Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-09-12
Baltimore Hospital,

n ure IN announcing 10 lne PuoHC, 'udl
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
l59 feet in length and So in width, with an
extensive Southern projection at ITS extreme
East end. 1t contains between 80 and ~
apartments, admirably calculated tor the
accommodation of every class OF patients.
OF this number are several large and airy
wards, intended particularly for the rccep-
ton of seamen, and well adapted 10 their
various diseases. These different rooms
and wards will he warmed by open hTcs,
and by heated air thrown into them, from
furnaces constructed on a safe ana Improv-
edsplan Arrangements will also soon be
made, for lighting the apartments IN Inc en-
tire building, with gas.
The unwearied eyertions 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 10
this institution, which IS now inferior 10
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 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 it absolutely necessary
that the new wing should he furnished;
and every exertion IS now milking, to have
it completed, before the cold weather shall
set III.
The visitors at their late meeting, exa-
mined the Institution with much carc-the
apartments of the sick in the private mir.
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 1.-The wretched marine
humaneIy 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-
diton may require. Indeed the agreeable
situation in which this very useful class OF
men are placed. DIES much credit, as well
10 the Director OF the Marine Hospital. as
TO the attending Physicians, to whose M
mediate care they are entrusted, Every
praise too which the visitors can bestow, IS
due TO Mr.. & Mrs. Gatehel, the Stewart and
Natron of the Hospital, for the nea. and
clean manner in which the House is uni
formly kept, and for their care and attention
10 tie administration Of the internal econo-
my of the establishment. -,
Before they conclude this account OF the
Hospital, the visitors would invite the al
tention oftheir fellow citizens throughout
Inc United States, to the .Andtomhcdl tabi-
net OF War Preparations, by (h'dppi,whlcii
certainly far surpasses any thing OF the kind
ever exhibited in this country; and will al
ford 70 those whose curiosity may lead them
10 see how "iearfully and wonderfully they
are made" but more especially to The me-
dica student, fund oil useful information.
The Hospital is under the care OF the
following me.icaI gentlemen
Doctors Colin .MGc&c,iSie Attending
James Smuh { Physicians.
DR.. Horetio CAFES Jameson, Allen'g Surg,
Doctors George Brown q
John Coulter e
John Campbell Vhite 2
Solomon Birkhead e.
JOHN CromceH }5S
Peter GatGrd
Ashton .aiexander
John Osgen
lillian Donaldson
By order of the Board of Visitors,
JOHN HILLEN. Sec'y.
August y lh8w
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