Hospital plans : Five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals / contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins hospital of Baltimore.

  • Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Hospital plans : Five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals / contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins hospital of Baltimore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    I direct you to provide accommodation for three or four hun- dred children of this class ; and you are also authorized to receive into this asylum, at your discretion, as belonging to such class, colored children who have lost one parent only, and, in exceptional cases, to receive colored children who are not or- phans, but who may be in such circumstances as to require the aid of the charity. I desire that you shall apply the yearly sum of twenty thou- sand dollars, or so much thereof as maybe necessary, of the revenue of the property which you will hereafter receive, to the maintenance of the Orphan's Home intended for such children. In order to enable 3-ou to carry my wishes into full effect, I will now, and in each succeeding year during my life, until the hospital buildings are fully completed, and in readiness to re- ceive patients, place at jour disposal the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. In addition to the gift, already made to you, of the thirteen acres of land in the city of Baltimore, upon which the Hospital will be built. I have dedicated to its support and to the payment (if the annual sum provided to be paid for the support of the Or- phans' Home, property which you may safely estimate as worth, to-day, two millions of dollars, and from which your corporation wdl certainly receive a yearly revenue of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; and which time and your diligent care will make more largely productive. If the Hospital and Orphans' Home are not built at my death, it will be your duty to apply the income arising from the pro- perty so dedicated to their completion. When they are built the income from that property will suffice for their maintenance. The indigent sick of this city and its environs, without regard to sex, age, or color, who may require surgical or medical treat- ment, and who can be received into the Hospital without peril to the other inmates, and the poor of this city and State, of all races, who are stricken down by any casualty, shall be received into the Hospital, without charge, for such periods of time and under such regulations as you may prescribe. It will be your duty to make such division of the sexes and patients among the several wards of the Hospital as will best promote the actual usefulness of the charity. You will also provide for the reception of a limited number of