Location: Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1850
  Notes: The present Marine Hospital was designed by those who first established it as an asylum for those unfortunate beings, who leaving shores less hospital than our own, after undergoing the fatigues perhaps of a long and tempestuous voyage, contracting diseases of the most dangerous character, were thrown upon ours friendless and helpless. Appropriations from the city were made from year to year to defray the costs of the institution. Since howeer, its affairs have been under my management, I have not only made the quarantine fees support that department but also defray the expenses of the Hospital without drawing upon the city treasurer, although nearly all the cases that have been admitted to the hospital have been pauper patients sent from the city.
• See: Report of the Physician of the Marine Hospital, 1850.
• Dates: 1850
  Notes: From the 1st of January 1850, to the 1st 1851, I have treated 164 cases of small pox, most of them of the most virulent kind. The majority of these cases, indeed, I may say the whole of them, occurring among those whose constitutions have been shattered and broken down by dissapation and disease, and who when admitted into the hospital were suffering in its last stages — most of them having received no medical treatment before they came under my hands, and many of them sent to the hospital in open conveyances, were in such a state that I found they required from me the greatest care and attention, several of them dying after being in the hospital a few hours.
  See: Report of the Physician of the Marine Hospital, 1850.
• Dates: 1851
  Notes: There werew 104 deaths from smallpox in the city and 80 at the Marine Hospital. Twenty Vaccine Physicians appointed. Total vaccinations, 3738. (Q.).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 702
• Dates: 1854
  Notes: And I would most earnesly advise the Council to appropriate such surplus, to be expended in filling up and draining the marshes, which makes the Hospital so terribly unhealthy, — this could readily be done, and at a small cost, by making them a deposit for the mud and sediment taken from the bottom of the river and basin. The sickness, which prevails every summer and fall, among the employees, adds much to the expenses, by rendering the employment of additional hands necessary; besides, sadly crippling the efficiency of both the Medical and Agricultural departments.
  See: Report of the Physician of the Marine Hospital, 1854.
• Dates: 1854
  Notes: The duties of the Physician at the Hospital, are too arduous for one man to perform. He is required to board all vessels arriving between sun-rise and sun-set; to attend all cases admitted into the Hospital; to superintend the farming operations; to sell his surplus produce; to audit all accounts, and to collect all monies due from vessels, & c. These various duties require his presence in different places at the same time, or else forces him to entrust chance and irresponsible persons. I would therefore, suggest to your honorable body, as the law already makes provision for the appointment of a medical assistant, but attaches no salary to the office, that some compensation may be affixed so as to render that portion of the law, operative.
  See: Report of the Physician of the Marine Hospital, 1854.
• Dates: 1857
  Notes: I experienced much difficulty last term in consequence of not having suitable buildings for the reception of infected cargo and persons; the necessity of such buildings being of paramount importance in the thorough execution of our quarantine laws.
  See: Report of the Physician of the Marine Hospital, 1854.
• Dates: 1857
  Notes: There is great need of suitable sleeping apartments for the accommodation of both boatmen and farm-hands, who are at present crowded together in one room of the hospital. There is a house on the place which would be (at a small expense,) admirably fitted for the purpose. The other out-houses have been put in a tolerably comfortably condition. This year I planted a peach orchard of over a hundred trees, comprising several varieties of fruit, which will some day add to the revenue of the farm.
  See: Report of the Physician of the Marine Hospital, 1854.