"Baby Camp" cottage on grounds of Parkland Hospital on Maple Avenue

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Title

"Baby Camp" cottage on grounds of Parkland Hospital on Maple Avenue

Subject

Hospitals, Pediatric--history; Medical Indigency; Nursing;

Description

In 1913, public health nurse Mary Forster Smith set up the summer "Dallas Graduate Nurses Baby Camp" to care for sick infants from poor families. The "Baby Camp" consisted of four tents on the shady grounds of Parkland Hospital. This was the first "Baby Camp" in Texas and the third in the Southwest. In 1914, the tents were replaced by this cottage which was used until 1922, when a larger framed building was erected across Oak Lawn Avenue. The "Baby Camp" is considered to be the origin of Children's Medical Center of Dallas.

Creator

Unknown

Publisher

Children's Medical Center Archives, Dallas, Texas.

Date

Milestone date: 1914
Creation date: Circa 1917

Rights

Neither the Children’s Archives nor Children’s Medical Center of Dallas assume any responsibility for copyright infringement of materials for which others hold the copyright, nor does Children’s claim to control photographic materials rights of reproduction for all photos in the Children’s Archives Center.

Identifier

ext_00004

Rights Holder

Children’s Medical Center Archives, Dallas, Texas.

Geolocation

Citation

Unknown, “"Baby Camp" cottage on grounds of Parkland Hospital on Maple Avenue,” Exhibits, accessed March 28, 2024, https://utswlibrary.omeka.net/items/show/60.