The National tribune., 1903-04-16

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.sAFTER THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUH
the inadequacy of hospital accommodate
fions in the District of Columbia was
flearly apparent. Indeed. at the breaking
gut of the war, the Washington Infirmary.
Ehen under charge of Columbia College.
gas the only hospital available in the Dis
lrict. 1t was brick building. three
ktories high. with three white wings, and
kralls rough-coated, in imitation of stone.
In + street. in the rear of the Court
fIouse. on Judiciary Square. 1t was
Erected originally as a jail in 1904, at
'Ssast 20 years before work was begun Oh
sShe Court House. Upon the removal of
;sehe Jail to the blue Jug in the north
last corner of Judiciary Square. the Med
Staok up its quarters in the Washington H.
Urinary in the year 1914, assuming the
}name of the National Medical College
When the 9Th Mass. was m0bbed in
yBaltimore. in April, 1861, the wounded of
fthat command were taken to this infirm-
iary, which was used as military hospital
from that date until it was destroyed by
fire on Nov. 3. 1861. During the greater
'tpart of that time DIR. W. J. II. White. an
Assistant Surgeon of the United States
Army, was in charge The demands upon
1.-THE hospital, however, soon became so
great that additional accommodations Were
Required, and shortly after the Il Street
baptist Church was pressed into service
iias an adjunct, with DIR. White in charge.
ITS use was continued until Dec. 26. 1861.
:wben, ON the burning of the infrmary, the
school building in Judiciary Square, be-
tween L and G streets, and facing on
Fifth street. was opened by DIR. White.
and saw service until the following Janu-
cary. 1t became necessary after the de-
sAstruction of the infirmary to convert the
dwelling known as 461 Z street into a hos
;pital, and its occupancy continued until
5;the following January. In order to meet
4 tine requirements of the situation various
Tpublic buildings were made into barracks
iand hospitals, and even the Capitol was
fused as huge storehouse for flour and
provisions of war, as well as for quarter
ling troops. From Sept. 20 to November.
1852, Surgeon Edward Shipper. L. S. ",
conducted a hospital within the marble
shails of that immense structure. As with
I the Capitol SO was it with other public
buildings. From time to time soldiers
had been assigned to the northwest wing
of the Patent Office building. and then in
turn it was made a resting place for the
sick, wounded and dying soldiers. Its use
under the name of the Patent Office Hos
pital was continued from October, 1861,
to March, 1863 The Surgeons in charge
were Drs. John Wells Buckley. John n.
! Green. ]. C.. G. Downing, J. j. Woodward,
I A Thompson, j. ID. Robinson and G. W.
! Hoover.
4 THE CHURCHES, TOO,
s irrespective OF creed. were used for similar
4 purposes. among them Ascension (Episco-
I: paD. then on the south side of II street,
= between Ninth and Tenth streets. from
{ July, 1862, TO March, 1863, with Surgeon
4 j. &. DOrr L. 5. ", in charge; the Meth
/ odist Episcopal Church South (now a
:. Jewish synagogue), on Eighth street, be-
tween II and 1 streets n. W., also in
! charge of DIR. Dorr from July. 1862 for
! several months; Epiphany EpiscopaD, on
/. G street, between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets. from July to December,
!: 1862, in charge of Surgeon James Bryan,
t u. s. v: and the Unitarian Church NOW
Police Court building, Sixth and ID
! streets. which was then known as Cranch
Hospital, and was occupied from August
TO November. 1862, Edward Brooks. As
sistant Surgeon, L. S. A. and A. Wynn
koop, Surgeon. L. S. ", being in charge.
RyIand CMethodist EpiseopaD, on Tenth
from July. 1862, TO January, 1863, having
during that period J. Nichols, V. b. Hub
bard and II. o. Abbott in charge. The
Union (Methodist EpiscopaD, on Twentieth
street between Pennsylvania avenue and
II street, WAS so occupied from July TO
December, 1862, with w. II. Butler, As
sistant Army Surgeon, in charge. Trinity
I'D Il 4
from July. 1862. to April, 1863, with G.
w. Hatch and =. o. Williams, Assistant
Army Surgeons, in charge. was also used.
as well as the Fourth Presbyterian. on
Ninth. near q street \. W.. from July,
1862. TO March, 1863: and the Presby-
terian Church, on Bridge street, George
town. from Sept. 5, 1862, to Dec. 1862
with b. 4. Clements and Bolivar Knicker-
booker in charge; also Dumbarton Meth
odist EpiscopaD, Georgetown, from Octo
BIER, 1862, to January. 1863, with ii. L.
Burnett and A. L. Caruthers in charge
Trinity Catholic. on Lingan street
Georgetown, from October. 1862, to Janu
airy, 1863. with NJ. +. Bowers, Army Sur
seon, 18th Pa, and X. .. Abbott. Sur
geon, L. 5. A. in charge. Finally the
Ebenezer Methodist EpiscopaD, now
Fourth street. East Washington. from
July to December, 1862. with w. Il
Waters and S. A. II. McKim in charge
Grace tEplscopal}- ID and Eighth street,
S. W., from July to December. 1862, witt
the Surgeons who attended Ryland Hos
pital, in charge, and the Thirteenth stree
U'irso Baptist inow Builders Exchangel
opened and closed with Epiphany.
Drs. w S. Jandt and w. L. Waters
from July, 1862. to March, 1868. con
Quoted hospital in what WAS known al
Caspari's Hotel, three-story brick hous'
on A street, between New Jersey avenue
and First street S. T.. After its use TO
that purpose it was demolished to maxi
room for the further extension of thu
Capitol grounds.
In May, 1861, there was opened on FRS
street, between and d streets n. E.,
A SMALLPOX HOSPITAL,
or hospital for eruptive diseases. Assist
mt Surgeon Il. ]. Thomas was IN charge
gnnd one of the nurses was Mrs. ADJ
Spurgcon. The building was a privat,
residence and its smallpox and other pa
tients having been removed to the Kalo
rama Hospital, wards were added to i