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Newark City Hospital, as it appeared in a postcard circa 1930, initially opened in 1898. It was replaced with a new 17-story building on an adjacent site in 1958 and renamed as the Harrison S. Martland Medical Center in honor of the long-time City pathologist.

New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Trenton established in 1848 after petition to the Legislature submitted by mental health advocate Dorothea Lynde Dix. It was the first public institution to employ the Kirkbride Plan, which promoted patient privacy and a welcoming, naturally lit environment. Image circa 1840s-1880s. Image: Library of Congress

Wounded soldiers returning from fighting in World War I being transferred to hospital ship after arrival in Hoboken. Image: Library of Congress

Drawing depicting compulsory vaccination of children in Jersey City during smallpox scare of 1895. Image: National Library of Medicine

Dr. Selman Waksman, a professor of biochemistry and microbiology at Rutgers University, who was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his work in the development of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. Image: Library of Congress

Dredging of contaminated soil taking place at Superfund site of US Environmental Protection Agency at former Roebling Steel Co. plant in Florence Township. By 2013, the EPA completed dredging of sediments in Crafts Creek and the Delaware River Back Channel. Image: US Environmental Protection Agency

Ad published in Newark Daily Advertiser in 1861 typical of the many cures promoted for various ailments during the period. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

Table of physician fees adopted by the Medical Society of New Jersey in 1830. Image: National Library of Medicine

Original building of Johnson & Johnson, founded 1886 in New Brunswick. Image: KilmerHouse.org

The Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital in Jersey City, named after the mother of Mayor Frank Hague, was the site for the birth of over 350,000 babies from its opening in 1931 to its closing in 1979, including the births of former Governor James McGreevey, Martha Stewart and two of Frank Sinatra's children. Image: City of Jersey City

Dr. Benjamin Rush was a Philadelphia physician who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army troops in the Middle Department commanded by George Washington. In January 1776, he married Julia Stockton, daughter of Richard Stockton of Princeton, who also signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New Jersey, and they would have 13 children. He was present at the Battle of Princeton on January 2, 1777, and after the battle cared for General Hugh Mercer, who died from bayonet wounds some ten days later. Rush also sought to improve medical treatment for Washington's troops in their winter encampment at Jockey Hollow in Morristown. Image: Portrait by Charles Wilson Peale/ Wikimedia Commons

New Jersey deaths in the 1918-1919 global Spanish flu pandemic were estimated to approach 5,000 of the 650,000 who died across the US. This article describes actions by the mayor of Hackensack to comply with order closing public gathering places of the State Board of Health. Image: Bergen Evening Record October 8, 1918 from www.hackensackschools.org

Soon after graduating from Columbia's medical college in New York City, Jonathan Pitney--later known as "the father of Atlantic City"--moved in 1819 to practice medicine on sparsely settled Absecon Island, where he set out to establish a new "health resort" by the sea. Pitney led in the new town being incorporated in 1854; securing approval and financing to build a railroad crossing the state to connect the island with Atlantic City; and obtaining federal funds to build a lighthouse to protect the safety of coastal shipping. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Inspectors examine eyes of arriving immigrants at Ellis Island in 1907. Image: Library of Congress

Commemorative stamp issued in 1976 honoring Clara Maass, head nurse at the Newark German Hospital who later served as a contract nurse with the US Army during the Spanish-American War. After the War, she volunteered in Cuba to be bitten by mosquitoes during experiments to develop a vaccine against Yellow Fever, but died on August 24, 1901, after contracting the virus. Public anger to her death led to ending yellow fever experiments on human beings. In June 1952, Newark German Hospital (which had since moved to Belleville) was renamed Clara Maass Memorial Hospital, and it is now known as Clara Maass Medical Center. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Six men lay on the ground awaiting ambulances after being shot during a strike at the Williams & Clark Fertilizing Company in what is now Carteret on April 13, 1915. Image: Library of Congress

Clara Barton, who founded in Bordentown one of the first public schools in the state in 1852. She later relocated to Washington, serving as a nurse in the Civil War and founding the Amercan Red Cross in 1881. Image: Library of Congress

President James A. Garfield shown with his wife Lucretia during Garfield's stay at a beachfront home in the Elberon section of Long Branch following his being shot in an assasssination attempt in Washington on July 2, 1881. Garfield was taken to Elberon by train in an effort to aid his recovery away from the heat of the capital, but died on September 19. Image: Library of Congress

Balbach Smelting & Refining Co. along Passaic River in Newark in 1870, illustrating pollution which would increase with the state's industriai growth into the 20th century. Image: Wikimedia Commons/Newark Public Library

A doctor shown examining a baby at the migrant farm workers' camp in Bridgeton in 1942. Image: Library of Congress

The first class of the Newark City Hospital Nurses Training School graduated in 1888 after completing a two-year training program in which they were required to work a daily 12-hour shift. The above photo shows students in 1913. Image: Rutgers University Libraries

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