Location: Baltimore, MD
Additional Information
- Dates: 1750
Notes: In the infancy of the town, the duties of [the Health Department]] were performed by the City Commissioners, who passed an ordinance requiring the citizens to remove nuisances from before their houses, and appointed one of their members, Dr. Wm. Lyon, to see it enforced, 1750.
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 - Dates: 1792-1794
Notes: In 1792, yellow fever occurring, the citizens elected a Committee of Health, to enforce sanitary measures, and Gov. Lee appointed two quarantine physicians for the port of Baltimore, one for land and one for sea, and in 1794 a third, to aid the citizens in enforcing quarantine.
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 - Dates: Apr. 25 1795
Notes: In 1792, yellow fever occurring, the citizens elected a Committee of Health, to enforce sanitary measures, and Gov. Lee appointed two quarantine physicians for the port of Baltimore, one for land and one for sea, and in 1794 a third, to aid the citizens in enforcing quarantine.
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 - Dates: 1797
Notes: On the incorporation of the city, an ordinance was passed for the establishment of a permanent Health Board, to consist of nine commissioners (civilians), who are elected the quarantine physician, and allow him an assistant, if necessary. The Board was to meet at the court house and advise with the quarantine or health officer as to sanitary matters affecting the city, and to employ a clerk at a reasonable salary (see Ord. 1797-1802, p. 38)
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 - Dates: Mar. 20, 1801
Notes: The Board is to be composed of five commissioners, two of whom are to be taken from east of Jone’s Falls. The city is to be divided into five districts; commissioners to meet weekly; the Superintendents of Streets are to be subordinated to the orders of the board, in removing nuisances; the physicians of the city are invited to give their advise to the board; they are empowered to establish a cordon around any infected locality of the city, which no one is allowed to pass except under the certificate of a physician; they are to appoint a Health Officer of the port, and adopt rules for the government of the Quarantine Hospital. Each Com. to receive a salary of $400 per an.
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: 257-258 - Dates: Mar. 22, 1803
Notes: The board to be composed of four members, two from each side of Jones’ Falls, and a clerk, who is to receive $100.
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: 258 - Dates: 1807
Notes: Health officer to employ an assistant
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: 258 - Dates: Mar. 17, 1808
Notes: Quarantine suspended by the board.
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: 258 - Dates: 1809
Notes: Powers of City Commissioners and Commissioners of Health united in the latter. The Health Dep. not to cost over $1200 per annum. Health officer’s salary to be $800. For cleaning streets, $5500; each Com. $600, clerk $600. Both latter allowed $150 more for extra services.
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: 258 - Dates: 1813
Notes: $1200 to H. Dep., each Com. $600, clerk $600.
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: 258 - Dates: Mar. 19 1818
Notes: Board to be composed of five members and called Commissioners of City of Baltimore, and when acting in capacity of Health Board, to head their documents “Health Office.” Each Com. to receive $800, clerk $800, Health Officer $1000.
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: 258 - Dates: 1819
Notes: Appropriation to H. Dep., $1500
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: 258 - Dates: Feb. 9,1820
Notes: The Board to be composed of three Commissioners, one Consulting Physician and the Health Officer. Salary of Com. $600 each, of Cons. Phys. $600, Sec. $100. To divide city in three districts. Meet regularly twice annually, and oftener, if called together by Mayor, or physicians. Superintendents of Streets under their control.
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: 258 - Dates: Dec. 17, 1821
Notes: Council, at suggestion of Dr. James Smtih, appoint five physicians as a special Board of Health to organize measures to control the small-pox, then epidemic; they are authorized to divide the city into six districts, and appoint a vaccine physician to each, at a salary of $200. The vaccine physician to vaccinate all who are unprotected, and report those refusing, and those who have had the smallpox, and the number vaccinated, to Mayor and Council.
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: 258 - Dates: 1823
Notes: Appropriation to H. Dept., $4000.
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: 258 - Dates: Mar. 9, 1826
Notes: City to be divided into five (5) districts for street cleaning purposes, and a superintendent appointed to each.
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: 258 - Dates: Mar. 21, 1827
Notes: Six Vaccine Physicians to be appointed by the city — one to each district at a salary of $100.
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: 259 - Dates: Apr. 2
Notes: The Health Officer to be appointed annually be Mayor and City Council, who shall be a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland; allowed an assistant. (Ord. No. 34, p. 420.)
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: 259 - Dates: 1901
Notes: The following hospitals have ambulances for the conveyance of sick persons to the hospital named in the title:The City Hospital, Calvert and Saratoga Sts.
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Broadway and McElderry St.
The Maryland General Hospital, Linden Ave. and Madison St.
The Maryland University Hospital, Greene and Lombard Sts.
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Caroline and Hoffman Sts.
The Health Department, City Hall Annex, has a ambulance to convey cases of contagious disease to the Quarantine Hospital.
The Supervisors of City Charities have contracted with the following hospitals for the conveyance of city patients: Maryland General, Maryland University, City Hospital, St. Joseph’s, and Homeopathic.
United States Marine Hospital Service has an ambulance which conveys sick sailors to the hospital.
Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 46
Bibliography
- Beilenson, P.L. and Lambropoulos, A.S., “Baltimore City Health Department: 200 Years of Progress and Partnership” Maryland Medical Journal (42): 729-733
- Black, G. and Bonner, N., “Maternal and Child Health Services in the Baltimore City Health Department, 1900-1992” Maryland Medical Journal (42): 775-778
Medicine in Maryland, 1752-1920 