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North Shore Babies Hospital was started by the Babies Summer Hospital Society, after a cholera epidemic in 1905. | North Shore Babies' Hospital was started by the Babies Summer Hospital Society, after a cholera epidemic in 1905. The hospital was located on Baker's Island as a summer hospital for several years, but moved in 1910 to the Estate of Charles A Ropes, a 13 room house at the end of Dearborn Street (#75) in North Salem. At first open only in summer, beginning in 1926 the hospital was open year round. It closed as a hospital in the early 1960's. | ||
The hospital was a fixture on Ropes Point until the early 1960's, when | It was destroyed by fire in 1972. | ||
The hospital was a fixture on Ropes' Point until the early 1960's, when the children's hospital moved to a new building on Highland Avenue, adjacent to the Salem Hospital. | |||
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==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
*Postcard courtesy of '''CardCow.com''' | |||
*Vertical File in Salem Collection - '''North Shore Children's Hospital''' | *Vertical File in Salem Collection - '''North Shore Children's Hospital''' | ||
*[http:// | *[http://evergreen.noblenet.org/eg/opac/record/3710037?locg=63 Salem memories : the early years: a pictorial history] Salem News, p. 90 (photo of Ropes House, 75 Dearborn St.) | ||
*[http://evergreen.noblenet.org/eg/opac/record/2060027?locg=63 19th Annual Report of Associated Charities] 1910 ed., p. 61-64 | |||
*"Children's Hospital traces its history to cholera epidemic on 1904" ''Salem News'', May 11, 2009. | *"Children's Hospital traces its history to cholera epidemic on 1904" ''Salem News'', May 11, 2009. | ||
*[http://evergreen.noblenet.org/eg/opac/record/1910147?locg=63 Salem in Vintage Postcards] ed. by C. R. Mathias, p. 56 | |||
Latest revision as of 12:32, 12 August 2020
North Shore Babies' Hospital was started by the Babies Summer Hospital Society, after a cholera epidemic in 1905. The hospital was located on Baker's Island as a summer hospital for several years, but moved in 1910 to the Estate of Charles A Ropes, a 13 room house at the end of Dearborn Street (#75) in North Salem. At first open only in summer, beginning in 1926 the hospital was open year round. It closed as a hospital in the early 1960's. It was destroyed by fire in 1972.
The hospital was a fixture on Ropes' Point until the early 1960's, when the children's hospital moved to a new building on Highland Avenue, adjacent to the Salem Hospital.
See Also
- Postcard courtesy of CardCow.com
- Vertical File in Salem Collection - North Shore Children's Hospital
- Salem memories : the early years: a pictorial history Salem News, p. 90 (photo of Ropes House, 75 Dearborn St.)
- 19th Annual Report of Associated Charities 1910 ed., p. 61-64
- "Children's Hospital traces its history to cholera epidemic on 1904" Salem News, May 11, 2009.
- Salem in Vintage Postcards ed. by C. R. Mathias, p. 56
