Founded: Camp (Soldiers Home) opened 1862; hospital opened September 1864
Closed: November 23, 1865
Location: One mile north of city (Charles Street extended), Baltimore, MD

Founded: 1863
Location: Located in the NW part of the city, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1863-1864
  Notes: Camp and barracks were opened in 1863 and used in part for Colored Troops; after May 1864 exclusively so.
  Source: Indexes to Field Records of Hospitals, 1821-1912. Maryland. National Archives, Washington, DC. RG94 E544

Location: Baltimore, MD

Images

CB5581 (16×20.5) Baltimore – Hospital. Lithograph by DeRoy; Painted by Cuttier; Drawn From Nature By, Augustus Köllner (Z24.2061). Photograph Collections Cross-Section. Maryland Historical Society

Additional Information

• Dates: 1812/07/28
  Notes: Baltimore Hospital Star (Baltimore) Jul. 28, 1812.
• Dates: 1813
  Notes: Legislature authorizes Chancellor to commit idiots and lunatics to Baltimore Hospital
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 679
• Dates: 1813/11/13
  Notes: BALTIMORE HOSPITAL
  November 11, 1813The judicious arrangements made by the Mayor and City Council for improving and enlarging the Baltimore Hospital, the liberality of the Legislature of Maryland, and the unwearied attention and active exertions of the Doctors Mackenzie and Smyth, the attending Physicians of the Institution, have, together, brought this establishment to a much greater degree of perfection, than could, under all circumstances that existed at the commencement of the undertaking, have been expected.

  The visitors appointed by the Mayor and City Council having met at the Hospital this day, and having viewed the premises and examined the accommodations prepared for the sick, and having also received from Doctors Mackenzie and Smyth, information of the mode by which the affairs of the Institution are conducted, are induced, to express their entire approbation of the plan and execution thereof, so far as the same has been effected, and they cannot refrain from expressing their hope that the future exertions of the visitors and attending Physicians aided by the liberality of a generous public, will hereafter enable them to complete the buildings to the extent which they have proposed. In its present state, the house affords sufficient accommodations for a large number of patients and supercedes the necessity of sending to a distance these unhappy persons, who, in consequence of the loss of their reason, or from partial insanity, require rooms especially fitted for their receiption. The apartments in the Asylum appropriated for this purpose, as well as those in the Infirmary for patients of other descriptions, are, in the opinion of the visitors, admirably adapted for their intended uses, and the comfortable situation of upwards of sixty patients now in the Hospital, affords, in anticipation, a prospect of the great advantages which may result to the neighboring states and to the state of Maryland, particularly from its further enlargement.

  The immediate management of the establishment is entrusted to a careful Steward and Matron, whose deportment has been highly satisfactory to the visitors; attentive nurses are provided to take care of the sick, and these with the daily attendance of one or both the physicians, and the arrangements for other medical aid when necessary give this highly valuable Institution a just claim to public confidence and support, and to aid in the charitable objects which may be en[?] thereon, the visitors have adopted the following resolutions:

  Resolved, That a gate keeper be appointed whose duty it shall be to give constant attendance at the gate, to admit persons desirous of viewing the Hospital, and that he be authorized to demand and receive twelve and a half cents for each person thus admitted.

  Resolved, That a contribution box be placed in the hall of the Hospital, for receiving donations from those charitable persons who may visit the same.

  Resolved, That an accurate account of the monies received at the gate shall be kept by the Steward and after paying the gate-keeper his salary, the balance shall be paid quarterly into the hands of the treasurer; at the same time also, the contribution box shall be opened in the presence of at least three of the visitors, and the money contained therein shall be delivered to the [?] and the sums thus collected together with any other donations which may be received, shall be appropriated to the support of such sick or insane persons as may be entitled, from their poverty, to the benefits of this charity, and who shall be approved of by the board of visitors.

