50,000. 
Besides these edifices there is a large and excellent low stone 79 
building for a laundry and other pnrposes, commodious stables, 
and finally another stone building reaching to the street on the 
south-east corner of the hospital grounds, which is about fifty by 
thirty feet, of two stories, and fitted up for lectures, post mortem 
examinations,and the preparation and preservation of a Pathological 
Cabinet, formed from the morbid anatomy of cases occurring in 
the Hospital. 
The centre or chief edifice of the Bloomingdale Asylum is 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 andbeautiful spots 
on the island of New-York ; commanding an extensive and variega- 
ted prospect. Annexed to it are now about 40 acres of land, a por- 
tion of which is laid out in walks and gardens. The Trustees of 
Columbia College having presented to the governors the plants for- 
merly belonging to their botanic garden, these have been placed 
in a proper building, and contribute to the embellishment of the 
place and the amusement of the patients. 
This large edifice, with its lofty ceilings, long corridors, and noble 
views, is found eminently adapted to the residence and recovery of 
convalescent patients, as well as those of quiet disposition and or- 
derly habits. It is therefore entirely devoted to the reception of 
these classes, and to the residence of the physician, to the library, 
and offices. The more violent patients, and those who from disease 
or personal habits might injure other patients by their association 
and noise, are placeddn two distinct buildings, one for male patients 
of this class, the other for females. These are situated at some 
distance to the north-east and north-west of the main building, 
are built of brick, and form separate and detached yards for the air 
and exercise of patients who could not safely be at liberty in the 
gardens and other grounds. 
With every local advantage, the governors have adopted the 
system of moral treatment which the legislature had in view when 
they provided for this Institution ; but without neglecting any of the 
other aids which the science of medicine can afford. The patients 
are arranged in classes according to the form which their particular 80 
maniacal delusions have assumed—whether monomania, mania, de- 
mentia, idiotism, or delirium a potu; and treated in that manner 
which seems best adapted to dissolve their morbid associations of 
ideas, in restoring the power and habit of self-control; in substitu- 
ting agreeable reflections and sensations for those which are pain- 
ful and irritating, in inducing 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 their rooms is seldom resorted to. 
As much liberty as is consistent with safety, is allowed to the pa- 
tients j 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 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 Sabbath a minister of the gospel is provided for the 
benefit of those who are susceptible of profiting by his instruc- 
tions ; the foundation of a library has also been laid by donations 
from various friends of the Institution, and a reading room, with 
newspapers and magazines, is established, which is found verv 
salutary to those who are capable of using it. 
Formerly there was a consulting as well as a resident physician, 
who visited the Asylum twice or three times a week, or as often as 
was deemed necessary, but in IS3O 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 
governors of the Hospital engaged Dr. James Macdonald (who for 
several years had charge as resident physician of the insane pa- 
tients, 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 81 
economy, management, and mode of cure practised in the best in- 
stitutions of the kind there. He sailed in July, 1831, and after an 
absence of fifteen months, having visited the most celebrated hospi- 
tals for the insane in France, England, and Italy, returned and re- 
sumed the charge of the Bloomingdale Asylum. He continue 1 for 
some years after his return to act as chief officer of the Institution, 
and freely communicated the knowledge that he had acquired, and 
the result of his experience in the treatment and cure of mental dis- 
ease. He was succeeded in turns by others favorably known as of 
experience in this branch of medical science. The Institution is 
now under the direction of Dr. Pliny Earle, who has long devoted 
himself to the study of mental diseases. A warden and matron 
have charge of every thing that concerns the household department, 
with the exception of the hiring and dismissal of servants and at- 
tendants 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 Governors. 
Monthly visits are also made by the President, Vice President, 
and the Inspecting Committee of the Hospital, who in like manner 
make their report on the state of the Institution at each monthly 
meeting of the Board of Governors. 
No better evidence can be afforded of the utility of this estab- 
lishment, and of the skill of its physicians, than the simple statisti- 
cal fact that from its first opening, in June, 1821, until January 
Ist, 1845, the number of patients received suffering under various 
forms of insanity, was 2875, of which 1354 were discharged cured. 
Of the remainder, a large proportion left the Asylum so improved 
or relieved as no longer to require the regular restraints of such 
an institution, hut sufficiently recovered to return to their friends. 
The benefits of such establishments as the New-York Hospital 
and Asylum are too obvious to every benevolent and reflecting 
mind, to require any detail of arrangement or explanation. Not- 
withstanding the provisions made for the relief of the indigent in the 
different counties, and the numerous charitable associa- 82 
tions, 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 in- 
dispensable in the great system of public charity. Various causes 
conspire to render public hospitals peculiarly necessary in a great 
city, the capital of a commercial, populous, and flourishing state. 
It is there adventurers, and persons from different countries, resort 
to better their fortunes, or to engage in more congenial pursuits. It 
is the capital which receives most of the emigrants from foreign 
countries, driven from their homes by poverty, misfortune, or 
crime ; or impelled to seek, in a distant land, a more secure enjoy- 
ment of political and religious freedom, or a more advantageous 
exercise of their various trades and professions. The immense 
business carried on in such a commercial and increasing city, in navi- 
gation, ship building, architecture, manufactures, and all the aux- 
iliary arts and trades, while it attracts great numbers from the 
neighboring states in search of employment, and the pui’suit of 
gain, must give rise to fiequent 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 must also be 
regarded as an institution of great public utility. The central po- 
sition 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 ad- 
mirable situation for an establishment of a school of medicine. 
