Excerpt:
In the 1820s, Rochester's mortality rate was high; nearly three out of every 100 people died of disease each year, and almost half the deaths were children under three years old. The patient’s family met early community healthcare needs; treatment was in the home, and if the family was too poor the city physician was called to attend the sick.
In 1822 a concerned group of women, the Rochester Female Charitable Society, began visiting the poor and sick.
Annotation:
This detailed site provides a history of Rochester City Hospital and Rochester General Hospital between 1847 and 1997. The eighteen essays that make up the history of these hospitals contain images, photos and links to primary documents. The site also includes a chronology and biographies of 26 leading figures in the history of medicine in Rochester. Of most use to scholars will be information about accessing the physical archives of the collection and a bibliography around which this web site was created. Navigation for the site is clean and easy to use and so researchers should find their way quickly to pages they may find useful.