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are constantly occupied by sufferers in all stages of the "Great 

 White Plague." 



Seton Hospital at Spuyten Duyvil is another fine institution 

 where tuberculous patients are treated irrespective of race or 

 creed. Its location is ideal. Overlooking the Hudson and Harlem 

 Rivers, it embraces an area of twenty-eight acres. The hospital 

 was named after Mother Elizabeth Baily Seton, the founder of 

 the Sisters of Charity in the United States. It was incorporated 

 in 1892 and opened in 1895 by Sister Mary Irene of the Sisters of 

 Charity, under whose management it is conducted. The main 

 building, formerly the Whiting mansion, which is used exclusively 

 for men, accommodates two hundred patients. The House of 

 Nazareth, a branch of this hospital, is used for the accommodation 

 of women and children, and has a capacity of two hundred. 



St. Francis Hospital occupies the entire block between One 

 Hundred Forty-second and One Hundred Forty-third Streets and 

 Brook and St. Ann's Avenues, and is under the direct charge of 

 the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis; the same denomination as 

 that having charge of St. Joseph's Hospital. It is one of the 

 Borough's largest and most modern charity hospitals and treats 

 diseases of all kinds. The institution has over four hundred beds 

 at the disposal of patients regardless of sect or nationality. For 

 the treatment of non-paying poor it is reimbursed by the City. 



Union Hospital is located in the old Eden mansion, formerly 

 occupied by Fordham Hospital, at No. 2456 Valentine Avenue, 

 corner of One Hundred Eighty-eighth Street. It is a general hos- 

 pital for the treatment of all ailments and has many prominent 

 physicians connected with it. It is maintained entirely by volun- 

 tary contributions and membership in the Union Hospital Asso- 

 ciation, and receives patients of all creeds, sects or nationalities. 

 During the first year of its existence over five hundred surgical 

 operations were performed by its surgeons including the most 

 severe and difficult. 



Riverside Hospital, on North Brother Island, is a city institu- 

 tion for the isolation of contagious and infectious diseases. It has 

 accommodations for five hundred patients. Its ideal location on 

 the Sound is one of the factors that help to effect many cures; it 

 is under the charge of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals. 



The Home for Incurables, on Third Avenue between One Hun- 

 dred Eighty-first Street and One Hundred Eighty-fourth Streets, 



