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

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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

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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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THE JEWISH HOSPITAL THE JEWISH HOSPITAL which we know today would in all probability be a surprise to those who first knew it, for it is far removed from its original site which was at Westminster Avenue and Haverford Road and Fishers Avenue which is now 56th Street. Then too it has grown. This hospital — non-sectarian — dedicated to the sick and wounded regardless of creed, color or nationality, was founded in 1865. At present this rapidly growing hospital is located at York and Tabor Roads and occupies an area of 23 acres. Recent additions to the hospital consist of the New Hochenberg Building which was erected in June of 1928. It is devoted to the care of maternity cases and has a bed capacity of 50. It also houses medical and surgical facilities which replace the less adequate and less efficient ones. Also it provides a new nurses' quarters. The most modern of the great array of buildings is the Mone Friedenberg Memorial Surgical Building, erected in accordance with the will of Mone Friedenberg in memory of his parents and his two brothers. This building containing 51 beds was opened in 1934. The present capacity of Jewish Hospital is 420 beds and bassinets. It was associated with Temple University for the first time in 1928 affording clinical instruction to the senior class in Medicine Pediatrics under Dr. Joseph Doane, director of Jewish Hospital. 28