Hospital plans : Five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals / contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins hospital of Baltimore.

  • Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Hospital plans : Five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals / contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins hospital of Baltimore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHORS OF THE ESSAYS. Office of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, March 6, 1875. Dear Sir :—The late Johns Hopkins, a rich citizen of Balti- more, bequeathed, to trustees a munificent foundation for the building and support of a hospital, mainly intended for the benefit of the indigent sick of the City of Baltimore and its environs. The letter which, some time before his death, he addressed to his trustees, will bast describe the object he had in view, and a copy of it accompanies this communication. The execution of this munificent charitable purpose has been entrusted to a body of trustees, none of whom, with a single exception, belongs to the medical profession, and, apart from the injunction which the founder's letter imposes upon them, '• to obtain the advice and assistance of those at home and abroad who have achieved the greatest success in the construction and management of hospitals,' they would have distrusted their own ability to cope with a subject so strictly scientific and profes- sional, without first resorting to the best sources of information within their reach. To this end the Board of Trustees has authorized their Build- ing Committee to confer with five distinguished physicians, chosen from different parts of the country, who have made hos- pitals their special study, and obtain from them such advice as they may need, and to compensate them for it. It is in execu- tion of the authority thus conferred that this communication is addressed to you, and you are invited to make such response to it as your fulness of information, stimulated by the importance to humanity of the subject, may prompt you to. Besides the information afforded you by the letter, some addi-