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The Isolation Hospital

1920 Newspaper articles (most from The Lowell Sun)

1/27/1920	1 27 1920 more influenza cases reported
2/2/1920	2 2 1920 prepare to fight flu
2/9/1920	2 9 1920 furniture for isolation hospital
2/25/1920	2 25 1920 1919 financial report
3/1/1920	3 1 1920 to curtail expense
3/3/1920	3 3 1920 the Charter question
4/6/1920	4 6 1920 West Meadow Road
4/14/1920	4 14 1920 preparing for formal opening
4/17/1920	4 17 1920 expenditure
5/13/1920	5 13 1920 contagious hospital approved
9/15/1920	9 15 1920 no one man could have handled
9/21/1920	9 21 1920 linoleum
10/19/1920	10 19 1920 opening of new isolation hospital
10/19/1920	10 19 1920 transferring funds
10/26/1920	10 26 1920 formally opened yesterday
10/28/1920	10 28 1920 three patients
9/29/1920	10 29 1920 a board of trustees
11/1/1920	11 1 1920 hospital rates
11/20/1920	11 20 1920 finances low
11/20/1920	11 20 1920 obituary isolation patient
11/27/1920	11 27 1920 stationary fireman
11/30/1920	11 30 1920 Board of Health
12/1/1920	12 1 1920 clerk appointed
12/13/1920	12 13 1920 draining the treasury

1921 Newspaper articles (most from the Lowell Sun)

1/29/1921	1 29 1921 nurses underpaid pt 2
1/29/1921	1 29 1921 nurses underpaid
2/1/1921	2 1 1921 thinks patients who can should pay
2/2/1921	2 2 1921 obituary
2/5/1921	2 5 1921 preferred not to comment
2/10/1921	2 10 21 estimates are high
2/11/1921	2 11 1921 budget estimates
2/12/1921	2 12 1921 seeks more money from state
3/1/1921	3 1 1921 asked for too much pt 1
3/1/1921	3 1 1921 asked for too much pt 2
3/3/1921	3 3 1921 budget voted
3/11/1921	3 11 1921 money needed
3/11/1921	3 11 1921 several bills were approved
3/12/1921	3 12 1921 extravagant allowance
3/14/1921	3 14 1921 the mayor economy
3/16/1921	3 16 1921 appropriation cut
3/16/1921	3 16 1921 period of isolation
3/19/1921	3 19 1921 Lowell has 7 hospitals
3/21/1921	3 21 1921 cost of government
3/23/1921	3 23 1921 Finance Report
4/9/1921	4 9 1921 many calls for city aid
4/9/1921	4 9 1921 slight decrease in local death rate
4/27/1921	4 27 1921 medical society meeting
4/28/1921	4 28 1921 Lowell doctor honored
5/5/1921	5 5 1921 Death notice
5/5/1921	5 5 1921 Funeral notice
5/7/1921	5 7 1921 Death notice and city death rate
5/10/1921	5 10 1921 new charter features old charter defects
5/16/1921	5 16 1921 Death notice
5/20/1921	5 20 1921 inspected hospital
5/21/1921	5 21 1921 screens for hospital
5/24/1921	5 24 1921 features of new charter explained
5/24/1921	5 24 1921 Ultra-Violet at Lowell page 7
5/24/1921	5 24 1921 ultra-violet at Lowell text close-up
5/24/1921	5 24 1921 ultra-violet at Lowell
5/25/1921	5 25 1921 ask extension of ticket zone
5/27/1921	5 27 1921 do not favor car fare extension
5/31/1921	5 31 1921 carried flowers to veterans
6/18/1921	6 18 1921 Trial of new cure for TB pg 14
6/18/1921	6 18 1921 Trial of new cure for TB
6/25/1921	6 25 1921 Smith vetoes use of new TB serum
7/1/1921	7 1 1921 safe and sane fourth here
7/1/1921	7 7 1921 break even on carnival
7/9/1921	7 9 1921 council holds special meeting
7/14/1921	7 14 1921 nurse appointed
7/19/1921	7 19 1921 Finance Department report
7/25/1921	7 25 1921 Monthly inspection
9/12/1921	9 12 1921 Death notice
9/16/1921	9 16 1921 inspected hospital
10/18/1921	10 18 1921 Death notice
10/24/1921	10 24 1921 Christmas at the Isolation Hospital
10/31/1921	10 31 1921 fractured his arm
11/15/1921	11 15 1921 Death notice
11/28/1921	11 28 1921 Fire headline
11/28/1921	11 28 1921 Fire pg 9 continued
11/28/1921	11 28 1921 Fire pg 9 photo
11/28/1921	11 28 1921 Fire pg 9
11/29/1921	11 29 1921 fire Globe
11/30/1921	11 30 1921 crippled alarm system pt 1
11/30/1921	11 30 1921 crippled alarm system pt 2
12/2/1921	12 2 1921 Electric Light Customers
12/2/1921	12 2 1921 lighting company reports progress
12/21/1921	12 21 1921 city council meeting
12/24/1921	12 24 1921 holds special meeting
12/27/1921	12 27 1921 Contract for packing pipes
12/27/1921	12 27 1921 more hydrants needed
12/31/1921	12 31 1921 the mayor valedictory

