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For the payment of board, and removal of a patient when discharged, security is always required from some responsible resident of the city of Philadelphia. Payment for board is always to be made quarterly in advance ; and if the patient is removed uncured, be- fore the expiration of the first three months, and con- trary to the advice and consent of the Superintendent Physician, board is required for thirteen weeks; otherwise, the charge is only for the time actually passed in the Hospital, provided that time is more than four weeks.
Interest will be charged on bills not paid till after the expiration of the quarter.
Large chambers and private attendants ean always be supplied, if desired by the friends of the patients. The number supported without charge is dependent on the amount of the Hospital's income, and the free beds are for indigent, recent and supposed curable cases only. Application ean be made at the Pennsyl- vania Hospital on Eighth street, between Pine and Spruce, where blank forms for physicians' certificates, bond, questions, etc., can always be obtained. Thomas S. Kirkbride, M. D., Superintendent.
PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL (BLOCKLEY). Thirty-fourth and Sansom Sts.
It is a department of the County Almshouse, and is, therefore, supported out of the tax funds. It is under the control of the Guardians of the Poor, to whom application should be made. Their down-town office is at No. 42 north Seventh street. Any sick and disabled person in indigent circumstances, will be admitted free. There is also a department for the insane.
THE GERMANTOWN DISPENSARY AND HOSPITAL.
Shoemaker's Lane, near Chew St., Ger'twn.
Founded for the benefit of the " poor sick" of Ger- mantown and Chestnut Hill, but all eases of recent aceident are received without reference to locality. Applications for admission of medical ca es should be made at 12 o'clock, noon. Recent accident cases ad- mitted at any hour of the day or night. The Dispen-
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sary is open daily (Sunday excepted) from 9 to 10 a. m. Resident Physician, W. E. Casselberry, M. D. The Hospital lias, at present, twenty-srx beds, but the Managers propose to erect a large ward for women, for which purpose funds are needed.
THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL IN PHILA. 39th St., bet. Filbert St. and Powelton Av.
This Institution was incorporated in 1871, and has since continued in active operation. It provides med- ical and surgical aid and nursing for the sick and dis- abled, without distinction as to creed, country or color. Those who have been injured, may be received at any time, within 24 hours from the time of the accident. Persons afflicted with curable diseases are admitted for pay. Poor patients, deemed fit objects of charity, are admitted free by the Pysician in Charge, upon the recommendation of the Visiting Committee. No in- fectious or contagious diseases admitted. Apply at the Hospital.
ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL.
Girard Avenue, between 16th and 17tli Streets.
Conducted by the Sisters of Charity. It is divided into surgical and medical departments, and has ample accommodations for two hundred patients.
In addition to the public wards, there are fifty pri- vate rooms, well furnished, where patients desirous of extra accommodations can enjoy all the comforts of a well regulated home, together with all the benefits to be derived from such an institution.
Physicians having patients at hotels, boarding houses, or private houses, can avail themselves of this opportunity, by sending such patients to this institu- tion, where they can continue to treat them, under the skillful nursing of the Sisters of Charity. Patients of all crceds and climes are admitted, and can avail themselves of the services of physicians and spiritual advisers of their own selection.
The department for inebriates is a special feature of the house, and the greatest care is bestowed on that class of sufferers, with the very best results. The poor are received and cared for gratis, as far as the finances of the house will permit. The cost of board in the
wards for male pay-patient is five dollars per week ; for females four dollars. Private rooms can be pro- cured at various prices. Apply to Sisters of Charity.
ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL.
Frank'd Road and Palmer St., opp. N. Y. depot, Ken.
The work done by St. Mary's Hospital is one which commends itself to the most earnest support of every man and woman who has a heart to feel for the sick and destitute. Here the poor, the friendless and the forsaken sick find an asylum where willing hands are ready to dress their wounds and to minister to their bodily and spiritual wants, irrespective of creed or nationality, for God's sake, and without money and without price. This is the work of the poor Sisters of of St. Francis, and to be able to carry it on in an effective manner, they are forced to rely upon the generosity of those whom God has blessed with an abundance of this world's goods. Infectious or con- tagious diseases not admitted. Apply to Sister Mary Borromea at the Hospital.
THE JEWISH HOSPITAL OF PHILA.
