Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to WomenBlackwell, Elizabeth
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Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910; Women physicians -- United States -- Biography
Since the double distress of commercial pressure and severe weather
have weighed so heavily on the poor, many cases of extreme destitution
have come to the dispensary. These have been chiefly emigrants, mostly
Germans, without friends or money, and ignorant of the language.
Several families have been visited where some member was sick, and
found utterly destitute, suffering from hunger, and though honest
and industrious, disappointed in every effort to obtain work. To such
families a little help with money, generally in the form of a loan till
work could be procured, has proved invaluable, and a small poor fund
placed by some friends in the hands of the attending physician, for
this special object, has saved several worthy families from despair
and impending starvation.
The dispensary has been removed since January 1, 1855, to No. 150
Third Street, between Avenues A and B, opposite the large Catholic
church; all persons who are interested in its objects are cordially
invited to call there. It will be open as heretofore from 3 to 5
o’clock on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons. Poor women and
children may be sent from any part of the city to receive the medical
aid of the dispensary, it being free to all.
This institution was commenced by the subscriptions of a few friends;
its expenses have been kept within its means, but the power of doing
good has necessarily been limited by the smallness of its funds.
It is found desirable to enlarge its operations, and place it on a
permanent basis. For this purpose, the trustees wish to raise the
sum of 5,000 dollars, and contributions are earnestly solicited. The
following members are appointed to receive contributions:
Stacy B. Collins, 155 Bleecker Street,
Robert Haydock, 46 Broadway,
Elizabeth Blackwell, 79 East Fifteenth Street.
The amount raised will be invested as a permanent fund for the
institution. It is the hope of the founders of this charity to make
it eventually a hospital for women and a school for the education of
nurses.
The books of the dispensary are always open to the inspection of
members, on application to the attending physician.
New York: February 8, 1855.
ADDRESSES
The following addresses and publications indicate that ‘search after
righteousness’ which has occupied later life in England.
_How to keep a Household in Health_; given at the Working
Women’s College, 1870.
_Medicine and Morality_, 1881; in the ‘Modern Review.’
_Rescue Work in relation to Vice and Disease_, 1881; before
Mrs. Meredith’s Society.
_Christian Socialism_, 1882.
_Wrong and Right Methods of dealing with Social Evil, based
on Parliamentary Evidence_, 1883.
_On the Decay of Municipal Representative Government: a
Personal Experience in Hastings_, 1885.
_Purchase of Women a Great Economic Blunder_, 1886.
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