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Fifth District .- Comprising the 7th and 8th wards west of Broad street. Dr. A. H. Weir, No. 130 Sonth Fifteenth street.
Sixth District .- Comprising the 6th ward, and that portion of the 9th and 10th wards east of Broad street. Dr. C. 1. Groff, No. 215 North Thirteenth street.
Seventh District .- Comprising that portion of the 9th and 10th wards west of Broad street. Dr. W. H. Baker, No. 1610 Summer street.
Eighth Distriet .- Comprising the 11th, 12th and 13th wards. Dr. F. S. Isett, No. 525 North 6th street.
Ninth District .- Comprising the 14th and 15th wards. Dr. Alex. Browne, 640 North Eleventhi street. Tenth District .- Comprising the 16th, 17th and 20th wards. Dr. S. N. Troth, No. 1335 Franklin street.
Eleventh District. Comprising the 28th and 29th wards. Dr. A. Graydon, No. 1605 North Seventeenth street.
Twelfth District .- Comprising the 18th and 19th wards. Dr. J. L. Rihl, No. 2009 Frankford avenue.
Thirteenth Distriet .- Comprising the 31st ward. Dr. Thomas Shriner, No. 2204 Frankford avenue.
Fourteenth District .- Comprising the 23d ward and Bridesburg. Dr. W. Ekwurzel, No. 1629 Frankford avenue.
Fifteenth District .- Comprising the 25th ward, west of Trenton avenue. Dr. J. H. Evans, corner of Sixth and Venango streets.
Sixteenth District. Comprising the 21st ward. Dr. W. C. Todd, No. 4407 Main street, Manayunk.
Seventeenth District .- Comprising the 24th and 27th wards. Dr. Henry Mullen, No. 100 North Fortieth street.
Eighteenth District .- Comprising the 22d ward. Dr. F. W. Thomas, No. 5659 Germantown avenne.
Nineteenth District .- Comprising the 25th ward east of Trenton avenne (except Bridesburg). Dr. Edward Jones, 1941 Richmond street.
Twentieth District .- Comprising the 28th ward. Dr. H. N. Abbott, northeast corner Twelfth and Berks streets.
THE CORONER.
The present Coroner is William S. Janney, M. D. The duties of this officer are declared in the Act of 22d of March, 1867, to be :
"To holl an inquest on the body of any person who shall have died of violent death, or whose death shall be sudden, provided such sudden death be after an illness of less than 24 hours, and no regular practicing physician shall have been in attendance within that time; or that suspicious circumstances shall render the same necessary ; which said suspicions shall first be sworn to by one or more citizens of the city."
When a physician is requested to give a certificate of death, resulting as set forth in the above Act, he should refuse to do so, and immediately notify the Coroner. And where a physician is called to attend a patient injured by the criminal aet of another, and is likely to die, he should at onee notify the Coroner. If he believes, however, that death is imminent, he should forthwith inform the patient of approaching death, and proceed himself to take his dying declara- tion, and not seek a policeman or other officer, as is too often the case. With such evidence, the offender can be arrested and tried for the erime.
MIDWIFERY .- Every practicing physician and every practitioner of midwifery of the city of Philadelphia,
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is required by law, to report his or her name and place of residence, to the Health Offieer, at the Board of Health. Should any such person remove to any other place of residence, it is his or her duty to notify the Health Officer of the fact within 30 days.
Every person, as aforesaid practicing midwifery, under whose charge a birth shall take place, shall keep a true and exact register of such birth, and shall enter the same on a blank schedule, to be furnished by the Health Officer. This schedule shall contain a list of the births which have occurred under his or her care during the month, and shall set forth, as far as can be ascertained, the full name of each ehild, its sex, color, the full name and occupation of its parent or parents, the day and place of its birth ; and the said schedule shall be delivered, duly signed by the prac- titioner, in the form of a certificate, on the first day of every month, to the Health Officer, or to any author- ized person calling for the same.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES .- Any person having a patient affected with any pestilential or contagious dis- ease, except measles, must, at onec, inform the Health Officer in writing, under penalty of a fine.
