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.

Gibson School

Gibson School

No. 10275 Gibson School on School Street, built 1857. No. 1202 Atherton School, Columbia Road near ...