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institutions; its ambulance district reaches from East One Hun- 

 dred Seventieth Street to City Island. The hospital is admirably 

 situated at Southern Boulevard and Crotona Avenue and faces the 

 Bronz Zoological Park. An excellent corps of physicians and 

 surgeons treat an average of one hundred and sixty patients a day. 

 There are one hundred and fifty beds distributed in six wards, 

 and in all there are accommodations for five hundred patients. 



Reposing upon the rocky heights at Cauldwell and Westchester 

 Avenues is Lebanon Hospital, formerly the Ursuline Convent. Al- 

 tho incorporated in 1890 by Jewish philanthropists its doors are 

 open to all, regardless of nationality or creed. Connected with 

 the hospital is a free dispensary and a splendid training school 

 for nurses. 



For the eight months preceding December 31st, 1912, 2,593 

 patients were treated in the hospital. In addition the ambulance 

 service responded to 1,639 calls, of which 1,436 were accident cases 

 that were taken to the hospital for treatment. During the same 

 period 27,309 patients were treated in the dispensary free of 

 charge. 



The hospital is maintained partly by voluntary subscription 

 and donations, and partly by the city. Its ambulance territory is 

 from One Hundred Forty-ninth to One Hundred Seventieth Streets. 



Lincoln Hospital, at East One Hundred Forty-first Street and 

 Concord Avenue, was originally incorporated in 1845, as a colored 

 home and hospital. In 1901 it was opened to the general public 

 and an ambulance service was added, covering the territory from 

 Harlem River to One Hundred Forty-ninth Street. It provides 

 separate buildings for consumptive and maternity patients, and a 

 detached pavilion for persons afflicted with infectious diseases. It 

 has also a home for the aged, infirm and destitute colored people 

 of both sexes; a home for incurables; and a training school for 

 colored nurses. The hospital has a capacity of four hundred beds. 

 It is supported by voluntary subscriptions, donations and bequests. 



St. Joseph's Hospital for consumptives, a Roman Catholic 

 institution, is located at St. Ann's and Brook Avenues, 

 East One Hundred Forty-third and One Hundred Forty-fourth 

 Streets. It was established in 1882, and is in charge of the Sisters 

 of the Poor of Saint Francis, a German order. During 1912, over 

 2,000 patients were treated here irrespective of nationality or 

 religious denomination. The hospital has five hundred beds which 