The Hospital is located on Olney Road near York Pike, 22d Ward. It is accessible hourly via Nortlı Penn Branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail- road from Third and Berks or Ninth and Green streets, or by driving out north Broad street and York Pike. It is supported by voluntary membership and contri- butions of the benevolent. Occasionally receives pay patients.
It is open at all times for the admission of the sick and wounded without distinction of creed, color, sex or nationality.
The Mathilde Adler Loeb Dispensary, attached to the Institution, is open daily for free medical and sur- gical advice, treatment and dispensation of medicines to all poor persons applying for such relief.
The Association also has under its charge and sup- ports a home for aged and infirm Israelites.
" Accidents" admitted at any time upon application at the Hospital. Cases of sickness are admitted upon permit, signed by two members of the Committee of
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Admission, who require a certificate from the attend- ing physician as to the nature of the disease, etc. In urgent cases, the Resident Physician can admit with- out such permit. Rich and poor are admitted and treated alike, frec. Pay, if you desire to. Alonzo Schapringer, M. D., Resident Physician.
GERMAN HOSPITAL.
Girard and Corinthian avenues.
The Hospital is sustained by private contributions and pay-patients. No distinction is made as to the crecd, color, or nationality of the applicant. A limited number of poor patients are treated without charge. Price for pay-patients is from four to six dollars per week, and in some instances more, the amount to be agreed upon by the Steward and the applicant. Two weeks' board must be paid in advance, or security given. No contagious disease admitted. Application should be made to the Steward in charge. Richard Naumann.
WOMAN'S HOSPITAL. North College avenue and 22d Street.
The Hospital is designed for respectable persons. Those who are unable to pay will be received and treated gratuitously, or they in return shall render any services, according to ability as shall be required. Others will be charged such prices as may be agreed upon in cach case.
Patients received by the Institution shall be divided into five classes, viz .:
1. Those affected with diseases peculiar to women, who shall be admitted to the wards for a period not exceeding twelve weeks, except by special action of the Board.
2. Obstetric patients (married women) who shall be admitted near the expected time of confinement, and whose residence there shall be limited to three weeks afterwards. unless in particular instances.
3. Women and children, sick with ordinary non- contagious diseases, who shall be admitted for a period not exoecding six weeks, except by special action in each case.
4. Dispensary patients, non-resident at the Hos-
pital, who shall visit the Institution at specified times, be treated there, and furnished with medicine.
5. Clinic patients, unable to visit the Hospital, to be treated at their own homes, and furnished with medicines or otherwise.
Contagious diseases shall be excluded from the Hos- pital.
For admission, etc., apply to Physician in Charge Anna E. Broomall, M. D.
HOSPITAL OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Front Street and Lehigh Avenue.
The objects of the Hospital are declared in its Con- stitution to be :
1. To provide medical and surgical aid and nursing for the sick and disabled, either in the wards of the Hospital or at their homes.
2. To instruct and train suitable persons in the duties of nursing and attending upon the sick.
3. To provide the instructions and consolations of religion according to the principles of the Protestant Episcopal Church, for those who are under the care of the Institution.
Persons afflicted with contagious or infectious dis- cases are not admitted. Persons injured by accident, if brought to the Hospital within 24 hours of the acci- dent, are admitted at once. Others are admitted upon an order of the physician on duty. Both pay and free patients are taken. Apply to Rev. J. A. Childs, 703 Walnut street ; or to S. R. Knight, M. D., Superintendent, at the Hospital.
MARINE HOSPITAL.
Fourth floor of Jefferson Medical College.
A sick or disabled seaman, in order to obtain the benefits of the Marine Hospital service, must apply to a medical officer of that service, or, in the absence of such officer, then to the proper customs officer acting as the agent of the Marine Hospital service, and must furnish satisfactory evidence that he is entitled to re- lief under the regulations.
Master's certificates and discharge papers from U.
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S. Shipping Commissioners, properly made out and signed, showing that the applicant has been employed on a documented vessel or vessels of the U. S. for at least sixty days immediately preceding his application for relief, shall in general, be held to constitute the " satisfactory evidence" required. Seamen taken sick or disabled while in the actual line of their duty are furnished care and treatment without reference to the length of time they have been employed.
