New York Infant Asylum: Difference between revisions

The New York Infant Asylum was established in 1865<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=9 Dec 1873 |title=The New York Infant Asylum |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5877123 |access-date=24 May 2024 |work=The Argus |location=Melbourne, Australia |pages=10 |agency=Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper}}</ref> and initially located at 106th Street in New York City.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=New York Infant Asylum {{!}} Weill Cornell Medicine Samuel J. Wood Library |url=https://library.weill.cornell.edu/archives/new-york-infant-asylum |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=library.weill.cornell.edu}}</ref> The asylum was created to care for [[Child abandonment|foundlings and abandoned children]],<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=22 Dec 1872 |title=The Absolute Necessity of Foundling Asylums |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/843840957 |access-date=24 May 2024 |work=New York Daily Herald |pages=9}}</ref> providing them with shelter and basic needs. In 1871, the asylum expanded its mission to include a lying-in department and childcare training for mothers and moved to 24 Clinton Place.<ref name=":1" />

By 1873, the asylum had relocated most of its operations to a larger facility at 61st Street and Amsterdam Avenue.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> A House of Reception remained downtown until 1879at least 1900.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 June 1893 |title=Deserted by its Doctors |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/20547914 |access-date=24 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |pages=8 |quote=The New York Infant Asylum has a House of Reception at Tenth Avenue and Slxty-first Street with the general hospital and asylum at Mount Vernon, Westchester County. It is said to be the most complete institution of its kind in the world.}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=20 Jan 1900 |title=Infant Asylum Takes Title |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/20366094 |work=The New York Times |pages=10}}</ref> The asylum also opened its first country branch in Flushing in 1872,<ref name=":0" /> which operated until 1881, followed by a second branch in Mount Vernon in 1878.<ref name=":1" />

In 1899, the New York Asylum for Lying-In Women merged into the New York Infant Asylum's lying-in department.<ref name=":1" /> This consolidation aimed to streamline and enhance the obstetrical services provided. In 1900, the institution purchased the building at 139 Second Ave previously occupied by the Old Marlon Street Maternity Hospital.<ref name=":3" />