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English: Maternity Building, University of Pennsylvania.

Identifier: universityofpenn01nitz (find matches)
Title: University of Pennsylvania: its history, traditions, buildings and memorials: also a brief guide to Philadelphia
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Nitzsche, George Erasmus, 1874- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: Philadelphia, International printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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aratus,bathing facilities, etc., are unsurpassed. The building is fourstories high, the three upper floors containing accommodationsfor twenty beds each and the first floor eleven. All the floorsare connected with a sun parlor or porch extending the entirelength of the building. On the first floor there are three sep-arate rooms, the delivery room, the assembly room, and theanjesthetizing room; ward of puerperal patients; doctors andstudents dressing rooms. As in the Southeastern Dispensary, where fourth-year menare on duty, in the new Maternity there will be several third-year medical students always on duty, each third-year man beingobliged to spend at least a week in practical work. While as-signed to this duty the student lives in special dormitories pro-vided for this purpose in the adjoining hospital building. 139 THE SOUTHEASTERN DISPENSARY was founded byDr. B. C. Hirst in 1891 for the purpose of giving medical in-struction to students in obstetrics. Each fourth-year student is
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MATERNITY BUILDING. required to spend ten days at the Dispensary, where he gets anaverage of eight or ten cases. The building, which is locatedat 736 South Tenth Street, is well equipped. Three students andtwo trained nurses are in attendance at all times. The Dis- 140 pensary furnishes medical attendance to an average of twelvehundred families a year. A special free dispensary is also con-ducted in the building. THE MORTUARY AND CHAPEL, small buildings inthe rear of the Main Pavilion, erected in 1890 at a cost of$11,000.

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