
From the Philadelphia Medical Registry pgs 145-146
Edited by
William B Atkinson, A.M., M.D.
1884
Burn-Brae
A Private Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases
Clifton Heights, Delaware County, PA
This institutional although not within in the city limits, is so near them as to be properly mentioned in connection with the objects of this work. It is a private Hospital for mental disease, and derives it support from the payments made for board and medical care of patients.
No patient is received for a less period than three months. A certificate of insanity, signed by two physicians, and acknowledged before a magustrate, is invariably required.
A lady, well educated and of unexceptionable manners and deportment, resides in the same apartments, and devotes her time to lady patients, thus securing them on all ocasions a pleasant companion and a watchful friend.
A limited number of cases of Opium habit can be admitted.
Access from Philadelphia by the Baltimore Pike, or by car for Oak Lane Station, on Central Division of P.W. and B. Railroad, depot Broad and Filbert Streets, Philadelphia.
Consulting Physicians : Drs. Robert Bartholow and Horatio C. Wood.
Assistant Physician : Dr. Willoughby Phillips.
Physician-in-charge : Dr. R. A. Given.
All packages by express, postal and telegraphic communications should be addressed
Burn-Brae,
Clifton Heights, Delaware County, Pa.