HOSPITALS FOR LYING-IN AND The Preston Retreat. HAMILTON STREET BETWEEN TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST STS. This Institution, which is supported by an income from estates left by the late Dr. Jonas Preston, is a lying-in charity for married women of good character, but in indigent circumstances, who are near the time of their confinement, where they may be received and provided with proper obstetrical aid for their delivery, and with suitable attendance and comforts during the period of their convalescence. Patients are admitted about two weeks before the expected time of their confinement, and are allowed four weeks in which to convalesce. Since each applicant is required to give references as to character, and furnish other proofs of her respectability, and, after becoming an inmate, is under observation for at least six weeks, this Institution is enabled to supply the community with healthy and trustworthy wet nurses. Women desiring to enter this Institution as patients are requested to make personal application at the Retreat at least one month before the expected time of their confine * See also Woman's Hospital, page 107. ment. Applications for admission can be made upon any day of the week, from 8 to 10 A. M. President, Officers. JOHN M. OGden. Secretary, Treasurer, JOHN C. Uнle. J. SERGEANT PRICE. Physician in charge: Dr. Wm. Goodell. Visiting Physicians: Drs. Lewis Rodman, R. A. F. Penrose, Ellerslie Wallace, Ellwood Wilson, Albert H. Smith, Edward L. Duer. Maternity Hospital. No. 734 SOUTH TENTH STREET. Open for the Reception and Care of Women during Confinement. This Hospital is the first and only one of its kind in the State. The object of the Corporation is the care, nurture, and maintenance of destitute women, married or single, during child-birth. No applicant is received unless she be clean and free from contagious disease. No unmarried woman shall be admitted to the Lying-in Hospital, except for her first confinement. Fresident, Treasurer, Officers. Dr. J. W. WHITE. WM. H. STAAKE. The Philadelphia Lying-in Charity and 126 NORTH ELEVENTH STREET. Its objects are the training of nurses, and the assistance of poor and deserving women in childbed. Medical aid is also afforded to women suffering from diseases peculiar to their sex. Women in good health, between the ages of twentytwo and forty-four years, capable of reading and writing readily, desirous of devoting themselves permanently to nursing, may, if they wish to begin this service under the training and patronage of the Lying-in Charity and Nurse Society, apply, with testimonial of intelligence and moral character, to the Matron of the Nurses' Home, 126 North Eleventh Street. Applicants for treatment at the Clinic for Diseases of Women should apply on Wednesday or Saturday morning at eight o'clock. Citizens desirous of employing those nurses who have completed their term of service in the Institution, are informed that the Matron will always assist them as far as possible in procuring one, provided sufficiently early application be made to her at the Home, No. 126 North Eleventh Street. Directory for Nurses. HALL OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, N. E. CORNER THIRTEENTH AND LOCUST STREETS. The Directory for Nurses was established by the College of Physicians in May, 1882. Its object is to keep a list of registered nurses who have been recommended by three physicians and three families for whom they have nursed. Each nurse records her name, address, age, the training school from which she graduated, or her other qualifications as a nurse, the class of cases she desires to take, and her rates of charge, by the day or week. The reports of the physicians and families for whom she nurses are also registered. This information is confidential as to the names of the persons giving it, but its general results are given to applicants for nurses. The office of the Secretary is at the Hall of the College of Physicians, N. E. corner of Thirteenth and Locust Streets, and is open at all hours, day or night. Telephone number 3402. The registration fee (paid only once by the nurse) is $3.00. The Directory does not regulate the prices asked by nurses, but only registers them. Patients must arrange with the nurses as to rates of payment and period of engagement. |