Act of Incorporation and By-laws of the Mount Sinai Hospital of the City of New York.

Founded in 1852, Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States. The present pamphlet includes copies of documents of the incorporation of “The Jews’ Hospital in New York” in 1852 and of the Act of 1866 changing its name to The Mount Sinai Hospital. “Originally, a sectarian hospital, the Jews’ Hospital accepted those outside the faith only in cases of accident or emergency. However care of the wounded during the Civil War, the draft riots and the Orange Day parade riots, which made a shambles of New York City, prompted the idea of change to a non-sectarian admission policy… In 1866, to make it clear that it served the community without distinction of race or creed, by a special Act of Legislature, it changed its name from the Jews’ Hospital to the ‘Mount Sinai Hospital.’” In 1872 the hospital moved uptown to Lexington Avenue and Sixty-sixth Street. See T. Levitan, Islands of Compassion: A History of the Jewish Hospitals of New York (1964) pp. 30-1).