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

ure in announcing 10 the pubic, tnat
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
1852 feet in length aud SO in width, with an
extensive Southern projection at ITS extreme
East end. Ii contains between ~ and ~
apartments, admirably calculated Tor the
accommodation of every class OF patients.
or This 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 he warmed by open tres,
and by heated air thrown into them, IRON
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 eXertions 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 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 halfa 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
$50 feet in length. -, -. =,
Tie daily increase of the sick in the
Hospital, renders it absolutely necessary
that the new wing should be furnished;
and every excrtiun 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 asyium-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, well
provided with suitable medical assistance,
and withevery other comfort whth his con-
diticn NAV require. Indeed the agreeable
situation in which this very useful class OF
men are placed, does much credit, as well
IN the Director of the Marine Hospital, as
TO the attending Physicians, TO whose i'm
mediate care they are entrusted. Every
praise toe, which the visitors can bestow, IS
Sma m Mr. & Mrs. Gatchel, the Stewart and
M,,ron of he Hospital, for the rea: and
clean manner in which the House is uni
fornly kept. aud for their care and attention
IN the administration Of the internal econo-
nv Of the establishment.
Before they conclude this account OF the
Hospital. the visitors would invite the at
ten,ion of their fellow citizens throughout
the United States, to the .andtomicdt tao,-
net Of War Preparations, by Chiapp,, 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 "fearfully and wonderfully they
are made" but more especially to the me.
dic,l student, fund of useful information
The Hospital is under the care OF the
following medical gentlemen:
doctors Colin Mackenzie Attending
lanes Smyth Physicians.
DR.. Horatio Gates Jameson, Atten'g Surg.
Doctors George Brovn q
John Coulter
John Campbell Hhite 2
Solomon Birkhedd g.
John CromueH }SS
Peter Oaturd
Ashton .4lerdnder
John Oxen
Wiiliam Donaldson
Bv order of the Board Of Visitors,
JOHN HILLEN, Sec'y.
a,o,s, OF Th8w
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