Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-10-02
Baltimore Hospital,
9th .1urust. 1918.

ure IN announcing W Tie PuDiie, Vldi
within the LAST eiNhteen 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
l5e feet in length and 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.
| 9th number are several large and airy
wards, intended particularly for the recep-
| ton of seamen, and well adapted 10 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 plan Arrangements will also soon be
made, for lighting the apartments in the en-
tire building, with gas.
The unwearied eyertions 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 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-a 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 and Philadelphia to their present
size, and it 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
800 feet in length. X -. 49,,
The daily increase OF the sick IN The
Hospital, renders il absolutely necessary
that the new wing should be furnished ;
and every exertiGn is now making, TO have
il completed, before the cold weather shall
set III.
The visitors at their late meeting, exa-
mined the Institution with much care-the
apartments of the sick in the private inhr-
mary-'hose in the lunatick asylum-and
the wards of the sick and disabled seamen
in the Marine Hospital land they assert
with confidence, that the sick and afflicted
of every description are well accommoda-
ted and carefully attended. They have
seen at 'heir different meetings, the private
patient comfortable the wretched marine
. humaneiy taken care of; and the sailor,
disabled by age, wounds and sickness, well
provided with suitable medical assistance,
and witheyery other comfort which his con-
diticn NAV reGuire 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.. u Mrs. Gatche! the Stewart and
Nlatron 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-
nv of the establishment.
Before they conclude this account OF the
Hospital, the visitors would invite the at
tentiun oftheir fellow citizens throughout
The United States. To the anatomical Cdbi-
net o! War Preparations, by Chiapp,,w which
certainly far surpasses any thing OF the kind
ever exhibited in this country; and will al
ford tc those whose curiosity may lead them
TO <e how "Gearfully and wonderfully they
are made" nut more especially to the me-
dicaI student, fund of useful information.
The spita is under the care OF the
following medical gentlemen:
Doctors Colin Mackenzie Attending
James SnyW InySlCIaHS.
DR.. Horatio Gates jameson, Atten'g Surg.
Doctors GeDrge BroUn ! .
John Coulter 8
John Campbell Rhite
Solomon Birkhsad -
John Crom'seH ~
Peter Hdtgrd
Ashton Hereunder
John O;cen
Uilliam Donaldson
By order of the Board of Visitors,
JOHN HlLLEN, Sec'y.
August OF Th8w
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