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Nurses working for the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service in New York City took these snapshots, which show their lives and the lives of the families they cared for in the 1930s.
“Fordham Hospital”
Fordham Hospital opened in 1892. This was the first public hospital in the Bronx. Prior to that time, all New York City municipal hospitals were in Manhattan.
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