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History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals : from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years, showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the boards of overseers of the poor, guardians of the poor and the directors of the Department of Charities and Correction. With an appendix containing a list of former visiting and resident physicians. Illustrated from photographs / Compiled...by Charles Lawrence.
Pennsylvania Hospital Library - History WX L419h 1905 [Rare Book Section]
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawrence, Charles, 1837- compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philadelphia (Pa.). Guardians for the Relief and Employment of the Poor.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Philadelphia (Pa.). Department of Charities and Correction.
- Hospitals--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Hospitals.
- Almshouses--history.
- History.
- Philadelphia.
- Hospitals--history.
- Social Welfare--history.
- United States.
- Philadelphia (Pa.). Overseers of the Poor.
- Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Guardians of the Poor.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Medical Subjects:
- Almshouses--history.
- Philadelphia.
- Hospitals--history.
- Social Welfare--history.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 398 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia?] : Charles Lawrence, 1905.
- OCLC:
- 20436517
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