Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-09-25
Baltimore Hospital,
24h .AusHst, 1918.

24h .1ushSt, 1915. J
NIlE board Of visitors have much pleas
i IRE in announcing TO the public, that
within the last eighteen months, large
andeegant addition has been made to this
valaable institution, in the erection of the
East wing of the building. This wing is
l52 let in length and sc in width, with an
exteEive Southern projection at its extreme
East end. Ii contains between 80 and 40
apartments, admirably calculated for the
accommodation Of every class OF patients.
Ofihis number are several large and airy
wards, intended particularly for the recep-
tion 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 lphn. 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
scians of the Hospital, in their attention to
the construction Of the building, and their
care Of the sick, have given a character 10
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 well known,
that above half a century has been con-
sumed, in bringing the Hospitals of New
York aud 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 il absolutely necessary
that the new wing should be furnished;
and every exertion rs now making. TO have
il completed, before the cold weather shall
set III.
The visitors at their late meeting, exa-
mined Inc 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
will confidence, that the sick and afflicted
Of every description are well aceommoda-
ted and carefully attended. They have
seen al their different meetings, the private
patient comfortable the wretched 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 bis 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
medhte care they are entrusted. Every
praise too which the visitors can bestow, is
due 10 Mr.. & Mrs. Gatchel, the Stewart and
Matvn of the Hospital, for the nea. and
Clean manner in which the House is uni
fomy kept, and for their care and attention
10 he administration OF the internal econo-
lmy If the establishment.
B-iore they conclude this account Of the
,HOspital, the visitors would invite the at.
stentiCn OF their fellow citizens throughout
sthe United States, to the Anatomical Cabi-
met O Var Preparations, by Chiapp,,w which
ccrianly far surpasses any thing of the kind
Eeyrcxhibited in this country; and will af-
| ford o those whose curiosity may lead them
10 SO how "fearfully ard wonderfully they
Farr lde," but more especially to the me-
'Sd'ca0 student, a fund of useful information.
+ TIE Hospitals is under the care of the
Ef0,IOying medical gentlemen:
Doctors Colin Mackenzie Attending
James Smyth Physicians.
D.. Horatio Gates Jameson, Atten'g Surg.
Doctors George Brown ! q
John Coulter g
John Campbell Hhite 2
.S.Io,Don BirIbenl !