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.

Harris School

Harris School

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