The governors of the hospital, regarding the improvement of medi- 
cal 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 its teachers and professors 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, carefully selected. 83 
Founded and supported on the principles of the Christian re- 
ligion and general benevolence, without respect to any sects or dis- 
tinctions, 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 benevo- 
lent have it in their power to alleviate the real and oppressive mis- 
ery of the poor, with the pleasing assurance, that while they are 
indulging the finest feelings of the heart, and fulfilling the great 
duty of Christianity, their charity will not be abused, nor their 
bounty misapplied. Indeed, 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 pro- 
duce 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 Insti- 
tution, by will, that the following is a proper form of a devise for that purpose :—ltem: I give 
and bequeath to “the Society of the New-York Hospital,” the sum of eovmjoßS and officers 
THE SOCIETY OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL, 
OF 
A.D. 1845-6. 
GEORGE NEWBOLD, President. 
ISAAC CAROW, Vice-President. 
JOHN ADAMS, Treasurer. 
ROBERT I. MURRAY, Secretary. 
NAJAH TAYLOR, RICHARD M. LAWRENCE, 
BENJAMIN W. ROGERS, SAMUEL F. MOTT, 
THOMAS R. SMITH, AUGUSTUS FLEMING, 
JONATHAN GOODHUE, FREDERICK SHELDON, 
GULIAN C. VERPLANCK, JACOB HARVEY, 
JAMES LOVETT, JAMES I. JONES, 
BENJAMIN L. SWAN, WILLIAM M. HALSTED, 
JAMES F. DEPEYSTER, JOHN L. BUCKLEY, 
NATHANIEL RICHARDS, JAMES DONALDSON, 
JOHN A. STEVENS, DAVID S. KENNEDY, 
STEPHEN ALLEN, (One Vacancy.) 
Consulting Physician. 
THOMAS COCK, M. D. 
Attending Physicians. 
FRANCIS U. JOHNSTON, M, D., JOHN A. SWETT, M. D., 
JOSEPH M. SMITH, M. D., JOHN H. GRISCOM, M. D. 
Consulting Surgeons. 
VALENTINE MOTT, M. D., ALEXANDER H. STEVENS, M. D. 
Attending Surgeons. 
JOHN C. CHESEMAN, M. D., RICHARD K. HOFFMAN, M. D., 
J. KEARNEY RODGERS, M. D., GURDON BUCK, Jr., M. D., 
ALFRED C. POST, M. D., JOHN WATSON, M. D. 
Resident Physician. 
ISRAEL MOSES, M. D. 
Resident Surgeons. 
S. ALLEN PADDOCK, M. D. JOHN J. CRANE, M. D„ 
JOHN L. ROOME, Superintendent. 
LYDIA K. ROOME, Matron. 
HENRY D. NEAL, Assistant Superintendent. 
JOHN DASCY, Apothecary. 
ROBERT ROBERTS, Jr., Clerk. 
JOHN L. VANDERVOORT, Librarian. 
WILLIAM C. HAWLEY, Chaplain. 
Bloomingdale Asylum Committee. 
RICHARD M. LAWRENCE, JAMES I. JONES, 
AUGUSTUS FLEMING, STEPHEN ALLEN, 
JAMES LOVETT, WILLIAM M. HALSTED. 
PLINY EARLE, M. D., Physician to the Bloomingdale Asylum. 
GEORGE W. ENDICOTT, Warden. 
ELIZA HEWLETT, Matron. GOVERNORS 
THE SOCIETY OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. 
The following is a List of the names of the Governors from the commencement 
of the Institution to the first of January, 1846, with the date of their respective 
elections, and the length of time they continued in office. 
Governors. Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. 
Charles Ward Apthorp . 1770 1784 14 years. 
William Axtell . - 1770 1784 14 years. 
John Alsop . . . 1784 1788 4 years. 
Gilbert Aspinwall . 1799 1809 ) 
Gilbert Aspinwall . . 1811 1812 >l5 years. Died in office, 1819. 
Gilbert Aspinwall . 1815 ) 
John Atkinson . . 1800 1809 9 years. 
John Aspinwall . . 1814 1817 3 years. 
John Adams . . 1818 27 years. Continues in office. 
Stephen Allen . . 1823 1830 ) „ . . „ 
Stephen Allen . . 1835 17 years. Continues in office. 
Gerardus William Beekman . 1770 1777 7 years. 
George Bowne . . 1770 1784 ) 
George Bowne . .1785 1797 years- 
William Bayard . . 1777 1784 ) Q 
William Bayard . . 1800 1802 $ y 
Robert Bowne . . 1784 34 years. Died in office, 1818. 
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 1 798 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 1842 40 years. 
John Bogert . . 1804 1817 13 years. 
John L. Bowne . . 1810 1815 5 years. 
Abraham Barker. . 1813 1816 3 years. 
Robert H. Bowne . . 1815 1827 12 years. 
William Bayard, jr. . 1818 1823 5 years. 
John L. Buckley, . . 1842 3 years. Continues in office. 
David Clarkson • • 1770 1777 7 years. 
Matthew Clarkson * 1792 1822 30 years. 86 
John Campbell . . 1794 1797 3 years. 
John B. 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. Golden . 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 19 years. Continues in office. 
Robert C. Cornell . . 1832 13 years. Died in office, 1845. 
Governors. 
Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. 
Oliver Delancey . . 1770 1784 14 years. 
Elias Desbrosses . . 1775 3 years. Died in office, 1778, 
James Duane . . 1784 1789 5 years. 
William Denning . 1784 1792 ) u 
William Denning . . 1805 1811 $ 
Jacob De la Montagnie . 1797 1802 5 years. 
