Hospitals and Health
The Hospitals and Centers Serving DorchesterIn 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.

No. 234 Postcard. Harris School, Dorchester, Mass. Postally unused, circa 1910.
In 1861 the Harris School ...

No. 238 Henry L. Pierce School. Postally unused. Circa 1910.
The Henry L. Pierce School replaced the ...

No. 451 Codman House, Mrs. Cochrane's School for Young Ladies, second half off 19th century with school ...

Howard Avenue School
The 1910 Atlas shows the Howard Avenue School faces Howard Avenue at the corner of Howard ...

Image: No. 2936 Home for Little Wanderers, formerly the home of the Industrial School for Girls, photograph ...

No. 11991 232 Centre Street, photograph by Andrew Saxe, circa 2011.
Dorchester Industrial ...

No. 2936 Industrial School for Girls Building. Later used by the Home for Little Wanderers, photograph September, ...

No. 12064 James J. Chittick School, photograph from Boston City Archives.
James J. Chittick School ...

No. 12065 Jeremiah E. Burke High School, 60 Washington Street, photograph from Boston City Archives.
60 ...

No. 711 John Greenleaf Whittier School, approximately 60 Souther[n Avenue. Photograph published in the annual ...

No. 12073 John Lothrop Motley School, 141 Savin Hill Avenue. Photograph from Boston City Archives.
John ...

No. 352. Postcard. Marshall School, Westvile Street. Postally unused. Circa 1910.
No. 10204 John ...