Hospitals and Health

The Hospitals and Centers Serving Dorchester

In the first years of settlement, families provided health care to the best of their own ability.  By the eighteenth-century, professionally-trained doctors appeared, followed by the first hospital, the St. Mary’s Infant Asylum.

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