Founded: Established June 20, 1917, on recommendation of Surgeon General. First soldiers arrived August 22, 1917 to implement opening of hospital. Operating room opened October 29, 1917. Wards completed 1918.
Closed: Hospital buildings demolished in 1922.
Location: Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD

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Chapel. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine	Unidentified Army Medical Officers on Rodman Guns. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Hospital at Fort McHenry, WWI. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine	Main Mess Hall. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Interior Main Power House. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine	Kitchen – Officer’s Mess. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Office in Laboratory. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine	Barracks and Wards – Wards 10-17 (wood construction). Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
U.S. Army. General Hospital No. 2, Fort McHenry, Baltimore : Laboratory. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division	Diet Kitchen Main Mess. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Main Kitchen. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine	Nurses’ Mess and Quarters. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Typical Ward. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine	Ward 30. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Exterior Main Power House. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine	Back Road before Completion. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Along Connecting Corridor Two-Story Wards. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine	New Laboratory – Interior. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
New Laboratory – Interior. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine	Demolition. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
U.S. General Hospital No. 2, Fort McHenry, View of the Grounds. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division	U.S. General Hospital No. 2, Fort McHenry. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
U.S. General Hospital No. 2, Fort McHenry – Interior. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division	U.S. General Hospital No. 2, Fort McHenry – Interior. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
U.S. General Hospital No. 2, Fort McHenry – Group of Nurses. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division	U.S. General Hospital No. 2, Fort McHenry – General Mess Hall. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
McFee – FOMC – nurses PP32. Maryland Historical Society	McFee – award of medal PP32 (Z24.603). Maryland Historical Society
McFee – hospital ward PP32 (Z24.604). Maryland Historical Society	McFee – ward PP32 (Z24.607). Maryland Historical Society
McFee – group of recovering wounded PP32 (Z24.608). Maryland Historical Society	McFee – x-ray of head PP32 (Z24.609). Maryland Historical Society

Additional Information

• Dates: 1918/06/01
  Notes: The post barber shop has recently moved into commodious, light and airy quarters on the second floor of the canteen building. It is nicely fitted with three new chairs, two wash bowls and several sporty mirrors. It cost the canteen several hundred dollars to establish the new shop.
  Private Frank Carmean is head barber. He is ably assisted by Joseph Firezzetti and Vito DeLeonardi. Joe Prebezewski presides over the shoe shining department. Call and get acquainted with all of them.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/01, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/01
  Notes: A fine Lippincott sanitary soda fountain is being installed in the canteen for the purpose of helping the wealthy private get rid of his surplus cash. It is equipped with porcelain pumps and tanks and has a continuous electric carbonator.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/01, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/01
  Notes: Our telegraph office is now in operation at the headquarters of the Officer of the Day. It is in charge of Pvt. E.M. Clark, graduate of the Fort McHenry School of Telegraphy. Hours are from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/01, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/01
  Notes: General Hospital No. 2 trimmed General Hospital No. 7 at baseball last Saturday to the tune of 4 to 1. The game took place on the Charles St. Ave. grounds.
  Benda, the Fort McHenry twirler, won his own game in the sixth with a long wallop to the left garden, scoring two runs. He was injured in the sixth and was relieved by Johnsonbaugh, who pitched steadily and held the boys of No. 7 without a schore for the rest of the game.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/01, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/01
  Notes: The shoe shop is now prepared to do work for officers, nurses and enlisted men. Its servies are furnished free to enlisted men and patients thru the Q.M., who will give a repair order to men who are on their uppers. Other customers of the shop are served at the following prices.

  Half soles, sewed	75
  Half soles, nailed	60
  Full soles, sewed	1.00
  Rubber heels	35
  Leather heels	20
  Patches

