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By 1917, the hospital consisted of 10 buildings and the held about 750 patients. 70 staff were employed at the hospital, with 46 of those being attendants. The patient to attendant ratio was 1 to 16. Due to the rising population, a new male ward was constructed, and another wing was added to the already existing female ward.
Male Ward C and Female Ward 3 were demolished in 1971, and Rush House has been more recently refurbished and continues to house patients. Female Ward 4 houses the hospital's museum, and Clouston House is vacant. Shelter sheds and fencing that formed part of the original plan no longer survive. [1]
Female Asylum, Tewksbury, Architectural Drawing by John A. Fox, 1896 Tewksbury State Hospital in 1907 From 1894 to 1905, the Tewksbury campus saw extensive new construction, including several buildings designed by Boston architect John A. Fox —the Old Administration Building (1894), the Male Asylum (1901), the Women's Asylum (1903). [ 15 ]
Image credits: Maleficent_Scale_296 #6. Therapeutic leech decided to make a run for freedom and somehow escaped the ICU room and made it across the hall before the nurse realized.
When completed, the Ellis Island Hospital held 750 beds, 450 in the Contagious Disease Hospital and 300 in the General Hospital. A "Psychopathic Ward" housed 20–30 male and female patients. Island 2 had a maternity ward to deliver the 350 children born at Ellis Island. [43]
Norristown State Hospital piloted a different type of administrative hierarchy for hospitals, wherein female patients would be treated exclusively by a female physician. To run this new medical department, they appointed Dr. Alice Bennett to govern over the medical and psychiatric affairs of the new hospital. Dr.
Laverock, 19, suffered a “medical emergency” on May 11. She was transported to a hospital after her mother, Nicole Compton, “was able to get there in time to save her life,” per the ...
Alice Jessie Mitchell (November 26, 1872 – March 31, 1898) was an American woman who gained notoriety for the murder of her lover, Freda Ward. On January 23, 1892, the 19-year-old Mitchell cut the throat of Ward, then 17 years old. [1]