Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-08-27
Baltimore Hospital. !
Q I'm .lugUst, 1915

HNHE board oil vlSitors nave HluCn pleas
ure i'm announcing TO the public, that
within he last eighteen months, a large
and elegant addition has been made to this
valuable, institution, in The erection OF the
East wire OF the building. This wing is
l52 fee, in length and SO in width, with an
extensive Southern projection at lis extreme
Fast end. Ii contains between 80 and ~
apartments, admirably calculated for the
accommodation Of every class OF patients.
or this number are several large and airy
wards, INTENDED particularly Tor The receP-
ton of seamen, and well adapted 10 thei:
various diseases. These different rooms
and wards will be warmed by open tres.
and by heated air thrown into them, Iron
furnaces constructed on safe and impToy
ed plan. Arrangements will also soon he
made, for Lighting the apartments IN iiieea
tire building, with gas.
The unwearied exertions OF Doctors
Mackenzie and Smyth, the attending Ply
sicians of tile Hospital, in their attention 70
the construction of the building, and then
care of the sick, have given characler.o
this Institution, which is now inferior TO
none in the United States. In the snort
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 ot 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 mos;
extensive tbs Whole III. b"''"'""' being no"
The daily increase of the sick in the
Hospital, renders il absolutely necessary
mat the new wing should be furnished;
and every eXertion is now making, to have
II completed, before the cold weather shall
set ill.,
he visitors at their late meeting. eya-
mined the Institution with much care-,be
apartments OF the sick in the private mfr
mary-those in the lunatick asyIum-and
the wards of the sick and disabled seamep
IN the Marine Hospilal--and they assert
with confidence, that the sick and afflicted
OF every description are well accommoda.
ted and carefully attended. They have
seen al their different. meetings, the private
patient comfortable the wretched marine
humaneiy taken care of; and the s;ilor,
disabled by age, wounds and sickness. wei!
provided with suitable medical assistance,
END wIihevery other comfort which his con-
dilion 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
70 me attending Physicians, 10 whose i'm
mediate care they are entrusted. Every
praise too,which the visitors can bcstow. Is
due to Mr.. & Ms. Gatchel, The Stewart and
Matron OF the Hospital, for the neat and
Clean manner in which the House is uni
iormiy 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 OF their fellow citizens throughout
the United States, to the anatomical Ca6;.
net OF War Preparations, by Chiapp,, which
certainly tar surpasses any thing the kind
exhibited IN this country and will afford
10 nose whose curiosity may lead them 10
sec how iearfulIy and wonderfully they
are made, but more especially to the nc
lIcal student, Il fund of useful information.
y he Hospital is under the care OF the
GLOWING medical gentlemen:
Doctors Coiin Wackcn,ie Attending
James Smyth ! Physicians.
Dr. D Horatto Gates Jameson, Atten'g Surg.
Doctors George Bro7rn
John Coulter 8
John Campbell White 2
Solomon Birkhead q
join. CromaeH
Peter Gaiord ."
.a%tton alexander =
J0tn O1rcn =
Hiiiiam Donaldson
BY order OF the Board of Visitors.
JOHN HILLEN. Sec'y.
August 81 Thaw
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