Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-10-07
Baltimore Hospital,
9th .august, 1915.

TIME board OF visitors have much pleas
IRE in announcing 10 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 aud SO in width, with an
extensive Southern projection at 1T 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 for the recep-
tion of seamen, and well adapted to their
various diseases. These different rooms
and wards will be warmed by open hres,
. 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 unweared exertions oil 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 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 tits admitted by many gentle
men, who have visited these Institutions,
that the Hospital here. is BY lar 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 exertiUn is now making, to have
il completed, before the cold weather shall
set ia.
The visitors at their late meeting, exa-
mined the Institution with much csre-the
apartments of the sick in the private mfr
mary-those in the lunatick asylum-and
the wards of the sick and disabled seameu
in the Marine IIospital--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
humane!y taken care of; and the sailor.
disabled by age, wounds and sickness, well
proyided with suitable medical assistance,
and wilhevery other comfort which his 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
mediate care they are entrusted. Every
praise oo,which the visitors can bestow, is
due to Mr.. & 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
tention OF their fellow citizens throughout
the United States, to the Anatomical Cdbi-
net OF H,ar Preparations, by Chidpp., 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-
dical student, fund Of useful information.
The Hospital is under the care of the
following medical gentlemen:
doctors O0Rn snuCheH%te lteuuHS
James Smyth Physicians.
DR.. Horai;o Gates jameson, Atten'g Surg.
Doctors George Broon q
John Coulter e
John Campbell White g
Solomon Birkhedd e
John CromueH }s5
Peter Oatnrd
Ashton .fierandsr
John Ouen .
William Donaldson
By orderof the Board Of Visitors,
JOHN HILLEN. Sec'y.
August 81 1h8w
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