Frederick De Peyster . 1809 1818 9 years. 
Cornelius Dubois . . 1814 1818 4 years. 
James F. Depeyster . . 1827 18 years. Continues in office. 
James Donaldson . 1843 2 years. Continues in office. 
Andrew Elliott . . 1770 1784 14 years. 
Lawrence Embree . . 1784 1796 12 years. 
William Edgar . . 1787 1798 11 years. 
Thoms Eddy . . 1793 34 years,' Died in office, 1827- 
William Edgar, jr. . 1819 1823 4 years. 
Walter Franklin . . 1770 11 years. Died in office, 1781 
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 \ 
John Franklin . . 1806 1808 2 years. 
Matthew Franklin . . 1807 1815 8 years. 
Moses Field • • 1817 1818 1 year. 
Augustus Fleming . .1837 8 years. Continues in office. 
Hugh Gaine . . 1790 1806 16 years. 
John I. Glover . . 1796 1802 6 years, 
Archibald Gracie. . 1802 1803 1 year. 
Jonathan Goodhue . . 1823 22 years. Continues in office. 
Whitehead Hicks - 1770 11 years. Died in office, 1781 
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. 87 
Governors. 
Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. 
Philip Hone . . 1823 1840 17 years. 
James Heard . . 1829 1843 14 years. 
John Hone . . 1831 1 yeax-. Died in office, 1832. 
Jacob Harvey . . 1838 7 years. Continues in office. 
William M. Halsted . 1841 4 years. Continues in office. 
James Jauncey . . 1777 1784 7 years. 
Samuel Jones . . 1784 1790 ( 
Samuel Jones . . 1792 1794 \ S 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. 
James J. Jones . . 1840 5 years. Continues in office. 
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 . . . 1827 1830 \ 4 years- 
John Kane . . 1806 1809 3 years. 
David S. Kennedy . . 1845 1 year. Continues in office. 
Robert R. Livingston. . 1770 6 years. Died in office, 1776. 
AbrahamLott . . 1770 1777 )in 
Abraham Lott . . 1784 1787 $iU years' 
Leonard Lispenard . 1770 1777 )in 
Leonard Lispenard . . 1784 1787 SIU years‘ 
Philip Livingston . 1770 1777 7 years. 
Peter Van Brugh Livingston 1770 1777 ) „ 
Peter Van Brugh Livingston 1784 1785 ) years. 
John Livingston . * 1777 1786 9 years. 
William Laight . . 1787 1803 16 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 m office. 
Richard R. Lawrence . 1798 1799 1 year. 
Dr. John C. Lettsom (London) 1800 1804 4 years. 
Herman Le Roy . . 1803 1804 1 year. 
Jacob Le Roy . . 1804 1805 1 year. 
John B. Lawrence . . 1808 37 years. Died in office, 1845. 
James Lovett . . 1824 21 years. Continues in office. 
Edward W. Laight . . 183 J 1831 half a year. 
Richard M. Lawrence . 1837 8 year. Continues in office. 
Roger Morris . .1770 1773 ) 
Roger Morris . . 1777 1734 \lO yearS‘ 
Abraham Mortier . . 1770 1 year. Died in office, 1771. 
William McAdam . 1770 10 years. Died in office, 1780. 
Nathaniel Marston . . 1770 1772 2 years. 88 
John Murray . . 1773 1775 )on tv j • m 
John Murray . . 1781 {3O years. Died in office, 1809. 
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. 
AlexanderMcDougall . 1784 1787 2 years. 
John Murray, jr. . . 1787 32 years. Died in office, 1819. 
Alexander McComb . 1788 1792 4 years. 
William Minturn . . 1796 1802 6 years. 
John McVickar . . 1798 1802 4 years. 
Benjamin G. Minturn . 1799 1802 3 years. 
Robert Mott . . 1800 1802 2 years. 
Samuel Mansfield . . 1803 1809 6 years. 
Andrew Morris . . 1804 1823 19 years. 
John R. Murray . . 1806 1837 31 years. 
Samuel Mott . . 1810 1814 4 years. 
Peter Mesicr . . 1810 1819 9 years. 
Robert T. Murray . 1816 29 years. Continues in office. 
John McComb, jr. . . 1818 1837 19 years. 
Samuel F. Mott . . 1837 8 years. Continues in office. 
Governors. 
Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. 
George Newhold . . 1808 1810 ) ~ 
George Newbold. . 1811 j36 years. Continues in office. 
Samuel Osgood . . 1792 1795 3 years. 
Thomas Pearsall. . 1772 1777 ) 1R 
Thomas Pearsall . . 1784 1795 $lO ye 
Daniel Phcnnix . . 1784 1787 3 years. 
Edmund Prior . . 1795 1803 8 years. 
Jotham Post . . 1795 1796 ) 9 
Jotham Post . . . 1801 1802 
Elijah Pell . . 1798 1799 1 year. 
William Post . . 1800 5 years. Died in office, 1805. 
John B. Provost . . 1802 1805 3 years. 
Henry Post, jr. . . 1803 1810 7 years. 
Benjamin D. Perkins . 1808 1809 ), , „ 
Benjamin D. Perkins . 1810 j 1 1-2 years. Died in office,lBlo. 
Isaac Roosevelt . . 1774 1777 ) 
Isaac Roosevelt . . 1784 1794 j >cars. 
Walter Rutherford . 1784 1788 4 years. 
Alexander Robertson . 17.90 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 27 years. Continues in office. 
Nathaniel Richards . . 1827 18 years. Continues in office. 89 
Governors. 
