Hospitals, Kings Co., Swedish Hospital [vertical file] / [compiled by the Archives at Queens Library].
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Swedish Hospital (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
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In colonial New York, only a small number of almshouse infirmaries existed to care for the sick, while the mentally ill were usually imprisoned or placed in poorhouses. It was not until the early to mid-19th century, when the New York City area's dependent and poor population increased dramatically, that hospitals and other health services organizations, such as homeopaths and maternity wards, readily began to emerge. In Brooklyn specifically, the earliest hospitals included the Kin...
Archives at Queens Library
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