Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-09-26
Baltimore Hospital, !
oath .Ausust, 1918.


TIME board of visitors have much pleas
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
I52 feet in length aud Sc in width, with an
extensive Southern projection at its extreme
East end. Ii contains between 80 and 40
apartments, admirably calculated for the
accommodation of every class OF patients.
Ofthis number are several large and airy
wards, intended particularly for the recep-
ton of .eamen, and well adapted to their
! various diseases. These different rooms
and wards will he warmed by open fires,
and by heated air thrown into them, from
furnaces constructed on safe and lmprov-
ed plan. Arrangements will also soon be
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, andtheir
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 thing without
parallel in this country. II is we'll 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 il absolutely necessary
that the new wing should be furnished;
and every eXertiOn 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
humanely taken care Of; and the sailor,
disabled by age, wounds and sickness. we'll
provided with suitable medical assistance,
and witheyery 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 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 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 of their fellow citizens throughout
the United States, to the anatomical Cabi-
net OF Var Preparations, by Chtapp., which
certainly far surpasses any thing Of the kind
ever exhibited in this country; and will af-
ford TO those whose curiosity may lead them
to see how ''fearfuIly and wonderfully they
are made, )" but more especially TO the me-
dical student, a fund Of useful information
The Hospital is under the care OF the
following medical gentlemen:
Doctors Colin .Mackenz,e Attending
| James Smyth Physicians.
DR.. Horatio Gates Jameson, Atten'g Surg.
Doctors George Brown ! .
! John Coulter
John Campbell White
Solomon Birkhead -
John CromweH So
Peter Gatord ~"
Ashton Alexander
John Ouen
| William Donaldson
By order Of the Board Of Visitors,
| JOHN HlLLEN, Sec'y.
August 81 Th8w
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