  Resolved, That a treasurer be annually apponted by the visitors to receive the sums collected for charitable purposes, and pay the same then required by an order signed by any three of the Board and that at the expiration of the time for which he was chosen, an account shall be rendered of the receipts and expenditures, and the same published in one or more of the newspapers of this city. By order of the Board of Visitors,

  A.R. LEVERING, Sec’ry
  The following gentlemen compose the Board of Visitors for the present year:

  James Mosher William McDonald John Hillen Jacob Miller William Reas Henry Paysten

  George Warner James Carey Luke Tiernan Adam Fonerden Ludwig Herting Aaren R. Levering

  Source: Baltimore Whig, November 13, 1813

• Dates: 1816/03/01
  Notes: Mr. Smith, of Maryland, also presented a petition of Collin Mackenzie and James Smyth, on behalf of the Baltimore hospital establishment, praying compensation for damages committed on the property of said hospital by the troops in the service of the United States in the fall of the year 1814.
  Source: Journal of the House of Representatives, 1789-1873
• Dates: 1818/08/24
  Notes: Report of the Board of Visitors of Baltimore Hospital
  Source: Federal Republican and Baltimore Telegraph (Baltimore), 1818/08/24

Founded:
Location: Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1901
  Notes: In case of accident, application to any Police Station will insure prompt attention. Each Police Station has a stretcher, available at all times, but only for accidents.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 45
• Dates: 1901
  Notes: The Board of Police Commissioners are authorized to appoint three physicians whose duties, in addition to the examining of all applicants for positions on the police force, are to visit all policement and other officials of the force who may be returned as sick, and to report their condition to the Board; also to visit and professionally attend any members of the force who may be injured or disabled in the performance of their duties. To examine thoroughly the physical condition of any member of the force who may apply to the Board or be considered by it for a pension (See New Charter, Sec. 771-772-773.)
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: 38

Founded: 1911
Location: Bonner Raod, Baltimore, MD

Founded: 1878
Location: 1007 E. Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates:
  Notes: Non-sectarian, but supported by members of the Presbyterian churches of Baltimore
• Dates: 1899
  Notes: Dr. Geo. B. McReynolds, ’98, is Resident Physician at the Presbyterian Eye and Ear Hospital, Baltimore. He is the first man from the college to obtain this position.
  Source: Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, July 1899, p. 60.
• Dates: 1900
  Notes: Established by Presbyterians for the use of all poor persons regardless of color or creed, or from what part of the United States they come from.
  Supported financially by Presbyterian and their friends from other denominations.
  Members of the Methodist, Catholic, Lutheran and Hebrew churches furnish 82 out of every 100 patients, leaving 19 per cent, only to be distributed among Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Baptists, Friends and other denominations.
  Of the 10,119 patients for the year 1899, 8,712 were white persons; 1,407 were colored patients.
  Colored persons form 12 per cent of the population of Baltimore City.
  Source: Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat Charity Hospital, Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat Charity Hospital…. Baltimore: John S. Bridges & Co.: 4
• Dates: 1900
  Notes: A year’s experience has proved the great value of the new Dispensary Annex of the Hospital building. The new rooms are large, well lighted, well ventilated, and in every respect adapted for the work carried on in them in the various departments. Skill, money, thought, and supervision were freely given, and the results are all that could be desired. The Hospital is now completed for its work, and nothing more is needed in regard to the building. To the Lady Managers all this is due, and the Governors express their warmest thanks and commendation.
  Source: Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat Charity Hospital, Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat Charity Hospital…. Baltimore: John S. Bridges & Co.: 5
• Dates: n. d.
  Notes: This is an Institution incorporated under the general laws of the State of Maryland, in the year 1878, and also by Act fo 1882, Chap. 493. By Act of 1884, Chap. 68, the charter was amended and the corporate name changed to the Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat Charity Hospital; and the duration of the corporation made perpetual.
  Source: Maryland Hospital for the Insane, Report of the President and Vistors of the Maryland Hospital, [for the Insane, at Baltimore,] for 1858 and 1859, to the General Assembly of Maryland, January 1860 Baltimore: Printed by John D. Toy: 3
• Dates: n. d.
  Notes: The object of the Hospital is to give advice, medicines and treatment to the poor, afflicted with diseases of the eye, ear and throat.
  Source: Maryland Hospital for the Insane, Report of the President and Vistors of the Maryland Hospital, [for the Insane, at Baltimore,] for 1858 and 1859, to the General Assembly of Maryland, January 1860 Baltimore: Printed by John D. Toy: 3

