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Item
Title
D127985-3
Date(s)
- 1960-08-31 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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This was an operating room in the (old) St. Joseph Hospital where masked and garbed doctors and nurses were preparing for a surgical procedure in August of 1960. The operating room is fully equipped with a multitude of surgical tools, cannisters containing oxygen and bright lighting. The room was heated by the radiators on the left. Built at 1812 South" I" Street in 1914, the hospital was demolished in 1982. By then, a new St. Joseph Hospital had been erected and was operational at 1718 So. "I."
Operating rooms--Tacoma; Medical personnel--Tacoma; St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Hospitals--Tacoma--1960-1970;