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Hospitals and Staff

The first of thirteen hospitals was built in 1830.

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1st Class Hospital: first used by artillery officers
as their quarters during World War One
Capacity: 150 patients
Built: 1914
Demolished: 1955
"Item #2 on Map"

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Marine Officers Hospital: Housed mariners
Built: 1900
Closed: 1938
Demolished: 1955
"Item #7 on Map"






Hospitals were operated over the years by stewarts, nurses and doctors. Here are two of the many doctors who worked on Partridge Island while it was used as a quarantine station.

Click to enlargeDr. James P. Collins died of typhus fever only 3 weeks after arriving to help Dr. Harding in 1847.

Click to enlargeDr. John E. March was present for the immigration from Eastern Europe of the 1890s.



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