1922 Newspaper articles (most from the Lowell Sun)

1/10/1922	1 10 1922 Health Board inspects hospital
1/17/1922	1 17 1922 two departments with lower budgets front page
1/17/1922	1 17 1922 two departments with lower budgets pg 11
1/24/1922	1 24 1922 first annual report pt 1
1/24/1922	1 24 1922 first annual report pt 2
1/24/1922	1 24 1922 first annual report pt 3
2/6/1922	2 6 1922 charges of incivility
2/7/1922	2 7 1922 incivility charges hearing
2/21/1922	2 21 1922 budgets reduced front page
2/21/1922	2 21 1922 budgets reduced pt 2
3/11/1922	3 11 1922 $1200 for superintendent of nurses
3/16/1922	3 16 1922 Erysipelas case
3/17/1922	3 17 1922 heavy rains walks in bad condition
3/18/1922	3 18 1922 substantial cuts
3/21/1922	3 21 1922 budget estimates cut
3/21/1922	3 21 1922 fruit trees AND spitting and flu
3/28/1922	3 28 1922 damaged trees pruned
3/30/1922	3 30 1922 plans for a club show
4/5/1922	4 5 1922 councilors visit hospital
4/24/1922	4 24 1922 paid too much for pork and pie
4/25/1922	4 25 1922 mixed fresh pork for fresh fowl
5/9/1922	5 9 1922 national hospital day
5/10/1922	5 10 1922 taxi service bills gasped
5/11/1922	5 11 1922 visiting day Hospital day pg 1
5/11/1922	5 11 1922 visiting day Hospital day pg 10 continued pt 2
5/11/1922	5 11 1922 visiting day Hospital day pg 10 continued
5/12/1922	5 12 1922 woodland fire
5/16/1922	5 16 1922 city camp being considered pt 2
5/16/1922	5 16 1922 city camp being considered
5/17/1922	5 17 1947 Quarter Century Ago National Hospital Day
6/7/1922	6 7 1922 plan outdoor health camp pt 1
6/7/1922	6 7 1922 plan outdoor health camp
6/13/1922	6 13 1922 cared for at summer camp
6/14/1922	6 14 1922 Health Board weekly report
6/17/1922	6 17 1922 needs money to last out the year
6/19/1922	6 19 1922 request cut to $10,000
6/20/1922	6 20 1922 routine meeting front page
6/20/1922	6 20 1922 routine meeting
7/10/1922	7 10 1922 summer camp at Isolation Hospital
7/15/1922	7 15 1922 health camp text only
7/15/1922	7 15 1922 health camp with picture
7/20/1922	7 20 1922 must cut expenditures front page
7/20/1922	7 20 1922 must cut expenditures pt 2
7/27/1922	7 27 1922 ex-big leaguer George Lefty Tyler
9/30/1922	9_30_1922 sun cure not new pt 1
9/30/1922	9_30_1922 sun cure not new pt 2
9/30/1922	9_30_1922 sun cure not new pt 3
9/30/1922	9_30_1922 sun cure not new pt 4
10/10/1922	10 10 1922 more money for hospital
10/20/1922	10 20 1922 city's financial standing page 3
10/20/1922	10 20 1922 obituary
10/27/1922	10 27 1922 oppose state controls of isolation hospitals
11/25/1922	11 25 1922 Dr. Simpson's visits
11/28/1922	11 28 1922 city departments that are short front page
11/28/1922	11 28 1922 city departments that are short pg 10 pt 1
11/28/1922	11 28 1922 city departments that are short pg 10 pt 2
11/28/1922	11 28 1922 city departments that are short pg 10 pt 3
12/12/1922	12 12 1922 may run a little short
12/30/1922	12 30 1922 old fire pungs are ready

