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- Note 1./ : e-mail from Jim Johnson 12-10-2003: St. Luke's Hospital, New York, & Grandma's Aunt Lillie:
While on breaks at Roosevelt Hospital I have been admiring old photos of St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals, of Women's Hospital (where modern gynecology was founded), of the nurses wearing
corsets, bustles and hats, and scratching my head. I got the lawyers to start talking about it yesterday because I was wondering aloud if these photos aren't of where my Grandma Buffum's Aunt Lillie had come to nursing school. Oh, yes, Mr. Engel said, they had a very important nursing school and still do, and there's an archivist named such-and-such who has all kinds of great materials, like photos and letters and documents going all the way back.
I didn't get a chance to add that my relative who was in nursing school there had contracted polio and died back in Ontario in her 20s. But the photos were great, nonetheless. The hospital rooms were heated by fireplaces. The place looked pretty nice. There is a haunting photo on the wall of one hallway taken looking down a long hallway of pre-war doorjambs with the windows up at the top and the ornate carpentry that's so impossible to keep clean.
I just did a search on my computer through Bob M's email to be sure I got my facts straight. In fact, it was St. Luke's Hospital that Millie Jacobs (Grandma Buffum's aunt) was training in when she got sick in the early 1900s:
Jan. 28, 2002, by Bob M: "Liliy was training for the nursing profession at St. Lukes hospital in New York City. She contracted polio however and returned home to London where she died in 1903 at age 26. In 1908 Mary L was a Nurse in Philadelphia, which at the time was considered the fashion and social capital of North America."
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1878 - 1903 (24 years)
