DESCRIPTION:
Subject: German Hospital, Broad and Corinthian Ave., Philadelphia, PA
Condition: Excellent (See scans)
Back side: Divided
Circulated: No
Year: Ca. 1910
Publisher: Hugh C. Leighton Company
"The American Methodists – the largest Protestant denomination—engaged in large scale missionary activity in Asia and elsewhere in the world, making medical services a priority as early as the 1850s. Methodists in America took note, and began opening their own charitable institutions such as orphanages and old people's homes after 1860. In the 1880s, Methodists began opening hospitals in the United States, which served people of all religious backgrounds beliefs. By 1895 13 hospitals were in operation in major cities. In 1884, U.S. Lutherans, particularly John D. Lankenau, brought seven sisters from Germany to run the German Hospital in Philadelphia. By 1963, the Lutheran Church in America had centers for deaconess work in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Omaha." (Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_nursing)
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