SPECIAL HOSPITALS. The Municipal Hospital. LEHIGH AVENUE AND TWENTY-FIRST STREET. THIS hospital is erected on the square of ground bounded by Lehigh Avenue, Huntingdon, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second streets. The building was formally accepted by the Board of Health of the City of Philadelphia, April 27, 1865. The hospital is maintained by appropriations made by the City Councils. It is under the management of a physician-in-charge, appointed by the Board of Health. The diseases treated are smallpox, yellow fever, typhus fever, scarlet fever, cholera, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, relapsing fever, and occasionally measles, and chicken-pox. Upon receiving the certificate of a physician that a patient has one of the above-enumerated diseases, and that his circumstances are not such as to admit of his being properly cared for at home, the chief clerk, or any member of the Board, issues an order of admission; whereupon the hospital ambulance is sent to remove the patient. If he is able to pay, one dollar per day will be charged; if he is poor, no charge will be made. There is no compulsion in regard to entrance into the hospital, except under extreme circumstances. Physician-in-charge: Dr. William M. Welch. The Wills Eye Hospital. RACE STREET, above Eighteenth. Founded April 2, 1832. This Institution is supported by a fund bequeathed by the late James Wills, a merchant of this city, and by voluntary contributions. It is under the general control of the Directors of City Trusts,* and immediately supervised by a committee of five of said Board. Admission of indigent patients, without regard to creed or color, may be obtained by personal application to any of the surgeons, all of whom are on duty during the entire year. A daily clinic is held from 2 to 3 P. M. for out-door patients, Sundays excepted. Four surgeons are in attendance every other day at 2 o'clock, as follows: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays: Drs. Harlan, McClure, Norris, and Schell. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays: Drs. Hall, Goodman, Keyser, and Strawbridge. The clinics are open to all regular practitioners and students of medicine who desire to study the diseases of the eye. * For names of Board, see Board of City Trusts. The Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. INCORPORATED 1867. This Institution occupies a large building at the northwest corner of Seventeenth and Summer streets. It is sustained by voluntary aid, and contains four rooms for private patients and twenty-five ward beds. The hospital is devoted exclusively to the treatment of Deformities and Diseases of the Nervous System. Patients when unable to pay any part of the cost of board or treatment are admitted free; all others are expected to pay some portion of the expense, a special rate being made in each instance by the committee, based upon such information as they can obtain of the circumstances of the applicants. The diseases treated are: all forms of bodily deformity, such as club-foot, joint diseases, and spinal distortions; and all nervous maladies, such as paralysis, chorea, and neuralgia. The service for out-door patients is arranged as follows: On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 1 o'clock P. M., for Nervous Diseases. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 1 o'clock P. M., for Deformities. To these all regular practitioners and students are admitted, upon application to the attending Medical Staff or Executive Committee. Resident Physician: Dr. Edgar B. Grier. Home for Consumptives. OFFICE, 411 SPRUCE STREET. (Supported by Voluntary Contributions.) No fee is charged for admission of Consumptives to the Home, and no discrimination is made by reason of nationality, creed, or color. The patients are provided with medicines and medical attendance, clothing, bedding, food, fuel, and shelter. The Home is not so much a hospital as a central ministering agency, from which, through a system of out-door relief, the poor consumptives in all parts of the city may be properly cared for. The sphere of this good work is thus capable of indefinite expansion, with no limit save of the funds provided it. The institution is open daily, Sundays excepted, to the visits of friends of the patients and the public generally. Superintendent: Rev. Samuel Durborow. The Philadelphia Home for Incurables. Incorporated November 14, 1877. The object is to provide a home for that class of sufferers whose diseases are pronounced incurable. The members of the corporation are such persons as |