Bibliography

Founded: 1878
Location: Corner of Franklin and Schroeder Sts., Baltimore, MD

Images

• See: Maryland – Grand ball given in the Academy of Music for the benefit of the Nursery and Child’s Hospital, Baltimore / from a sketch by Walter Goater.
  CALL NUMBER: Illus. in AP2.L52 Case Y [P&P]
  REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-75200 (b&w film copy neg.)
  MEDIUM: 1 print : wood engraving.
  CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1880 Apr. 24.
  NOTES: Illus. in: Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper, April 24, 1880, p. 120. Library of Congress

Additional Information

• Dates: 1880/05/18
  Notes: Nursery and Child’s Hospital. — The anniversary of the Nursery and Child’s Hospital took place yesterday at noon, at the institution, corner of Schroeder and Franklin streets. There was quite a display of flowers in the chapel, where the exercises were held, which were presented by Mrs. Charles J. Baker, Mrs. John Gilman and from the grounds of the nursery. Rev. J.T. Leftwich presided. Addresses were made by Revs. J.E. Grammer and H. R. Naylor. It was stated that the indebtedness on the property, which a little over a year ago, when it passed into the hands of the ladies managing the hospital, was $25,500, had been reduced to $15,000. The recent charity ball at the Academy of Music netted $5,400. The ladies are greatly in need of funds to meet the current expenses of the institution and to pay interest on the debt remaining upon the property. There are at present 45 children in the nursery, ranging in age from two weeks to four years, and 8 in the hospital, from three to twelve years of age. There has not been any contagious disease in the institution during the past year, nor any of the ailments to which children of such tender years are subject. Mrs. C.F. Bevan is president, Mrs. J. Morrison Harris and Mrs. Wm. T. Harrison, secretaries, and Mrs. A.B. Gordon, treasurer.
  Source: Sun, May 15, 1880.
• Dates: 1894
  Notes: THE NURSERY AND CHILD’S HOSPITAL is situated at Franklin and Schroeder streets, Baltimore, and was organized in 1878, the cost of the same, including grounds, being $140,000. The object of this institution is to provide homes for the homeless and abandoned infants, keeping this class of waifs and foundlings until they reach the age of four years, at which age they are transferred to other institutions or provided with homes. There is a free dispensary connected with the institution. The entire work is one of charity, none of its officers, physicians or surgeons receiving compensation. Every penny contributed is expended in the work of the institution, the management of which has been most economical. There were 200 beneficiaries in the year 1893. It is estimated that not less than 2,500 children have been gathered from different parts of the State. It is very evident from the cost of the building and the work of the institution that great economy has been exercised, and the efficiency of the Board demonstrated. The General Assembly of 1892 appropriated the sum of $2,500 annually to this institution.
  Source: Message of Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland, to the General Assembly at its Regular Session, January, 1894 Baltimore: Wm. J.C. Dullany Company: 78
• Dates: 1901
  Notes: Cor. Franklin and Schroeder Sts. Object.–To give free hospital treatment to children between the ages of 1 and 15 years, suffering from sickness, injury or other remediable deformity. Private rooms for pay patients, $8 to $18 a week.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 46
• Dates: 1920
  Notes: Amounts appropriated for state-aided institutions, from the Maryland Manual, 1921-1922.

