The new Municipal Hospital for Contagious Diseases was officially opened on a ten-acre site at Twenty-Second and Lehigh Avenue in Philadelphia was the first dedicated public hospital in the city dedicated to such a purpose. It filled a serious deficiency for the city's Board of Health since previously patients had to be tranferred twelve miles out of the city. Speeches from city worthies marked the ceremony. (By John Osborne)
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J.Thomas Scharf and Thompson Wescott, History of Philadelphia 1609-1884, in three volumes (Philadelphia, PA: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884),
825.Charles Lawrence, History of the Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals... (Philadelphia, PA: Charles Lawrence, 1905), 281.