Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children

Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children

Hospitals--history; Orthopedics--history; Hospitals, Pediatric; Physicians

Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children opened in Dallas in 1921 in this building near the corner of Oak Lawn and Maple Avenues. A founder and the chief of surgery was Dr. Willam Beal Carrell, the first orthopedic surgeon in Dallas, who had specialized in orthopedic surgery while in a World War I field hospital in France. (Specialization was rare in surgery before this era.) Scottish Rite Hospital now occupies a newer building near the site of the original building.

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Milestone date: 1921

Creation date: Circa 1945

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