Elected. Resigned, Served the Institution. 
William Smith . , 1770 1777 )10 
William Smith . . 1779 1784 $ years- 
William Shotwell . 1794 1795 1 year. 
Peter Schermerhom . . 1795 1802 7 years. 
Paschal N. Smith . 1799 1802 3 years. 
James Scott . . . 1802 1814 12 years. 
Jacob Sherred . . 1809 1819 10 years. 
Ebenezer Stevens . . 1809 14 years. Died in office, 1823. 
Allen Shepherd . . 1809 1810 1 year. 
Rev. F. C. Schaeffer . 1819 1827 8 years. 
Thomas R. Smith . . 1822 23 years. Continues in office. 
Benjamin L. Swan . 1827 18 years. Continues in office. 
John A. Stevens . . 1828 17 years. Continues in office. 
Peter G. Stuyvesant . 1833 1838 5 years. 
Frederick Sheldon . . 1837 8 years. Continues in office. 
John Thurston . . 1797 1804 7 years. 
Naj ah Taylor . . 1810 35 years. Continues in office. 
Thomas C. Taylor . 1817 1829 12 years. 
George Taylor . . 1827 1827 1-2 year. 
William Ustick . . 1777 1784 7 years. 
William Ustick, jr. . .1709 1802 3 years. 
Augustus Van Cortlandt 1777 1786 9 years. 
Augustus Van Horn . 1780 1785 1 K 
Augustus Van Horn . . 1793 1794 $ years. 
Richard Varick . . 1794 1795 ) q 
Richard Varick . , 1802 1804 $ J yeam 
Gulian Verplanck . 1798 1799 1 year. 
Wynant Van Zandt, jr, . 1806 1808 2 years. 
Gulian C. Verplanck . 1823 22 years. Continues in office. 
Hubert Van Wagenen . 1835 1837 2 years. 
John Watts . . 1770 1784 14 years. 
Hugh Wallace . . 1770 1784 14 years. 
Henry White . . 1770 1773 }in 
Henry White . . 1777 1784 \lO 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 $ y years' 
Gilbert C. Willett . 1794 1797 3 years. 
William W. Woolsey . 1799 1302 ) Q 
William W. Woolsey . 1829 1834 $ years' 
Joshua Waddington . .1801 1802 1 year. 
Henry I. Wyckoff . 1802 1809 )1C ,3oQ 
Henry I. Wyckoff . . 1830 Jl6 years. Died in office, 1839. 
Dr. Hugh Williamson . 1814 5 years. Died in office, 1819. 
Ezra Weeks . . 1823 1834 11 years. 
Charles Wilkes . . 1827 1828 1 year. 90 
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS 
OF 
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 12 years. Continues 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 1833 6 years. 
Najah Taylor . . 1833 1837 4 years. 
Isaac Carow . . 1837 8 years. Continues 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 27 years. Continues in office. 
ASSISTANT TREASURERS. 
Benjamin W. Rogers . 1818 1822 4 years. } _ 
Robert H. Bowne . . 1822 1827 5 years. \ then abalish d. 
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 21 years. Continues in office. 91 
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. 
The following are the names of the gentlemen who have served the Institution 
as Physicians and Surgeons, in the order of their appointment, together with the 
date of their 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 3 7 
8. Richard Bayley 1792 1805 13 years. 
S. James Tillary 1792 1792 1 month. 
S. Wright Post 1792 1821 \or j m 
„ , „ ~, .t, . IQot >36 years. Died m office, 1828. 
Cons gS. Wright Post 1821 3 J ’ 
S. Richard S. Kissam 1792 1796 ?90 n- a • m 1000 
S. Richard 8. Kissam 1797 j29 years. Died m office, 1822, 
P. Samuel Nicholl 1792 1796 4 years. 
P. William P. Smith 1792 1796 4 years. 
P. J. R. B. Rodgers 1794 1807 18 years. 
S. Samuel Borrowe 1795 1817 22 years. 
S. Valentine Seaman 1796 21 years. Died in office, 1817. 
Pi ElihuH. Smith 1796 2 years. Died in office, 1798. 
p' Samuel L. Mitchill 1796 1817 21 years. 
P. David Hosack 1797 1806 ) 
p. David Hosack 1807 1826 >25 years. Died in office, 1832. 
Cons’g P. David Hosack 1826 ) 
P. William Hamersley 1798 1817 tv i • m .„„„ 
Cons’g P. William Hamersley 1821 331 7 1 Died 111 office’ 1833 
P. Edward Miller 1806 6 years. Died in office, 1812. 
P- James S. Stringham 1807 10 years. Died in office, 1817. 
P. toL. A. Archibald Bruce 1808 1817 9 years. 
P- John C. Osborne 1809 8 years. Died in office, 1817. 
P. Benjamin Dewitt 1809 1810 1 year. 
S, Valentine Mott 1817 1837 Continues in office as 
Cons’g S. Valentine Mott 1837 years. Cons’g Surgeon. 
S. Alex. H. Stevens 1817 1839 ?_ Continues in office as 
Cons’g S. Alex. H. Stevens 1839 3 7ears‘ Cons’g Surgeon. 
P- John Watts 1817 1829 ?,. lim 
Cons’g P. John Watts 1829 \l4 -vears- Died 111 °ffice’ 1831 
P- John Neilson 1817 1819 ) 
P. to L. A. John Neilson 1819 1829 >l3 years. 
C.P.toB.A. John Neilson 1829 1830*) 
P. to L. A. William Handy 1817 1819 2 years. 
P. Peter C. Tappan 1817 1824 7 years. 
P. Thomas Cock 1819 1834 ?0„ _ Continues in office as 
Cons’g P. Thomas Cock 1834 3"" >carb- Cons’g Physician, 
jg. too. C. Cheesman 1821 24 years. Continues in office. 
