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Lowell History: The Isolation Hospital

The Lowell Isolation Hospital, later called Meadowcrest Hospital. Officially opened in 1920. Partially opened in 1918 to treat victims of the Spanish Flu.

The Isolation Hospital

1950

3 29 1950 floors weakened at capacity

3 30 1950 extensive repairs pt 1

3 30 1950 extensive repairs pt 2

3 30 1950 extensive repairs pt 3

4 4 1950 Glickman named Supt

5 14 1950 Boy Scouts help

5 17 1950 Dr Glickman photo

8 6 1950 Brawl at hospital

11 12 1950 Improvements being made with photos pt 1

11 12 1950 Improvements being made with photos pt 2

11 12 1950 Improvements being made with photos pt 3

11 25 1950 Hospital Report Good

12 5 1950 x-rays for food handlers

1951

1 28 1951 next highest paid waived
2 8 1951 vandals broke 2378 windows
2 15 1951 Diabetes Fund letter pt 1
2 15 1951 Diabetes Fund letter pt 2
2 15 1951 Diabetes Fund letter pt 3
3 5 1951 heart ailments longer lives
3 5 1951 youth groups unite pt 1
3 5 1951 youth groups unite pt 2
3 5 1951 youth groups unite pt 3
3 11 1951 Talent Show pt 1
3 11 1951 Talent Show pt 2
3 11 1951 Talent Show pt 3
3 11 1951 Teen Talk
3 18 1951 raise funds to purchase equipment
4 4 1951 amateur night
4 15 1951 prepare for the show
4 17 1951 buys first tickets
5 5 1951 public land auction
5 20 1951 show next friday pt 1
5 20 1951 show next friday pt 2
5 22 1951 TV sets for hospital
5 26 1951 Youth Council Show
6 3 1951 TB Association four goals pt 1
6 3 1951 TB Association four goals pt 2
6 3 1951 TB Association four goals pt 3
6 13 1951 Business and Professional Women's Club visits
6 18 1951 Camporee on grounds
6 22 1951 Business and Professional Women's Club extremely pleased
6 22 1951 tobacco and cloth donations
6 29 1951 tobacco and cloth donations
8 7 1951 Boulanger takes out papers
8 23 1951 accepted as facility for veterans pt 1
8 23 1951 accepted as facility for veterans pt 2
9 6 1951 Business and Professional Women's Club project
9 23 1951 Business and Professional Women's Club aid photo pt 2
9 23 1951 Business and Professional Women's Club aid photo pt 3
9 23 1951 Business and Professional Women's Club aid photo
10 6 1951 Business and Professional Women's Club letter to Sun
10 10 1951 several hearings for Boulanger
10 26 1951 pranksters open hydrants
10 31 1951 seek retirement
11 2 1951 donate puzzles etc
11 16 1951 many thanks
11 18 1951 letter of thanks
11 19 1951 Christmas Seals editorial
11 19 1951 donation day
11 24 1951 milk bids rejected
11 30 1951 still receiving puzzles etc.
12 2 1951 handicraft on display
12 8 1951 special project day
12 9 1951 social project day
12 10 1951 chairs presented
12 12 1951 would change name
12 13 1951 name change editorial Business and Professional Women's Club
12 16 1951 sixty new TB cases every year
12 22 1951 patients feted
12 23 1951 business and staff pt 1
12 23 1951 business and staff pt 2
12 28 1951 nut cups gifts

