Category Archives: Hospitals

Mount Wilson State Hospital

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore County, Hospitals

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

 

Lazaretto Point

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Hospitals

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

Images

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

Additional Information

  • 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

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Hospitals

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

Additional Information

  • 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