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.

Tileston School

Tileston School

Image: No. 1324 Postcard. Tileston School, Mattapan, circa 1910. The Tileston School, erected in 1868 and located ...