New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-06-23
PROPOSED REMOVAL OF BEILEVUE HOS
PITAL.
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70 tAe Editor OF The Tribune
SIR: The laity of New-York, judging IIonn
,Ao mast since they allowed the New-York Hospi W
he destroyed without sny active dissent Ano" 'ois ~
,le and care less about the hospital requirement. Vi
the CITY Yet they ought to know about TINS supleo"
ana thew ought 10 act decsvely against the great i
thai Is about 10 be done to the suffering poor
tn ,ost ~ the professional talk about the removal
mr. abstraction OF Bellevue Hospital seems to come irom
the partisans OF the medical college now WITHIN us
grounds or its enemies As physician VINO uoes
NOT beonc 70 either CT classes, but who desires to re-
TON this great hospital where il is situated and
pnder proper modification Of its management write
this note The enemies Of the college seem TO hnktha'
there is no way OF wreakng their spite against eooP
by destroying the hospital, while the professors a
friends OF the schools, on the other harH' i'''s
any attempt 10 change the size even
the hospital lest II may ipjare their ln' 9
1t seems 70 me that the vacant space now IN inc op
TAI grounds could he covered by pavilion hosps' 'N''
obviatng 70 a certain extent the present oIo"uo"
diton Of the institution. Moreover, the coHoso ouu,s
should be used for hospital purposes ana mus
ute 70 its relief The dead-house ana "orEuo 'ouiN W
removed entirely from the grounds Iheie j. zap ~
propretv in the present arrangement which adds 10 the
aan,rs ~ 5tscase nv keeping charnelhouse on the
,,remtses place two miles away would DO as wen lor
those tyo establis hments. As 20 the college ouuhg
have been informed that inns was DUN Nv we ~
an evnnse Of $4,000 and that II Is rented ~ corps OF
medical flen-orgauized into Medical college IN tnc
Iooso ,rav that medical colleges are organized III our
co,Dtrrat an annual rental OF 5000. Although thc
d,stinq1lished gentlemen who make up TINS medcdl
scbooi are many OF them surgeons and physicians 10
tbe hospa they sti private corporation rcspOh-
sbe no nobody but themselves and there Is no justice
in tbe liberty which they have acquired OF having ther
school on public ground at nominal rent SO that u Is
rca at public expense They should 60 outside OF he
grounds ion theirs but OF the three principal med
c schools IA tins city, ana both of the others are Oaer
insftutionS ~ one college is allowed 10 have IT'S lee
lures inside the walls ana 70 take up vaIuahe space 10
The lctr.mcut az the health OF the hospital inmates,
then medical schools whose teachers also pay
taxes, should have the same privileges
Ifthe changes here indicated are made the hosplal
may De safely preserved in its present useful position
the college OF Its neighbOrs now does, can nave
its own buldiuc a short distance off, and thus us use
fuluess will not be all impaired, FOR this college, IKE
the other colleges is valuable To New-1Ork Clty IN
bringing here hundreds of young men 70 De educated LOT
che benefit of the whole country. No private nance
should be allowed 70 destroy this hospital, ana at the
same time interests Of thousands OF the poor IN
its ruins n the Commissioners and the public can DE
induced 10 look dispissi0uatey into this subject am
sure they will fud that Bellevue Hospital and Bellevue
Medical College should both he perpetuated but under
some reasonable notifications. IL will be calamity u
another ho- ptd now situated where il is most needed
destroyed, and If a college which adds TO the Wt9th
usefninc g. and fame Of NewYork goes with II. NIUE
Judgment Will BOTH even II the latter he stripped
Of some of ITS unfair advantages. FH1 sltIAN'
NClr- York June 20, 1873.