CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

THE FIRST GENERAL HOSPITAL.

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Healthfulness of the District of Columbia........

Early contagions and disorders...

Health of Washington during the rebellion.............

President Jefferson has White House inmates vaccinated....

President Jackson acts as nurse in a smallpox case.

The board of health of Washington City

The Washington Poorhouse

Dr. Alexander McWilliams

Need of a public hospital ....

Dr. Thomas Ewell's plan

The name Columbia Hospital suggested

The plan fails................

Hospitals during the war of 1812

Cholera epidemic of 1832.........

Location of cholera hospitals.

Committees appointed to interest Congress in a hospital.

The Washington Infirmary..

Appropriation for an insane asylum .......

Building turned over to Columbian Medical College

Appropriations for support of the hospital

Specific payments for specific services

Enlargement of the hospital .............

The United States occupies the infirmary as a war hospital..

The building burned

CHAPTER II.

THE GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

The pauper problem....

Poorhouses in the District of Columbia..

Provisions for the insane...

Insane asylums in the various States..

First action by Congress as to the insane..

Caleb Cushing's inquiry...

Provision for the District insane at Baltimore.

The "old jail" to be fitted as an asylum...

Failure of the project.....

Reform in the management of insane asylums.

Work of Pinel and Tuke......

Mechanical restraint abolished in England

Four insane asylums in the United States in 1800

Introduction of the reform ideas into this country.

Dorothea Lynde Dix...

Beginning of Miss Dix's work in Massachusetts....

Founding of the asylums at Trenton, N. J., and Harrisburg, Pa.

Sketch of Miss Dix....

The bill vetoed by President Pierce...

A Government hospital for the insane started.............

A portion of the St. Elizabeth grant favored for a location.

Reluctance of Thomas Blagden to sell....

Beginning of the work....

Organization of the asylum...

Dr. Miller's claims.....

Regulation of admissions..

Membership of the first board of visitors.
The hospital during the rebellion.
Then first known as "St. Elizabeth".

Dr. Charles H. Nichols..

Dr. W. W. Godding

Dr. J. M. Toner...

CHAPTER III.

THE COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.

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Deaf and dumb children brought from New York City..
A deaf and dumb school started...

Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind..

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Edward Miner Gallaudet appointed superintendent....

Other instructors and officers....

Provisions for the admission of pupils.

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The Washington Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum...

Industrial education provided for

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Board of directors of the Columbian Institution to grant degrees.

National Deaf-Mute College....

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Mr. Kendall succeeded by Dr. Gallaudet as president..

Successes of graduates...

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Free scholarships.....

The blind children transferred to the Maryland Asylum.

Course of study for the blind.............

Enlargement of the Columbia Institution.

Contributors to the fund.....

The gymnasium............

The Gallaudet College

Action of the alumni.

Address of President Welling

The Kendall School....

The French statue of Dr. Thomas Gallaudet.

The normal department...

Representation by Congress on the board of trustees

Churches and schoolhouses turned into hospitals

List of army hospitals in the District of Columbia during the war.

The Army Medical Museum

Ford's Theater...........

Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion

Index to the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office.......

The Soldiers' Home ....

Funds for support

Located by Gen. Winfield Scott.

Officers of the Home....

Amusements..

Societies..

Expenses

Accommodations....
Hospital facilities

The Naval Hospital...

Work of the hospital..

Improvements suggested..

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CHAPTER V.

GENERAL HOSPITALS.

The Providence Hospital.

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Dr. Toner's efforts to establish a hospital..............

A hospital opened by the Sisters of Charity of Emmitsburg, Md..

First public announcement......

Interest of Thaddeus Stevens, Samuel J. Randall, and James A. Garfield.

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Resolutions of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia.

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Transfer of the property of the National Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans'

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Congressman Blount's opposition..

The management

Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital

Board of visiting physicians.

A reorganization effected..

The Stone-Thompson report..

The Bovée-King report..

The training school for nurses.

The Children's Hospital.

Dr. S. C. Busey starts the project for a children's hospital.

Incorporation

Dr. James C. Hall's bequest.

The first home of the hospital...

Gifts and endowments....

Reports of President S. V. Niles...

Board of lady visitors...

Amendments to the by-laws.

Training school for nurses....

Contributions to the hospital..

Beginning of the dispensary work..

First medical staff ...

Connection with Georgetown University.......

First patient admitted for operation and treatment.

Need of an accident hospital..........

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