  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/01, p. 1

• Dates: 1918/06/01
  Notes: Major Herring has now moved with his patients to the new psychiatric building which is fully equipped with all the appliances which are of use in treating mental cases.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/01, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/01
  Notes: Three new cannon have been mounted near the Administration Building on neat concrete pedestals. Between them on the lawn appear the words U.S.A. General Hospital No. 2, in raised concrete letters. The effect of the whole is very pleasing.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/01, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/01
  Notes: Description of hospital Educational Office.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/01, p. 2
• Dates: 1918/06/01
  Notes: A splending concert was given the post last Sunday afternoon by the band of the Baltimore Dry Dock Shipbuilding Co. It is to be hoped that these concerts will be frequently repeated thruout the summer.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/01, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/01
  Notes: A TALE OF TWO GIFTS
  Some days ago Mrs. J.F. Sipple, Regent of the Baltimore Chapter of the D.A.R. asked Colonel Purnell what the chapter could do the serve the post. “Get us a pool table,” was the reply.Mrs. Sipple immediately inserted an advertisement in a newspaper, stating that the D.A.R. would be glad to receive a table for the boys at Fort McHenry. The paper had not been off the press many hours when Mr. Louis Solomon telephoned her that he would be glad to furnish the desired table. It was brought to the fort the next day.Hardly had it been installed when Mr. S.J. Morton sent word thru Mrs. W.F. Rogers that he had a table for the post. Mrs. Rogers interviewed Col. Purnell to find out if he would accept a second table. “I’ll take a dozen if you can get them,” he answered.The second table is now in the recreation room and the D.A.R. is hunting for the other ten.Our thanks are due to Mrs. Sipple and Mrs. Rogers, to the D.A.R., and especially to Mr. Solomon and Mr. Morton for their interest in Fort McHenry.Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/01, p. 4
• Dates: 1918/06/01
  Notes: A new Hamilton piano has just been received by the Y.M.C.A. and will be installed in the recreation room in the canteen building.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/01, p. 4
• Dates: 1918/06/01
  Notes: Description of new lunch room at the fort.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/01, p. 4
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: A somewhat new feature of the entertainment so generously provided by the citizens of Baltimore for our boys is the motor boat service made possible by the Motor Launch Club of Maryland, largely through the efforts of Mr. Myer Rosenbush. The boats are sent to our pier five evenings a week and take parties of convalescent men on trips down the bay and to points of interest. Refreshments and feminine companionship are usually provided and the trip is made a real treat in every sense of the word. What would life be without such friends as these.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: Our shoe shop received it new machinery this week and is now completely equipped not only to repair old shoes, but even to make if necessary, new ones. A force of eight men are now employed in this always busy and cheerful school shop.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: U.S.A. General Hospital No. 2 is soon to be the recepient of a gift of $834.00, the proceeds of a Minstrel Show given in Highlandtown last January. The entertainment, which was participated in by prominent business and professional men of the city, was given for the benefit of the soldiers, and the committee in charge has decided that by giving the money to the Fort McHenry hospital it will accomplish the greatest good in relieving the suffering of boys who have been wounded or gassed and sent back to this country. Another instance of the loyalty and devotion of our friends, the citizens of Maryland!
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: Captain William H. Mearns is now attached to the Educational Office as Reconstruction Psychologist.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: On Saturday Fort McHenry plays Camp Holabird; the return game, on the following Saturday, will be played at Latrobe Park.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: A new regular feature of the entertainments provided by the Y.M.C.A. for the soldiers at Fort McHenry will be moving pictures every Saturday and Monday night. Only the highest class films will be provided, those showing Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and the like. The schedule of the films will be printed weekly in the TROUBLEBUSTER.
  This Saturday night the picture will be “The Spirit of 17,” featuring Jack Pickford, an interesting and inspiring picture showing what our soldiers are doing.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: A $625 pool table has just been donated to the Y.M.C.A. and placed in No. 1 Recreation Hall.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: We are glad to observe the gangs of men again at work upon our hospital buildings. Ground is being broken for the new wards and one or two of the smaller new buildings are nearing completion.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: OUR PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
