Location: Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1901
  Notes: One trained nurse visits need sick persons in their homes; if required, will give constant attendance during a period of several weeks. Other deaconesses, not trained as nurses, also visit the sick from the Home.Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: 36

Location: Baltimore, MD

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Location: Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1901
  Notes: Gives sick diet of milk and eggs. Distributed year ending May, 1901, 80,000 pounds of ice and 2494 quarts of milk.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 39

Location: 517 W. Biddle Street, Baltimore, MD

Founded: 1816
Closed: 1866
Location: Franklin Road, west of Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1816
  Notes: Second Almshouse erected on Franklin Road, west of city; occupied until 1866; in 1865 it had 800 inmates.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 681

Location: Corner Saratoga and Calvert Streets, Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1890
  Notes: “The City Hospital Dispensary was reopened in the new building of the College of Physicians and Surgeons on Monday….” See source for remainder of information.
  Source: “Medical Items” Maryland Medical Journal XXIV(November 1, 1890): 22
• Dates: 1901
  Notes: (Formerly, the Washington University Dispensary. Under present management since 1877) Corner Saratoga and Calvert Sts. C&P telephone, St. Paul 1865; Maryland telephone, Courtland 614. Hours, 12 m. to 2 p.m. Part of the City Hospital. Connected with, and supported by, the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Separate department for diseases of the eye and ear; throat, nose and chest; nervous systems; gynecology; genito-urinary diseases; diseases of the stomachl dermatology; diseases of children; surgery, and general medicine. Clinical laboratory has been added. Accident ward open day and night. Outside visits sometimes made. In 1900, 25,000 prescriptions filled.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 44

Location: North Avenue and Harford Road, Baltimore, MD

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Samuel Ready Orphan Asylum. Maryland Historical Society

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Founded: July 1862
Closed: December 1862
Location: Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: var. dates
  Notes: Hospital of a temporary convalescent camp established here from July to December 1862
  Source: Indexes to Field Records of Hospitals, 1821-1912. Maryland. National Archives, Washington, DC. RG94 E544

Location: Baltimore, MD

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• Dates: 1899
  Notes: Dr. M.H.C. Devilbiss, ’77, of Chambersburg, Pa., was in Baltimore recently. He is physician to the jail, on the staff of the Children’s Aid Society Hospital, and examiner for several life insurance companies.
  Source: Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Oct. 1899, p. 91.

Founded: 1889
Location: 27 N. Carey Street, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

• Dates: 1901
  Notes: ROBERT GARRETT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN (1889), 27 north Carey St.; Maryland telephone, Courtland 1328. City buildings closed from June 1 to September 15 of each year, when Hospital occupies the Robert Garrett Sanitarium for Children, at Mt. Airy, Maryland. Dispensary attached to Hospital. A general hospital for white children of 12 years of age and under. Admission. — By application at the Dispensary, between 12 m. and 1 p.m. daily, except Sunday. Incurable or imbecile children cannot be received. Every child must be seen by one of the four physicians connected with the Hospital before being admitted. Satisfactory guarantees must be given that the child will be removed when the Hospital management desires. Intended only for those unable to pay a physician; no fees charged. There are 26 beds in the Hospital proper, and 7 in isolation ward for contagious diseases. Assistance is sometimes given to patients to aid in procuring necessary apparatus for hip joint or spinal diseases, etc. Between 250 and 300 children are treated in hospital wards each year. Supported by Mrs. Robert Garrett.Present hospital outgrowth of a private dispensary started on Caroline Street near Monument Street, May 1885. Then known as the Grace Church Dispensary, though maintained by Mrs. Garrett.
  Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 47-48