Maryland Association for Colored Blind

Location: Baltimore, MD

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Advertisement, Maryland Association for Colored Blind. Seventh Edition, 1919-1920 The First Colored Professional, Clerical, Skilled and Business Directory of Baltimore City with Washington, D.C. and Annapolis Annex. Baltimore, MD: Robert W. Coleman, Publishing Co. Morgan State University

Advertisement, Maryland Association for Colored Blind. Seventh Edition, 1919-1920 The First Colored Professional, Clerical, Skilled and Business Directory of Baltimore City with Washington, D.C. and Annapolis Annex. Baltimore, MD: Robert W. Coleman, Publishing Co. Morgan State University

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Lazaretto Point

Founded: 1801
Location: On point opposite Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD

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Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. [Lazaretto in the foreground]. Cator Collection. Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore

Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. [Lazaretto in the foreground]. Cator Collection. Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore

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  • Dates: 1801
    Notes: Lazaretto built on Point opposite Fort McHenry.
    Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 673
  • Dates: 1926/10/17
    Notes: Lazaretto Lighthouse taken down several weeks ago. Stood opposite Fort McHenry for 95 years; once a hospital on the site and smallpox patients treated there. New lighthouse structure just completed.
    See: Sun (Baltimore) October 17, 1926
  • Dates: n. d.
    Notes: See:  William Travis Howard, Public Health Administration and the Natural History of Disease in Baltimore, Maryland, 1797-1920, p. 92 for additional information about the Lazaretto.

Bibliography

  • Miller, J.M., “Vignette of Medical History: Lazaretto Point.” Maryland Medical Journal (42 (11)): 1123-5

Johns Hopkins Hospital Dispensary

Founded: 1889
Location: Monument St. and Hopkins Ave., Baltimore, MD

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  • Dates: 1901
    Notes: (Established, with the Hospital, under the will of Johns Hopkins; opened 1889), Monument St. and Hopkins Ave.; telephones: C&P St. Paul 948; Maryland, Windsor 122. Hours, daily, except Sunday, for medical and surgical cases, nervous diseases of children, 9 to 11 a.m.; for diseases of women, obstetrics, diseases of throat and nose, of skin and of eye and ear, 1.30 to 3 p.m. A fee of 10 cents is asked of those who can afford it, for each treatment or prescription. over 50,000 cases treated annually.
    Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 44

 

Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor

Founded:  December 17, 1849
Location
: Baltimore, MD

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