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

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Lobby of tub Samaritan Hospital

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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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G IE IE aVT IE IEAIET MAT IE IE NUTT W HE late Dr. John C. Applegate, Professor of Obstetrics in School of Medicine, ™ Temple University, always held that Senior students should have an opportunity to attend a certain number of maternity patients in their homes. He was ever in accord with, and an ardent advocate of the “Out Door Service. This service, he believed, afforded the students an opportunity to gain insight into the practical phase of Obstetrics that could not be acquired elsewhere. His assumption has been abundantly confirmed by the excellent service rendered by the students, by the industry and enthusiasm they have displayed in the work and by the gratitude, freely expressed of the patients whom they attended. Each student is now required to attend twelve maternity patients in the Obstetric service. This alone means that the Department of Obstetrics must provide more than six hundred full term maternity patients during the course of each college year. The Samaritan Hospital, it was found, could not adequately meet this need and accordingly it became necessary to provide other facilities. To meet the growing demand, the Greatheart Maternity Hospital was established at 1810 and 1812 Spring Garden Street, a neighborhood selected with the belief that it would provide the necessary clinical material. The Hospital now known as the Garretson-Greatheart Hospital opened its doors to the public on April 27, 192S. The response of the neighborhood people to the project has more than justified its existence, for during its six years of service the students with the aid of district or student supervisors have attended more than 4000 women in confinement. Even though working in many instances under the most unfavorable circumstances, the results with respect to morbidity and mortality compare most favorably with private obstetric practice in general. Each patient receives zealous pre-natal supervision and as a result convulsive toxemia has been a rarety and there has not occurred a single instance of infection that one could attribute to inadequate or improper care on the part of the students in attendance. Recently the building was somewhat remodeled and an elevator installed. To meet the growing needs of the hospital, a pre-natal clinic with modern equipment has also been established. These pre-natal clinics are held regularly each week day at one o'clock. Here the patients are registered for admission to the hospital or to have a Senior Medical Student assigned to their case to care for them in their homes. Prenatal care is given the expectant mother. She is also urged to return for Post-natal examination and to have the baby examined to see if it is developing as a normal child should. Nurses arc also assigned from this dispensary to visit and care for patients in their homes. TIE IE Jl IE WHS IE HOSPITAL “IT'HE Jewish Hospital was founded September 23rd, 1865, in a small building on II Westminster Avenue at Haverford Road and Fisher's Avenue, now 56th Street in West Philadelphia. It was soon realized that the quarters were inadequate to meet the needs of the service it offered. So a tract of 23 acres was acquired at York and Tabor Roads in North Philadelphia. The first building was erected and dedicated during the year of 1873. Above the entrance of what is today the Men's Surgical Ward, the following is inscribed: Twenty-three