This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1813.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi again. The only larger hospital in Arlington was the Symmes Hospital. While my father was in the Army Air Corps during WW II, he married my mother .. and I was born 9 mos. later ! My mother came home from where they were stationed in Missouri to deliver me, and I believe she stayed with her parents in Medford or Somerville. But, I was born in a "large house turned hospital" in Cambridge ! (It was very near the Somerville line.) I wonder whether there were "large houses turned hospitals" in all cities and towns in Greater Boston ! (Prompted by a posting on a Nova Scotia List, I borrowed some books from the Library on the history of hospitals in Boston. I haven't had a chance to look at them, yet, but I am curious when the "larger hospitals" came into being, and -- how good they were ! And, did the "large houses turned hospitals" start after 1900 ?)

There was a 'house turned hospital' in Somerville. I've forgotten the name but I'm sure that others on the list will know. Irene ----- Original Message ----- From: bbffrrpp@comcast.net<mailto:bbffrrpp@comcast.net> To: MAMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:MAMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 8:08 AM Subject: [MAMiddle] Re: NEHGS members - marriage lookup This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1813.1.1.1<http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1813.1.1.1> Message Board Post: Hi again. The only larger hospital in Arlington was the Symmes Hospital. While my father was in the Army Air Corps during WW II, he married my mother .. and I was born 9 mos. later ! My mother came home from where they were stationed in Missouri to deliver me, and I believe she stayed with her parents in Medford or Somerville. But, I was born in a "large house turned hospital" in Cambridge ! (It was very near the Somerville line.) I wonder whether there were "large houses turned hospitals" in all cities and towns in Greater Boston ! (Prompted by a posting on a Nova Scotia List, I borrowed some books from the Library on the history of hospitals in Boston. I haven't had a chance to look at them, yet, but I am curious when the "larger hospitals" came into being, and -- how good they were ! And, did the "large houses turned hospitals" start after 1900 ?) ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx>