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Muskegon Weekly Chronicle
Wednesday, 30 November, 1870

         Marine Hospital - It is not generally known that a
       hospital for the reception of sick and disabled sailors
       was established in this city in August last, and that it
       is the only institution of the kind on the eastern shore
       of Lake Michigan. The selection of Muskegon by the Govern-
       ment for the location of this hospital was due mainly to
       the efforts in that direction of Dr. W. B. MORRISON, who
       was appointed its attending physician and superintendent.
       The patients as they apply for admission, are placed un-
       der the care of JOHN WITHERELL, at whose house the hospi-
       tal is for the present located. His charges, for board,
       nursing and medicines are seven dollars per week, and
       these, with the physician's fees, are paid from a fund
       collected by the Government from every man engaged upon
       any waters of the United States at the rate of twenty
       cents per head per month. There are other marine hospi-
       tals, conducted on nearly the same plan, at Milwaukee,
       Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland. It is the purpose of 
       MR. BOUTWELL, present Secretary of the Treasury, to ask
       of Congress an increase of the per capital tax for hospi-
       tal purposes to forty cents per month in order that a
       surplus may be created for the erection of proper Govern-
       ment buildings for the accommodation of sick sailors at
       this and other points.
       
         It has been found that the hospital here has been of
       great use; the average number of those who needed its
       comforts and who received its benefits, from its open-
       ing to the present time, being three. There will be an
       increased number of applicants as the fact becomes known
       that there is such an institution in existence here.
       
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