Nice old picture postcard of Memorial Hospital - sent in by reader Rick M. What's so interesting about this is - what is written on it: "Dear Friend, this is the place I served 30 days from, Chas." I wonder what he means? Maybe he had something like smallpox, measles or TB and was stuck there until they thought he was infection free...
The hospital on Prospect Hill--I don't know what it was originally--but it was nicknamed the "Pest House" and was used for smallpox and other contageous disease. I found this in an old newspaper.
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