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Home for Incurables
Home for Incurables
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 Located on Dorchester Avenue between Ashmont and the Lower Mills, the Home for Incurables receives those who are afflicted with any incurable disease, except cancer, consumption, epilepsy, mental disorder or contagious diseases.

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The Dorchester Book. Boston: George H. Ellis, Printer for the Branch Alliance of Christ Church (Unitarian), Dorchester, Mass., 1899.

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