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Homeopathic Hospital and Maternity
This institution had a modest beginning in 1891, when a number of philanthropic ladies decided to establish a place for the treatment of a class of cases not hitherto included in the scope of the other Yonkers hospitals. The expiration of the first year found the ladies in possession of a room occupied by a patient, with a doctor and woman nurse in attendance. In 1894 one floor was rented in the house No. 345 Nepperhan Avenue, where patients were boarded and nursed under the direction of homeopathic physicians.
Attention had been brought to several cases of women needing hospital treatment, and of children too young to be admitted to the city hospitals, for which no suitable place of treatment could be found. In 1895 the house No. 246 Woodworth Avenue was rented, and at the end of one more yearin May, 1896the Homeopathic Hospital and Maternity became an incorporated institution, the Managers proud owners of a house on Ashburton Avenue, near Park Avenue. The rooms are as comfortable and well fitted as in a private home, the wards for free patients and those who wish to pay being equally comfortable. This house accommodates about twelve patients.
The management recently decided upon enlarging its accommodations by purchasing the house and grounds adjoining the hospital on the west. The plot is 300 feet square, and the house accommodates about fifteen. Children requiring medical or surgical attendance are quartered in this building.
The homeopathic physicians of Yonkers alternate in attendance at the Hospital, thus avoiding the employment of a house physician. The class of patients directly benefited is evident from the fact that this is the only Hospital in the city that treats maternity cases, or uses or permits the use of humeopathic treatment, and the only one in Yonkers that makes a specialty of childrens cases.
Staff:
President, DR. R. OLIVER PHILLIPS.
Secretary, DR. RICHARD R. TROTTER.
DR. RUSSELL P. FAY. DR. HORACE G. KEITH.
Board of Managers:
President, MRS. WALTER W. LAW.
First VicePresident, MRS. THOMAS EWING.
Second VicePresident, MRS. WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER.
Secretary, MRS. JOSEPH F. WALLER.
Corresponding Secretary, MRS. T. RUSSELL DAWSON.
Treasurer, MRS. R. OLIVER PHILLIPS.
| MRS. CHARLES HENRY BUTLER. | MRS. CHARLES H. FANCHER. |
| MRS. ALEXANDER SMITH. | MRS. RICHARD R. TROTTER. |
| MRS. JULIUS T. ROCKWELL. | MRS. FREDERICK D. BLAKE. |
| MRS. THOMAS J. MORGAN. | MRS. WILLIARD H. BROWNSON. |
| MRS. CHARLES REED. | MRS. WALTER GRAVES. |
| MRS. DUNCAN SMITH. | MRS. SAMUEL A. HOUSTON. |
| MRS. WILLIAM H. THORNE. | MRS. ELBRIDGE JONES. |
| MRS. FRANK SEAMAN. | MRS. C. IRVING LATTIN. |
| MRS. CHARLES C. PIERCE. | MRS. ROSWELL A. ROBERTS. |
| Superintendent, MISS ADELLE VAN ALSTINE. |
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