. Smith's hand-book and guide in Philadelphia : containing a general view of the city, its government, public buildings, educational, literary, ecclesiastical, scientific, and benevolent institutions, places of public amusements, railroads, and routes from, and in the city, hotels, public parks, and cemeteries, and a new map . l, Blockley Alms House. The Womens Hospital, North Collegeavenue and 22d street. The Childrens Hospital of Philadel-pia, Eleventh street, above Columbia avenue. The Homeopathic Infirmary, Coates andEleventh streets. The various medical colleges have also valu-able hospit
. Smith's hand-book and guide in Philadelphia : containing a general view of the city, its government, public buildings, educational, literary, ecclesiastical, scientific, and benevolent institutions, places of public amusements, railroads, and routes from, and in the city, hotels, public parks, and cemeteries, and a new map . l, Blockley Alms House. The Womens Hospital, North Collegeavenue and 22d street. The Childrens Hospital of Philadel-pia, Eleventh street, above Columbia avenue. The Homeopathic Infirmary, Coates andEleventh streets. The various medical colleges have also valu-able hospital accommodations. Dispensary, No. 127 southFifth street. This valuable charity was foundedas early as 1786, with a view of furnishinggratuitous advice, surgical aid and medicines, tothe poor. HAND-BOOK IN PHILADELPHIA. 117 In addition to this institution, there is TheNorthern Dispensary, No. 603 Spring Gardenstreet; Southern Dispensary, No. 318 Shippenstreet; Dispensary Department for the Poor,Catharine street, above Seventh; HomeopathicInfirmary, S. E. corner of Coates and Eleventhstreets; and The Southern Homeopathic Dispen ■sary, No. 318 Shippen street. In addition to these, we may mention thatthe various Medical Colleges dispense medicaladvice, aid and medicines gratuitously to PENNSYLVANI1 IIOSPITAL. 118 HAND-BOOK IN PHILADELPHIA. ASYLUMS. Magdalen Asylums, or Houses of are three of these associations in Phila-delphia, viz.:— The Magdalen Society, 21st and Eace asylum is a spacious brick structure, sur-rounded by pleasant grounds. It was institutedin 1800, and chartered in 1802. House of the Good Shepherd, Twenty-thirdstreet, between Sansom and Walnut institution is under charge of the Sistersof Charity. The Eosine Association of Philadelphia,Rising Sun Village, on Germantown avenue. Philadelphia Orphans Society Asylum—Eace and 18th streets. This institution wasformed in 1814, and incorporated
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