Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-09-27
Baltimore Hospital,
9lh Ai,gust, 1918.


ure in announcing 10 the public, that
within the last eighteen months, large
and elegant adiition has been made 10 this
valuable institution, in the erection OF the
East wing of the building. This wing Is
1872 feet in length and Sc in width, with an
extensive Southern projection at ats extreme
East end. Ii contains between 81 and 40
apartments, admirably calculated for The
accommodation of every class OF patients.
or this number are several large and airy
wards. intended particularly fol the recep-
ton Of seamen, and well adapted TO their
various diseases. These different rooms
and wards will be warmed by open hres,
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 III The en-
tire building, with gas.
The unwearied exertions oil Doctors
Mackenzie and Smyth, the attending Phy-
sicians OF the Hospital, in their attention to
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 tiHag without
parallel in this country. II IS well known,
that above half century has been con-
sumed, in bringing the Hospitals Of New
York and Philadelphia to their present
size, and it 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
800 feet in length.
The daily increase of the sick IN the
Hospital. renders il absolutely necessary
that the new wing should be furnished;
and every exertiUu is now making, to have
it completed, before the cold weather shall
set i'm.
The visitors at their late meeting, eya-
mined the Institution with much care-the
apartments of the sick in the private mfr
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 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, we'll
provided with suitable medical assistance,
and withcvery 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
TO the Director of the Marine Hospital, as
to the attending Physicians, to whose i'm
mediate care they are entrusted. Every
praise toe, which the visitors can bestow, is
due to Mr.. & Mrs Gatchel, the Stewart and
Matron Of the Hospital, for the nea. and
clean manner in which the House is uni
forinly kept, and 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
ten,ion of their fellow citizens throughout
the United States, to the anatomical Cd6i-
net OF Wdr Preparations, by C'dpp,, which
certainly far surpasses any thing OF the kind
ever exhibited in this country; and will al
ford to those whose curiosity may lead them
70 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: .
Doctors Colin .Hackenzie Attending
James Smyth { Physicians.
DR.. Horatio Gates jameson, Aiten'g Surg.
Doctors George Brorn =
John Coulter 3
John Campbell White
Solomon Birkhead e.
John CromweH }25
Peter Gdtord
Ashton Alexander g
John Oscen
Hiliiam Donaldson
By order of the Board of Visitors,
JOHN HlLLEN, Sec'y.
Auguste 81 Th8w
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