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Der US-amerikanische Kinderarzt französisch-deutscher Abstammung Dr. August Caillé (1854-1935), u.a. Professor für Kinderheilkunde an der Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital in New York, wendet sich an Augenarzt Dr. Karl Rhein (* 1851) an der Universitäts-Augenklinik in Würzburg. --- August Caillé hatte von 1873 bis 1877 in Würzburg studiert.

Mit Poststempel vom 7. April 1889 aus New York City.

Betrifft die Ausbildung von Wärterinnen im German Hospital in New York (heute: Lenox Hill Hospital), wo Caillé u.a. tätig war.

Transkription: "Lieber Rhein! Brief erhalten u. mich darüber gefreut. Längere Antwort erfolgt in einigen Wochen. Im D. Hosp. hier werden die Wärterinnen mittelst Wärterin-Schule selbst herangezogen, erhalten 5.00 pro Monat u. verpflichten sich auf 18 Monate. Die Oberwärterin bekommt 25.00 bis 30.00 pro Monat. Die betreffende Wärterin könnte als Schülerin eintreten u. bei guter Führung u. Kenntnissen später Oberwärterin werden. Herzl. Gruß A. Caille."

2-Cents-Ganzsache (7,7 x 13,2 cm).

Über den Verfasser: August Caillé wurde am 1. April 1854 in Madison, Indiana, als Sohn eines Franzosen und einer Deutschen geboren. Bis 1873 studierte er am New York College of Pharmacy. Danach studierte er an der Universität Würzburg Medizin, wo er 1877 seinen medizinischen Doktortitel erlangte. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach New York immatrikulierte er sich am College of Physicians and Surgeons der Columbia University und erhielt dort im Jahr 1881 den Grad eines Doktors der Medizin. Nach dieser gründlichen akademischen medizinischen Ausbildung ließ er sich in einer Allgemeinpraxis nieder, wobei er eine klare Neigung zur Pädiatrie (Kinderheilkunde) zeigte – der Fachrichtung, für die er am bekanntesten werden sollte. Im Jahr 1888 nahm er seine Tätigkeit an der New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital in der Abteilung für Pädiatrie auf. Diese Verbindung hielt er bis an sein Lebensende aufrecht, zu welchem Zeitpunkt er emeritierter Professor und beratender Arzt war. Er war außerdem als Visitations- und beratender Arzt am German Hospital (später in Lenox Hill Hospital umbenannt) sowie am Convalescent Home for Babies in Sea Cliff, New York, tätig. Dem Isabella Home and Hospital diente er als Visitationsarzt und in jüngerer Zeit als beratender Arzt.

Er war Mitglied lokaler und nationaler medizinischer Gesellschaften. Die Anerkennung seiner Kollegen zeigte sich in seiner Wahl zum Präsidenten der American Pediatric Society im Jahr 1904, zum Vorsitzenden der Pädiatrie-Sektion der New York Academy of Medicine im Jahr 1891 sowie in Ämter anderer medizinischer Organisationen.

August Caillé starb am 10. Oktober 1935.

Sein Tod wurde auch in der New York Times vom 11. Oktober 1935 auf S. 25 gemeldet ("DR. AUGUST CAILLE,SPECIALIST, 81, DIES; Former President of American Pediatric Society Experton Children's Diseases").

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Interner Vermerk: FM 26-10-11 Handschrift, Manuskript, Medizin, Autogramm, Autograph

Über das Krankenhaus (Quelle: englische wikipedia):

Lenox Hill Hospital (LHH) is a nationally ranked, 450-bed, non-profit, tertiary, research and academic medical center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, servicing the tri-state area. LHH is one of the region's many university-level academic medical centers. The hospital is owned by Northwell Health, the largest private employer in the state of New York. LHH serves as a clinical campus for the Zucker School of Medicine, which is owned by the health system in a partnership with Hofstra University.

It was founded in 1857 as the German Dispensary. It currently consists of ten buildings and has occupied the present site in Manhattan since 1869, when it was known as the German Hospital. In 2007, the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital was incorporated into Lenox Hill Hospital.

The hospital is located on a city block bounded on the north and south by East 77th and 76th Streets, and on the west and east by Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue.

History: 19th century: In 1857, a group of community leaders recognized the need for medical services among the immigrant community and founded the German Dispensary. Physicians, Ernest Krackowizer and Abraham Jacobi, were among the founders. Its purpose, according to the constitution adopted January 19, 1857, was "to give medical advice in their own tongue to inhabitants of New York City who speak the German language, a great many indigent sick persons, ignorant of the English tongue." On May 28, 1857, the dispensary opened at 132 New Canal Street. The location had been 210 Walker Street before the street's renaming. In 1862, the dispensary moved to larger quarters at 8 East 3rd Street.

The German Hospital of the City of New York was incorporated by the New York State Legislature on April 13, 1861, and its first board of directors was organized on February 15, 1862. A plot of ground situated on Park Avenue and 77th Street was leased to the hospital by the city for 50 years at a nominal rent, and it purchased six additional lots on 76th Street. The plan was to erect two pavilions, extending along 77th Street, from Park to Lexington Avenues, with an administration building between them. The corner-stone of the western pavilion was laid on September 3, 1866. Completion was delayed by a shortage of funds, and the hospital opened on September 13, 1869. On March 26, 1866, the state legislature made the German Dispensary a branch of the German Hospital.

