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The Marine Hospital, Staten Island, N.Y. In 1887, the National Institute of Health began as a single room Laboratory of Hygiene for bacteriological investigation established by the U.S. Marine Hospital Service at Stapleton, Staten Island, New York. From 1887 to 1891, the hygienic laboratory was located in the attic of the Marine Hospital on ...
The Staten Island Quarantine War was a series of attacks on the New York Marine Hospital in Staten Island —known as "the Quarantine" and at that time the largest quarantine facility in the United States—on September 1 and 2, 1858. [ 1] The attacks, perpetrated mainly by residents of Staten Island, which had not yet joined New York City ...
Ellis Island. / 40.699556°N 74.039583°W / 40.699556; -74.039583. The Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital (also known as USPHS Hospital No. 43) was a United States Public Health Service hospital on Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, that operated from 1902 to 1951. [ 5] The hospital is part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument.
Hospitals in New York State. Good Samaritan University Hospital (formerly Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center) is a 537-bed non-profit teaching hospital on Long Island located in West Islip, New York. The hospital contains 100 nursing home beds [ 1] as well as operates an adult Level I trauma center [ 4] and a pediatric Level II trauma center.
This is a list of U.S. Marine Hospitals and Public Health Service Hospitals that operated during the system's existence from 1798 to 1981. The primary beneficiary of the hospitals were civilian mariners known as the Merchant Marine, although they had other beneficiaries at various times; the system was unrelated to the U.S. Marine Corps .
A one-room bacteriological laboratory was created within the Marine Hospital Service in Staten Island, New York by Dr. Joseph Kinyoun. It was known as the Laboratory of Hygiene. It was established to conduct research on cholera and several other infectious diseases. It was later redesignated as the National Institute of Health [sic] in 1930.
[6] Only 60 miles from New York City, it was isolated because of its location off Long Island that required access by a ferry or, at the time, seaplane. [6] The gay aura of the town supposedly arose when Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden arrived dressed as Dionysus and Ganymede, carried aloft on a gilded litter by a group of singing ...
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, 79-25 Winchester Boulevard, Queens Village, Queens. Elmhurst Hospital Center, 79-01 Broadway, Elmhurst, Queens. Opened as Elmhurst General Hospital on March 18, 1957. [ 11] The Floating Hospital, 41-40 27th Street, Long Island City, Queens. Founded in 1872 or 1873. [ 12] Flushing Hospital Medical Center, 4500 ...