  There are a number of patients in this hospital whose sickness is mental rather than physical. Their brain or their nervous system is afflicted but they seem normal because the rest of tehir bodies is normal. When, therefore, these patients do strange things it is the easy thing for the bystander to laugh and make fun of them. The heedless man does not realize the harm he may be doing in this way. To joke or make fun of a broken leg does no harm. You are attacking him at the seat of his disease. You would not kick a man with a broken leg. Why strike with harmful impressions the sick brain of a mentally diseased patient?The mental patients should be treated with kind sympathy and consideration. Never make fun of them, even if they make fun of their own condition. Do not encourage them in it. So far as possible they should be prevented from thinking of their abnormal state.How would you treat your brother if he were in such a condition? Probably you would not refer to him as a nut, even if he applied that term to himself.Help these fellows all you can. Treat their affliction as the serious thing it is. Above all things else, do not think of them simply as fit butts for your jokes. Do not make it more difficult for them to help themselves.Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 2
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: Description of the School of Telegraphy
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 2
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: Description of new Convalescent Camp
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 3
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: The TROUBLE BUSTER is glad to observe that the war-gardens in the angles of the old Star Fort are coming on finely. The lettuce and lima beans are doing their bit, and the prospects for a large tomato crop are particularly good. We are especially happy over this fact, for no one knows how fond we are of tomatoes.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 3
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: Our fatigue squads have shown a veritable passion for planting hedges and flower beds this spring, and thanks to their efforts our post is rapidly becoming transformed from a jumble of ugly buildings to an orderly and beautiful park. The TROUBLE BUSTER sees great possiblities for formal gardening in the space between the wings of the Physical Therapy building, one of which is rapidly becomikng hallowed by the weekly dances of the officers. Perhaps our versatile cement workers intend to contribute some of the ornamental pieces for its decoration. There is a noticeable absence of shrubs all about our grounds, but perhaps like whiskers they are not considered sanitary. We wonder.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 3
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: The hospital has received a beautiful knitted blanket, composed of squares of many colors. The blanket is the work of boys of the William Fell School, No. 6, at Ann and Fleet Sts. Last Monday eight of the boys visited the post with two of their teachers to present the blanket and get a glimpse of some of the returned soldiers. We appreciate your kindness and your efforts, boys. It wouldn’t take long to win the war if every American had your spirit.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 3
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: The swimming pier which has recently been projected for a hundred feet into the Patapsco is now one of the most popular places on the post late on hot afternoons. Come on in! The water’s fine.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 3
• Dates: 1918/06/29
  Notes: Description of new Cafeteria
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/06/29, p. 4
• Dates: 1918/07/06
  Notes: Forty patients from Fort McHenry were entertained on the Fourth with automobile trips. One party of 25 were taken out by the Red Cross under the direction of Mrs. J. Henry Stromeier. They took part in the Red Cross parade in Baltimore, and were entertained at supper, with dancing afterwards. Many of the men had never been out of the post before. A glorious good time was reported by every one of the lucky 40.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/07/06, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/07/06
  Notes: Description of Commercial Cources offered at post hospital.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/07/06, p. 2
• Dates: 1918/07/06
  Notes: Description of Fort McHenry Press.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/07/06, p. 3
• Dates: 1918/07/06
  Notes: In the future all ambulances and automobiles on the post are to be repaired in the Educational Departments shops.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/07/06, p. 3
• Dates: 1918/07/06
  Notes: SOLDIER DROWNED
  An unfortunate accident marred the Fourth of July celebration when Alfred J. Airey of Medical Detachment No. 2, was drowned while swimming off the pier on the north side of the Fort. Private Airey had been diving with a companion and failed to come to the surface. The alarm was given, and divers were sent down, but it was not until the police boat Lannan arrived that the body was recovered.In the hope of finding a spark of life in the body, Major Chatard and Lieut. Johnson worked with the pulmotor for nearly an hour, but without success.Private Airey was 22 years old and lived at 1131 Light Street. He had been in the service less than a week, having joined only last Friday. He is survived by his mother, a brother and sister.Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/07/06, p. 4
• Dates: 1918/09/21
  Notes: Description of Post Band.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/09/21, p. 4
• Dates: 1918/09/21
  Notes: Description of new hospital buildings.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/09/28, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/09/21
  Notes: The much-talked about Spanish Influenza arrived last week at the Fort…. [Article lists names of deaths which occurred as a result of the epidemic.]
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/09/28, p. 4
• Dates: 1918/10/16
  Notes: Description of rush to complete new recreation and general purpose building.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/10/16, p. 1
• Dates: 1918/10/16
  Notes: Description of role of army nurses in military hospitals.
  Source: Troublebuster (Fort McHenry), 1918/10/16, p. 3
• Dates: 1920
  Notes: Listing of staff, inmates, etc. at US General Hospital No. 2. In (1920 U.S. Census) MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, 24-WD BALTIMORE, FORT MCHENRY Series: T625 Roll: 668 Page: 22