A pavilion for skin diseases opened in 1875, an isolation pavilion in 1880, a women's department in 1882, and a new dispensary in 1884. The new dispensary was located at 137 Second Avenue, between 8th and 9th Streets. The three-story building was a gift of Anna Ottendorfer and Oswald Ottendorfer, who ran the German-language newspaper, New Yorker Staats-Zeitung.

Most of the patients treated at the hospital were from the local Little Germany neighborhood around First and Second Avenues below 14th Street.

A new wing opened in 1888, and a nurses' home opened in 1893, donated by the Ottendorfer family.[6] A five-story training school for nurses was added in February 1894 at 77th Street and Lexington Avenue, with four young German-American women forming the first class. Until then, nursing attendants and charge nurses had been brought over from Germany. The New York Times noted in an 1899 editorial, "to be a graduate nurse of the German Hospital is a distinction and recommendation for good nursing." A hospital annex, at the corner of 77th Street and Lexington Avenue, also donated by the Ottendorfer family, opened in 1901.

The hospital moved to the 77th Street location entirely in 1905, about the same time that Manhattan's German community was increasingly abandoning Little Germany for the Yorkville neighborhood, within walking distance of the new hospital. New York City deeded to the hospital the square block it occupied for $5,000 in 1907. The dispensary building was sold in 1906 to the German Polyklinik, founded in 1883 – which later changed its name to Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital – for $82,000, and a larger dispensary was erected on the northeast corner of 76th Street and Park Avenue, with Ottendorfer's son and daughter providing the balance of the $250,000 cost, in their mother's memory.

The new dispensary building was opened on March 16, 1907. In 1908, a new isolation pavilion was inaugurated, as well as a pavilion for tuberculosis patients. In 1910, a separate building for intrathoracic surgery was begun on Lexington Avenue, adjoining the German Hospital Training School for Nurses. Ottendorfer's daughter donated $100,000 for the creation of the Abraham Jacobi Division for Children. The capacity of the German Hospital in 1915 was 310 beds.

20th century: In July 1918, the German Hospital was renamed Lenox Hill Hospital, tying it to the Lenox Hill section of the Upper East Side, in an effort to distance the institution from America's enemy in World War I. A movement in 1925 to restore the hospital to its former name, to appeal to potential donors of German descent, was eventually rejected by the board of trustees. It was said at the time that about 95 percent of the doctors, nurses, and other employees of the hospital spoke German.

The hospital rejected a proposed merger with Columbia University in February 1919.

In April 1931, the hospital completed a new $2.5 million, 11-story building, with a facade made of light brick with limestone trim, on the 76th Street side of the hospital. The new building replaced two apartment houses and several workshops. In December 1931, Winston Churchill was hospitalized there for treatment of injuries suffered when he was hit by a car after failing to look left when crossing Fifth Avenue. The pioneering children's division, founded by Dr. Abraham Jacobi, was housed on the 11th floor, with other patient rooms on the 4th through 9th floors, and operating rooms on the 10th floor. Another two-story building, containing a ward service, lecture hall, and swimming pool, was added next to the main building on the 76th Street side in 1936, at a cost of $150,000.

By 1939, the hospital had annually treated 12,115 patients with bed care, and another 23,099 visited the dispensary for treatment. Adding accident room patients, the hospital treated over 53,000 people in 1939. Because some care was given for free or part-pay, the hospital often ran an operating deficit, just as it did in 1939, when it lost $163,029, down a loss of over $200,000 the previous year, in 1938. The hospital's operating loss grew to $284,692 in 1945, which was then a record high. Due to a lack of funds, an anticipated additional new building was delayed for over 20 years, when the Second Century Development Program, designed to raise $10 million, was led by the hospital's president, James Wickersham.

In 1957, on the hospital's 100th anniversary, it opened a $4.5 million, 12-story building on Park Avenue at 77th Street, with a glass and aluminum facade, and a capacity of 180 patient beds. The new building, named the Wollman Pavilion, also housed a mental health unit, and an entire floor was allocated for research on speech and hearing disorders, epilepsy, and hemophilia. In 1964, the Charles R. Lachman Community Health Center was added on the south side of 77th Street, between the Wollman Pavilion and the William Black Hall of Nursing, which opened in 1962 (the School of Nursing closed in 1973). The hospital opened its largest building, 12 stories tall, in 1976, located at Park Avenue and 76th Street, replacing the Ottendorfer Dispensary, at a cost of $20 million. The modern brick masonry structure, with a fortress-like facade, stood in stark contrast in architectural style of the rest of the hospital's buildings. The new building added 180 patient beds for an overall capacity of 690 beds.

In 1943, the hospital sent a medical unit to England to maintain station hospitals for military personnel. Throughout the remainder of World War II, hospital staff members served in all theaters of war, including with combat forces in the European theater of operations after D-Day.

In 1998, a jury awarded $49 million in an obstetrics case against the hospital, which was one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in New York City history at that time.