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- Title
100 Year Ago - July 1915: A Floating Hospital for Children Launches in Narragansett Bay: Chair of RIMS pediatric section heads the medical effort.
- Authors
KORR, MARY
- Abstract
In this article the author talks about the efforts of seven members of the Women's Alliance of the New-Church of the General Convention of New Jerusalem in Providence, a group of poor mothers and their young children took a day-long cruise on the steamer Minnie V. Pope, owned by E. H. Wardwell of Bristol, who provided the ship gratis. It mentions that Physicians and nurses volunteered their time to carefully screen and examine the children for any contagious diseases.
- Subjects
NARRAGANSETT Bay (R.I.); HOSPITAL ships; CHILDREN'S hospitals; INFANT care; COMMUNICABLE diseases
- Publication
Rhode Island Medical Journal, 2020, Vol 103, Issue 5, p103
- ISSN
0363-7913
- Publication type
Article