This advertisement for Parkland Hospital was published in the "Texas Health Journal," v. 7, December, 1894. Parkland advertised in order to fill its private wards with paying patients, who were charged $7 to $12 per week for the room, nurse, meals, and medicine. Physician services were extra. Parkland's were the only private wards in any Texas hospital, with the possible exception of Sealy Hospital in Galveston.