1952

1 2 1952 Meadowcrest name change

1 4 1952 Grange requests donations

1 8 1952 seek sheet music gifts

1 17 1952 Business and Professional Women's Club appreciative of vote

1 17 1952 name change

1 19 1952 Boulanger petition for more wages

1 27 1952 bill draft pg 1

1 27 1952 Health Dept Bill draft

2 5 1952 It's Meadowcrest from now on

2 8 1952 Youth Council Dance benefit

2 26 1952 Business and Professional Women's Club thanks Sun letter

3 12 1952 budget hearings

3 14 1952 scholarship for course

4 3 1952 Business and Professional Women's Club open house and gifts

4 17 1952 open house for Business and Professional Women's Club

4 23 1952 Business and Professional Women's Club visit patients

5 2 1952 delighted by name change and Business and Professional Women's Club

5 4 1952 payments authorized pt 1

5 4 1952 payments authorized pt 2

5 4 1952 payments authorized pt 3

5 28 1952 benefit show

6 5 1952 seven patients greatly improved pt 1

6 5 1952 seven patients greatly improved pt 2

7 27 1952 Meadowcrest new sign

7 29 1952 hospitals may use iron lung

8 4 1952 upgrading the hospital

9 23 1952 supplementary appropriations

10 10 1952 special visits

10 11 1952 Business and Professional Women's Club special project

10 12 1952 34 years ago the awful plague

10 29 1952 to study tree plan pg 1

10 29 1952 to study tree plan

11 2 1952 Board approves retirements

11 7 1952 Christmas Seal sale

11 15 1952 milk and ice cream bids

12 8 1952 annual presentation of gifts

12 14 1952 students tour

12 28 1952 private ambulance contract

1953

1 2 1953 fire at old city health camp with photo

1 2 1953 retirement plan

1 26 1953 longer lives becomes national problem

1 26 1953 to establish Diabetic lab

1 31 1953 budget reductions

2 22 1953 new look and the Microbe

3 3 1953 ambulance

3 29 1953 city ambulance service pt 1

3 29 1953 city ambulance service pt 2

4 24 1953 contract for mattresses

5 4 1953 Kenney confined to hospital

5 17 1953 aerial photo

5 26 1953 Air Raid alert

6 11 1953 thanks to Grangers

8 6 1953 Auxiliary police plan outing

10 6 1953 TB Association meeting

10 7 1953 TB Association meeting

10 9 1953 hold important meeting

11 14 1953 Business and Professional Women's Club gift and tea

11 28 1953 Christmas Seal campaign with photo

11 28 1953 urges public to purchase TB Seals

12 3 1953 State forest site for golf course

1954

2 24 1954 Rocky Marciano in Lowell tonight

2 25 1954 Rocky Marciano visits Meadowcrest with photo pt 1

2 25 1954 Rocky Marciano visits Meadowcrest with photo pt 2

2 25 1954 Rocky Marciano visits Meadowcrest with photo pt 3

2 25 1954 Rocky Marciano visits Meadowcrest with photo pt 4

2 25 1954 Rocky Marciano visits Meadowcrest with photo

4 21 1954 extensive brush fire with photo

8 9 1954 Napoleon Boulanger reinstated

11 5 1954 Napoleon Boulanger petition rejected

11 21 1954 Girl Officers and Seal Drive with photo

11 21 1954 Lowell HS students TB writing project

12 2 1954 Farris Commission views site pt 2

12 2 1954 Farris Commission views site

12 3 1954 Health Camp site chosen

12 20 1954 local businessmen entertain

1955

2 4 1955 a site already selected

2 27 1955 Pawtucketville is progressive section

3 2 1955 Boulanger case

3 9 1955 Boulanger covered and protected

4 10 1955 Boulanger case The Perils of Pauline

7 3 1955 possibility that a new wing pt 1

7 3 1955 possibility that a new wing pt 2

7 7 1955 new Farris set

12 4 1955 polio Globe Page 1

12 4 1955 polio Globe Page 2

12 11 1955 old timer Smith receives pay from 1930

1956

1 7 1956 Christmas Seals sales short of quota

1 31 1956 developed Lowell Sun Charities

3 3 1956 second budget discussion

5 17 1956 Ladies society visits hospitals

5 23 1956 victory seen near for Boulanger

8 29 1956 last ditch effort

9 12 1956 in an uproar

10 5 1956 Napoleon Boulanger article

11 24 1956 health camp fire photo

12 29 1956 prepare gifts for patients

12 30 1956 shocking salary injustice

1957

1 7 1957 well known and efficient chef

3 24 1957 so-called miracle drugs pt 1

3 24 1957 so-called miracle drugs pt 2

4 3 1957 retirement petition

5 29 1957 before council again

7 11 1957 Napoleon Boulanger pt 1

7 11 1957 Napoleon Boulanger pt 2

7 11 1957 Napoleon Boulanger pt 3

8 10 1957 concert and exhibition

11 3 1957 Napoleon a candidate

12 20 1957 they can't shop, but

12 15 1957 ambulance contracts

12 20 1957 anti-Asian flu shots available

1958

3 23 1958 patient evacuation from Farris pt 1

3 23 1958 patient evacuation from Farris pt 2

3 23 1958 wages and salaries

4 18 1958 all patients transferred from Farris

4 23 1958 transfer of employees

7 22 1958 to reinstate city employee

7 23 1958 any truth to the reports

10 15 1958 status of Boulanger

12 11 1958 annual visit

12 12 1958 Farris Memorial name change and fire

12 24 1958 Napoleon Boulanger in appearance

1959

2 25 1959 hearing for Napoleon Boulanger

2 26 1959 Meadowcrest budget

3 10 1959 annual report with history

5 6 1959 Napoleon Boulanger status

5 28 1959 to finish work at Meadowcrest

6 28 1959 program to lure to playgrounds

7 12 1959 Meadowcrest becomes a model

10 6 1959 expands use of Meadowcrest

10 8 1959 Meadowcrest can accept non-TB cases

12 9 1959 DAV presents chair to Meadowcrest

12 22 1959 use of building for elderly

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