Founded: Established 1801, incorporated 1807
Location: 651 West Lexington Street, Baltimore, MD

Images

Baltimore General Dispensary – Staff. Photograph Collections Cross-Section. Maryland Historical Society

Baltimore – Hospitals – General Dispensary. Photograph Collections Cross-Section. Maryland Historical Society

Additional Information

• Dates: 1801/01/09
  Notes: Baltimore General Dispensary founded, chiefly through the efforts of Dr. John Crawford; 234 patients treated the first year (January 9).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 673
• Dates: 1807
  Notes: Relief from drowning added to work of Baltimore General Dispensary.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 676
• Dates: 1808
  Notes: Baltimore General Dispensary incorporated; has had 6263 patients to date.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 676
• Dates: 1814/06/29
  Notes: THE DISPENSARY. In every respectable and well regulated community — in every city of so high and opulent a class as the City of Baltimore, a DISPENSARY is an essential institution — It dispenses clarity in a peculiar way; it gives present relief; and prevents future calls on humanity — By restoring the sick to health, it obviates accumulated misery, and enables the workman and the laborer to return to their different employments ,again to be useful members of society, and support their families by honest industry. — But for the seasonable relief afforded by this institution, many poor tradesmen, with their wives and children, would be left to pine in want, sickness, and sorrow.It is every way wiser to prevent disease, than be at the expense of supporting it when past cure and past hope — By the administration of a little medicine and advice, in due time, months and years of sickness and affliction may be prevented, and whole families enabled to obtain the means of subsistance by their accustomed employments.

  To the honor of the Citizens of Baltimore, be it recorded by different Parties, and conducted by members of different Religions — Their motto is: “UNIVERSAL CHARITY,” the grand characteristic of the Christian Faith — Here it may be truly said, “that all are Christians, all are Philantropists,” engaged in the whor of doing good, all employed in the holy work of administering immediate relief to “the sick and the afflicted, to the widow, the orphan, the stranger, and those who have none to help them.”To the opulent, the generous, and the charitable inhabitants of Baltimore, and appeal of this nature can require but few words — This amiable principle, this humane sensation, comes home at once to the feeling heart — to that heart which has a just and lively sense of that Religion, whose divine precepts were promulgated by HIM who went about doing good, who visited the sick, gave sight to the blind, and poured the oil of consolation into the minds and wounds of the sons and daughters of Affliction.
  Source: American & Commerical Daily Advertiser, June 29, 1914

