Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-10-21
Baltimore Hospital, |
24h .August, 1918.

UOdTu vi ltluNu piCus-
I 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
l52 feet in length aud SO in width, with an
extensive Southern projection at its extreme
East end. II contains between so and 40
apartments, admirably calculated for 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 Oh safe and improv-
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
scians 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 interior 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 half a century has been con-
sumed, in bringing the Hospitals OF New
York and Philadelphia 10 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 il absolutely necessary
that the new wing should be furnished;
and every exertiCn is now making, TO have
il completed, before the cold weather shall
set ia.
The visitors at their late meeting, eX'
mined the Institution with much care-tlcl
apartments of the sick in the private mfr
mary-lhose in the lunatick asylum--ani
the wards of the sick and disabled seame
in the Marine Hospital--and they asse
with confidence, that the sick and Athlete
of every description are well accommoda
ted and carefully attended. They hay
seen at their different meetings, the prlvst
patient comfortable the wretched mari,
humaneIy taken care of; and the sailoA
disabled by age, wounds and sickness, wei
provided with suitable medical assistance
and withevery other comfort which his com
diticn may require. Indeed the agrecabl
situation in which this very useful class
men are placed, does much credit, as wei
TO The Director Oft 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 10 Mr. & Mrs. Gatchel, the Stewart and
Mairon of he 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 accAuEt Of the
Hospital, the visitors would invite the at
tention OF their fellow citizens throughout
the United States, to the anatomical Cabi-
NET OF War Preparations, by Ciiapp,, which
certainly far surpasses any thlng OF the k,na
ever exhibited in this country; and will at
ford 10 those whose curiosity may lead them
70 see how "fearfully and wonderfully they
are made" but more especially to the me-
Gicai student, fund of useful information.
The Hospital is under the care Of the
following medical gentlemen
Doctors Colin Mackenzie Attending
James Smyth Physicians.
DR.. HorGtio CAFES Jameson, Atteng Surg,
Doctors George Bro0cl | O
| John Coulter g
John Campbell Wl1te
Solomon BSrkhead e
| John CromweH e
Peter Gatord p
Ashton .fierdndtr 3
John O;ren
William Donaldson
By order Of the Board of Visitors,
JOHN HlLLEN, Sec'y
August 97 Th8w