Founded: 1858
Location: 925 N. Central Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1852
  Notes: St. Anthony’s German Orphan Asylum organized.
  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
• Dates: 1920
  Notes: Listing of staff, inmates at St. Anthony’s Orphan Asylum. In (1920 U.S. Census) MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, 10-WD BALTIMORE, ST ANTHONYS ORPHAN ASYLUM Series: T625 Roll: 662 Page: 108

Founded: 1890
Location: 323 N. Paca Street (1891-?); 1122 N. Mount Street, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1891
  Notes: THE MARYLAND HOMEOPATHIC FREE DISPENSARY AND HOSPITAL, under the auspices of the Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society, is in a flourishing condition, and contains besides a number of private rooms, free male, female and children’s wards, which will furnish valuable clinical advantages to students.
  Source: Annoucement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Snowden & Cowman: 3
• Dates: 1892-1893
  Notes: Free Lying-In Hospital Department
  A ward in the Hospital devoted to midwifery is open during the entire year, and furnishes every student in attendance upon the lectures of this school, invaluable clinical advantages in the study of midwifery. The clinics are held in the lying-in chamber, and attendance on them by the graduating class, in sections, is obligatory.Source: Second Annual Annoucement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Thomas & Evans: 11
• Dates: 1892-1893
  Notes: Resident Students
  A limited number of advanced students can obtain special hospital advantages. Accomodations are provided in a building adjacent to the Hospital for four resident students, who are known as INTERNES. To thses are assigned wards in the hospital, with attendance upon the sick under the daily supervision of the professors of the College and the resident physician. Special attention is called to the fact that under-graduates are permitted to enjoy the very great advantages of constant observation of the sick, and of receiving daily beside instruction from the members of the Faculty. Rotation in ward service is the rule adopted in order that the experience of the student may be as varied as possible.

  The resident physician is selected annually in April, from among the graduates of the College.Source: Second Annual Annoucement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Thomas & Evans: 10

• Dates: 1892-1893
  Notes: Out Patient Department
  An Out-door Department has also been established in connection with the Lying-In Department, which will greatly extend the facilities for practical instruction in Obstetrics. Advanced students will be given charge of special cases under personal supervision of the Professor and Demonstrator of Obstetrics.Source:  Second Annual Annoucement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Thomas & Evans: 11
• Dates: 1892-1893
  Notes: Hospital Facilities
  The Maryland Homoepathic Hospital is controlled by the Faculty, and offers every requirement for the sick or injured, both in the private rooms and public wards, which are in charge of a corps of trained nurses, directed by an efficient superintendent. Almost from its opening day its wards have been well filled. A large portion of the building is used as a
  City Hospital
  and contains charity beds supported by the City of Baltimore. This department of the Hospital is taxed to its utmost capacity to afford accomodations for patients seeking admission. Accident cases (never rare in a great city), as well as patients suffering from the various general medical and surgical diseases, occupy the beds and add greatly tot he facilities for clinical teaching enjoyed by the school.This portion of the hospital is conducted with the special purpose of furnishing clinical material to be used in illustration of the lectures. The arrangement of the building is well adapted for clinical purposes, and the Faculty is thus in position to make prominent this important feature of a medical course. In addition to the regular clinical Lectures in the ampitheatre, much attention is also devoted to strictly bedside instruction, in which the third year students in classes are required to accompany the physician or surgeon through the wards, and to thus become practically familiar with the methods of diagnosis and treatment.

