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Baltimore Orphan Asylum

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Hospitals

Founded: Founded 1778. Incorporated 1801.
Location: 215 N. Stricker Street (Stricker and Lexington Streets), Baltimore, MD

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Baltimore Orphan Asylum. 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

Baltimore Orphan Asylum. 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

Additional Information

  • Dates: 1894
    Notes: THE BALTIMORE ORPHAN ASYLUM is situated at Stricker and Lexington streets. The cost of the property as it now stands is $40,000. It was organized in 1778, and incorporated in 1801. The estimated number of inmates in this institution since its foundation is 2,000. The capacity of the institution is 175; the number of inmates at present, 110. This institution is claimed to be the oldest non-sectarian charitable institution in the United States. In view of the good work accomplished, the citizens of Maryland have just cause to be proud of it.
    The income of the asylum is derived principally from annual donations and from the interest on its invested funds, consisting of legacies which have been bequeathed to it from time to time.
    The total receipts during the last year were $7,363.97. The General Assembly of 1892, for the first time in seven years, appropriated the sum of $2,000 to assist in repairing and improving the buildings. The amount seems to have been economically expended, and the institution is in every way a credit to its efficient Board of Managers. The appropriation referred to being an assistance to a worthy charity was not misplaced.
    Source: Message of Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland, to the General Assembly at its Regular Session, January, 1894 Baltimore: Wm. J.C. Dullany Company: 94
  • Dates: 1920
    Notes: Amounts appropriated for state-aided institutions, from the Maryland Manual, 1921-1922.

 

University of Maryland School of Dentistry

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Schools

Location: Baltimore, MD

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University of Maryland, School of Medicine Administration Building, and Dentistry, Pharmacy and Hospital, Baltimore, Md. Private Collection.

University of Maryland, School of Medicine Administration Building, and Dentistry, Pharmacy and Hospital, Baltimore, Md. Private Collection.

University of Maryland, Dental Department, Baltimore, Md., A026794. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine

University of Maryland, Dental Department, Baltimore, Md., A026794. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine

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Bibliography

  • McCauley, H.B., “Professional Dentistry and the University of Maryland at Baltimore” Bulletin of the History of Dentistry (30): 73-91
  • McCauley, H.B., “The century old Dental Department of the University of Maryland at Baltimore” Journal Maryland State Dental Association (25): 96-102

Southern Homoeopathic Training School for Nurses

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Schools

Location: Baltimore, MD

  • See also: Southern Homoeopathic Medical College
  • See also: Maryland Homoeopathic Free Dispensary and Hospital

Additional Information

  • Dates: 1891
    Notes: A Training School for Nurses has been established in connection with the Maryland Homoeopathic Hospital. Young ladies who enter this school receive careful instruction at the bedside in the art of nursing, and also attend a course of lectures each year, delivered by the Professors of the Faculty of the College and others, on special departments of nursing.After a two years’ course of training, and on the passage of an examination as to her acquirements, a diploma will be granted to the successful candidate, signed by the lecturers of the Training School
    Source: ,Annoucement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Snowden & Cowman: 12