S. mJ- K- Rodgers 1822 23 years. Continues in office, 
p *amuel W. Moore 1824 1828 4 years. 92 
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Elected, 
P. Stephen Brown 1826 
P. Fr. U, Johnston 1828 
P. to B. A. James Macdonald 1829 
James Macdonald 1832 
P. Joseph M. Smith 1829 
P. John B. Beck 1832 
P. to B. A. Gny C. Bayley 1830 
P. Edw. Delafield 1834 
S. Alfred C. Post 1836 
Ss E. K. Hoffman 1836 
S. John G. Adams 1837 
S. Gordon Buck, jr. 1837 
P. to B. A. Beuj. Ogden 1837 
P. James Macdonald 1838 
P. to B. A. William Wilson 1839 
S. John Watson. 1839 
P, John A. Sweet 1842 
P. John H. Griscom 1843 
P. to B. A. Pliny Earle 1844 
Resigned. Served the Institution. 
1832 6 years. 
17 years. Continues in office. 
1830 ? „ 
1837 J 7 years. 
16 years. Continues in office. 
1843 11 years. 
1832 2 years. 
1838 4 years 
9 years. Continues in office. 
9 years. Continues in office. 
1837 
8 years. Continues in office. 
1839 2 years. 
1843 5 years. 
1844 5 years. 
5 years. Continues in office. 
2 years. Continues in office. 
1 year. Continues in office. 
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. Blooming- 
dale Asylum, L, A. Lunatic Asylum, 93 
PATIENTS RECEIVED AND DISCHARGED. 
The New-York Hospital was first opened for the reception of patients in Jan - 
uary, 1791, at which time a number were admitted. 
Statement of patients admitted into and discharged from the New-York Hospi- 
tal, from February Ist, 1792, to December 31st, 1821, including the Insane 
Patients during that period. 
Admitted 
Cured. 
| Relieved. 
f 
1 Discharged 
by request. 
1 Disorderly 4’ 
! eloped. 
Improper 
objects. 
<5 
From Feb. 1, 1792 
to Feb. 1 
1793 
236 
130 
18 
5 
8 
4 
23 
1793 
to Jan. 31, 
1794 
566 
135 
26 
22 
15 
0 
52 
Jan. 31, 1794 
1795 
419 
296 
30 
17 
13 
10 
65 
1795 
1796 
514 
293, 33 
17 
35 
5 
110 
1796 
1797 
510 
314 
45 
9 
50 
3 
56 
1797 
1798 
472 
296 60 
12 
41 
0 
57 
1798 
1799 
503 
349 
41 
12 
33 
0 
65 
* 1801 
1802 
974 
561 
146 
0 
98 
17 
105 
1802 
1803 
956 
654 
88 
0 
65 
28 
106 
1803 
1804 
876 
668 
46 
0 
43 
9 
88 
During the year- 
1804 
1068 
835 
62 
42 
52 
9 
159 
1805 
1026 
730 
55 
83 
118 
14 
150 
U it 
1806 
1039 
674 
38 
110 
122 
7 
143 
a it 
1807 
1011 
672 
39 
81 
76 
6 
139 
a a 
1808 
1115 
723 
58 
64 
63 
25 
123 
it 
1809 
1067 
777 
45 
116 
51 
17 
109 
a a 
1810 
1069 
768 
53 
95 
56 
22 
95 
lt a 
1811 
1391 
1043 
42 
76 
68 
32 
149 
u u 
1812 
1245 
904 
99 
64 
43 
11 
156 
a 
1813 
1121 
699 
97 
110 
38 
21 
128 
tt a 
1814 
926 
586 
104 
74 
28 
20 
122 
*{ it 
1815 
1547 
1026 
132 
133 
40 
16 
162 
<< H 
1816 
1705 
1159 
65 
224 
58 
25 
163 
*t a 
1817 
1510 
1099 
125 
144 
43 
23 
113 
n 
1818 
1721 
1210 
132 
118 
56 
21 
148 
u li 
1819 
1725 
1319 
78 
130 
39 
38 
137 
u 
1820 
1648 
1324 
64 
97 
37 
19 
139 
u 
1821 
1631 
1220 
111 
129 
22 
23 
166 
29,591 
20,464 
1932 
19841417 
435 3228 
— ■■■ 
Remaining, 
* 
. 
• 
• 
131 
* No returns appear on the minutes from 1799 to 1801, 94 
Statement of Patients admitted into and discharged from the New-York Hos- 
pital, from January Isl, 1822, to December 31 st, 1844. 
Year. 
Admitted. 
Cured. 
Relieved. 
Request. 
Disorderly & Improper 
eloped. objects. 
