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Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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or more hospitals and dis-pensaries, the oldest (except the Municipal or PhiladelphiaHospital) is the Pennsylvania Hospital, whose grounds occupy ablock at Spruce and Ninth streets, and whose charter was procuredby Franklins aid in 1752. Since then nearly two hundred thousandpatients have been admitted, and the most eminent physicians andsurgeons in the history of the country have walked its wards, wherethe first clinical lectures in the United States were delivered. It hasa large and very valuable library, in which are contained manyobjects of curious interest. A branch from it, sepaiated in 1841, hasgrown into the great Hospital for the Insane (Kirkbrides) in WestPhiladelphia. Next to this, the most educational of the hospitals isprobably that at the University of Pennsylvania, elsewhere men-tioned. The German Hospital is a great institution under Germanauspices, near Girard College; the Polyclinic attracts many students;and the Hahnemann, on Fifteenth Street, above Race, is homeo-
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CHURCHES.—RELIGIOUS AND BENEVOLENT WORK. 93 pathic in treatment, as also is the Womens Homeopathic Hospital,at Twentieth Street and Susquehanna Avenue. The Maternity andseveral others devote themselves to the lying-in and diseases ofwomen, and to the needs of children. Each of the leading Christiandenominations supports a hospital of importance. The RomanCatholics have several, the Friends an old and important hospital forthe insane; the Protestant Episcopal church cares for two or more;the Methodists have one, and the Presbyterian Hospital, at Filbert andThirty-ninth streets, is widely known. Special infirmaries and freedispensaries are numerous and widely scattered, as may be seen byconsulting directory lists. The City Almshouse, popularly known asBlockley, which occupies a large establishment south of the Uni-versity, and has an average daily population of about four thousandderelicts, is often visited by strangers, and has attached to it the cityscharity hospital, founded in 173

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