Seventh Timeline
Submitted by chh4011 on February 24, 2016 - 4:34pm
The New York Asylum for Lying-In Women is founded.
The New York Asylum for Lying-In Women is founded.
New York Hospital continues its care of the mentally ill, by opening the Bloomingdale Asylum in Morningside Heights (later the site of Columbia University).
The Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York, the first to provide obstetrical care for women in New York City, is established. (In the early 1800s, the hospital is affiliated with New York Hospital).
New York Hospital opens to civilians.
The hospital is opened for colonial soldiers wounded while defending New York City. The hospital is used as barracks by the British soldiers while they occupied New York City.