Saint Elizabeth Hospital Yakima, Washington 1891-1950.

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1950

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"That the lack of rainfall could be indirectly responsible for the opening of a hospital seems incongruous, yet this was the case in the Yakima Valley. The lack of rain in the valley compelled the farmers to resort to irrigation projects. The irrigation projects gave rise to yearly scourges of typhoid fever; these yearly epidemics in their turn gave rise to the demand for a hospital. The Sisters of Providence already installed in Yakima were requested, in 1891, to open one because of the increased danger resulting from the epidemics in the surrounding country."

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20 sheets 8.5 x 11 inch. Typed.

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