Eastern Maine Medical Center: 1892-1920


Eastern Maine General Hospital Children's Ward, ca. 1910

Eastern Maine General Hospital Children's Ward, ca. 1910
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Eastern Maine Medical Center

In 1913, the city Federation of Women's Clubs gives $1,000 to assist the hospital in establishing and maintaining district nursing.

Nursing students are vaccinated against typhoid.

The hospital purchases a second ambulance.

Superintendent Ida Washburn wrote, "The grounds are gradually being improved. This spring a number of maple and evergreen trees, together with some shrubbery, have been set out, and a vegetable garden has been cultivated at the easterly side of the hospital."

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