Location: Adjacent to Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD

Location: Baltimore, MD

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Founded: 1898
Location: 2724 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD

Founded: 1900
Location: 2712 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD

Location: Located above North Avenue near Druid Hill Park, MD

Founded: Opened January 1, 1890 as City Hospital
Location: City Spring lot; Calvert and Saratoga Sts., Baltimore, MD

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TITLE: National Child Labor Committee No. 954. 1-legged boy. Neil Gallagher, Wilkes Barre, Pa. Born January 14, 1891. Went to work at about 9 years. Worked about two years in breaker. Went inside at about 11 years. “Tripper,” tending door. 83 cents [a] day. Injured May 2, 1904. Leg crushed between cars. Amputated at Mercy Hospital, Wilkes Barre. “Baltimore Tunnell” – “Black Diamond” D. & H. Co. Thomas Lewellin Superintendent (inside boys); Samuel Morgan, Superintendent. In Hospital 9 weeks. Amputated twice. No charge. Received nothing from company. “Was riding between cars and we aren’t supposed to ride between them.” No written rules, but they tell you not to. Mule driver (who was on for first day) had taken his lamp and he tried to reach across car to get it. Slipped between bumpers. Been working in breakers since. Same place $1.10 a day. Work only about 1/2 time. Work about 6 hour day. Left 3 months ago. Been in N.Y. – no work. Trying to get work in Poolroom. Applicant at Bureau for Handicapped, 105 E. 22nd Street, N.Y. Nov. 1, 1909. Father living, (Mother dead.) Miner same place. Hurt month ago Rock fall. 2 brothers 25, 27. Home 15 Pennsylvania St. Location: Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. CALL NUMBER: LOT 7483, v. 1, no. 0954[P&P] LC-H5- 954 REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-nclc-04573 (color digital file from b&w original print)

Mercy Hospital and College of Physicians and Surgeons. Private collection.

w Mercy Hospital – photo of a nun and a nurse in the nursery. Hughes Studio Photograph Collection, PP 30. Maryland Historical Society

Mercy Hospital Building. Images from the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A027651. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

Additional Information

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

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Founded: 1878
Location: The hospital was first located at 116 W. Lombard Street. In 1879, it moved to 51 Saratoga Street., Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1878-
  Notes: Founded 1878, at 116 W. Lombard St. In Dec., 1879, it was removed to 51 Saratoga St. Its capacity is 14 private and 6 public patients. The latter receive all medical and surgical treatment free, but are obliged to pay board, at a very low figure, as the Hospital has no endowment. There is an out-door department, at which 40 to 50 patients are attended per week. The whole Institution is connected with the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
  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: 257

Founded: about 1875
Location: Lombard and Greene Sts., Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1901
  Notes: (Estab. about 1875), Lombard and Greene Sts.; hospital telephones, C&P, St. Paul 1225; Maryland, Courtland 2090. Under the Faculty of Physic of the University of Maryland. Dispensary open, 12 m. to 1 p.m. for diseases of the nerves, chest, throat, and nose, of the eye and ear, of women and children, and for surgical cases. No outside visits made, except in maternity department. Visits received (1900), about 27,000.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: 44

Founded: Established 1811
Location: Forrest and Eager Sts., Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1916
  Notes: Maryland Penitentiary Hospital, Forrest and Eager Sts., Baltimore. Established 1811; general; 29 beds; William F. Schwartz, physician in charge.
  Source: American Medical Directory: A Register of Legally Qualified Physicians of the United States…. Chicago: American Medical Association: 685

Founded: 1847. Cornerstoneof new hall laid 13 Mar. 1851
Location: Fayette Street and Elbow Alley, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1847
  Notes: Dr. Chas. Fricke, with Drs. S. Theobald, Sen., Steiner and Christ. Johnson, establish the Maryland Medical Institute at Fayette street and Elbow alley.
  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: 38
• Dates: 1851/03/13
  Notes: Corner-stone of new hall, Maryland Institute, laid.
  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: 39