New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-09
MEDICAL SCHOOLS COMBINE.
>,rv.yoRK UNIVERSITY BELLEVUE
FUSION SANCTIONED.

,s A RrSULT-THE INSTITUTIONS
AND THEIR HIsroRY
srec,al meeting Of the Board Of Regents OF 'he
,,rersitv of the State Of New-fork was he'u YES
- nj Albany to consider the request Oh inc
Ter ord trustees OF the Bellevue Medical Col
Ns o,a the New-York University Medical college
@ ,onsoi,dating the two institutions. The Regents
,,,oned the fusion and the two colleges VIII DC
,ovn hereafter as the New-York Cniversity-Behe-
,s Hospital Medical College
Tho determination 10 consolidate the colleges was
..yos al bv their governing bodies on Monday last
~no advantages of the scheme were so apparent
49,, bodies that il required about three weeks
W, 90 comnlete the preliminary negotiations. The
,cr ~ the University on March II laid before
-, ,rus,ees and faculty Of the Bellevue college
.a,ernent Of the benefits both material and edu-
tone, that would arise from uniting the two in
,,,u,,ons Two days later the trustees OF the Belle
80 college unanimously decided 10 transfer the
auction Of the college to the University. on the
,,,,on bv the latter Of the obligations of the
rorov,e institution 20 the city. These obligations
80 formally undertaken by the council of tho
,-,vors,,y last Monday. and It only required the
o,sent given by the Regents yesterday TO give ef-
feet 10 the consolidation
Tho ,,sion OF the two schools. one OF which had
a. enrolment last year OF 7l3 students and the
other Of SH students. will mako the new college
40 n, the largest and most important seats or
medical instruction in the United States. The total
f,cul,v will number 1le. The facilities and plant
q, the united colleges will be equal TO those OF
come o. the best-eaupped schools IN the world
rha University owns buildings covering a frontage
~ 1so feet opposite Bellevue Hospital. In addi-
ton 10 the college premises, the Bellevue trustees
possess the Carnegie Laboratory. in East Twenty
sIfh-st.. presented by Andrew Carnegie about ten
wears ago Also there has just been purchased by
the friends OF Bellevue college frontage OF $50
ipip Tho
tory. These two properties together would furnish
ample building room for all the purposes OF great
medical college.
In length OF existence the University Medical Col
lego IS older by some twenty years than the Belle
yue college. Tho records Of the governing body
OF the University show that the project OF estab-
fishing a medical department was first discussed
IN 1885, though 1t not until 1871. In consequence
OF lack OF funds. that the scheme took practical
shape. 1t Is interesting fact that Charles Butler
one OF the directors. who is still living and has
reached the advanced OF ninety-sx. is recorded
as having then expressed the opinion that four
years course should be insisted upon. Half
century later the four years was made compu-
sorry. The first faculty elected comprised Drs VAL
ent!ne Mott. Granville S. Pattison. John Revere
Martyn Paine G. s Bedford and John w. Draper
The first work Of the college was done in build
ing opposite Broadway. Afterward the college was
situated in Fourteenthst, occupying the size Wnere
Tammany ha now sAS slSla1 loss upon the faculty.
as many valuable collections were destroyed. In
ISfs The institution moved its present site oppo-
site Bellevue Hospital The Two coAegeS nave lneie
fore been neghbors there for over thirty years
AZ FIRST the resources OF the University were 100
limited 10 furnish the plant for medical eauCallon
4 private corporation OF professors existed khoWn
as The Medical College Laboratory, ana TINS mao
entire charge of the financial arrangements OF inc
college until the present year. when II was unan-
mousy decided to make over the direct controI 70
the University corporation. The entire property
used for medical purposes up to a rev years ago
was heavily inCumhered. Through munlncent pehe-
factions few years ago the property has since
been relieved all debt Its present value hcluu-
ing the LOOMS Laboratory and Its endo"meht
amounts 10 about 100000 1t has graduated 6IW
alumni cu .os IL,
cornorated by special act of the Legislature IN
the wear 1851. The original college DullulnE was
erected on the grounds afterward occupied py the
Morgue and the hospital museum, at an expense
the Bureau OF Medical and Surgical Relief for out
door Poor and for the purposes OF the college WAS
completed For the upper stories rental OF $500
VS. paid from 1856 10 1875 and Thereafter ultlI
latter wear n contract mas existed by ,which tne
college agrees TO make such repairs ana sooiIolls
10 the building may be directed by the Noili,
,nissioners provided such repairs DO MOI exceed
q 200 in any one year The college has never oeeh
q burden 10 the city inasmuch as since It's OF
Sanization II has paid to the municipality S.oHys
nearly four times the cost OF the part or tne
bulding IL occupies. In addition, the lacuIt! IN
,sss orea nized a separate Medical Board Tor inc
bosnital on Backwells Island and assumed me
r,aes56nnsihili.v Of service In the same year the
facultv also formed the Bureau or MeulchI anu
SURGICAL Relief for outdoor Poor: ana IL Is esui-
500 shat since that year 10000 patients nave
rsceived relief many Of whom under me cdIVuIs
The college has 47S4 Alumni scH''eieo 'i'Ns" ''
ordo m, her countries.