1923

1/3/1923	1 3 1923 TB gradually being conquered
1/17/1923	1 17 1923 report by matron of childrens home
1/27/1923	1 27 1923 cost increase
1/27/1923	1 27 1923 cost increase front page
2/9/1923	2 9 1923 petition for the acceptance of West Meadow Road
2/14/1923	2 14 1923 where budget commission cut Front page pt 1
2/14/1923	2 14 1923 where budget commission cut pt 2
2/14/1923	2 14 1923 where budget commission cut pt 3
2/14/1923	2 14 1923 Medical Liberty League anti-vaxxers
3/1/1923	3 1 1923 the mayor's budget pt 1
3/1/1923	3 1 1923 the mayor's budget pt 2
3/3/1923	3 3 1923 local mortality rate
3/3/1923	3 3 1923 figures not sufficiently large pt 1
3/3/1923	3 3 1923 figures not sufficiently large pt 2
3/3/1923	3 3 1923 figures not sufficiently large pt 3
3/7/1923	3 7 1923 council favors figures front page
3/7/1923	3 7 1923 council favors figures pt 2
3/7/1923	3 7 1923 council favors figures pt 3
3/7/1923	3 7 1923 council favors figures pt 4
3/21/1923	3 21 1923 health board inspects
3/21/1923	3 21 1923 Pillsbury Estate transferred
4/6/1923	4 6 1923 preventative week in TB
4/9/1923	4 9 1923 entertainment at hospital
5/2/1923	5 2 1923 cure announced
6/4/1923	6 4 1923 concert at hospital
7/3/1923	7 3 1923 health camp soon to open
7/11/1923	7 11 23 health camp with picture front page
7/11/1923	7 11 23 health camp pt 2
7/12/1923	7 12 1923 4 depts will exceed appropriations front page
7/12/1923	7 12 1923 4 depts will exceed appropriations pt 2
7/12/1923	7 12 1923 4 depts will exceed appropriations pt 3
7/20/1923	7 20 1923 fresh water lobster
7/23/1923	7 23 1923 health camp opens for boys front page
723/1923	7 23 1923 health camp opens for boys pt 2
7/24/1923	7 24 1923 second annual report pt1
7/24/1923	7 24 1923 second annual report pt 2
7/27/1923	7 27 1923 it was a crawfish
7/27/1923	7 27 1923 crawfish page 14
7/30/1923	7 30 1923 depts seek aid
7/30/1923	7 30 1923 high standard milk
7/30/1923	7 30 1923 depts seek aid pt 2
7/31/1923	7 31 1923 legislative committee well pleased pt 1
7/31/1923	7 31 1923 legislative committee well pleased pt 2
8/6/1923	8 6 1923 hospital in good shape
8/7/1923	8 7 1923 extravagantly managed pt 1
8/7/1923	8 7 1923 extravagantly managed pt 2
8/7/1923	8 7 1923 extravagantly managed pt 3
8/7/1923	8 7 1923 extravagantly managed pt 4
8/7/1923	8 7 1923 extravagantly managed pt 5
8/13/1923	8 13 1923 mayor recommends investigation front page
8/13/1923	8 13 1923 mayor recommends investigation pg 3
8/14/1923	8 14 1923 Mayor's letter
8/15/1923	8 15 1923 editorial about cost
8/28/1923	8 28 1923 Mayor and Board State House meeting
9/5/1923	9 5 1923 paralysis victim
9/7/1923	9 7 1923 board conducting investigation
9/12/1923	9 12 1923 Board vindicates Smith Mayor will conduct
9/12/1923	9 12 1923 Board vindicates Smith Mayor will conduct pt 2
9/12/1923	9 12 1923 Board vindicates Smith Mayor will conduct pt 3
9/12/1923	9 12 1923 Board vindicates Smith Mayor will conduct pt 4
9/12/1923	9 12 1923 Board vindicates Smith Mayor will conduct pt 5
9/12/1923	9 12 1923 Board vindicates Smith Mayor will conduct back page pt 1
9/12/1923	9 12 1923 Board vindicates Smith Mayor will conduct back page pt 2
9/13/1923	9 13 1923 Board of Health report front page
9/13/1923	9 13 1923 Board of Health report pt 2
9/13/1923	9 13 1923 Board of Health report back page pt 1
9/13/1923	9 13 1923 Board of Health report back page pt 2
9/18/1923	9 18 1923 Mayor hospital investigation
9/19/1923	9 19 1923 held conference at hospital
10/2/1923	10 2 1923 modern Pied Piper front page
10/2/1923	10 2 1923 modern Pied Piper pt 2
10/2/1923	10 2 1923 modern Pied Piper pt 3
11/5/1923	11 5 1923 brush fire
11/24/1923	11 24 1923 paralysis rate high
12/7/1923	12 7 1923 handshaking and doorknobs pt 1
12/7/1923	12 7 1923 handshaking and doorknobs pt 2
12/29/1923	12 29 1923 no agreement snow controversy

