Philadelphia Hospital Reports

present time; and such lists have been prepared and are measurably complete, including boards of guardians and the department of charities and correction; stewards, superintendents, hospital wardens and apothecaries; the visiting medical staffs ; resident physicians, and graduates of the training school for nurses. It was found, however, that such tables would require many pages in a volume already extended to unusual limits; and for this reason, and also because it will be possible by postponement to add to the completeness and accuracy, and therefore to the value of these lists, we have concluded to withhold their publication to another volume. We would be glad to receive from all sources information that would assist in the perfection of this important work.

The articles on medical subjects are without exception founded upon work done in the Philadelphia Hospital, which makes the volume strictly representative.

The thanks of all who are interested in the welfare of the Philadelphia Almshouse and its Hospital are due to the mayor, to the finance committee of city councils, and to the members of councils generally for the appropriation which has enabled this book to be published. In its preparation much valuable assistance has been received. To the president of the board of charities and correction, Hon. Robert Laughlin, to the members of the board, and to Mr. George Roney, superintendent of the almshouse, we are indebted for the active interest and many courtesies shown. We are also under obligations for assistance to Mr. Edwin Palmer, secretary of the bureau of correction ; to Mr. Robert C. Floyd, secretary of the bureau of charities; to Dr. Daniel E. Hughes, physician-in-chief of the hospital; to Drs. D. D. Richardson and William H. Wallace, formerly physiciansin-chief to the insane department; to Mr. Mahlon H. Dickinson, president, and Mr. Cadwalader Biddle, secretary of the board of public charities of Pennsylvania; to Drs. Alfred Stillé and Dr. James Tyson; to the Rev. Jesse Y. Burk, secretary of the University of Pennsylvania, and to Mr. James G. Barnwell, librarian of the Philadelphia Library. Dr. Roland G. Curtin, president of the medical board, has not only contributed much valuable material, but has taken a continuous interest in editing the entire work.

In the examination of written minutes and other documents, in the correction of proof, and in many details, we have been greatly assisted by Dr. M. Imogene Bassette, Dr. J. W. McConnell, and Mrs. F. Gray. To Miss E. A. Atkinson we are indebted for valuable references.

Doubtless, in spite of care and watchfulness, errors and inaccuracies have found their way into the volume, but the editor trusts that the fact of the work having been done in the midst of other exacting labors, will serve to excuse many shortcomings. By an unaccountable oversight an error was left in the first page of Dr. Agnew's history, where he speaks of the Almshouse of 1767 as located between Eleventh and Twelfth instead of between Tenth and Eleventh streets.

At various times pictures of the different almshouses in Philadelphia have been taken. We have not been able to procure a view of the almshouse of 1732. One of the old Friends' Almshouse is given on page 81, opposite the description of that institution, which was situated on Walnut street above Third, and was occupied from 1729 to 1841. This is from drawings of the late John Skirving and William L. Breton, and was drawn and engraved expressly to illustrate Westcott's History of Philadelphia in the Sunday Dispatch.

In Watson's, and in Scharf and Westcott's Histories are to be found views of the institution at Tenth and Spruce streets, opened in 1767. One in Watson's Annals, vol. iii, page 332, represents it without the central building, which was evidently, therefore, erected later than the two L-shaped extremities. In this volume, opposite page 82, where this almshouse is described, is a picture of it as completed. This has been reproduced from a certificate which was formerly granted to students of medicine who attended the practice of the physicians of the infirmary and almshouse. We have seen one of these certificates in possession of Dr. James Hendrie Lloyd, a member of the neurological staff of the hospital, which was given in 1824 to his grandfather, Dr. William Scott Hendrie, then a student of medicine from New Jersey, in the University of Pennsylvania. Another, framed, is at the hospital.

The frontispiece is a view of the institution as it was in 1840, reproduced from a lithograph by J. T. Bowen, of 94 Walnut

street, Philadelphia. It shows the almshouse with fields and meadows in front, and a bridge, probably the old Market street bridge, above.

Opposite to page 98, is a bird's eye view of the arrangements of the building within the present almshouse enclosure, prepared by E. Hexamer, 419 Walnut street, Philadelphia, and lithographed by F. Bourquin, 31 South Sixth street, Philadelphia. This is accompanied in the original by a diagram, detailing the manner in which the numerous buildings and departments represented are occupied.

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