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Marker detail: Pest House Hospital
Photographer: Courtesy of U.S. Army Center of Military History
Caption: Marker detail: Pest House Hospital
Additional Description: Even in the dreaded Pest House quarantine hospital, women filled crucial roles us nurses and caregivers. At least five Catholic Daughters of Charity assisted Dr. John Terrell in treating soldiers afflicted with smallpox, when no others would go there.
Submitted: September 21, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p539831
File Size: 0.224 Megabytes

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