The West Side Hospital may have once been located on South Main Avenue at one time but it didn't go out of business in the 1930s. It was located on Jackson Street and was still in existence as pretty much of a full service hospital (including child delivery and a fine nursery) until sometime around the 1960s I believe when it merged with the Hahnemann Hospital. They became at that time Community Medical Center East and Community Medical Center West. After a few years the West branch (the old West Side Hospital) was closed and CMC East simply became Community Medical Center (CMC). Scranton State General Hospital on Mulberry Street was demolished to put up the new State Northeast Veteran's Center between 1988 and 1991 when the ground was broken for the Vet's Center. The Mercy Hospital is also on Jefferson Avenue in Scranton and many children were born there. Rich is right though when he says that chances are that someone born in 1919 was born at home. People didn't usually go to the hospital for childbirth then. In a message dated 9/5/2001 10:17:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, PALACKAW-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > X-Message: #8 > Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:20:39 -0400 > From: "Richard M. Reese" <richreese@fast.net> > To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <002e01c13661$622c90e0$1ea25cd1@rich> > Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] Richard JAMES III > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="Windows-1252" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > In all likelyhood he would have been born at home. However, the West > Side hospital on S. Main Avenue is a possibility. More of a clinic, having > only a few beds, West Side went out of business in the 1930's just prior to > the death of its' founder Dr. Daniel W. Evans. > The other hospitals were Scranton State General located on Mulberry > Street, demolished in the early 1970's I believe; Hahnemann, now CMC, and > Moses-Taylor - both are in the Hill section just east of center city. > Although the county stopped recording of births Dec. 31, 1905, when the > Commonwealth (Bureau of Vital Statistics) took over, the Board of Health of > the City of Scranton did maintain some record keeping functions. Perhaps > either of them would be a better direction to go. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Long <cactuspatch@charter.net> > To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:12 PM > Subject: [PA-LAC] Richard JAMES III > > > >I need some advise or assistance. Richard JAMES 3rd was born Feb 13, 1919 > in Scranton PA. I am trying to get information on his parents. What > hospitals were available in 1919 that I might find a birth record? > > > >Also, he served in WW2. Would there be a site that might help me with > service records and would they have parents information? > > > >Thanks for any leads. Jim >