Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-10-06
Baltimore Hospital,
Qlfh ,1urust. 1918,

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;THE board of visitors have much pleas
L ure in announcing 10 the public, that
within the last eighteen months, large
and elegant addition has been made to this
valuable Institution, in the erection OF the
East wing of the building. This wing is
152 feet in length and Sc in width, with an
extensive Southern projection at IFS extreme
East end. II contains between 80 and 40
apartments, admirably calculated for the
accommodation Of every class Of patients.
Ofthis number are several large and airy
wards, intended particularly for the recep-
ton of seamen, and well adapted to their
various diseases. These different rooms
and wards will he warmed by open fires,
and by heated air thrown into them, from
furnaces constructed on safe and improv-
ed plan Arrangements will also soon be
made, for lighting the apartments IN the en-
tire building, with gas.
The unweared exertions oil Doctors
! Mackenzie and Smyth, the attending Ply
sicians of the Hospital, in their attention 10
the construction of the building, and their
care of the sick, have given character to
this Institution, which is now inferior to
none in the United States. In the short
space of six years, most noble establish
ment has been erected-a thing without
parallel in this country. II is well known,
that above half "a century has been con-
sumed, in bringing the Hospitals of New
York and Philadelphia to their present
size, and il is admitted by many gentle
men, who have visited these Institutions,
that the Hospital here, is by tar The most
extensive the whole building being now
$50 feet in length.
The daily increase of the sick in the
Hospital, renders it absolutely necessary
that the new wing should be furnished;
and every exertiGn is now making, to have
it completed, before the cold weather shall
set IN.
The visitors at their late meeting, exa-
mined the Institution with much care--the
apartments of the sick in the private mfr
mary-those in the lunatck asylum--and
the wards Of the sick and disabled seamen
in the Marine Hospital--and they assert
with confidence, that the sick and afflicted
of every description are well accommOda-
ted and carefully attended. They have
seen at their different meetings, the private
patient comfortable : the wretched marine
humanely taken care Of; and the sailor,
disabled by age wounds and sickness. well
provided with suitable medical assistance,
and withevery other comfort which bis con-
diticn may require. Indeed the agreeable
situation in which this very useful class OF
men are placed, does much credit, as well
to the Director of the Marine Hospital, as
10 the attending Physicians, 10 whose i'm
mediate care they are entrusted. Every
praise toe, which the visitors can bcstow, IS
due to Mr. & Mrs Gatchel, the Stewart and
Matron of the R.spital, for the nea; and
clean manner in which the House is uni
formly kept, aud for their care and attention
TO the administration OF the internal econo-
my of the establishment.
Before they conclude this account of the
Hospital, the visitors would invite the at
tention of their fellow citizens throughout
the United States, to the anatomical Cdbi-
net OF Har Preparations, by Chic0r,, which
certainly far surpasses any thingo the kind
ever exhibited in this country; and will al
ford to those whose curiosity may lead them
to see how "fearfuily and wonderfully they
are made" but more especially to the me-
dical student. a fund OF useful information.
The Hospital is under the care OF the
following medical gentlemen:
Doctors Colin Mackenzie Attending
James Smyfh { Physicians.
DR.. Horqtio Gates jameson, Atteng Surg.
Doctors George Brown q
John Coulter e
John Campbell White
Solomon Birkhead G.
join Crom.ceH 80
Peter Chat1ra
Ashton Hereunder
Vohn O1cea
WilHam Donaldson
By order of the Board Of Visitors,
JOHN HILLEN, Sec'y.
August 81 -Tb8w
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