Founded: Incorporated 1866
Location: Baker and Carey Streets, Baltimore, MD

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Female House of Refuge, Baltimore. Message of Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland, to the General Assembly at its Regular Session, January, 1894 (Baltimore: Wm. J.C. Dullany Company, 1894). Maryland State Archives

Interior, Female House of Refuge. Message of Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland, to the General Assembly at its Regular Session, January, 1894 (Baltimore: Wm. J.C. Dullany Company, 1894). Maryland State Archives

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• Dates: 1894
  Notes: THE FEMALE HOUSE OF REFUGE, was incorporated in 1866. It is a reformatory institution for young girls, situated at the corner of Baker and Carey streets, Baltimore. It cost about $60,000, of which amount the State gave $10,000, and the remainder was made up from private contributions from benevolent citizens of the city of Baltimore. They have had in their charge since the erection of the building 583 girls, who are taught the ordinary English branches, housework, sewing, moral and religious training, and a system of work has been adopted by which the girls are trained in woman’s industries, and they receive a large percentage of their earnings from the sales of the work, which amount is deposited in Savings Banks to their credit. They are regularly graded according to merit, and whenever deemed prudent are placed in good homes, or returned to their relatives. Some, of course, return to their former evil lives, but a large proportion are permanently reformed. The present building will accommodate something over one hundred, giving each one a separate sleeping apartment. The average number of inmates is about seventy. This institution is assisted annually by the State of Maryland, and by the city of Baltimore. The State appropriation in 1892 was $5,000 per annum.
  Source: Message of Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland, to the General Assembly at its Regular Session, January, 1894 Baltimore: Wm. J.C. Dullany Company: 89

Founded: September 13, 1861
Closed: May 1862. Patients transferred to McKim’s Mansion
Location: Adams House Hotel, southwest corner of Pratt and Hanover Streets, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1862/02/11
  Notes: Notice, Baltimore Daily Gazette, February 11, 1862 relating to admissions to the National Hotel hopital and Adams Hospital.

Founded: 1832
Location: Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1832
  Notes: Augustus L. Warner, physician to Special Cholera Hospital No. 3
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 263
• Dates: 1832
  Notes: George B. Mackenzie, Physician to Special Cholera Hospital
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 263

Closed: 1882
Location: North Broadway, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1882/09/19
  Notes: Hospital Opening and Dispensary Consolidation. The Baltimore Eye, Ear and Throat Charity Hospital, No. 186 Franklin street, opened its outpatient or dispensary department yesterday. The institution is a consolidation of the Eye and Ear Dispensary of the Church Home, North Broadway, the Baltimore Charity Eye and Ear Dispensary, Central Avenue, the eye and ear department of the Baltimore General Dispensary, Liberty street, and the Baltimore Throat Dispensary, Park avenue, all of which have been discontinued. The staff of the hospital is made up of specialists formerly connected with those institutions, as follows: Eye and ear, Drs. Samuel Theobald, S.L. Frank, Russell Murdock and I. Bermann; throat, Drs. J.H. Hartman, Samuel Johnston and John N. McKenzie; consulting surgeons, Drs. Alan P. Smith, L. McLane Tiffany, Christopher Johnson and Oscar J. Coskery; consulting physicians, Drs. Samuel C. Chew, G.W. Miltenberger, Rigin Buckler and Ferd. J. Chatard, Jr. The hospital is supported by volunteer contributions, and treatment will be supplied free of charge to the poor. The in-patient department, provided with free beds, will be opened about October 1. The officers of the institution are as follows: Hon. Geo. Wm. Brown, president; John W. McCoy, Samuel G. Wyman, vice-presidents; Clayton C. Hall, treasurer; John N. Mackenzie, M.D., secretary; finance committee, Wm. H. Perot, C. Morton Stewart, Mendes Cohen, W.S. Rayner; board of trustees, John Lee Carroll, Ernest Knabe, C. Morton Stewart, Wm. H. Perot, T. Edward Hambleton, Samuel G. Wyman, Jno. W. McCoy, W. S. Rayner, Samuel H. Lyon, T. Harrison Garrett, Mendes Cohen, S. Teackle Wallis, Wesley A. Tucker, Geo. Wm. Brown, Clayton C. Hall.
  Source: Sun (Baltimore), 19 September 1882.

Location: Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1920
  Notes: Amounts appropriated for state-aided institutions, from the Maryland Manual, 1921-1922.

Founded: Incorporated 1891
Location: 115 West Barre Street, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1901
  Notes: (Incorp. 1891) 115 west Barre St. Clinics held: Monday and Thursday, 3 to 5 p.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 7 to 9 p.m. Object.–To provide treatment for womena nd children by women physicians. Management.– Board of directors, self perpetuating. 10 to 25 cents is charged those who can pay. At Wednesday evening clinic the fee is 50 cents. Two physicians reside in the Dispensary who visit sick patients in their homes. The Dispensary is supported by private subscriptions, and by the receipts from its pay patients. Patients treated 1900-1901, 6841; prescriptions filled, 13,274; visits to outside patients, 1865. Income, 1900, $2063.78; expenses, $1879.99.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 40-41