The Tonsil Hospital, [1] [2] [3] which opened in 1921 and closed in 1946, was a Manhattan specialized hospital dedicated [4] to just one task: "remove the tonsils and adenoids of poor children" when the need seemed to exist.
The hospital was in a four-story walkup building. [5] As a hospital for the poor, pre- Medicaid, it was in need of funding from "society" [6] donors, sponsorships, [7] [3] [2] and other fundraisers. [8]
The removal of tonsils, tonsillectomies, "was the single most common operation in the United States." [1] Due to "the variability of available surgical techniques" this hospital's medical director, Robert Fowler, "undertook a quest for the 'better tonsil operation.'" [4]
THE Babies' Ward of the Tonsil Hospital, 153 East Sixty-second Street, will benefit from ..
a supper dance for the benefit of the babies' ward of the Tonsil Hospital
The Tonsil Hospital, [1] [2] [3] which opened in 1921 and closed in 1946, was a Manhattan specialized hospital dedicated [4] to just one task: "remove the tonsils and adenoids of poor children" when the need seemed to exist.
The hospital was in a four-story walkup building. [5] As a hospital for the poor, pre- Medicaid, it was in need of funding from "society" [6] donors, sponsorships, [7] [3] [2] and other fundraisers. [8]
The removal of tonsils, tonsillectomies, "was the single most common operation in the United States." [1] Due to "the variability of available surgical techniques" this hospital's medical director, Robert Fowler, "undertook a quest for the 'better tonsil operation.'" [4]
THE Babies' Ward of the Tonsil Hospital, 153 East Sixty-second Street, will benefit from ..
a supper dance for the benefit of the babies' ward of the Tonsil Hospital