1822 
1386 
979 
138 
96 
30 
17 
109 
1923 
1312 
922 
132 
71 
27 
19 
137 
1824 
1425 
987 
187 
52 
20 
25 
165 
1825 
1700 
1270 
122 
58 
18 
29 
182 
1826 
1773 
1284 
123 
72 
22 
25 
198 
1827 
1792 
1333 
172 
68 
13 
26 
202 
1828 
1805 
1376 
123 
56 
25 
31 
193 
1829 
1637 
1268 
84 
52 
31 
32 
167 
1830 
1690 
1258 
101 
126 
38 
21 
150 
1831 
1870 
1381 
112 
139 
18 
29 
159 
1832 
1763 
1388 
94 
70 
20 
65 
165 
1833 
1852 
1396 
108 
102 
30 
68 
146 
1834 
1721 
1266 
69 
154 
46 
32 
174 
1835 
1837 
1431 
72 
101 
25 
14 
169 
1836 
1987 
1503 
122 
101 
25 
15 
197 
1837 
1769 
1305 
140 
121 
15 
24 
191 
1838 
1774 
1357 
154 
93 
22 
8 
1839 
1864 
1402 
146 
77 
29 
44 
169 
1840 
1797 
1317 
111 
120 
45 
18 
1841 
2000 
1501 
84 
163 
40 
26 
193 
1842 
1936 
1440 
83 
141 
71 
33 
150 
1843 
1902 
1239 
133 
215 
71 
44 
170 
1844 
2191 
1528 
134 
216 
114 
47 
150 
40,783 
30,131 
2,744 
2,464 
795 
692 
3,863 
R ECAPITULATION. 
Admitted, from 1st Feb. 
1792, to 31st Dec. 1821 
* 
29 591 
“ 1st Jan. 
Discharged as 
1822 to “ 
“ 1844 . 
. 40,783 
-70,374 
Cured, from 
1st Feb. 1792 
to 31st Doc. 1821 
20,464 
1st Jan. 1822 
to “ 
1844 
30,131 
Re'ieved, 
1st Feb. 1792 
to “ “ 
1321 
1,932 
50,595 
“ 
1st Jan. 1822 
to “ “ 
1844 
2,744 
4,676 
By Request, “ 
1st Feb. 1792 
to “ “ 
1821 
1,984 
1st Jan. 1822 
to “ “ 
1844 
2,464 
4,448 
Improper objects, “ 
1st Feb. 1792 
to 11 “ 
1821 
435 
1st Jan. 1822 
to “ “ 
1844 
692 
1,127 
Disorderly or eloped “ 
1st Feb. 1792 
to “ “ 
1821 
1,417 
1st Jan. 1822 
to “ “ 
1844 
795 
2,212 
Died, “ 
1st Feb. 1792 
to “ “ 
1821 
3,228 
“ “ 1st Jan. 1822 
Remaining-31st December, 1844, 
to “ “ 
1844 
3,863 
7,091 
70,149 
225 
70,374 95 
In the first part of the preceding Table are included 1553 Lunatics, who were admitted into 
the Old Asylum, which was then a ward of the Hospital. 
Lunatics admitted previously to the year 1811 
643 
Lunatics admitted in the year 1811 . 
. 108 
“ “ “ “ 1819 
. 127 
“ “ “ “ 1813 . 
. 105 
“ “ “ “ 1814 
. 104 
“ “ “ “ 1815 
69 
“ “ “ “ 1816 
. 49 
“ “ “ « 1817 . 
49 
“ “ “ “ 1818 
. 75 
“ “ “ “ 1819 
77 
“ “ “ “ 1820 
. 87 
“ “ “ “ 1821, previously to 27th July, 
60 
— 
1553 
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. 
Opened for the reception of Lunatics, on the 27th July, 1821. 
Lunatics admitted into Bloomingdale Asylum, and discharged therefrom. 
In the year. 
Admitted. 
. Cured. 
Improved. 
Discharged 
by request. 
Improper 
objects. 
Eloped. 
Died. 
1821 
123 
19 
7 
9 
3 
0 
2 
1822 
102 
48 
22 
18 
0 
1 
5 
1823 
131 
55 
13 
35 
0 
6 
5 
1824 
121 
48 
27 
22 
0 
8 
11 
1825 
156 
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 
20 
0 
1 
7 
1831 
151 
76 
17 
29 
4 
0 
19 
1832 
118 
44 
31 
26 
13 
6 
15 
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 
1838 
122 
71 
22 
12 
0 
1 
21 
1839 
113 
68 
32 
11 
0 
0 
14 
1840 
113 
60 
25 
8 
0 
1 
14 
1841 
102 
55 
14 
12 
0 
1 
18 
1842 
86 
55 
15 
31 
0 
1 
7 
1843 
85 
49 
23 
7 
0 
2 
14 
1844 
106 
50 
27 
12 
0 
2 
13 
2,875 
1,352 
525 
529 
42 
49 
274 
RECAPITULATION. 
Admitted, from 27th July, 1821, to 31st Dec. 1844 3,875 
Cured, 1352 
| Improved, 525 
' By request of friends, 529 
, Improper objects, ...... 42 
I Eloped, 49 
Died, 274 
Discharged, 
2,771 
Remaining, 31st Dec. 1844, . . . 104 
2,875 96 
NATIVITY OF PATIENTS. 
From the Ist of February, 1792, to 31st December, 1844, there have been 70,374 
patients admitted into the New-York Hospital, of whom there were 
Natives of the United States 
35,643 
66 
England .... 
5,535 
a 
Wales .... 
. 270 
(( 
Scotland .... 
1,880 
(( 
Ireland .... 
.18,142 
25,827 
(( 
West Indies 
924 
66 
Nova Scotia 
338 
66 
The Ocean 
58 
66 
Africa .... 
. 293 
East Indies 
309 
602 
66 
Germany 
. 1,887 
66 
Holland .... 
457 
66 
Prussia .... 
331 
2,675 
66 
Denmark .... 
507 
66 
Norway . . 
. 359 
66 
Finland .... 
22 
66 
Sweden 
. 1,071 
1,959 
66 
Russia .... 
82 
66 
Poland 
83 
165 
France .... 
