Location: Adjoins Baltimore University Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1888-1889
  Notes: THE LYING-IN HOSPITAL. Supported solely by the University, is directly under its immediate control, and adjoins the general Hospital. Students have at all times access to it, under the direction of the Professor of Obstetrics, and in cases of labor are called upon to assist.
  Source: Baltimore University, Annual Announcement and Catalogue of the Baltimore University School of Medicine Baltimore: Record Printing House: 4
• Dates: 1897-1898
  Notes: THE LYING-IN HOSPITAL. This department is supported solely by the University, is directly under its immediate control and adjoins the general hospital. Students have at all times access to it, under the direction of the Professor of Obstetrics, and in cases of labor are called upon to assist. Members of the graduating class are taken in squads of three or four students each and are notified promptly whenever labor occurs. These squads are assigned in rotation to attend labor cases in the hospital under the immediate supervision of the Professor of Obstetrics, they are thoroughly instructed in vaginal examinations and the antiseptic precautions to be taken in making such examinations, abdominal palpation, the diagnosis of presentation and in the treatment of the case preparatory to, during and after labor.
  Source: Baltimore University, Annual Announcement and Catalogue of the Baltimore University School of Medicine Baltimore: Sun Book and Job Printing Office: 18