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Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

Fred Bain injured

Fred Bain, a forty-four-year-old man of unknown race suffered lacerations of his forehead at some point in the disorder, one of six of those injured with wounds to the head (30%). He appeared only in ambulance call-out records, which described the injury as having been received “during riot.”

Dr Sayet from Harlem Hospital attended Bain at his home, 227 West 127th Street, at 2.47 AM. He lived closer to Sydenham Hospital, but few of those hurt in the disorder received treatment there. It is not clear where or when Bain was injured, but he lived in an area of black residences only two blocks north of where the disorder began and close to many outbreaks of violence. Bain remained at home after the physician attended him, his injury evidently not serious enough for him to be taken to the hospital. His name does not appear in any of the lists of the injured published by the press. The ambulance records did not include information on a patient's race.

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"Medical Attendances, 19-20 March 1935," Subject Files, Box 167, Folder 5 (Roll 76), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).