Lying-In Hospital,[1][2] which was chartered in 1799, was given a strong boost in 1897 with "the magnificent gift of $1,000,000" from J. Pierpont Morgan.[3][4]
It relocated[5] more than once, both before and after Morgan's donation. Their focus was expectant women.[6] Lying-In Hospital merged in 1932 with New York Hospital,[5] and the original name was dropped.[7]
Their "Second Avenue, between 17th and 18th Streets" location "was redeveloped as an apartment building in the 1980s."[8]
History
305 Second Avenue building: used by Lying-In Hospital prior to their merger with New York Hospital
The term Lying-in Hospital pre-existed the one described by The New York Times in their 1865 Death at a private lying-in hospital about a specific impoverished woman's 8th abortion, following which she died.[6] There were other such deaths[9] and facilities, including in other cities.[10]
The best known of these lying-in hospitals, due to extensive documentation,[7] affiliated with New York Hospital in 1799, and ended this initial arrangement in 1827. Other sources and other personnel, in particular two doctors and the father of one of them,[11] reactivated the dormant Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York[12] and, with funding from J. P. Morgan[13] (and later from Morgan's son) acquired a building and in 1932 "became the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of New York Hospital, occupying one of the pavilions along the East River."[7][14]
It served primarily[15] as a Maternity hospital and was "said to account for 60 percent of all births in Manhattan."[4] Some of their staff did medical research.[16]
For some of their pre-affiliation[17] years they used the name New York Lying-In Hospital.[18]
Others
In addition to the Lying-In Hospital affiliated with New York Hospital[13] there were others,[19][20][21] such as "a small lying-in hospital in the vicinity of Bellevue Hospital."[22] Fundraising for these hospitals was covered by The New York Times.[23][24]
