Closed: 1882
Location: North Broadway, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1882/09/19
  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.

Location: Baltimore, MD

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

Founded: Incorporated 1891
Location: 115 West Barre Street, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1901
  Notes: (Incorp. 1891) 115 west Barre St. Clinics held: Monday and Thursday, 3 to 5 p.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 7 to 9 p.m. Object.–To provide treatment for womena nd children by women physicians. Management.– Board of directors, self perpetuating. 10 to 25 cents is charged those who can pay. At Wednesday evening clinic the fee is 50 cents. Two physicians reside in the Dispensary who visit sick patients in their homes. The Dispensary is supported by private subscriptions, and by the receipts from its pay patients. Patients treated 1900-1901, 6841; prescriptions filled, 13,274; visits to outside patients, 1865. Income, 1900, $2063.78; expenses, $1879.99.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 40-41

Founded: 1901. Incorporated 1903
Location: 1017 Light Street, Baltimore, MD
Also known as: South Baltimore Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital

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• Dates: 1901
  Notes: (1901) 1017 Light St. Free dispensary, open daily (except Sunday) from 4.30 to 6.30 p.m. Has a room which can be used in case of emergency for patients needing in-door treatment. Supported by private contributions.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: 42

Founded: 1801
Location: Roland and Merryman Avenues, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1801/05/11
  Notes: Female Orphan Asylum opened (May 11).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 673

Founded: 1852
Location: Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1852
  Notes: Society for the Education of the Hebrew Poor and Orphan Children 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

Founded: 1886
Location: 237 West Biddle Street, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1886
  Notes: (1886) 237 west Biddle St. Superintendent, Miss C.C. Barnwell. Office hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., week days. Object.–The relief and education of women and children suffering from diseases of the spine. Plaster of Paris jackets used according to methods of Dr. Lewis A. Sayre. A physician examines each case, and on his approval Miss Barnwell applies the jacket. Men are not admitted.
  The School is for children suffering from any bodily affliction. Morning session opened to white, afternoon session to colored children. Pupils are taught simple lessions [sic], including daily bible instruction, sewing, drawing, singing, and physicial exercises. Pupils live in their own homes, no lodging given. Admission.–Physician’s certificate is desirable. Patients in Dispensary pay what their circumstances allow. In 1900, $1018.63 received from contributions, $266.65 from patients.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 41

Founded: 1912
Location: 1132 N. Mount Street, Baltimore, MD

Location: 6 Barnet Street, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1880-1881
  Notes: Total cases, 1880-81, 2,744; total prescriptions, 1880-81, free, 1,460; total prescriptions, 1880-81, paid, 600; total prescriptions, 2,060.
  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: 256

Founded: 1881
Location: 2000 west Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1901
  Notes: (1881), 2000 west Baltimore St. Nursing given free in homes of the sick in Baltimore City without regard to denomination or color. Preference given to poor persons. 23 sisters. Work supported by donations from wealthy patients.Order founded in Paris, France, in 1822.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 36