DEATHS .- The following is the law: "Whenever any person shall die, in the city of Philadelphia, it shall be the duty of the physician who attended during his or her last sickness, or of the Coroner, when the case comes under his notice, to furnish, within 48 hours after the death, to the undertaker, or other per- son superintending the burial, a certificate, setting forth, as far as the same can be ascertained, the full name, sex, color, age and condition (whether married or single) of the person deceased, and the cause and date of death. No person having the charge, as sexton or otherwise, of any vault, burying ground, or ceme- tery within said city, shall inter, or allow to be in- terred ; or place, or allow to be placed, in any vault, burying ground, or cemetery, the dead body of any person ; nor shall any undertaker, or other person, remove the dead body of any person, who has died in the said city, and has not been buried, to any place beyond the limits of the said city, without first pro- curing the certificate of the attending physician, or of the Coroner. To said certificate, the undertaker, or other person, having charge of the body, shall, as far as can be ascertained, add the occupation of the de- ceased, the place of birth, ward, street, and number of the house in which the death occurred, the place and date of interment, aud, where the deceased is a minor,
the full names of the parents. In case any person shall die without the attendauce of a physician, or if the physician who did attend at the time of the death, refuses or neglects to furnish a certificate as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the undertaker, or of any other person acquainted with the facts, to report the same to the Health Officer, who shall give a certificate of death as aforesaid, provided it be not a case requiring the attendance of the Coroner. In case any physician, or the Coroner, shall refuse or neglect to furnish such certificate as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars for each offence."
THE MORGUE.
Corner Beach and Noble Streets.
The following are the rules established by Councils for the government of the Morgue :
1. The Morgue shall be open at all hours of the day and night for the reception of dead bodies. The ex- hibition shall be open daily from sunrise to sunset.
2. The Superintendent shall reside in the Morgue building, and shall always be on duty there.
3. The Superintendent shall have full control of the Morgue building and all the property therein con- tained, and shall keep a record book in the office of the Morgue, in which citizens may record the names of missing friends, and describe their person and cloth- ing, and the address, to which information respecting them may be sent.
4. No corpse shall be received at the Morgue, unless in charge of a Policeman, or on the order of the Coro- ner, or the Chief of Police, unless the Superintendent shall be satisfied by a citizen that the corpse has been found dead in the street, or drowned.
5. The attendant in charge will, on the arrival of a corpse, record in a book, a detailed account of the recovery of the body, when found, and at what place and hour, the hour of admission to the Morgue, in whose charge, or whose warrant, together with a de- scription of the body, clothing, papers and money found on it, etc.
6. All bodies brought to the Morgue shall remain, if not recognized, in the hall of exhibition 72 hours or longer, or until decomposition commences. The clothing also shall be exhibited near the body. If, when the exhibition can no longer be continued, the
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body remains unrecognized, it shall be buried. The clothes shall remain exposed 20 days longer.
9. The friends of a person whose body has been identified, can transfer it to their own domicile, with the consent in writing of the Coroner.
10. The attendants shall, under no circumstances, ask for or receive any fees.
17. If any corpse shall remain unrecognized 48 hours, the Superintendent shall have the body photo- graphed in the clothes in which it was found; and should any regular physician desire to embalm any unclaimed body, he may do so, provided he obtains the written consent of the Coroner and the Commis- sioner of Markets, etc.
PHILADELPHIA ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL & INFIRMARY FOR NERVOUS DISEASES.
N. W. Cor. 17th and Summer Sts.
The hospital is devoted exclusively to the treatment of Deformities and Diseases of the Nervous System. All applications for admission as house-patients must be made to the Executive Committee, through its chairman, Alfred Jones, Germantown-the applicant having first obtained from an attending physician or surgeon in the department to which the patient is sup- posed to belong, a certificate that he has examined the ease, that it is one within the scope of the hospital, that in his judgment it can be euerd, or permanently benefited, by proper treatment, and that for such treatment it is necessary that the case should be in the house.
Patients when unable to pay any part of the board, or treatment are admitted free, so far as the funds of the Hospital will permit. 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 circum- stances of the applicants.
HOME FOR CONSUMPTIVES. 411 Spruce Street.
This institution is designed for the accommodation of the destitute and homeless, afflicted with Consump- tion. The Home is not so much a hospital, confining
its beneficence to the inmates actually within its walls, as a central ministering agency, from which, through its system of out-door relief, the poor Consumptives in all parts of the city may be properly cared for.
