Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-09-22
Baltimore Hospital,
Path .August, 1918.

Path .iug1sst, 1918. }
| TIME board of visitors have much plea
| 4 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 the
/ East wing of the building. This wing is
I52 feet in length and 80 in width, with an
+. ytensive Southern projection at ITS extreme
! East end. Ii contains between ~ anu ~
! apartments, admirably calculated tor the
! accommodation of every class oi patients.
| OF this number are several large ana 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 improy-
! ed plan. Arrangements will also soon he
made, for lighting the apartments in the en-
tire building, with gas.
The unwearied exertiOns OF Doctors
Mackenzie and Smyth, the attending Ply
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 thing 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
$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, 10 have
il completed, before the cold weather shall
set ia.
The visitors at their late meeting, exa-
mined the Institution with much care-the
apartments of the sick in the private mir
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 wreiched marine
bumanely taken care of; and the sailor,
disabled by age, wounds and sickness, well
provided with suitable medical assistance,
and withevery 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 ana
Matron of the Hospital, for the neat 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 they conclude this account OF the
Hospital. the visitors would invite the at
tention oftbeir fellow citizens throughout
the United States, to the anatomical Cab
NET OF Var Preparations, by Chiapp, (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 "fearfuIiy 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 Mackenzie Attending
lanes Smyth Physicians.
e. DR.. Horatio Gates Jameson, Atten'g Surg.
Doctors George Brown q
John Coulter g
John Campbell Hhite
Solomon Birkhead e.
John CromureH }sas
Peter Gafdrd
Ashton Hereunder
John Ouen
Utiliam Donaldson
By order of the Board of Visitors,
JOHN HlLLEN, Sec'y.
August 81 - Ih6w
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