Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-10-20
Baltimore H3spital,
Oil .lnsnsf. 1918.

VFiE board of visitors have much pleas
= ure in announcing 10 the public, that
within the last eighteen months, a large
and elegant addition has been made to this
valuable Institution, in the erection OF the
East wing Of the building. This wing is
l52 feet in length and sc in width, with an
extensive Southern projection at IFS extreme
Fast end Ii contains between 30 and 40
apartments, admirably calculated tor the
accommodation of every class OF patients.
OF this 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 be warmed by open fires,
and by heated air thrown into them, from
furnaces constructed on safe and improv-
ed plan. Arrangements will also soon he
made, for lighting the apartments in The EN-
tire building, with gas.
The uuwearied exeriions of Drjcei''
Mackenzie and Smyth, the attendi.a - Z
sicians of the Hospital, in their atie4., 60
the construction of the building, anu Ger
care of the sick, have given Charat .er 10
this Institution, which is now inferior to
none in the United States. In the short
space of six years, a most noble establish
ment has been erected-a thing without
parallel in this country. II IS well known,
that above halfa 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 far 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 lie furnished;
and every exertiGn is now making, to have
it completed, before the cold weather shall
set IN.
TIE visitors at their late meeting, eXa-
mined the Institution with much care-the
apartments Of the sick in the private inhr
mary-those in the lunatick asylum-and
the wards of the sick and disabled seamen
in the Marine Hospital--and they assert
with confidence, that .ie 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 wilhevery other comfort which his con-
diticn may require. Indeed the agreeable
situation in which this very useful class OF
men are placed, does much credit, as well
10 the Director of the Marine Hospital, as
to the attending Physicians, TO whose i'm
mediate care they are entrusted Every
praise too which the visitors can bestow, is
due TO Mr.. g. Mrs. Gatchel, the Stewart and
Matron of the Hospital, for the neat and
clean manner in which the House is uni
formly kept, and for their care and atteHtion
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 Cabi-
net OF Vas Preparations, by Ctidpp,, which
certainly far sllrpasses any thing of the kind
ever exhibited intlIis country; and will af-
ford 10 those whose curiosity may lead them
to see how "fearfully and wonderfully they
are made" but more especially to the me-
dical student, fund Of useful information.
The Hospital is under the care OF the
following medical gentlemen; a
Doctors Colin Mackenzie Attending
James Smyth Physicians.
DR.. Horatio Gates Jdmeson, Atten'g Surg.
Doctors George Brown ! q
John Coulter g
John Campbell Hhite e
Solomon Birkhead e.
John CromSeH -
Peter (Hnfnrd 80