At all ports where there is a medical officer on duty at the Marine Hospital office (which office is usually at the Custom House), his duties shall be to examine all applicants for relief to preseribe and furnish medi- cine for such cases as required, to issue permits in cases where hospital relief is necessary, and to take direct professional care of the patients in hospital. George W. Stoner M. D., Passed Assistant Surgeon, M. H. S.
HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF PHILA. 1116 and 1118 Cuthbert Street.
There are two large wards (a male and a female ward) completely furnished and capable of accommo- dating twenty patients cach. There are three private wards or apartments, in which patients can secure all the advantages of hospital treatment, in the privacy of their own rooms with separate attendants.
There is an efficient and well trained corps of nurses constantly in attendance.
The Resident Physician occupies a portion of the hospital building, and will direct the treatment of patients as prescribed by the physician attending the case.
Homeopathic physicians have access to the wards of the hospital at all times. They can conduct the treatment of their patients themselves or assign them to the hospital staff for treatment.
Members of the hospital staff will freely consult with members of the profession having cases under treatment in the hospital.
Applications for admission can be made to the Res- ident Physician, Isaac G. Smedley, M. D., who will report such applications to the Board of Managers at their regular meeting, Wednesday afternoon of each week, and notify the attending physician of the action taken, the next day.
Urgent cases will be received upon an order signed by two members of the Board of Managers.
Accident cases are received at all times, without an order, provided they are brought to the Hospital within twenty-four hours of the occurrence.
No contagious disease will be allowed in the Hospital.
The charges are six dollars per week for board and nursing ; whenever the funds at the command of the Board will admit of it, a discount is, however, made to nicet the requirements of special cases.
CHURCH DISPENSARY OF SOUTHWARK. Dispensary, 1719 South Ninth St.
The Church Dispensary of Southwark has been established to afford medical assistance to the sick poor living in the southern part of Philadelphia. In this largely populated and rapidly growing part of the city there is a pressing necessity for an institution of this character.
The Southern Sick Diet Kitchen is located in this building, enabling the siek to be supplied with the necessrry food, under the direction of the attending physician.
The results of the work at the Dispensary since its establishment, in 1872, by the Philadelphia Protestant Episcopal City Mission, have been very encouraging, and it is recommended to the fostering care of the benevolent.
SOUTHERN DISPENSARY. 318 Bainbridge St.
The object is to afford medical relief to the deserv- ing poor, free of charge. Apply at the Dispensary.
THE HOWARD HOSPITAL AND INFIRMARY FOR INCURABLES. 1518 and 1520 Lombard Street.
The object of this Institution is the medical and surgical treatment of the sick and infirm, but deserv- ing poor. It is unsectarian, and dependent for its support upon the voluntary contributions of the ben-
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evolent. Its medical department is organized on the specialty system : each physician devoting himself to the treatment of a special class of diseases, and its ex- perience has shown this mode of treatment to be emi- nently successful.
Owing to the lack of funds, the Department for In- curables has not yet been opened; nor have the Man- agers been able to establish full hospital practice.
Prescriptions compounded free of charge. For assistance or information, apply at Hospital.
PHILADELPHIA DISPENSARY FOR THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL RELIEF OF THE WORTHY POOR. 127 South Fifth St.
Open daily from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Besides the office service, on application to the Dispensary, orders are given on the District Physicians who visit such patients at their homes as are unable to come to the Institu- tion.
Obstetrical Department, second floor, for treating diseases of women and attending lying-in cases at their homes. Open daily from 11 to 12 a. m., and from 6 to 7 p. m.
Eye and Ear Department, northeast corner 13th and Chestnut streets. Office hours daily, from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m., and from 6 to 7 p. m.
Medicines furnished, and prescriptions compounded gratuitously by the Dispensary.
SICK DIET KITCHENS.
Central Kitchen, 411 Spruce St. Northeastern Kitchen, 1233 Leopard St. Southern Kitchen, 1719 South Ninth Street. Southwestern Kitchen, 2035 Christian St.
In the month of November, 1875, and since which time it has been in daily operation, the first Sick Diet Kitchen connected with the Philadelphia Protestant Episcopal City Mission, was established at the House of Mercy, No. 411 Spruce street. Subsequently, three other Sick Diet Kitchens have been established, and are in active operation. Still other branches are in contemplation. They all have for their object, the
furnishing to the invalid poor the delicate but nutri- tious food which is otherwise hopelessly beyond their reach, yet upon which their lives might, under Provi- dence, depend, and without which, medicines, medical skill, and even careful nursing would in many cases avail but little.