• Dates: 1815
  Notes: Announcement of meeting of officers of the Dispensary.
  Source: Federal Gazette (Baltimore), 1815, p. 384
• Dates: 1820
  Notes: Baltimore dispensary. This humane institution was founded in 1803, but in that year had only 234 patients — last year 3987! Whole number from the beginning, 30,663 — of whom 25,388 were cured, 548 died — the rest negligent, dismissed, vaccinated, &c. It will be well indeed, if in “these hard times,” an establishment which has been so beneficial to the poor, is continued with vigor to do good.
  Source: Niles’ Register (Baltimore), 1820, p. 384
• Dates: 1882/09/91
  Notes: Hospital Opening and Dispensary Consolidation. The Baltimore Eye, Ear and Throat Charity Hospital, No. 186 Franklin street, opened its outpatient or dispensary department yesterday. The institution is a consolidation of the Eye and Ear Dispensary of the Church Home, North Broadway, the Baltimore Charity Eye and Ear Dispensary, Central Avenue, the eye and ear department of the Baltimore General Dispensary, Liberty street, and the Baltimore Throat Dispensary, Park avenue, all of which have been discontinued. The staff of the hospital is made up of specialists formerly connected with those institutions, as follows: Eye and ear, Drs. Samuel Theobald, S.L. Frank, Russell Murdock and I. Bermann; throat, Drs. J.H. Hartman, Samuel Johnston and John N. McKenzie; consulting surgeons, Drs. Alan P. Smith, L. McLane Tiffany, Christopher Johnson and Oscar J. Coskery; consulting physicians, Drs. Samuel C. Chew, G.W. Miltenberger, Rigin Buckler and Ferd. J. Chatard, Jr. The hospital is supported by volunteer contributions, and treatment will be supplied free of charge to the poor. The in-patient department, provided with free beds, will be opened about October 1. The officers of the institution are as follows: Hon. Geo. Wm. Brown, president; John W. McCoy, Samuel G. Wyman, vice-presidents; Clayton C. Hall, treasurer; John N. Mackenzie, M.D., secretary; finance committee, Wm. H. Perot, C. Morton Stewart, Mendes Cohen, W.S. Rayner; board of trustees, John Lee Carroll, Ernest Knabe, C. Morton Stewart, Wm. H. Perot, T. Edward Hambleton, Samuel G. Wyman, Jno. W. McCoy, W. S. Rayner, Samuel H. Lyon, T. Harrison Garrett, Mendes Cohen, S. Teackle Wallis, Wesley A. Tucker, Geo. Wm. Brown, Clayton C. Hall.
  Source: Sun (Baltimore), 19 September 1882.
• Dates: 1901
  Notes: (Estab. 1801, incor. 1807) 651 west Lexington St.; C&P telephone, St. Paul 3674-m. Dispensary open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Physicians in attendance, 10 a.m. to 12 m. All diseases treated; medicines given on prescription of any physician registered at the Dispensary. Outside service to persons living north of Pratt St. and west of Jones’ Falls. Benefits intended for indigent sick only. Cases sent before 10 a.m. will be visited that day. Management.–By board of 12 directors, who appoint the physicians, and by an association of subscribers of $5. or more. Supported by these subscriptions, by a small endowment, and by a share of fines from houses of ill-fame; and is at present used by the Supervisors of City Charities as the dispensary for the western district of the city. Patients treated (1900) 10,556; prescriptions filled, 15,602; outside visits paid, 514.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 43
• Dates: 1928
  Notes: At Paca and Fayette Streets stands this city’s oldest charity, the Baltimore General Dispensary, founded here in 1801 by the Right Rev. J.G.B. Bond, one of the first Episcopal bishops in Maryland.The charter of the institution was procured from the General Assembly in 1807 and its first president was Emmanuel Kent. The first dispensary was at the corner of Baltimore street and Grant alley, but was moved to the corner of Charles and Baltimore streets in 1807. Another move was made in 1846, to the corner of Fayette and Liberty streets, where it remained until 1893, when it was established at 651 West Lexington Street.

  The present building at Paca and Fayette streets was opened to the public February 15, 1912, and is considered a model of its kind. The first floor is divided into two sections, one for white and one for colored persons, with the medical dispensary in the center. The upper floor is devoted to offices, also operating and fumigating rooms for the use of the medical and surgical staff.

  The work done by the institution is entirely charitable, furnishing the best medical service and drugs without charge to those who are unable to pay. During its long years of usefulness there have been connected with the dispensary many of Baltimore’s most noted physicians, who have given their time, labor and skill in furthering the interests of the institution.

  See: “Baltimore in Pictures” News (Baltimore) Apr. 23, 1928

Bibliography

Founded:
Location: Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

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

Founded: Incorporated 1853
Location: 1224 East Monument Street, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1901
  Notes: (Incorporated 1853) 1224 East Monument St. Hours, 8.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and 1.30 to 5 p.m. (2 to 5 p.m., November to May). Physician present 9 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m.; Sundays, 9 to 10.30 a.m. Object.– For needy persons living north of Fayette St. and east of Jones’ Falls. Prescriptions directed to Dispensary by outside physicians registered for the purpose are filled. Management.– By board of 12 directors. Supported by an association of contributors who pay $5 each annually, and by a share of the fines from houses of ill-fame; and is at present used by the Supervisors of City Charities as the dispensary for the northeastern district of the city. In 1900, 12,160 patients were treated; total number of times treated, 18,556; prescriptions filled, 20,317; outside visits paid, 1300 to 730 patients.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 45