Location: Corner of Baltimore Street and Central Avenue, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1901
  Notes: (Incor. 1818, as the Baltimore Second Dispensary; name changed, by act of Assembly, 1820) Baltimore St., east of Central Ave. Hours, 7 to 11 a.m. and 3 to 7 p.m., May 1 to November 1; 8 to 11 a.m. and 3 to 6 p.m., November to May. Object.– For the needy of east Baltimore. Outside visits are made to persons living south of Orleans and east of Calvert Sts.; medicine given on prescription of any physician registers at the dispensary. Management.– By board of 12 directors. Supported by small income from invested funds and by a share of the fines from houses of ill-fame; at present used by the Supervisors of City Charities as the dispensary for the eastern district of the city. In 1900 the Dispensary had 16,100 patients; filled 22,865 prescriptions; and paid about 740 outside visits.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 42-43
• Dates: 1916
  Notes: DISPENSARY 100 YEARS OLD
  The one hundredth anniversary of the Baltimore Eastern Dispensary’s praiseworthy record of good work among the sick in Baltimore will be observed today. A noteworthy fact in this connection is that not one of the 763,000 persons to whom relief had been administered, nor any of the 391,000 treated at their homes in the one hundred years have paid one cent in return. The expense has been borne by the directors and private contributors. The physicians at the dispensary have prescribed and compounded, not 58,000 prescriptions as stated in some accounts, byt 587,000; and filled 87,000 others, free of cost, that were sent in. The dispensary building, which is located at the northeast corner of Baltimore street and Central avenue, will be decorated for a week in celebration of its anniversary.
  Source: Sun (Baltimore), 1916

Founded: 1860
Location: Arlington Station, Baltimore, MD

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• See: Mount Hope Retreat, Baltimore, Maryland. Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012. Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, New York Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, New York

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• Dates: 1861/12/14
  Notes: The New Mount Hope Hospital. — The work on the new Mount Hope Hospital, six miles from the city on the Reisterstown road, has been continued during the past summer and fall seasons, and it now begins to assume proportions which will afford accommodations for a large number of patients. The main building is nearly complete, thus affording an excellent culinary department, as well as providing parlors and business rooms, which before had to be taken from the wing already completed. The bricks are all made and burned on the farm, and the improvements about the institution gives it an air of some comfort and pleasantness. It is surrounded by old forest trees, while many ornamental trees have been planted. The centre building is so nearly finished that early in the spring it will be ready for occupancy. The contractors, Messrs. S.H. Adams & Brother, are still pushing the work forward, and the structure has the appearance of great strength, as well as convenience for the purpose of its protectors.
  Source: Sun (Baltimore) 14 Dec. 1861.
• Dates: 1866/10/25
  Notes: New Mt. Hope Retreat for Insane erected.
  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: 43
• Dates: 1901
  Notes: MOUNT HOPE RETREAT (Incor. 1872), P.O. Station, Mt. Hope Retreat, W.M.R.R. C&P Tel. Object. — To care for insane, sick, and inebriates. Admission. — Patients usually pay from $8 to $15 a week, some received at lower rates, and some accepted free. The Supervisors of City Charities place some insane patients in the hospital. Management. — The Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph of Emmitsburg (R.C.) Inmates. — (November 30, 1900) 584. Admitted during year, 155. Discharged, recovered, 62; improved 33; unimproved, 17; died, 59. Income derived from receipts from patients and payments made by Supervisors of City Charities for limited number of city charges.
  Moved to present located in 1863.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 61
• Dates: 1920
  Notes: Amounts appropriated for state-aided institutions, from the Maryland Manual, 1921-1922.

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Location: Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1877
  Notes: We have no details in regard to the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, at Baltimore, or Mount Hope Insane Asylum, at the same city.
  Source: Butler, Samuel, The Medical Register and Directory of the United States…. Philadelphia: Office of the Medical Examiner and Surgical Reporter: 315

Founded: Organized 1890; incorporated 1900
Location: Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1901
  Notes: (Organ. 1890, incor. 1900). President, Mrs. Douglas H. Duer, 1020 north Calvert St. Visiting Agent, Mrs. L.V. Moores, 760 Dolphin St. Object.–To assist poor deservice wives (white women) in their homes in times of confinement. Medical aid supplied, a care-taker and clothing for mother and infant provided when necessary, also pillows and sheets. Number of cases attended, year ending November 1, 1900, 102. Receipts, $1617.50 (from patients $94); expenditures, $1636.72 (balance at beginning of year, $39.43).
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 37
• Dates: 1901
  Notes: Clothing for mother and infant provided when necessary, also pillows and sheets.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 40
• Dates: 1901
  Notes: Furnishes a woman physician for confinement cases
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 38