Chicken broth, beef tea, soups, mutton broth, oat meal, gruel, roast beef, rice custard, prunes, jellies, corn starch, roast apples, gelatine, bread pudding, rice pudding, tapioca, canned tomatoes, grapes, oranges, etc., have been furnished from the Kitchens. The average number of patients daily supplied from this source has been about one hundred.
Donations of money and supplies are earnestly and respecfully solicited for this branch of the Mission work, and should be specially named "For the Sick Diet Kitchens." Rev. Samuel Durborow, Superin- tendent, 411 Spruce street; W. M. Runk, Treasurer, 1126 Chestnut street.
PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE EM- PLOYMENT AND INSTRUCTION OF THE POOR.
716 Catharine Street.
Lodging and medicines are furnished free to such as apply. Patients are also visited at their homes.
CHARITY HOSPITAL DISPENSARY.
1832 Hamilton Street.
Medical advice and medicines given to the worthy poor free of charge, upon application at the Dispen- sary. The field occupied by this Hospital is a large one, and the Board appeal to the benevolent for assist- ance.
THE PHILA. HOMEOPATHIC DISPENSARY.
Southeast corner 17th and Chestnut Sts.
Eye and Ear elinie, Tuesday and Friday, 12.30 till 1.30 p. m.
Heart and Lung clinic, Monday and Thursday, 12.30 till 1.30 p. m.
Skin clinic, Wednesday and Saturday, 12.30 till 1.30.
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HOME FOR THE HOMELESS. 708 Lombard Street.
An Institution providing a temporary refuge for " homeless females, irrespective of race, color or creed," , a free and open shelter for all classes of wretchedness and want.
Also furnishing invalid meals for the sick poor who are unable to procure suitable articles for sick diet, or to properly cook it, if furnished to them.
PHILADELPHIA DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES.
1021 Lombard Street.
An Institution for the gratuitous medical treatment of the poor affected with diseases of the skin. Daily, 11 to 12. Physician in Charge, H. W. Stelwagon, M. D.
THE NORTHERN DISPENSARY OF PHILA. 608 Fairmount Avenue.
The object of this Institution is to afford free medi- cal and surgical aid and medicine to the respectable poor residing north of Vine and South of Norris streets and between the rivers Delaware and Schuyl- kill. There are, besides the Resident Physician, ten attending physicians, for outdoor patients, each hav- ing their separate districts.
THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Office, 1216 Chestnut St.
COLEMAN SELLERS, Pres. SAMUEL J. LEVICK, Treas. -: 0 :-
MEMBERSHIP .- Annual Contribution, $5.00. Life Membership, $50.00.
Contributions, donations and bequests are respect- fully solicited.
COMPLAINTS .- A book is kept at the office of the
Society, No. 1216 Chestnut street, for registering com- plaints, and bringing cases of cruelty to the notice of the officers, who will take steps to arrest the offenders, or to prevent a repetition of the offencc.
HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE RECTUM. Northeast corner Tenth and Cherry Sts.
The Institution was established for the treatment of all diseases of the rectum. Apply at the Institution.
THE PENNSYLVANIA FREE DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES.
921 Locust St.
It has for its object the gratuitous medical treatment of the poor, affected with diseases of the skin, and the advancement of medical science as regards such dis- eases. Open daily to receive patients at 11 o'clock, except Sundays.
GERMAN EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY.
Southeast corner 5th and Green Sts.
The poor, afflicted with discases of the eye or ear arc treated gratuitously. Application to be made at the Infirmary, which is open from 1.30 to 3 o'clock, except on Sunday.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA.
Southeast corner Fifteenth and Chestnut Sts.
This Association is organized on an unsectarian basis to assist in caring for the young men who throng our streets and stores, warehouses and workshops, by practical service in securing employment for the un- employed; providing boarding houses for strangers and others; watching over the sick and friendless young men; endeaving to promote their religious, moral and social welfare ; offering facilities for intel- lectual improvement and social intercourse, where
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every effort is made to exclude evil influences. Pres- ident, John Wanamaker. General Secretary, J. Howard Seal.
PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR ALLEVLAT- ING THE MISERIES OF PUBLIC PRISONS. INSTITUTED 1787.
