Hospital Ward at the North Adams Hospital.

ID: 833 ~ Source: Courtesy of North Adams Historical Society, Untitled, n.d., from photograph album
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Hospital Ward at the North Adams Hospital.
Courtesy of North Adams Historical Society

Pictured here is one of the wards at North Adams Hospital. Based on the patients, it is likely to assume that this was one of (if not the) men’s ward. Notice the lighting fixtures and the uniforms worn by the nurses. What year do you think these pictures were taken in?

This file appears in: North Adams Nurse Training School

By Emily Kelleher
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