1,014 
66 
Switzerland 
74 
1,088 
66 
Italy .... 
379 
66 
Spain. ... . 
240 
66 
Portugal .... 
367 
66 
Sicily . . . . 
47 
66 
Austria .... 
42 
1,075 
66 
Mexico 
• 
20 
Total 
70,374 97 
ACCOUNT OF SUPERNUMERARY SEAMEN RECEIVED INTO THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL, EXCEEDING THE NUMBER PAID FOR BY 
THE COLLECTOR, FUNERAL EXPENSES, <fec. 
NOTE.—By a Law of the United States, every Seaman in the Merchant Service pays 20 cents per month (deducted out of his wages) for their support, if 
sick or disabled. This not being sufficient for the support of all who applied for Hospital relief, the Governors admitted the number enumerated above, being 
supernumerary, or more than what has been yearly paid for by the United States. They conceive they have an equitable claim on government, for the main- 
tenance of the seamen thus admitted, amounting to fifteen thousand one hundred and forty-one dollars 28 cents, as will appear from the preceding statement, 
and they have repeatedly petitioned Congress, hut as yet have not succeeded in obtaining payment. 
Admitted from 27th November, 
1804, to 31st March, 
, 1805, 
65 seamen, 
285 weeks, 
0 day 
s, at $3 per week, 
burials, &c. 
$871 00 
do. 
1st 
do. 
1805, to 12th Dec. 
1805, 
32 seamen, 
, 105 
do. 
0 
do. 
at do. do. 
do. 
321 29 
do. 
1st January 
1800, to 31st 
do. 
1806. 
80 seamen, 
659 
do. 
0 
do. 
at do. do. 
do. 
2026 01 
do. 
1st 
do. 
1807, to 31st 
do. 
1807, 
46 seamen, 
169 
do. 
0 
do. 
at do. do. 
do. 
518 29 
do. 
1st 
do. 
1808, to 31st 
do. 
1808, 
367 seamen, 
1477 
do. 
6 
do. 
at do. do. 
do. 
4548 57 
do. 
1st 
do. 
1809, to 31st 
do. 
1809, 
90 seamen, 
232 
do. 
0 
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 
9,500 02 
do. 
1st 
do. 
1811, to 31st 
do. 
1811, 
201 seamen, 
208 
do. 
0 
do. 
do. do. 
840 00 
2 
Burials at $5 each 
10 00 
850 00 
do. 
1st 
do. 
1812, to 31st 
do. 
1812, 
261 seamen, 
384 
do. 
2 
at $3 per week, 
1152 85 
10 
Burials at $5 each 
50 00 
1202 85 
do. 
1st 
do. 
1816, to 31st 
do. 
1816, 
182 seamen, 
462 
do. 
3 
at |3 per week, 
1387 28 
7 Burials at $5 each 
35 00 
1422 28 
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 
379 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 
682 71 
do. 
1st 
do. 
1819, to 31st 
do. 
1819, 
89 seamen, 
at $3 
per week, 
1104 42 
5641 26 
$15,141 28 98 
LIST OF MEMBERS. 
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. 
“ Aldermen do. 
“ Assistants do. 
“ Rector of Trinity Church. 
“ President of Columbia College. 
u Senior Minister of the Reformed Dutch Protestant Church. 
“ Minister of the Ancient Lutheran Church. 
“ Senior Minister of the Presbyterian Church. 
u 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 N. Y. HOSPITAL. 
The asterisk* denotes that the persons to whoso name it is prefixed is dead. 
♦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, 
Pavid Austin, 
Saul Alley, 
Moses Allen, 
William Adamson, jun. 
Augustus Averill, 
William H. Aspinwall, 
William B. Astor, 
George T. Adee. 
* Samuel Bard, 
♦William Bayard, 
♦John Bogert, 
*Gerard William Beekman, 
♦George Bowne, 
♦John Beekman, 
* Samuel Bowne, 99 
*Samuel Broome, 
*Samuel Bowne, jun. 
* James Beekman, 
*Theophylact Bache, 
*Grove Bend, 
*Evert Bancker, 
*Thomas Buchanan, 
*Andrew Barclay, 
* William Brownjohn, 
* Franc is Bassett, 
*Dr. John Bard, 
* 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, 
*RobertL. 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 Belhune, 
*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. Buck nor, 
*M)chael Burnham, 
* James Boggs. 
John L. Buckley, 
Gurdon Buck, 
James Brown. 
*Dewitt Clinton, 
Isaac U. Coles, 
* Alexander Golden, 
*‘l)avid Clarkson, 
*Cornelius Clopper, 
*John Harris Cruger, 
*John Crook, 
*lsaac Corsa, 
*Peter Clopper, 
*Henry Cruger, 
* Robert Crommelin, 
*Matthew Clarkson, 
*Henry Cruger, jun. 
*Cadwal!ader Golden, 
*Major Edward Clark, 
*Daniel Cotton, 
*James Constable, 
* William Constable, 
* Francis Childs, 
*lsaac Cock, 
*John B. Coles, 
*John Clark, 
*Samuel Corp, 
*John T. Champlin, 
*John G. Coster, 
*lsaac Collins, 
*John Church, 
*Uriah Oliver Champlin, 
Thomas Collins, 
* Richard Cunningham, 
*lsrael Corse, 
*John Clark, jun. 
Willet Coles, 
*Levinus Clarkson, 
Duncan Pearsall Campbell, 
William Cairnes, 
*Peter Crary, jun. 