No fee is charged for admission to the Home, and no discrimination is made by reason of nationality, creed or color, but it is expected that those who avail themselves of the charity thus bestowed, will conform to the ministrations of the Protestant Episcopal Church. This rule does not apply to patients at their own homes.
Donations of money, clothing and supplies, are car- nestly solicited, and should be marked " For the Con- sumptive's department." Rev. Samuel Durborow, Superintendent, No. 411 Spruce St.
THE PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.
N. W. corner Broad and Pine Sts.
Deaf and dumb children are not received under ten years of age. The annual charge is two hundred and eighty dollars, for which sum everything is provided. When clothing is supplied by the parents, two hundred and forty dollars a year are charged.
The schools are closed on the last Wednesday of June, and are re-opened on the first Wednesday of September. Payments are required to be made in ad- vance every six months.
It is very desirable that the deaf and dumb should be taught to form letters with a pen or pencil, and, if possible, to write the names of common objects, before they are sent to the Institution.
Applicants for the bounty of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania must be between the ages of ten and twenty years; and before they can be admitted, satis- factory evidence must be furnished, from respectable persons of their neighborhood, of the pecuniary ina- bility of the parents, and of the good natural intellect of the child, and its freedom from any constitutional malady that might incapacitate it for instruction.
On application to the Principal of the Deaf and Dumb Institution, Philadelphia, by letter or other- wise, a paper with printed questions and blank spaces for answers will be forwarded. After the paper has been filled out, it must be returned to the Institution. The applicant will soon be informed of the result of the application.
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The number of pupils on the State fund is limited ; new pupils can only be admitted when vacancies occur. The term allowed is six years.
PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTION FOR THE IN- STRUCTION OF THE BLIND.
Northwest corner Twentieth and Race Sts.
Applications for the admission of pupils will be re- ceived by the Principal, Wmn. Chapin, A. M. The Legislatures of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey, have made provision for the education of their indigent blind. Applicants must conform to the direc- tions of the Institution which will be furnished upon application to the Principal, and to the Acts of their respective Legislatures, before they can be admitted, and they are required to furnish satisfactory evidence, from respectable persons in their neighborhood, of the pecuniary ability of the parents, and of the mental and bodily capacity of the applicant to receive instruc- tion. Pupils must be eleven years of age, at least, when admitted.
Pay pupils, from this and other States, will be re- ceived. For terms which vary make application, by letter, to William Chapin, Principal, or Edwd. Town- send, Chairman of the Committee of Admission and Discharge.
THE PENNSYLVANIA WORKING HOME FOR BLIND MEN.
3518 Lancaster Avenue.
This Institution, under the management of Mr. H. L. Hall, Superintendent, is doing a work of great use- fulness and benevolence in affording employment to blind mechanics and working men. Most of its inmates-forty-six in all-pay a moderate board from their carnings, and clothe themselves. Twenty-six of them were formerly graduates of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, home- less, or those unable to find employment. Though this Benevolent Home is successful in its good work, it is necessarily dependent upon the contributions of its friends.
THE PENNSYLVANIA INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR BLIND WOMEN.
Powelton and Saunders Avenues.
For the employment of Blind Women. It contains thirty-five inmates at present. Board, per week, $2. Apply at the Institution for admission or information.
THE FRANKLIN REFORMATORY HOME. 911, 913 and 915 Locust St.
This Home has for its object the thorough and per- manent reformation of Inebriates. Applications for admission are received from 7 o'clock a. m. to 10 o'clock p. mn., at the Home.
Information of the work in detail may be had at the Home, or from Robert P. Harris, M. D., attending Physician.
No person will be received as an inmate against his will, or for a less period than two weeks. Persons having a permanent home within the State, whose circumstances render it imperatively necessary, may be admitted to a free bed, at the discretion of the Com- mittec on Admission. If a free bed be desired, the applicant, or his friends, must give satisfactory proof of his inability to remunerate the Institution for his support during his stay therein.
All other persons will be charged for their board according to their ability to pay, and the rooms, at- tendance and accommodations furnished them.
PHILADELPHIA HOME FOR INCURABLES. 4700 Darby Road.
