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The '''New York Infant Asylum''' was a [[New York City]] institution that provided care for abandoned children and obstetrical services for unwed or indigent mothers from 1865<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=12 Oct 1865 |title=Laws of New York---By Authority |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/50599576/ |access-date=24 May 2024 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |pages=4 |quote=Chapter 106 An Act to Incorporate the New York Infant Asylum Passed March 11, 1865}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> to 1899.
== History ==
=== Establishment and mission ===
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" />
=== Services and objectives ===
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=== Expansion and locations ===
[[File:New York Infant Asylum Annual Report (1884) (14767834345).jpg|thumb|275x275px|Facility at 61st St and 10th (Amsterdam) Ave]]
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
In 1897, there were approximately 200 children living at the Mount Vernon branch.<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 Jun 1897 |title=Lawn Fete at New York Infant Asylum |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/892281009 |access-date=24 May 2024 |work=Mount Vernon Argus |pages=1}}</ref>
=== Mergers and evolution ===
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" />
In 1910, the New York Infant Asylum combined with the Nursery and Child's Hospital to form the [[New York Nursery and Child's Hospital]]. This institution eventually became part of the New York-Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in 1934, now known as [[NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital|NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center]].<ref name=":1" />
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
12th Annual Report of the New York Infant Asylum (1885)[https://archive.org/details/newyorkinfantasy1884newy/page/n6/mode/1up?view=theater]
[[Category:Maternity hospitals in the United States]]
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