Founded: Authorized by Chapter 412, Acts of 1951; opened in 1953
Location: 2201 Argonne Drive, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1963-1964
  Notes:

  CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITALS
  
  James A. McCallum, M.D., Superintendent
  A. S. Dowling, M.D., Medical Director
  
  Florence I. Mahoney, M.D., Director, Physical Medicine and
  Rehabilitation
  
  2201 Argonne Drive, Baltimore 18 Telephone: 889-3080
  
  In 1947 the General Assembly authorized three Chronic Disease
  Hospitals for patients who cannot obtain elsewhere the special fa-
  cilities needed for their care (Code 1957, Art. 43, secs. 599-603). Three
  hospitals are under the supervision of the Bureau of Medical Services
  and Hospitals.
  
  Deer's Head State Hospital
  
  Robert J. Gore, M.D., Chief Physician
  H. Lee Chambers, Business Manager
  
  Salisbury (Wicomico County) Telephone: Pioneer 2-2164
  
  Deer's Head State Hospital, authorized by Chapter 994, Acts of
  1945, was established in 1950 and has facilities for 284 patients.
  Staff: 262.
  
  Montebello State Hospital
  
  Orlyn Wood, M.D., Chief Physician
  Robert W. Hansen, Business Manager
  
  2201 Argonne Drive, Baltimore 18 Telephone: 889-3080
  
  Montebello State Hospital, authorized by Chapter 412, Acts of
  1951, opened in 1953 as the principal unit of the Chronic Disease
  Hospital System. Its principal emphasis is on rehabilitation. Its bed
  capacity is 481.
  Staff: 470.
  
  Western Maryland State Hospital
  
  I. B. Lyon, M.D., Chief Physician
  John R. Cochran, Business Manager
  
  Hagerstown (Washington County) Telephone: Regent 9-6300
  
  Western Maryland State Hospital, authorized by Chapter 53, Acts
  of 1952, was established in 1957 and has facilities for 298 patients.
  Staff: 260.

  Source: Hall of Records Commission, Maryland Manual, 1963-1964 Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission: 77

• Dates: 1965-1966
  Notes:

  CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITALS
  James A. McCallum, M.D., Superintendent
  A. S. Dowling, M.D., Medical Director
  Florence 1. Mahoney, M.D., Director, Physical Medicine and
  Rehabilitation
  2201 Argonne Drive, Baltimore 21218 Telephone: 88&-3080
  In 1947 the General Assembly authorized three Chronic Disease
  Hospitals for patients who cannot obtain elsewhere the special fa-
  cilities needed for their care (Code 1957, Art. 43, sees. 599-603). Three
  hospitals are under the supervision of the Bureau of Medical Services
  and Hospitals.
  Staff (Central Direction and Services): 1965, 14; Staff: 1966, 17.
  Deer's Head State Hospital
  Robert J. Gore, M.D., Chief Physician
  H. Lee Chambers, Business Manager
  Salisbury (Wicomico County) 21801 Telephone: Pioneer 2-2164
  Deer's Head State Hospital, authorized by Chapter 994, Acts of
  1945, was established in 1950 and has facilities for 284 patients.
  Staff: 1965, 254; Staff: 1966, 266.
  Montebello State Hospital
  George F. Ellinger, M.D., Chief Physician
  Robert W. Hansen, Business Manager
  2201 Argonne Drive, Baltimore 21218 Telephone: 889-3080
  Montebello State Hospital, authorized by Chapter 412, Acts of
  1951, opened in 1953 as the principal unit of the Chronic Disease
  Hospital System. Its principal emphasis is on rehabilitation. Its bed
  capacity is 481.
  Staff: 1965, 481; Staff: 1966, 493.
  Western Maryland State Hospital
  1. B. Lyon, M.D., Chief Physician
  John R. Cochran, Business Manager
  Hagerstown (Washington County) 21740 Telephone: Regent 9-6300
  •Western Maryland State Hospital, authorized by Chapter 53, Acts
  of 1952, was established in 1957 and has facilities for 298 patients.
  Staff: 1965, 261; Staff: 1966, 270. 
  

