A Hospital Built for the Logging Camps
Established by the Dominican Sisters, a new hospital treats the frequent, dangerous accidents of the Grays Harbor timber industry.
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One of the best and most important institutions in Aberdeen is the hospital established this last summer by the Dominican sisters of New York. It is an institution that is calculated to do great good on account of the accidents resulting from the many mills and logging camps that are in continual operation in this Grays Harbor country. From October 1st to December 31st, twenty-one patients were treated, in almost every instance suffering from accidental injuries. Plans have been completed for a large, commodious brick structure to be built at once.
“It is an institution that is calculated to do great good on account of the accidents resulting from the many mills and logging camps.”
The reliance on private organizations, like the Dominican Sisters, to provide basic social safety nets for industrial laborers highlights the era's lack of formal worker protections. Modern safety standards have drastically reduced the toll of logging, yet the vulnerability of the labor force remains a recurring theme in the history of the region.
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