The applicant must undergo an examination by a visiting physician of the Home, and must have a cer- tificate from his attending physician that he is incur- able, before he will be admitted. A fee of $100.00 is charged for admission, except in such cases as may be agreed upon by the Board of Managers and the appli- cant. Application can be made at the Home.
WILLS' EYE HOSPITAL. Race St. ab. Eighteenth.
The Wills' Hospital is a charity for the really poor only, who need treatment for the eye-of which there
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are two classes-first, the " out patients." who may come to the Hospital as often as required for treat- ment. Seeond, Patients who are recommended by the Hospital surgeons for admission in the house. These applicants must be clean in their persons, and bring with them a change of clothing, towels, soap and comb, and arrange for their washing outside of the Hospital, comply with the rules governing the same, and when discharged from it, leave without further expense to the Institution. No pay patients admitted. Application should be made at the Hospital from 2 to 3 o'clock every day, except Sunday. Clinic hour from 2 to 3 o'eloek every day, except Sunday. Joseph Pettit, Steward.
MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL. Lehigh Avenue, corner Twenty-first St.
The Municipal Hospital is supported by the city, and is under the control of the Board of Health, office Sixth and Sansom streets, where application should always be made. Small-pox, cholera, yellow-fever, scarlet-fever, typhus-fever, and all contagious diseases are admitted. A physician must certify that the patient has one of the diseases above mentioned, and that he cannot be properly cared for at his home. Upon the presentation of such certificate at the office of the Board, a permit is issued, and the ambulance of the Hospital is sent to remove the patient. Where one is able to pay, one dollar a day is charged. Other- wise the patient is taken and cared for free. No patient is compelled to enter the Hospital, except under very extreme eireumstanees.
PHILADELPHIA LYING-IN CHARITY AND NURSE SCHOOL.
Nos. 126 and 128 N. Eleventh St., eor. Cherry.
Purely charitable. The objects of the Society are, the instruction of nurses, attendanee upon indigent women at their own homes in their eonfinement, and the treatment of diseases peculiar to women at the bi-weekly elinie, with hospital eare where it is required. Apply at the Institution.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN & INFANTS. 734 South Tenth Street.
The benefits of the Institution available to residents in any part of Pennsylvania. Supported by voluntary contributions. The object of this Hospital is the care, nurture and maintenance of destitute women-married or single-during child-birth, under the following re- strietions of the By-Laws :
" No unmarried woman shall be admitted to the Lying-in Hospital except for her first confinement."
" No applicant shall be received unless she be clean and free from contagious disease."
Admission free. Apply at Hospital.
PRESTON RETREAT, A LYING-IN HOSPITAL FOR INDIGENT MARRIED WOMEN.
Hamilton St., bet. 20th and 21st Sts.
Persons to be admitted to the benefit of this Insti- tution shall be married females of indigent circum- stances, who are near the time of their confinement ; but in no case shall they remain under the eare and at the expense of the Institution longer than four weeks after their delivery, unless by consent of two- thirds of the Board of Managers, and then not longer than twelve weeks. No person shall be admitted im- less she be a resident in the city or county of Phila- delphia or the county of Delaware, and shall have produced to the managers satisfactory testimonials of good character.
Persons desiring to enter the Preston Retreat as patients, are recommended to make their application at least one month before the expected time of their confinement.
Such persons shall apply to the physician-in-charge at the Retreat, who will afford all necessary informa- tion to the applicant. The Retreat is a charity. Win. Goodell, M. D., Physician-in-charge.
SANITARIUM ASSOCIATION OF PHILA.
The object of the Association is to provide a place where fresh air, wholesome food and cleanly surround-
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ings may be enjoyed by the very poorest elass of siek and helpless children, without any charge.
The Sanitarium Building is situated on Windmill Island, Delaware River, and is open during the sum- iner monthis for the reception of destitute children.
CHILDREN'S SEA-SHORE HOUSE, ATLANTIC CITY, FOR INVALID CHILDREN.
Is open every summer under the charge of a Resident Physician, with a matron and nurses. Children are provided with board, medical attendance and hot and cold salt-water baths, at a weekly charge not exceeding $2.00. Small cottages for mothers with nursing infants. Railroad tickets from and to Philadelphia are furnished at a low rate. Application for admis- sion will be received as advertised each summer.
