LOCATION:
The
Samuel R. Smith Infirmary is located at 101 Stanley Ave. Staten Island NY.
To get there, take the S 46 and get off at the corner of Castleton Ave. and
Stanley Ave.
HISTORY:
The
Samuel R. Smith Infirmary was founded in 1861 as a small, one-room infirmary
to attend to the needs of the Island's medically-indigent.
The hospital was constituted as the Samuel R. Smith Infirmary, and
relocated to an old building at the government quarantine station on
Tompkins Ave. It was Staten Island's first not-for-profit voluntary
hospital. In 1870 and until 1890, the hospital was moved to a residence on
Hannah St. There were only 12 beds in it.
In 1890, the Infirmary moved to a six-acre site on Castleton Ave. in
New Brighton. In 1894, the first Training School for Nurses opens with a
class of eight. 1897, brought the first operation using x-ray's, one year
after its development.
In 1898, the United States warships Rio Grande, Leona and Concho sail
intoNew York harbor with wounded from the Spanish-American War. Horse-drawn
ambulances from Staten Island Hospital transfer the wounded to the Castleton
Ave. facility for treatment.
At the turn of the century, phones are added to facilitate
communication between hospital buildings. The Samuel R. Smith Infirmary was
renamed the "Staten Island Hospital" in 1916. Finally in 1979, the Staten
Island Hospital moved from its Castleton Ave. residence to its current
campus at 475 Seaview Ave. in Ocean Breeze. |
|
|