The Frontier Hospital Built for the Harbor's Injured
Established by the Dominican Sisters, a new hospital fills a vital need for the Grays Harbor timber and shipping industries.
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One of the best and most important institutions in Aberdeen is the hospital established here this last summer by the Dominican sisters, of New York, an institution that is calculated to do great good for the victims of the accidents resulting from the many mills and camps that are in continual operation in this Grays Harbor country. The sisters at present occupy three frame buildings, but plans have just been completed for a large and commodious structure that will be built at once. This building will afford every facility possible for the sick and be a credit to the city. From June 1st to November 31st, 142 patients were treated in the hospital, coming from all parts of the Harbor, in almost every instance the result of accidental injuries in the mills or woods.
“An institution that is calculated to do great good for the victims of the accidents resulting from the many mills and camps.”
This hospital was the precursor to Grays Harbor Community Hospital, reflecting how Aberdeen’s early infrastructure was often built reactively around the brutal physical toll of the timber industry. Today, those same workforce safety challenges persist, though in different forms, in the local maritime and forestry sectors.
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