Richard Bayley

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Richard Bayley
St. Andrew's Church (Staten Island, New York)
40°34′22.3″N 74°8′50.5″W / 40.572861°N 74.147361°W / 40.572861; -74.147361
OccupationPhysician
Known forFirst NYC Health Officer
Termc. 1796–1801
ChildrenElizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
RelativesJames Roosevelt Bayley, grandson

Richard Bayley (1745 – August 17, 1801) was a prominent New York City physician and the first chief health officer of the city.

1788 Doctors' Riot was sparked by fears that his students were secretly removing corpses from graves
in order to dissect them.

Biography

Bayley was born in 1745 in

St. Andrew's Church (Staten Island, New York). The couple had three children, Mary Magdalen (b. 1768, m. 1790 to Wright Post), Elizabeth Ann (1774-1821, later known as Mother Seton, and the first native-born citizen of the United States to be declared a saint[1]), and Catherine (1776–8).[3]

Richard Bayley traveled to London in 1769, where he studied anatomy with William Hunter. Bayley returned to the United States in 1772, where he opened a practice with Charlton, his father-in-law and former instructor.[2] He returned to England in 1775 to continue his work with Hunter.[4]

A

Roman Catholic Bishop and Archbishop.[1]
They later separated.

Bayley's chief focus in his medical practice was the poor of the city.

1788 Doctors' Riot, which was sparked by public outrage at the illegal procurement of corpses for dissection.[8] His anatomical collection was destroyed, but he escaped without injury. In 1792 he began to teach anatomy and surgery at Kings College of New York.[4]

He began studies of

quarantine station in what is now Tompkinsville, Staten Island.[9]

In 1797 the newly created Board of Health Commissioners was given the authority to make ordinances for cleaning the city. Efforts to address standing water and sewage in the streets where the soap and candle makers worked, prompted the soap boilers and tallow chandlers talk of petitioning the Legislature for a removal of the Health Officer.[10] He authored the federal Quarantine Act of 1799.[11]

Bayley contracted yellow fever while checking a ship that had just arrived from Ireland and died from it on August 17, 1801. He was buried in the cemetery of the church served by his father-in-law.[1][6]

Legacy

Bayley Seton Hospital, once located in the Clifton section of Staten Island, was named for both Bayley and his daughter, Elizabeth. It was founded and run by the Sisters of Charity of New York, until 2006.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Mother Seton". Catholic Online. Archived from the original on October 4, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  2. ^ a b Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L. (eds.). "Bayley, Richard" . American Medical Biographies . Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.
  3. ^ Yeager, M. Hildegarde (1947). The Life of James Roosevelt Bayley, First Bishop of Newark and Eighth Archbishop of Baltimore, 1814–1877. Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press. pp. 3–4.
  4. ^ a b c "Richard Bayley Biography (1745–1801)". Advameg, Inc. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
  5. ^ Yeager, M. Hildegarde (1947). The Life of James Roosevelt Bayley, First Bishop of Newark and Eighth Archbishop of Baltimore, 1814–1877. Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press. pp. 4–5.
  6. ^ a b "Dr. Richard Bayley". St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Museum. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013.
  7. PMID 28804247
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  8. ^ a b "Famous Staten Islanders". Staten Island on the Web. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
  9. ^ Ferreri, James G. (May 25, 2012). "Bayley Seton: Serving Staten Island for more than a century". Staten Island Advance. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  10. ^ "Letter to Dr. Richard Bayley". Vincentians. February 13, 1797. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  11. ^ "Early History of Medicine in New York", Part II, Americana, Vol. 9, National American Society, 1914, pp. 1025–1026.

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