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Ground plan of the H-shaped Satterlee U. S. General Hospital in West Philadelphia, showing 32 wards lettered A-Z; XX; OK;
and numbered 1-6. The following spaces are also identified: dining halls, guard house and barracks, knapsack room, kitchens,
extra diet kitchen, laundry rooms, reading and lecture room, library, smoking rooms, officers' quarters, boiler room, carpenter
shop, medical store room, clerks and druggists mess room, stewards office and quarters, chief ward master's office, chapel,
donation room, reception room, executive office, surgery, laboratory, printing office, barber shop, engineers gang, green
room, post mortem room, stables, sheds, and gates. The Civil War hospital, one of the largest in the country, opened June
9th, 1862 at Forty-fourth Street and Baltimore Avenue in the farmland of West Philadelphia. The hospital was closed in August
1865 and the buildings demolished.
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