ALEXIAN BROTHERS HOSPITAL
Located in Chicago and established in 1860 under the management of the Alexian Brothers, a monastic order of the Roman Catholic Church.
It was originally opened in a small frame building, but a better edifice was erected in 1868, only to be destroyed in the great fire of 1871.
The following year through the aid of private benefactions and an appropriation of $18,000 from the Chicago Relief and Aid Society a larger and better hospital was built. In 1888 an addition was made, increasing the accommodation to 150 beds.
Only poor male patients are admitted and these are received without reference to nationality or religion and absolutely without charge.
The present medical staff (1896) comprises fourteen physicians and surgeons. In 1895 the close approach of an intramural transit line having rendered the building unfit for hospital purposes, a street railway company purchased the site and buildings for $250,000 and a new location has been selected.