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

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built, thus bringing the total number of beds to 110. The basement of this wing was equipped for dispensary work. This brings us up to the year 1907 at which time the Garretson Hospital was acquired. It contained 75 beds and supplied a wealth of material especially along the line of traumatic surgery because of its close proximity to several large industrial plants. Between 1905 and 1915 besides acquiring Garretson Hospital, two floors and a roof garden were added to the Samaritan Hospital. In 1925 New Main was built bringing the total housing capacity to 235 as well as providing a new kitchen room, record room, amphitheatre and operating rooms. The Roosevelt medical wards were added in 1927 making a new total of 330. Finally in 1929, the Samaritan Hospital became Temple University Hospital. With the passing of time Garretson Hospital had served its usefulness and the maternity department was transferred to Great Heart Hospital which had been established in 1923 at 1810 Spring Garden Street. Many were the changes which followed and in 1930 Dr. Babcock along with some of his friends established the Babcock Surgical Ward of 40 beds. The year following Professor Chamberlain became head of the new Radiology Department which was constructed at a cost of about 150,000 dollars. In 1932 the Greatheart Service was discontinued and a new Maternity Department was established on the fourth floor of Temple Hospital. The capacity of this department was thirty-five. In this present year Temple Hospital boasts of a total of 449 beds and one of the finest teaching hospitals in the city. Records show that it accommodates an average of 327 patients daily.

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN THE YEAR 1891 Dr. Conwell with his usual foresight acquired what was to be the nucleus of clinical teaching of Temple University Medical School. In addition he saved the North Philadelphia Hospital which had been started by a small group of physicians who now found it impossible to carry on because of the financial burden. In 1892 the Samaritan Hospital was dedicated under a new staff and in the following year a state charter was obtained. In 1896 a rear annex was built which doubled the number of beds, making a total of 40. Two years later the twin dwelling on the corner was added. The same year that the Medical Department was instituted Temple College was heir to another stroke of good fortune, for the state had made a grant which made possible the erection of a central building for administrative purposes as well as a North wing. With the recent affiliation with the medical school the staff v as reorganized, with Dr. I. Newton Snively as the medical dean and Dr. Wolfe and Dr. Boardman Reed the chief physicians, and Dr. Edmund Holmes as chief surgeon. Dr. W. Wayne Babcock had charge of obstetrics and gynecology. In 1903 Dr. Holmes resigned and Dr. Babcock became Surgeon-in-Chief and Dr. J. C. Applegate replaced Dr. Babcock as chief in Obstetrics, and assumed the Chair of Obstetrics in the school. With the aid of a 50,000 dollar state grant a two story South v ing was 25

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THE EAGLEVILLE SANITORIUM THIS SANITARIUM, devoted to the care and treatment of patients suffering from tuberculosis, was founded by Dr. A. J. Cohen and his associates in 1909. Its buildings which occupy 76 acres comprise a modern hospital, a convalescent building, a children's pavilion, ten cottages for recuperating patients, nurses' training school and home, a dining room and an administration building. In 1919 a dispensary was established at Fitzwater and Broad Streets, the purpose of this being to afford more thorough pre-admission and follow up study of each patient. The sanitarium is equipped to treat any chest pathology from quiescent T.B. to acute surgical complications which may necessitate major surgery. It v as among the very first institutions in the world to test the efficacy of artificial pneumo-thorax which is now accepted throughout the medical world in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. For this reason it is ranked among those hospitals which were pioneers in chest surgery in the treatment of tuberculosis. Here senior students in small groups are afforded the rare privilege of seeing and studying methods in the sanitarium treatment of tuberculosis under Dr. A. J. Cohen who is Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Chest at Temple University School of Medicine. 27