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

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Dr. I. Newton Snively, (medical dean) and Drs. Wolfe, and Boardman Reed, were now chief physicians; Dr. Edmund Holmes, surgeon; Dr. J. W. Croskey, Ophthalmologist; and Dr. W. Wayne Babcock, obstetrician and gynecologist. Later in the same year, 190?, Dr. Holmes resigned, and Dr. Babcock was made surgeon-in' chief, and Dr. J. C. Applegate was called to the chair of obstetrics in the medical school, and to be chief obstetrician to the hospital. A little later Dr. Wilmcr Krusen was made gynecologist, and Dr. Albert Robin, pathologist. In 1905 an additional appropriation of fifty thousand dollars for building pur-poses was granted by the state, and various necessary buildings, including a two story south wing, were erected, increasing the total number of beds to 110, and providing a suitable basement for much needed dispensary enlargements. In the next ten years, two more floors, including the Roof Garden for children, were added to the south wing, and ten years later, June 18th, 1925, the great new “Main Building was formally opened, bringing the total capacity of the hospital up to 23 5 beds. This handsome new Broad Street structure also provided a number of other necessary features, such as new kitchen and dining rooms, record rooms, class rooms, amphitheater, and suite of operating rooms. Since the opening of this Main Building there have been added by the completion of the fourth floor, and the building of two new medical wards, 58 beds (The Roose-velt Hospital addition), which with the 37 infants beds in the nurseries, makes the present capacity of the hospital 330 beds. Thus, in briefest outline, runs the record of the past thirty'Seven years. More recently there have been such changes in the plans and policies and general spirit of the institution, as will undoubtedly further its administrative efficiency, its medical teaching capacity, and its higher service to suffering humanity. A comprehensive system of undergraduate “clinical clerkships now supplements the work of the twelve internes. And the period of interneship has been lengthened to two years, with a full-time, experienced Chief Resident Physician to direct and correlate and supervise this important service. But still more significant, perhaps, than any other recent advancement, is the establishment of a Medical Directorship, and the calling, on Feb. 1, 1929, of Dr. William N. Parkinson to be the first occupant of this new office. Dr. Parkinson is a Temple Medical alumnus, class of 1911; also received the degree of Master of Science in Surgery from the University of Pennsylvania in 1923. He was formerly Associate Dean of the Medical School with Dr. Hammond, and in recent years has been Chief Surgeon to the Eastern Coast Railroad and Hospital, St. Augustine, Florida. He now comes back to the Samaritan service with a keenness of interest, and a breadth of experience that bespeak for him the confidence of his associates, and assured success in his efforts toward the further development of a great institution. Verily, “Samaritan Hospital prepares to take its place in the vanguard of modern medical education, as it has long held front rank in its ministrations to the sick and afflicted. T u-entyonc

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Samaritan Hospital

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Lobby of tub Samaritan Hospital