The Harbor’s First Hospital
Established by the Sisters of Saint Joseph, a new hospital is meeting the urgent medical needs of Aberdeen’s booming logging and milling industries.
One of the best and most important institutions in Aberdeen is the hospital opened here this last summer by the Sisters of Saint Joseph, of New York, an institution that is calculated to do great work in the face of the accidents resulting from the many mills and logging camps in continual operation in this country. The sisters at present occupy three buildings, but the plans have just been completed for a large and commodious structure that will be built soon. This building will offer every attention possible for the sick and will be a great benefit to the city. From December to December 31st, 1890, 48 patients were treated in the building from all parts of the country; in almost every instance the cases were suffering from accidental injuries.
“An institution that is calculated to do great work in the face of the accidents resulting from the many mills and logging camps.”
St. Joseph's Hospital became a foundational institution for the Grays Harbor region, mirroring the era's reliance on private orders and charitable organizations to provide public health infrastructure in dangerous, resource-extractive frontier towns.
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