This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jUB.2ACI/769.1 Message Board Post: Don't know if this will help you out at all, but during that time, a lot of babies were born at home vs hospital setting. As to hospitals during that time period, there is Southside Hospital in Bayshore that was founded in 1913 with 21 beds. There is another hospital, Brookhaven Memorial, but I don't know when that was founded.