  Source: Hall of Records Commission, Maryland Manual, 1965-1966 Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission: 82

Founded: 1867
Location: Fulton and Franklin Sts., Baltimore, MD

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Home of the Aged of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Corner of West Franklin and Fulton Streets, Baltimore. George Howard, The Monumental City (Baltimore: J. D. Ehlers, 1873): 53.

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• Dates: 1868/07/24
  Notes: Home for Aged of the Methodist Church (North Fulton street) incorporated (first suggested by Rev. Dr. G. C. M. Roberts).
  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: 44

Location: North Eutaw and Franklin Streets, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1901
  Notes: North Eutaw and Franklin Sts. Open: week days 1 to 5 p.m. Many operations are performed entirely free. Where material is used, the patient is charged the cost price, if he is able to pay.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: 40

Founded: 1795
Location: Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1795/06/18
  Notes: The Quarantine Hospital was completed and ready for occupancy.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

Location: Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1850
  Notes: The present Marine Hospital was designed by those who first established it as an asylum for those unfortunate beings, who leaving shores less hospital than our own, after undergoing the fatigues perhaps of a long and tempestuous voyage, contracting diseases of the most dangerous character, were thrown upon ours friendless and helpless. Appropriations from the city were made from year to year to defray the costs of the institution. Since howeer, its affairs have been under my management, I have not only made the quarantine fees support that department but also defray the expenses of the Hospital without drawing upon the city treasurer, although nearly all the cases that have been admitted to the hospital have been pauper patients sent from the city.
• See: Report of the Physician of the Marine Hospital, 1850.
• Dates: 1850
  Notes: From the 1st of January 1850, to the 1st 1851, I have treated 164 cases of small pox, most of them of the most virulent kind. The majority of these cases, indeed, I may say the whole of them, occurring among those whose constitutions have been shattered and broken down by dissapation and disease, and who when admitted into the hospital were suffering in its last stages — most of them having received no medical treatment before they came under my hands, and many of them sent to the hospital in open conveyances, were in such a state that I found they required from me the greatest care and attention, several of them dying after being in the hospital a few hours.
  See: Report of the Physician of the Marine Hospital, 1850.
• Dates: 1851
  Notes: There werew 104 deaths from smallpox in the city and 80 at the Marine Hospital. Twenty Vaccine Physicians appointed. Total vaccinations, 3738. (Q.).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 702
• Dates: 1854
  Notes: And I would most earnesly advise the Council to appropriate such surplus, to be expended in filling up and draining the marshes, which makes the Hospital so terribly unhealthy, — this could readily be done, and at a small cost, by making them a deposit for the mud and sediment taken from the bottom of the river and basin. The sickness, which prevails every summer and fall, among the employees, adds much to the expenses, by rendering the employment of additional hands necessary; besides, sadly crippling the efficiency of both the Medical and Agricultural departments.
  See: Report of the Physician of the Marine Hospital, 1854.
• Dates: 1854
  Notes: The duties of the Physician at the Hospital, are too arduous for one man to perform. He is required to board all vessels arriving between sun-rise and sun-set; to attend all cases admitted into the Hospital; to superintend the farming operations; to sell his surplus produce; to audit all accounts, and to collect all monies due from vessels, & c. These various duties require his presence in different places at the same time, or else forces him to entrust chance and irresponsible persons. I would therefore, suggest to your honorable body, as the law already makes provision for the appointment of a medical assistant, but attaches no salary to the office, that some compensation may be affixed so as to render that portion of the law, operative.
  See: Report of the Physician of the Marine Hospital, 1854.
• Dates: 1857
  Notes: I experienced much difficulty last term in consequence of not having suitable buildings for the reception of infected cargo and persons; the necessity of such buildings being of paramount importance in the thorough execution of our quarantine laws.
  See: Report of the Physician of the Marine Hospital, 1854.
• Dates: 1857
  Notes: There is great need of suitable sleeping apartments for the accommodation of both boatmen and farm-hands, who are at present crowded together in one room of the hospital. There is a house on the place which would be (at a small expense,) admirably fitted for the purpose. The other out-houses have been put in a tolerably comfortably condition. This year I planted a peach orchard of over a hundred trees, comprising several varieties of fruit, which will some day add to the revenue of the farm.
  See: Report of the Physician of the Marine Hospital, 1854.

Founded: 1901
Location: Buren and Madison Streets, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1899
  Notes: Dr. M.H.C. Devilbiss, ’77, of Chambersburg, Pa., was in Baltimore recently. He is physician to the jail, on the staff of the Children’s Aid Society Hospital, and examiner for several life insurance companies.
  Source: Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Oct. 1899, p. 91.