The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-12-23
HOSPITAL WORK
IN new YORK
Brief Bits OF History Connected
With Its Progress.
STARTED MANY YEARS AGO
Institution Now Known as Lincoln
Hospital Was Originally Established
Under Title Of Society For the Sup
port of the coIored Home-Purposs
Of the Founders Explained.

OF the Founders Explained. III
By N. BARNETT DoDsoN.
The colored home in New York city
now known as the Lincoln hospital was
originally established or Incorporated
by the legislature under the title Of
''the Society For the Support Of the
Eolored Home" A petition presented
to the legislature for the repeal Of GER
tain acts passed March II. 1889. and
May 26, 1841, which appropriated $10..
600 for state hospital in the city OF
New York, asking transfer Of the
money therein named to the colored
home. These acts were repealed and
new act framed.
The money was transferred to the
managers of the colored home to be ap-
piled to the erection Of q permanent
building on the real estate belonging to
the said home in the city of New York
for the relief and support Of disabled
colored sailors and other infirm and
destitute colored people. In 1848 the
society purchased forty-four lots Of
ground lying on Sixty-ffth street be-
tween Avenue A and First avenue,
upon which the managers erected q
suitable building. 1t consisted Of two
distinct divisions or wings for the ac-
commodation Of males and females,
each 100 by 26 feet. separated by
ground plot of 100 feet. the whole
forming an open square.
At the first meeting IN 1889 after the
adoption of the constitution twelve in
dividuals were proposed and received
as objects worthy Of relief. During
1S47 the statistics show that the insti-
tuition had cared for nearly 1000 per-
sons. a large proportion Of whom were
from the almshouse The colored home
originated in the liberaity Of one Chris
tian lady, Miss Jay by name, who
was the daughter of the distinguished
and venerable John Jay, who sub
scribed the first $1,000 to the home,
which was turned over to committee
of ladies who met at the residence Of
her sister. Mrs. Maria Banyer, during
the autumn Of 1889.
The sum appropriated was especially
designed for the relief of the sick and
respectable colored aged. 1t is said, de-
spite the fact that this colored home,
now the Lincoln hospital, was original
ly set apart for the use and benefit OF
the colored people. that, while there are
colored trained nurses on its STAFF, not
a single colored physician out of the
dozens or more competent medical men
in Greater New York Is a member Of
the medical staff Of the hospital. Sure
ly the original promoters of the hos
pital could not have intended that this
condition should exist.
They must have foreseen that at SONS
time In the future the race would have
its own physicians when they gave the
colored race the nucleus for great
hospital in which to train its own men
for the care Of the people Of their own
race. Colored medical students have
little If any opportunity to study and
observe the progress Of diseases In the
great hospitals of New York city.
Would 1t not be good thing for Lin
coin hospital to invite some Of the lead
ing colored physicians In New York
city to cooperate with Its present med.
ical staff In the treatment Of colOred
patients and to open its doors to col
ored medical students who are study
ing In the various medical colleges?