Location: Baltimore County, MD

Images

U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital, Fort Howard, Maryland. : General view A010408. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine

Location: Baltimore County, MD

Images

U.S. Army Hospital, Fort Howard, Maryland. : Front view of main building. A08904. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine	U.S. Army Hospital, Fort Howard, Maryland. : Side view of main building. A08905. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine
U.S. Army Hospital, Fort Howard, Maryland. : Side view of main building. A08906. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine	U.S. Army Hospital, Fort Howard, Maryland. : Side view of main building. A08907. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine
U.S. Army Hospital, Fort Howard, Maryland. : Old station hospital building. A08908. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine	U.S. Army Hospital, Fort Howard, Maryland. : Front view of main building. A08909. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine
U.S. Army Hospital, Fort Howard, Maryland. : Front view of main building. A08911. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine	U.S. Army Hospital, Fort Howard, Maryland. : Front view of main building. A08910. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine

Founded: Established 1886
Location: Rolling Road, Catonsville, MD

Founded: Established 1797 as the Maryland Hospital for the Insane (Baltimore). Moved 1854
Location: Catonsville, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1854
  Notes: Maryland Insane Asylum established at Spring Grove, chiefly through the personal and lifelong efforts of Richard Sprigg Steuart.
  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: 40
• Dates: 1855
  Notes: Dr. James A. Steuart, assistant physician to State Insane Asylum (till 1861).
  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: 41
• Dates: 1920
  Notes: Amounts appropriated for state institutions, from the Maryland Manual, 1921-1922
• Dates: 1921-1922
  Notes: MARYLAND MANUAL

Founded: Established 1910
Location: Norwood Ave., Catonsville, MD

Founded: Established 1891
Location: Towson, MD

Founded: Established 1888
Location: Owings Mills, MD

Founded: Established 1891
Location: Catonsville, MD

Founded: Established 1878
Location: Relay, MD

Founded: Founded 1925. Serves as a tuberculosis hospital.
Location: Baltimore County, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1963-1964
  Notes: TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITALS
  Elmer P. Sauer, M.D., Medical DirectorVictor F. Cullen State Hospital
  Michael G. Zavis, M.D., Superintendent
  Cullen (Frederick County) Telephone: 241-3131This institution was established in 1908 as the State Sanitorium and
  acquired its present name in 1949. It provides for the care of 129
  patients.Staff: 96.

  Mount Wilson State Hospital
  William Newcomer, M.D., Superintendent
  Mount Wilson (Baltimore County) Telephone: Hunter 6-7676

  Mount Wilson was established in 1925 and provides for the care of
  500 patients.
  Staff: 389.

  Pine Bluff State Hospital
  Edward Peyton Ritchings, M.D., Superintendent
  Salisbury (Wicomico County) Telephone: Pioneer 9-6503

  Pine Bluff State Hospital, opened in 1912 as a private institution,
  became State-owned in 1928. It received its present name in 1949.
  Pine Bluff provides for the care of 65 patients.
  Staff: 42.
  Source: Hall of Records Commission, Maryland Manual, 1963-1964 Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission: 76-77

• Dates: 1965-1966
  Notes:
  TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITALSElmer P. Sauer, M.D., Medical DirectorMount Wilson (Baltimore County) 21112 Telephone: 486-7676
  Staff: 1965, 9; Staff: 1966, 8.

  Victor P. Cullen State Hospital

  Valdis Aizkrauklis, M.D., Superintendent
  Cullen (Frederick County) 21724 Telephone: 241-3131

  This institution was established in 1908 as the State Sanitorium and
  acquired its present name in 1949. It provides for the care of 129
  patients. By Chapter 818, Acts of 1965, the use of Victor Cullen ..State
  Hospital as a tuberculosis hospital was terminated and its facilities
  transferred to the State Department of Public Welfare to operate a
  training school to be known as the Victor Cullen School.

  Staff: 96.

  Mount Wilson State Hospital
  William Newcomer, M.D., Superintendent
  Mount Wilson (Baltimore County) 21112 Telephone: 486-7676
  Mount Wilson was established in 1925 and provides for the care of
  500 patients.
  Staff: 1965, 389; Staff: 1966, 390.
  Pine Bluff State Hospital
  Edward Peyton Ritchings, M.D., Superintendent
  Salisbury (Wicomico County) 21801 Telephone: Pioneer 9-6503
  Pine Bluff State Hospital, opened In 1&12 as a private institution,
  became State-owned in 1928. It received its present name in 1949.
  Pine Bluff provides for the care of 65 patients.
  Staff: 42.
  Source: Hall of Records Commission, Maryland Manual, 1965-1966 Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission: 81-82