Among the objects of the Society are the frequent obligatory visits of members of the " Aeting Commit- tee" to prisoners in their cells; also of the agents appointed especially to inquire into the physical needs of convicts about to leave the prisons, and to afferd what advice and aid they can in clothing and means to reach a distant home, or to procure employment in the city or vicinity ; and additionally in the County Prison, to interfere in behalf of the friendless untried prisoner, and to settle differences that have led to im- prisonment on trifling charges. James J. Barclay, President, and John J. Little and Edward Townsend, Secretaries.
THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM CRUELTY.
Rooms, 1406 Chestnut Street (second story).
It is the carnest wish of all good citizens to shelter the younger members of the community from ernelties against which they are powerless to protect them- selves. Adequate laws already exist for the protection of children, but the police force is necessarily occupied with the most obvious and gravest cases of crime. Hitherto no friendly and powerful hand has been habitually extended to rescue these little ones from lives of misery and danger, to place them under the shield of the law, and where natural protection has failed, or has been transformed into brutality, to bring them, by an order of the Court, under the merciful care of some orphan home or other sanctuary provided for the desolate and oppressed. To perform these kindly offices, the Society to Protect Children from Cruelty has been lately organized. It desires to pursue its work, not vindictively, but in a spirit of justice and mercy ; with no sectarian bias, but simply
in the interests of pity and humanity toward the in- jured and defenceless; and its members entreat the co-operation of their fellow-citizens in its aims, and their generous contributions toward the fund necessary for the discharge of the duties it has undertaken to fulfil.
A subscription of $3.00 annually constitutes men- bership.
A payment of $50.00 constitutes Life Membership. Contributions may be sent to the Treasurer or Mem- bers of the Board of Managers.
Hon. Daniel M. Fox, President; Peter A. Keller, Treasurer, and Benjamin J. Crew, Secretary.
THE MIDNIGHT MISSION.
919 Locust Street.
Its object is the rescue and salvation of fallen women, through the agency of midnight meetings, suitable homes and industrial pursuits, and whatever other instrumentalities Providence may suggest by which, in the spirit of Christian gentleness and love, they may be brought under the power of the Gospel and induced to lead a better life.
Should any person know of a girl detained in a house of ill-fame against her will, he will please send a notice to the Mission, or to Rev. B. H. Latrobe, Sec- retary, 328 Queen street, that means may be taken for her rescue.
THE ROSINE ASSOCIATION. 3216 Germantown Ave.
The object of the Association is to reclaim fallen women, and to restore them to society. Apply to the Institution.
HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD (ROMAN CATHOLIC).
Twenty-second and Walnut Sts.
The object of the Institution is to reclaim and save fallen women.
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THE FRANKLIN REFORMATORY HOME FOR INEBRIATES OF PHILA.
Nos. 911, 913 and 915 Loeust Street.
The object of this Home is the thorough and perma- ment reformation of inebriates. There are combined in this Institution, church privileges and home eom- forts. All that can be effected by the best medical treatment, careful nursing and motherly affection, is here assured to fallen man. In faet, nothing is left undone that can be devised to rescue and permanently save the inebriate from self-destruction. The useful- ness and perpetuity of this Home depends upon the liberality of the Christian public. Samuel P. Good- wiu, President ; Isaac P. Welsh, No. 235 North Third street, Treasurer ; Joseph K. Wheeler, Secretary.
THE HOWARD INSTITUTION. 1612 Poplar Street.
This Institution, under the care of an Association of Women Friends, was established in the year 1853. Its object is the care and reformation of female prisoners, who, after a term of imprisonment, manifest a disposi- tion to reform; or others, who, on account of their evil habits, need Christian counsel, moral restraint and domestic discipline. The design of this Institution is to provide a home where such females may be sheltered from evil associations ; to surround them with hopeful and religious influences ; to inculeate good principles, and habits of neatness and industry ; to instruet them in domestic duties, so as to qualify them for usefulness; and after a terin of probation to obtain for them re- spectable situations in city or country. Applicants for admission, upon calling upon one of the Managers, may obtain the order necessary to admit them. It is supported by the subseriptions and donations of the benevolent, and commends itself to the humane and charitable. Annabella E. Winn, Dircetress; Sarah Ann Pope, Seerctary.
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