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