Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-09-30
Baltimore Hospital,
2ih AusuSt, 1918

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 IN
extensive Southern projection at its extreme
! East end Ii contains between 80 and 40
apartments, admirably calculated Tor The
accommodation of every class OF patients.
/ OF this number are several large and airy
wards, intended particularly for the recep-
ton of seamen, AMI well adapted to 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 improve
ed plan. Arrangements will also soon be
made, for lighting the apartments in the ell
tire building, with gas.
The unweared exertiOrs 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 half a century has been con-
sumed, in bringing the Hospitals OF 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 most
extensive the whole building being now
$50 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 exertGn is now making, TO have
it completed, before the cold weather shall
set IN.
The visitors at their late meeting, exa-
mined the Institution with much care-the
apartments of The sick in the private mfr
mary-thoSe in the lunstick asylum-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 wreched marine
humaneiy taken care of; and the sailor,
disabled by age, wounds and sickness, well
provided with suitable medical assistance,
and withevery 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 too, which the visitors can bestow, is
due to Mr. & Mrs. Gsichel, The Stewart and
Matron of the Hospital, for the nea. and
clean manner in which the House is uni
formly kept. and Tor 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
teutior af,heir fellow citizens throughout
the Uu,oi States, to the .f'taton'cdl Cabt-
net o. War Preparations, by chtdpp',which
,ertqinv far surpassrs any thing OF the kind
ever Exhibited in this country; and will at
ford to those whose curiosity may lead them
10 see how 'iearluliy and wonderfully they
are made" but more especially TO the me-
deal student, fund of useful information.
The HOSPITAL is under the care of the
following melcal gentlemen
Doctors Colin Hackenzie Attending
Tames Smy,h Physicians.
DR.. Roratio Gatcs Jameson, Atten'g Surg.
Doctors George BrotSn q
John Coulter 2
John Campbell White 9
Solomon Birkhcad e.
JOHN CromiseH }=jS
Peter CRGtGrd
ashton Hereunder
John Oocen
Wiiiam Donaldson
By order of the Board of Visitors,
JOHN HlLLEN. Sec'y.
AUGUST 81 Th8w
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