Surgical treatment of TB
American Surgical Association, 1923

1924

1924

	2 11 1924 first committee meeting
	2 13 1924 hospital committee meets
	4 1 1924 committee hearings begin pt 1
	4 1 1924 committee hearings begin pt 2
	4 1 1924 committee hearings begin pt 3
	4 1 1924 committee hearings begin pt 4
	4 1 1924 committee hearings begin pt 5
	4 3 1924 committee second meeting colorless pt 1
	4 3 1924 committee second meeting colorless pt 2
	4 8 1924 committee report worthless pg 1
	4 8 1924 committee report worthless pg 9 cont pt 1
	4 8 1924 committee report worthless pg 9 cont pt 2
	4 10 1924 TB council meeting nutrition
	4 11 1924 committee visits and questions Smith pt 1
	4 11 1924 committee visits and questions Smith pt 2
	4 11 1924 committee visits and questions Smith pt 3
	4 12 1924 radio sets at hospital
	4 12 1924 Committee will vist hospitals
	4 12 1924 Committee will vist hospitals pt 1
	4 12 1924 Committee will vist hospitals pt 2
	4 22 1924 mayor engaged counsel
	4 23 1924 committee investigation letter
	4 23 1924 Committee visits Middleton
	4 25 1924 executive session Monday
	5 2 1924 In the face of probes more patients
	5 6 1924 Committee spice page 1
	5 6 1924 spice committee page 13 pt 1
	5 6 1924 spice committee page 13 pt 2
	5 6 1924 spice committee page 13 pt 3
	5 6 1924 spice committee page 13 pt 4
	5 9 1924 veterans efficiently cared for pt 1
	5 9 1924 veterans efficiently cared for pt 2
	5 10 1924 Hospital inquiry ends pt 1
	5 10 1924 Hospital inquiry ends pt 2
	5 10 1924 Hospital inquiry ends pt 3
	5 10 1924 Hospital inquiry ends pt 4
	5 20 1924 Order Nurses Changed
	5 20 1924 Hospital tp get clean bill
	5 24 1924 any too much cooperation
	6 2 1924 vindication
	6 3 1924 firemen month lay off
	6 4 1924 committee final report
	8 19 1924 another investigation
	8 19 1924 another investigation pt 2
	8 19 1924 another investigation cont pg 10 pt 1
	8 19 1924 another investigation cont pg 10 pt 2
	9 9 1924 propose changes
	9 11 1924 less room for criticism
	9 16 1924 Dr Drury commended Mrs S Salary
	excerpt from Am J of Pub Health 1924
	9 29 1929 Death notice
	10 16 1924 auditor 9 month report
	10 16 1924 account not closed
	10 21 1924 Board of Health meeting
	10 24 1924 asked for entrance to be widened
	10 28 1924 Death notice
	11 11 1924 Board of health meeting
	11 17 1924 death rate statistics pt 2
	11 17 1924 Death notices
	11 17 1924 death rate statistics pt 1
	11 25 1924 Death notice
	12 4 1924 isolation hospital short of funds pt 2
	12 4 1924 isolation hospital short of funds pt 1
	12 6 1924 Death notice
	12 9 1924 to give public results of milk tests
	12 12 1924 Death notice
	12 16 1924 visiting physicians named
	12 16 1929 Board asks for $5000
	12 17 1924 Christmas blankets
	12 18 1924 patients at the Isolation Hospital

1925

1 10 1925 Glee Club

1 23 1925 Board of Health asks

1 24 1925 budget submitted pt 1

1 24 1925 budget submitted pt 2

2 3 1925 payrolls not approved pt 1

2 3 1925 payrolls not approved pt 2

7 13 1925 give concert

7 14 1925 Veterans

7 18 1925 girls' camp

7 23 1925 permanent buildings for health camp

7 28 1925 annual report made public

8 19 1925 better fire protection asked

9 15 1925 filled to capacity

10 2 1925 hospitals in Lowell

11 3 1925 asks extra $20,000

11 14 1925 appropriations nearly wiped out

11 19 1925 absence of payroll

11 24 1925 payroll approved

11 28 1925 Christmas seals good info

12 1 1925 firemen ask increase

12 12 1925 Glee club to visit

12 14 1925 musical program

12 24 1925 Christmas trees and turkey dinner

12 28 1925 excellent concert

12 29 1925 firemen salaries

12 31 1925 Lowell Guild camp