HOSPITALS. 



Operation-room, in the third story, 

 museum, ditto, small apartments 

 near the operation-room, for the 

 patients operated on, ditto - 4 



Baking-rooms and larders, in the 

 cellar 3 



Bathing-rooms in the basement story 

 of the west wing ... 2 



Room for deputy-steward and his 

 wife, in ditto .... 1 



Cells for lunatics in the west wing 70 



Ditto, in the east .... 16 



Wards for sick and wounded in the 

 whole building ... 23 



In all, wards and rooms, 130 



The square ground plot, on which the 

 hospital stands, is 396 feet in width, and 

 468 feet in length, containing about four 

 acres. It is enclosed by a brick wall, 

 with an iron palisade in its frmt. It is 

 surrounded by fine rows of lofty sycamore 

 trees, and the grounds are well laid out 

 jn a beautiful garden behind, and grass 

 plots and hedges in front. There is a va- 

 cant square to the east, and half a square 

 on the west, making together above six 

 acres. These squares lay across eighth- 

 street on the east, and ninth-street on the 

 west, parallel to the lines of the hospital- 

 enclosure. Besides these, there are three 

 vacant squares on the south side of pine- 

 street, opposite the hospital, which be- 

 long to this institution ; so that every be- 

 nefit that arises from airiness of situation 

 is insured to this hospital. The other 

 half square, on the west, belongs to the 

 Aims-House, and it is intended to be kept 

 open ; so that the Pennsylvania hospital 

 may be said to stand in the middle of se- 

 veral great squares, which, without in- 

 cluding the open streets, contain more 

 than thirteen acres. 



This institution was founded by the 

 contributors in the year 1752, for the re- 

 lief of lunatics, and the sick poor of Penn- 

 sylvania. These contributors are such 

 persons as have paid into the hospital fund 

 the sum of Hi pounds, or upwards. " They 

 have perpetual succession, with the pow- 

 er to elect twelve managers, a treasurer, 

 and all other officers of the institution, and 

 to make rules and regulations for the go- 

 vernment of the household. They may 

 receive and take the lands, hereditaments, 

 and tenements, not exceeding the yearly 

 value of one thousand pounds, of the gift, 

 alienation, bequest, or devise, of any per- 

 son or persons whomsoever, and of any 

 goods and chattels whatsoever: Provid- 

 ed, that no general meeting of the contri- 



butors, or persons acting under them, 

 shall employ any money or other estate, 

 expressly given to the capital stock of 

 the hospital, in any other way than by ap- 

 plying its annual interest or rexit toward 

 the entertainment and care of the sick 

 and distempered poor, that shall from 

 time to time be brought and placed there- 

 in, for the cure of their diseases, from any 

 part of the state, without partiality or 

 preference." 



The contributors have vested the ma- 

 nagers with the authority to establish.the 

 mode of admitting and discharging pati- 

 ents, and the terms upon which they are 

 to continue in the hospital; also to elect 

 the medical and other officers of the in- 

 stitution. 



They admit as many other poor patients 

 (after the established number of paupers, 

 supported by the capital stock, are ad- 

 mitted) as they can agree to take upon 

 reasonable rates. The fund arising from 

 the profits of the board and nursing of 

 such patients is appropriated to the same 

 uses as the interest money of the public 

 stock. The overseers of the poor of 

 Pennsylvania, and its religious societies, 

 pay three dollars per week for each pa- 

 tient. Those of other states pay four dol- 

 lars; private patients, residents of Penn- 

 sylvania, from three and a half to six dol- 

 lars; those of other states, from four and 

 an half to eight dollars. 



The anatomical museum contains a col- 

 lection of dried preparations castings in 

 plaster of Paris of the gravid uterus two 

 wax models of the human body pictures 

 representing the blood vessels, the foetus 

 in utero, &.c. &c. in crayons, the gift of 

 Dr. John Fothergill, of London; together 

 with many valuable preparations in spirits. 

 Every stranger, or visitor, pays one dollar 

 for admission into this museum. Students, 

 who have taken a ticket to attend the 

 practice of the house, are, however, ad- 

 mitted without any extra charge. 



The medical library consists of about 

 3000 volumes of well chosen books. To 

 this number has lately been added, the 

 whole of the botanical, natural, and histo- 

 rical works, from the library of the. late 

 Professor Barton. 



The library and museum are supported 

 and enlarged by the fund accruing from 

 the money paid by students to attend the 

 hospital, which is 10 dollars per annum 

 each. This fund amounts to a yearly in- 

 come of above two thousand dollars,, the 

 number of students who take tickets 

 being usually between two and three 

 hundred. 