  Source: Second Annual Annoucement of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, session of 1891-2 Baltimore: Press of Thomas & Evans: 10

• Dates: 1901
  Notes: 1122 north Mount St. Telephone, C.&P., Madison 236; Maryland, 353. Hours 1 to 3 p.m. To care for the indigent sick; no limitations as to district, age, sex, or color. Is at present used by the Supervisors of City Charities for treatment of city patients.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: 41
• Dates: 1901
  Notes: Resident obstetrician treated duirng year ending April 1, 1901, 72 patients in their homes.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: 38
• Dates: 1901
  Notes: Has an obstetrical department. During year ending March 31, 1901, 38 indoor and 72 outside patients were treated.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: 49

Location: Baltimore, MD

Founded: September 19, 1862
Closed: June 1, 1865. Patients transferred to Jarvis General Hospital
Location: Concord Street near Union Dock, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1862-1865
  Notes: Hospital records available at the National Archives, Washington, DC. See RG94 Entry 553 for listing of available hospital registers.
• Dates: 1863-1864
  Notes: Confederate prisoner hospital July 1863 to February 1864
  Source: Indexes to Field Records of Hospitals, 1821-1912. Maryland. National Archives, Washington, DC. RG94 E544
• Dates:
  Notes: WEST’S BUILDINGS, BALTIMORE, MD., consisted of a block of six warehouses each having three stories and an attic. The brick walls had no interior finish, but as they were thirty-four inches thick moisture was seldom observed to penetrate them. These houses were each 24 feet wide, but their depth varied from 107 to 124 feet. The ceilings were too low for the area of the rooms, being 11 feet high on the first floor, 9 feet 6 inches on the second and 9 feet and 2 inches on the third floor. The first floor was unsuitable for ward use, — it was flagged, and deficient in light and ventilation; it contained the offices, kitchens, bakery, dining-room, laundry, store-rooms, guard’s quarters and a few small rooms for employees.

  The twelve rooms on the second and third stories were used as wards. Their dimensions corresponded with those of the several buildings; they contained from 32 to 39 beds each, giving a hospital capacity of 400 beds with 800 cubic feet of air per bed. The wards of each floor communicated freely with each other by doorways in the party walls. The four exterior wards, two on each floor, had good light and ventilation by 10 windows each, 4 along the length of each ward and 3 at each end; but the eight interior wards on each story, were lighted and ventilated only by the end windows. The wards were reached by interior stairways having no direct communication with the external air. To improve the ventilation wooden shafts were extended from the ceilings of the various wards to the ridge of the roof, but no current was established through them, as they were too narrow and turned twice almost at right angles in their course. The wards were unequally heated by coal-stoves. There were four bath-rooms and water closets, two on each floor, or one to every three wards, but as each closet contained only one seat a majority of the patients had to make use of the sinks in the yard. The water-closets were fitted with urinals, but as these were untrapped they emitted an ammoniacal vapor. The attics were used as store- and knapsack-rooms and as quarters for nurses. The officer of the day had a room on the flagged first floor, but no other officer had quarters in the building.

  Source: Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War, Vol. VI [Formerly entitled The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-1865)] Wilmington: Broadfoot Publishing Co.: 901

Founded: 1863
Location: Lanvale St. (1863-1875); Wilkens Ave. (1875-), Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1901
  Notes: (Opened 1863, on Lanvale St., in building given by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dougherty; moved to present location, 1875). Unders Sisters of Charity, Wilkens Ave.; P.O. address, Station D, City; C&P telephone, St. Paul 2365-m. Application, to sister in charge. Charity patients should bring recommendation. City patients are admitted by Supervisors of City Charities, Annex. There are 300 beds in private rooms costing from $7 to $35 per week. Receives State appropriation (1901), $2500, and payment by the Supervisors of City Charities for a limited number of city patients.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 57
• Dates: 1901
  Notes: Receives a limited number of consumptive patients.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 51

Founded: April 19, 1862
Closed:  June 15, 1865. Patients transferred to Hicks General Hospital
Location: Barracks in the Patterson Park, eastern suburbs of the city at head of E Baltimore Street and near Fort Marshall, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1863-1964
  Notes: Served as a general hospital April 18, 1862 to March 14, 1863; convalescent hospital March 15, 1863-April 1864; and general hospital May 1864 to its closure.
  Source: Indexes to Field Records of Hospitals, 1821-1912. Maryland. National Archives, Washington, DC. RG94 E544

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