Alexandra Hospital for Contagious Diseases
Alexandra Hospital for Contagious Diseases was an English-language hospital in Pointe-Saint-Charles, in sud-ouest Montreal, Quebec constructed in 1906. The
History
editCreation
edit- civic hospital - two hospitals or one? - location? - founders - for all
Contagious Disease Hospital (1906 - 196?)
edit- diseases - children - TB ward - John McCrae - nursing school
Home for chronically ill children (1968 - 198?)
edit- in 196X stopp taking contagious disease cases - Alexandra Pavillion, Children's Hospital - deinstitutionalisation
Social Housing (1990 - )
edit- demolition - renovation of the nurses quarters & administrative buildings - construction of non-profit housing, cooperative housing, and low-income public housing.
Notable figures
editJohn MacCrae physician and author of the poem"In Flanders Fields", served in the scarlet fever ward