Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-09-21
Baltimore Hospital,
9th .1ngRst. 1913.

\ 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
l52 feet in length and Sc in width, with an
extensive Southern projection at It's extreme
East end. 1t contains between 30 and 40
apartments, admirably calculated for the
accommodation Of every class OF patients.
OF this number are several large and airy
wards, intended particularly Tor the recep-
ton of seamen, and well adapted TO their
various diseases. These different rooms
aud wards will be warmed by open fires,
and by heated air thrown into them, from
furnaces constructed on sale and lmprov-
ed plan. Arrangements will also soon be
made, for lighting the apartments in the en-
tire building, with gas.
The unwearied eXcrtions 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 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 halt 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
500 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 ii.
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 lunatick asglum-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 withevery other comfort which his con-
ditien may require. Indeed the agreeable
situation in which this very useful class OF
men are placed, does much credit, as well
10 the Director of the Marine Hospital, as
to the attending Physicians, 10 whose i'm
mediate care they are entrusted. Every
praise too which the visitors can bestow, is
due to Mr.. s. 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
to the administration OF the internal econo-
my of the establishment.
Before they conclude this account OF the
HOSPITAL, the visitors would invite the at
,ention oftheir fellow citizens throughout
the United States, to the anatomical Cobi-
NET OF War Preparations, by Chtapp,, 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
to see how "feariulIy and wonderfully they
are made" but more especially to the me-
dical student, fund OF useful information.
The Hosoital is under the care OF the
following medica! gentlemen:
Doctors Colin Mackenzie Attending
James Smvth Physicians.
DR.. Horatio Gates jameson, Atieh'g Surg.
Doctors George Bro,cn q
John Coulter g
John Campbell Rhs.c g
Solomon Birkaead e.
John CromweH }sS
Peter Chntord
Ashton alexander
John Osssa
William Donaldson
By order of the Board Of Visitors,
JOHN HlLLEN, Sec'y.
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