Rosenberg, Charles2011-02-231982Rosenberg, Charles E. 1982. From almshouse to hospital: The shaping of Philadelphia general hospital. The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society 60(1): 108-154.0160-1997http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4730389After almost 250 years, one of the nation's first, and most illustrious, hospitals closed. Its demise was a particularly dramatic but representative symptom of a more general decay in the quality of public medicine in America's older cities. The gradual differentiation of municipal welfare mechanisms from almshouse to hospital is traced; it has been an elusive and incomplete evolution.en-USJournal Article10.2307/3349702