Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-10-03
Baltimore Hospital,
9th August. 1915.

IA
ure in announcing TO the public, that
within the last eighteen months, large
and elegant addition has been made to this
valuable institution, IN the ERECTION OF lhe
East wing of the building. This wing IS
l52 feet in length aud 30 in width, with an
extensive Southern projection at ITS extreme
East end 1t contains between 80 and ~
apartments, admirably calculated for the
accommodation of every class OF patients.
OF this number are several large and airy
wards, intended particularly tor 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 ne
made. for lighting the apartments IN 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 10
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 century has been con-
suined, 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 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 eyertion 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 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
humaneIy taken care Of; and the sailor,
disabled by age, wounds and sickness. well
provided with suitable medical assistance,
and with every 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. 10 whose I'M
mediate care they are entrusted. Every
praise toe, (which the visitors can bestow, D:
due TO Mr.. & Mrs. Gatchel, the Stewart and
Ma,ron of the Hos pital, for the nea: and
clean manner in which the House is uni
formly kept, and for their care and attention
10 the administration of the internal econo-
my of the establishment.
Before thew 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-
nst OF Var Preparations, by Chidpp,, which
certainly far surpaSses any thing the KIND
ever exhibited in this country: and will al
lord to those whose curiosity may lead them
/ 10 see how "feariully and wonderfully they
are made" but more especially to the me-
| dical student, fund OF selul information
The Hospital is under the care OF the
| following medical gentlemen:
Doctors Colin .lidckenzie Attending
James Smyth { Physicians.
Or. Horatio Gates jameson, Atten'g Surg.
Doctors George Broan q
John Coulter
John Campbell White g
Solomon Birkhead e
John Croma'ei SO
Peter Catdrd
Ashton .HerdnGer
| John O5oen
William Donaldson
By order of the Board oi Visitors,
JOHN HlLLEN, Sec'y.
| August 81 Th8w
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