HOSPITAL OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD FOR CHILDREN.
Radnor, Delaware county, Pa.
Supported wholly by voluntary contributions. Situ- ated on high land, near Rosemont station, Pennsylva- nia Central Railroad, ten miles west of Philadelphia. The object is to provide a home and medical treat- ment for invalid children of the diocese of Pennsyl- vania (embracing Philadelphia, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery and Bucks counties), without regard to creed or country.
Applications for admission may be made to the Rev. Dr. Hay, 619 North Fourth street, Philadelphia, or to any member of the vestry of the parish, or of the Co-operative Committee. Age of admission, from 2 to 12 years. Full rate of payment, $3.00 per week.
ST. CHRISTOPHER'S HOSP. FOR CHILDREN. No. 132 Diamond Street.
This Hospital is a charity, and is open to any sick or disabled poor child, irrespective of creed, color, or nationality. Apply to the physician-in-charge, W. H. Bennett, M. D.
CHILDREN'S HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA.
N. E. corner Eighth and Poplar Sts.
The Hospital is open for sick children between the ages of 2 and 14, and those suffering from non-contag- ious diseases. The Dispensary for the treatment of children and adults is open daily (Sunday excepted) between the hours of 9 and 10 a. m.
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILA. Twenty-second St. below Walnut.
This Institution is supported by voluntary contri- butions of the benevolent, by legacies, and to a small extent by board of patients. Children between 2 and 12 years of age, if seriously injured by accident, are always admitted if brought to the Hospital immedi- ately thereafter. Other cases may be admitted by applying to the physicians and surgeons who attend at the Hospital daily (Sundays excepted) at 12 o'clock. Out-patients are prescribed for daily (Sundays ex- cepted) at 10 a. m. and 4 p. m.
THE PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL.
Between Spruce and Pine and Eighth and Ninth Sts.
Was organized in 1751, and consists of two depart- ments, one of which is for the Insane. It receives no assistance from city, county or State, but is entirely dependent on private contributions.
All its income is devoted to the care of its patients, and as many free patients are received as its income will justify. All persons seriously injured by accident, in any part of Pennsylvania, and brought directly to the Hospital, are received at once, and treated without charge.
The admission in all cases to be by printed certifi- cate of name, age, place of nativity, occupation, social stage (single, married or widowed), and the diagnosis under the signature of the doctor admitting; and the Steward shall also, whenever practicable, require security for the clothing of the patient, and his or her removal when discharged.
All applications for admission shall, as far as is
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practicable, be made at the Hospital in the afternoon.
No person having any infections or contagious dis- case shall be admitted into the Hospital.
No patient shall be admitted on the charity of the Institution whose ease is judged to be incurable.
No person having a venereal disease or mania-a-potu shall be admitted as a free patient.
Pay-patients may be admitted by the Steward on the certificate of a Hospitrl Physician at the rate of not less than one dollar per day, except in eases of mania- a-potu or alcoholism, the lowest charge for which shall be two dollars per day.
All patients shall give security for the payment of their board.
All patients shall be discharged as soon as they are cured ; and all charity patients whose cases, after a reasonable time of trial, shall be judged incurable, shall be discharged. Benjamin H. Shoemaker, Secre- tary ; William G. Malin, Steward.
PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
Bet. Market and Haverford Sts. and 42d and 49th Sts.
Is a branch of the Pennsylvania Hospital at Eighth and Pine streets. There are two departments, one for males and one for females.
All elasses of insane persons, without regard to the duration of the disease or of its curability, are ad- mitted into this Institution. Idiots, however, it may be stated, are not received; and for the epileptie, a special agreement should be made.
Cases of Mania-a-Potu are not received into this Hospital ; but into that at Eighth and Pine streets, exclusively.
Preparatory to the reception of a patient, it is neees- sary to arrange the rate of board, ete., with a member of the Board of Managers, and to furnish a certificate of the patient's insanity from two or more physicians, who shall have examined the patient within six days of its date, and the same shall be acknowledged and sworn or affirmed to before some magistrate or judicial officer, as required by an Act of the Legislature. A request that the individual may be received in the Institution must likewise be made by a near relative or friend. A full and detailed history of each case is also particularly requested.
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