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Title: History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries ...: showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the boards of overseers of the poor, gaurdians of the poor and the directors of the Department of Charities and Correction
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lawrence, Charles, b. 1837
Subjects: Philadelphia (Pa.). Guardians for the Relief and Employment of the Poor Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Guardians of the Poor Philadelphia (Pa.). Dept. of Charities and Correction Almshouses Hospitals Hospitals Hospitals
Publisher: (Philadelphia) : C. Lawrence
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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History of Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals. 179 The committee, to whom the request had been referred, re-ported favorably on the 25th of May, 1851, and a resolution wasadopted by the Guardians requesting the Chief Resident Ph\^si-cian to assign her to such position as will best enable her toobtain the knowledge she desires without detriment to the institu-tion. Dr. Adamson was the first female physician employed in thatcapacity. A contract had been made for apparatus for heating and ventil-ating the Hospital and Insane Departments. It \vas not satisfac-tory and the Board refused to pay the contractors. Suit was enteredfor the amount the contractors claimed was due to them, and a longand expensive litigation followed, which was finally settled by acompromise. Although the Guardians had agreed to the settlement theywere determined to go on record, and the following resolution wasadopted: Resolved^ That in compromising the suit of Birkenbine &Trotter it is understood that it is

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