The children's hospital, the medical school and the public / by L. Emmett Holt.
- Luther Emmett Holt
- Date:
- [1913]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The children's hospital, the medical school and the public / by L. Emmett Holt. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![SC [From The Johns IIoi'KiNS Vol. XXIV, No. 265, ■ -v -• - . V \ V • 1 j*»2 m ^<4^ ti \ THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, THE MEDICAL SCHOOL AND THE PUBLIC.* By L. Emmett Holt, M. D., New York. The opening of any new hospital is an event which it is [89] fitting we should celebrate, and I deeply appreciate the honor of being invited to a personal participation in the opening of the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children. A new hos- pital for children in this city means much to the community and to the medical school. I congratulate the City of Balti- more and The Johns Hopkins Medical School upon this event, and upon the selection which has been made of the head of this new institution, one of whom I can speak from most intimate personal and professional relations which have ex- tended over a period of more than twelve years. I congratulate Dr. Howland on the opportunities winch this splendid new hospital offers for teaching, for research and for practical experience. This building completed, and now formally opened, is the realization of the idea of a hospital for children in Baltimore which began to take shape when Dr. Emerson made his instructive report to the university upon children’s hospitals in this country and abroad. If events have moved slowly they have moved surely. We have in this country been slow to appreciate the need of special hospitals for children. Just as the specialty of pediatrics has been gradually differentiated from obstetrics on the one hand and general medicine on the other, so the evolution of the special hospital has been a slow one. Homes for foundlings most of our large cities have provided for many years. These, though necessary, have been in no sense * Address delivered Nov. 20, 1912, at the opening of the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children, The Johns Hopkins University. (l)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22447957_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
