AN APPEAL 
IN BEHALF OF A HOSPITAL 
FOR THE 
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Suggested Sites of Buildings. AN APPEAL 
IN BEHALF OF A HOSPITAL 
FOR THE 
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The undersigned, friends of the University of Pennsylvania, would 
earnestly invite your attention to the following appeal in behalf of a 
Hospital to be connected with that Institution. 
Those who are most interested in the Medical School of the Uni- 
versity, and best qualified to judge, have no doubt of the necessity of 
the measure proposed, and of its great importance not only to the 
advancement of medical education, but to the charitable and com- 
mercial interests of the whole community. 
They are convinced of the need of adopting, to its fullest extent, 
the practice of the best European schools, in uniting daily hospital 
tuition with that of the lecture-rooms, laboratories, and museums, as an 
integral feature of the regular medical course; and they believe that 
the necessity for this union is now so generally and strongly felt, that 
no school can refuse to heed the demand. 
The Faculty of the University is well known to have uniformly insisted 
on the largest practicable amount of bedside study of medical and sur- 
gical diseases. The teaching of the city hospitals—in which its members 
have always more or less participated—has been faithfully supplemented 
by the demonstrations of the University Dispensary and Infirmary, 2 
under their immediate control. But, notwithstanding this constant 
association of their courses with the public hospital service, experience 
has shown the necessity of a hospital under the direction of the school, 
as an addition to its other resources. 
Further, we have no hesitation in asserting that, as an object of charity, 
no less than one of educational policy, the contemplated Hospital 
deserves the favorable consideration of our fellow-citizens. Although 
the number of sufferers from accident and disease is constantly in- 
creasing in our enormous working population, 'there is no correspond- 
ing growth in the provision for the medical and surgical aid to which 
these indispensable members of our community are entitled. The need 
of further hospital accommodation is shown by the numerous applica- 
tions rejected at our hospitals from day to day. At the University 
alone, over Three Thousand persons have applied for relief in the 
past year, many of whom could only be properly treated in the wards 
of a hospital. The number of hospital beds now available in Phila- 
delphia is well known to be small in proportion to our population, and 
is very strikingly so when a comparison is instituted with the large 
cities of Europe. 
While it must be conceded that increased hospital accommodation is 
needed in Philadelphia, it is no less clearly established that such increase 
should be secured, not so much by the enlargement of those already 
existing, as by the erection of new hospitals of moderate size, and 
situated in the most favorable hygienic localities. In this view, the posi- 
tion selected for the University Hospital is particularly favorable, while, 
at the same time, it possesses the advantage of being in the vicinity of 
the termini of the great railroads of our State. 
The proposed undertaking is also justified by the important material 
interests involved, since, by favoring the concourse of students, a large 
sum of money is annually brought to and expended in this city. Thus, 
in the last sixty years, not less than Twenty Millions of Dollars have 
been actually expended in Philadelphia by the medical students of the 3 
University alone, not to estimate the very large amounts which have 
been continually flowing to our city as a consequence of the intimate 
associations which they formed. 
The Trustees of the University have accordingly decided to devote 
a portion of their property in West Philadelphia—large enough for 
the erection of an appropriate edifice, with sufficient space around 
it for all purposes of exercise and ventilation. In order to complete 
such a hospital with a complement of two hundred and fifty beds, 
and to maintain it in proper order and efficiency, a building and 
endowment fund will be required of at least seven hundred thousand 
dollars. Less than this might and will, of course, be made available, 
to a correspondingly limited extent, in a partially completed edifice 
with a smaller number of beds; but a million of dollars could be 
employed without extravagance, and with inestimable benefit to the 
sick and wounded, not only of our own community, but of the great 
manufacturing and mining districts by which we are surrounded. 
In view, therefore, of the facts and considerations here presented— 
as to the requirements of medical education, the need in Philadelphia 
of increased hospital accommodation, and the material advantage to 
our city, we most earnestly commend the undertaking to our fellow- 
citizens, and to all the friends of the University. 
D. Hayes Agnew, M.D, 
Josiah Bacon. 
Henry C. Baird. 
Matthew Baird. 
Horace Binney. 
Geo. W. Biddle. 
Clement Biddle. 
Thomas A. Biddle. 
Saml. Bradford. 
F. Carroll Brewster. 
Jno. C. Bullitt. 
Washington Butcher. 
Chas. J. Biddle. 
Clarence H. Clark. 
Theodore Cuyler. 
Joseph Carson, M.D. 
J. Gillingham Fell. 
Samuel Field. 
E. H. Filler. 
A. H. Franciscus. 
J. W. Forney. 
Henry C. Gibson. 
Wm. G. Goodell, M.D. 
Geo. L. Harrison. 4 
Joseph Harrison. 
Henry Haines. 
Isaac Hays, M.D. 
Jesse Reynolds. 
Wm. G. Rhoads. 
John M. Read. 
Chas. H. Rogers. 
Eugene A. Hoffman, D.D. 
H. Lenox Hodge, M.D. 
Wm. Hunt, M.D. 
Robert E. Rogers, M.D 
W. W. Harding. 
Geo. Harding. 
Alfred Horner. 
Chas. Hartshorne. 
Charles L. Sharpless 
George W. Simons. 
Charles Santee. 
Thomas Sparks. 
Edwd. Hartshorne, M.D. 
Wm. J. Horstmann. 
J. Dickinson Sergeant. 
Albert H. Smith, M.D. 
Francis G. Smith, M.D. 
Alfred StillE, M.D. 
Wm. A. Stokes. 
Jno, W. Jones. 
Henry C. Lea. 
Wm. Struthers. 
Joseph Leidy, M.D. 
Samuel Lewis, M.D. 
Joshua B. Lippincott. 
Saunders Lewis. 
George Sharswood. 
Wm. D. Stroud, M.D. 
Robert Shoemake,;. 
Henry Lewis. 
Wm. Lilly. 
Edwd. H. Trotter. 
Thomas T. Tasker. 
Edward Y. Townsend. 
J. Edgar Thomson. 
Saml. Lilly, M.D. 
Jno. F. Meigs, M.D. 
R. S. Mackenzie, M.D. 
Morton McMichael. 
Jos. B. Myers. 
John P. Yerree. 
Henry M. Watts. 
James V. Watson. 
R. C. McMurtrie. 
Casper Morris, M.D. 
Charles E. Warburton. 
Francis Wells. 
Wm. F. Norris, M.D. 
Jno. S. Newbold. 
William Newell, M.D. 
Jacob Naylor. 
Thompson Westcott. 
William Weightman. 
Samuel Welsh. 
Andrew Nebinger, M.D. 
Samuel S. White. 
James W. White. 
Charles S. Wood. 
H. C. Wood. 
Jno. H. Packard, M.D. 
R. A. F. Penrose, M.D. 
Wm. Pepper, M.D. 
H. C. Wood, M.D. 
Richard Wood. 
Randolph Wood. 
W. P. Pepper. 
Robert E. Peterson, M.D.  oif 
f T W. RICHARDS, Arch’t.