in fact, the industrial heart of the city which in itself is the industrial
heart of Maryland — can no longer adequately serve the southern area
without full-scale new facilities. And in no area is a new hospital
more direly needed than in the southern section of Baltimore and
that populous part of Anne Arundel County which borders the city.

Three authoritative surveys, one by the firm of management con-
sultants, Cresap, McCormick and Paget, another by the hospital
Council of Maryland, and a third by the Maryland State Department
of Health, have brought together the facts on which this decision was
based.

Let us see what we will have when this new eight-story structure
rises in Broening Park, at the southern end of the Hanover Street
Bridge. We will have a 300-bed hospital, a nurses' residence, a service
plant and quarters for resident doctors and hospital personnel. When
required, this can be expanded to 524 beds. And we will have the
best located hospital of all, for in the words of the Division of Hospital
Services, Maryland State Department of Health, "this is the most
favorable location for a new facility. "

The proposed Riverside site, served by rapidly improved highways,
can be reached in 15 minutes from Catonsville, in the same period
of time from Middle River, and in that time or slightly more from
the most populous points in Anne Arundel County, north of the
Severn River. You must think of old maps of the city as obsolete.
The Harbor Tunnel, the Baltimore Beltway, the Baltimore-Washing-
ton Expressway, and other important arteries have changed the hos-
pital situation in the metropolitan area, making the new location
for South Baltimore General the most likely and most plausible of
all possible sites for a hospital. To you corporate executives, with
your employees' welfare to think of, the location should be of great
interest. It is horrifying to think of the potentialities of industrial
accidents... or of large fires or catastrophes which are possible in an
industrial area. It should be welcome news to you, and to the people
who work at your plants to know that South Baltimore General Hos-
pital — which has distinguished itself when deluged with a hundred
or more victims of a catastrophe — is to have improved, new and more
efficient facilities to meet any future needs.

We Americans are people of sentiment. But we are practical people
also. There is a tremendous dollar-and-cent value to all businesses
and industries in our State in having good hospitals, but more so,
there is value to you men with the large industrial plants. An efficient
hospital that is close by, and which is splendidly staffed as is the South

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