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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

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