Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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SAMARITAN HOSPITAL LONG ago, before any of us were classified as to our position in utero, a group of public-spirited citizens inoculated with the virus of activity brought about the Samari tan Hospital. This was in April, 1874. The history of this hospital is written large in the records of medical advancement at T. U. From most humble beginning, its growth has been rapid and marvelous. Here came we, in our clinical years, more than anxious to enact our slight role in the perpetuation of the noble ideals of its founders. With the wealth of clinical material furnished us under the guidance of our faculty we have endeavored to acquire those principles of medicine upon which rest a lifetime of successful service. Within our sojourn, the system of teach' ing as practised by the greatest medical institutions has been instituted at the Samaritan. Without doubt, tremendous advantages have been gained by this individual clinical instruc' tion. The imposing edifices fronting Broad, Ontario, and Park Streets have contained within their walls memories which will ever be precious to us. These buildings are erected in a style which is a tribute to architectural beauty. Further additions are easily possible. Only recently the bed capacity has been increased by the Roosevelt Hospital Memorial Floor and more beds for ward patients are in the process of building. WHAT OF THE FUTURE? Indeed what is written today may be history tomorrow, for the Samaritan Hospital is in a transitional period of growth. It is keeping pace with the Greater Temple University, and with the ever-increasing demands of the community, members of the Medical School, and by the great reputation it has earned. GREATHEART MATERNITY HOSPITAL JN THE Greatheart Maternity Hospital, that broad-visioned and beloved humanitarian, Russell H. Conwell, set into existence another instrument for the administration of good to the community and service to humanity. Typical of Temple University’s history, it too, had a humble inception. It was dedicated by Dr. Conwell on April 27, 1923, consisting of thirty beds but which have since been doubled. The medical staff is composed of members of our obstetrical faculty and to them we owe our knowledge of practical obstetrics. It would not be amiss to mention the staff of graduate nurses who have always aided and encouraged us as embryo obstetricians. T irentysix

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The Senior Class is assigned in rotating pairs to this hospital and live here until the quota of “baby snatching” has been accomplished. Who will ever forget the mad dashes, desha bille, up the flag walk, then the ascent of the fire escape and the final breathless spurt into the delivery room? Who, among us, will not remember those unwarranted hours spent in anxious waiting? Dare any be treacherous enough to discard the vision of that first outside call, when, with “small chaser bag” in hand, and a tumultuous heart, we beat our way through mazes of city streets in the quiet of the night? The growth of the Greatheart Maternity Hospital has keen tremendous for its brief span of existence and it is to be regretted that the demand for beds exceeds the supply. As to its future, much is expected of an institution open to all creeds and races, whose principal aim is to be of service to those with little or no means. PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL V® HE Philadelphia General Hospital, which will celebrate its two-hundredth anni-( versary in 1931, originated in a small infirmary of the almshouse at Fourth and Pine Streets and was spoken of as “The Green Meadows”. This is the oldest hospital in the country, according to Agnew. In 1767, the institution was moved to Tenth and Pine Streets and was called the “Bettering House”. In these historic buildings many of Washington’s soldiers were cared for. The Legislature in March, 1820, authorized the purchase of a site and the erection of suitable buildings west of the Schuylkill River in Block' ley township, whence it acquired the familiar name “Blockley”. Here Rush, Band, Wistar, Gerhard and Osier labored. In 1902 three main divisions were officially recognized—a home for the indigent, a hospital for mental diseases and the general hospital proper. The adop' tion of a new city charter and the creation of the department of welfare about 1920 brought about the separation of the purely indigent patients from those who were ill. A new hos' pital for mental diseases was then erected at Byberry, and the 1400 mentally ill patients were moved there in 1926. All of this building and moving was in preparation for the rebuilding of the general hospital. The old structures at Thirty-Fourth and Pine Streets and the old stone wall which surrounded the hospital were demolished and the new hospital constructed on the site. The new hospital units are five stories high with open roofs. The new buildings add 1,250 beds. The new hospital units are five stories high with open roofs. The new buildings add 1,250 beds. The wealth of material in every line which is found here has keen the chief reason for the courtesy allowed us to hold ward walks at Blockley. As Juniors we were conducted on ward tours by Dr. Ullman and his staff of associates; and it was at old Blockley that we acquired a thorough clinical knowledge of diseases of the chest. T tcfnly-seten