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The Pennsylvania Hospital has been involved in every war in
which our country has participated. In the French-Indian War
(1754-1763) both wounded and ill soldiers were cared for. During
the Revolutionary
War, particularly in the severe winter of 1777-1778, the
British occupied Pennsylvania Hospital. Later, when the British
were in retreat, the Hospital received sick and wounded soldiers
from the Colonial armies.
In 1861, The State's Surgeon General's Office made arrangements
for casualties of the Civil
War to be admitted to Pennsylvania Hospital. The Hospital
received the ill, suffering mostly from infections and fevers,
and wounded from the Spanish-American
War.
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H.G. & E.B. Krumbhaar, 1918
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In response to the dire needs of the First
World War efforts, the Pennsylvania Hospital established
Pennsylvania Base Hospital #10, initially made up of 23 physicians
and 64 nurses, the majority from Pennsylvania Hospital. The
Chief Nurse was Margaret A. Dunlap, R.N. who was the Directress
of Nurses at Pennsylvania Hospital. On May 19th, 1917, the
unit sailed for overseas duty, the first organized body of
U.S. soldiers to leave Phildelphia. After a short stay in England,
the Unit was assigned to LeTreport, France, where it took over
the British General Hospital #16.
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George Norris "Back at the old Pennsylvania,
December 1918"
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Organized as part of the War Department's Protective Mobilization
Plan during World
War II, the Pennsylvania Hospital 52nd Evacuation Hospital
saw action in the Pacific Theater.
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