Isaac Carow, 
*Thomas Cadle, 
*James Conklin, 
David Clarkson, 
Matthew Carkson, jun., 
William Bayard Clarkson, 
*Cadwallader D. Golden, 
*Benjamiu TJ. Coles, 
William Crary, 
George Chance, 
Nathan Comstock, 
Thomas S. Clarkson, 
Isaac Collins, 
Stacey B. Collins, 
Joseph B. Collins, 
Thomas G. Cary, 
C. Cornell, 
*John S. Crary, 
John M’Comb, 
Henry Cary. 
George J. Cornell. 100 
♦Oliver Delaneey, 
♦Joshua Delaplaine, 
♦James Duane, 
♦Gerardus Duyckinck, 
♦Gerardus Depeyster, 
♦Abraham Duryee, 
♦Walter Du Bois, 
♦William Duncan, London, 
♦Elias Desbrosses. 
♦Magdalen Desbrosses, 
♦William Denning, 
George Duncan, 
♦R. H. John Lord Drummond, 
♦Frederick Depeyster, 
♦Daniel Dunscoinb, 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. 
James Donaldson, 
Charles Debevoise, 
Henry C. De Rham, 
Franklin H. Delano, 
♦John Franklin, jun, 
*John Franklin, 
* 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. 
Samuel M. Fox, 
Thomas H. Fade. 
♦Peter Goelet, 
♦Hugh Gaine, 
* Andrew Gautier, 
♦Nicholas Gouvemeur, 
*Robert Gray, 
♦Edward Goold, 
♦Adam Gilchrist, 
♦John J. Glover, 
♦Archibald Gracie, 
*John Greene, 
♦Cornelius Grinnel, jr., 
Maltbie Geltsen, 
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, 
Francis Griffin, 
John C. Green, 
James Gallatin, 
Jasper Grosvenor, 
Seth Grosvenor, 
♦Andrew Elliott, 
♦Lawrence Embree, 
♦William Edgar, 
♦Thomas Eddy, 
♦Effingham Embree, 
♦Thomas Ellison, 
John Elliott, 
♦William Edgar, jun. 
♦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. 
♦Daniel Horsemanden, 
♦Henry Haydock, 
♦Joseph Hallett, 
*George Harrison, 
♦Whitehead Hicks, 
* Jacob Hallett, 
♦Abijah Hammond, 
Nathaniel Hawxhurst; 
♦Henry Haydock, jun,, 
John Hunter, 101 
“David Hosack, M. D. 
Benjamin Huntington, 
“Coold Hoyt, 
“Henry Hammond, 
Valentine Hicks, 
“Oliver 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, 
William M. Halsted. 
* Peter Kettlelas, 
*John Keese, 
“William Kenyon, 
“John Knox, 
Joseph Kettletas, 
“John Tabor Kemp, 
“Robert J. Kemble, 
“Isaac Kibbe, 
“Benjamin Kissam, 
“William Kelly, 
“John Kane, 
“Peter Kemble, 
James Kent, 
* Elias Kane, 
John A. King, 
Joseph Kernochan, 
-Henry Kneeiand, 
James G. King, 
David S. Kennedy, 
Morris Ketchum, 
Robert Kermit. 
* Robert R. Livingston, 
*Philip Livingston, 
* Leonard Lispenard, 
*William Livingston, 
* Abraham Lott, 
*Peter Van Brugh Livingston, 
*Jsaac Low, 
*William Ludlow, 
*Cahriel H. Ludlow, 
*John Livingston, sen., 
*Jacob Leroy, 
*John Leake, 
*Wi!liam Laight, 
“John Lawrence, 
“Dr. John C. Lettsoin, London, 
“John H. Livingston, D. D., 
“John Laboyteux, 
“Philip P. Livingston, 
Rohert P. Livingston, 
“Robert R. Livingston, jun., 
“Richard R. Lawrence, 
“Caleb Lawrence, 
“Catharine Lawrence, 
“Cornelius P. Low, 
*Thomas Leggett, 
LefFert LefFerts, 
'Mohn Lamb, 
“Daniel Ludlow, 
“Nicholas Low, 
* William Lawrence, 
“John B. Lawrence, 
“Dirk LefFerts, 
“Herman Leroy, 
“Jonathan Little. 
“William Lovett, 
“John Jones, M. D. 
“Sir William Johnson, Baronet, 
“Simon Johnston, 
“Nicholas Jones, 
“James Jauncey, 
“Samuel 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, 
*lsaac Iselin, 
John Jones, 
* Edward R. Jones, 
“Sylvanus F. Jenkins, 
“James Jenkins, 
John Johnston, 
Jeromns Johnson, 
James J. Jones, 
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Joseph Lloyd, 
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Herman Le Roy, jr., 
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Cornelius W. Lawrence, 
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George N. Lawrence, 
Daniel Lord, 
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•Samuel M’Coun, 
John M’Comb, 
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Robert B. Minturn, 
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Robert McCoskry. 
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John Neilson, M. D. 
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•Thomas Maule, 
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•William Osborn, 
John Outhout. 
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•Joseph Pearsall, 
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Stephen Storm, 
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George Strong, 
Joseph S. Shotwell, 
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Joseph Sampson, 
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Joseph R. Taylor, 
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"Thomas White, 
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"Henry Ward, 
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"Charles Wilkes, 
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"Samuel Wood, 
"John G. Warrpn. 
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"Isaac Wright, 
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"Cornelius Williams, 
Isaac Wood, M. D., 
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"Benjamin Underhill, 
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"John Van Cortlandt, 
"Augustus Van Corlandt, 
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"Theodoras Van Wyck, 
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"Gnlian Vorplan&k, 
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