IC103: William Burton Thorning: Surgeon

Creator

Memorial Hospital System

Author Biographical Info

Founded on September 1, 1907 as the Baptist Sanitarium, Memorial Hospital began as a two-story, wood-framed building at the end of the trolley line on Lamar and Smith. It had 17 beds and eight trained nurses on staff. It was the second general hospital established in Houston, and also the second Baptist-supported hospital in the United States. In the 1960s, it open three community hospitals in the Southwest (1962), Southeast (1963), and Northwest (1966). The new system allowed regional hospitals to serve the community around them while sharing services, resources, and costs with other hospitals in the Memorial Healthcare System.

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Identifier

IC103-P155-001

Publication Date(s)

1930-1939

Language

English

Description

1 photograph, Memorial Hospital Photograph Collection. Finding aid also available.

Copyright

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Comments

Memorial Hospital System donated the materials in 1979. No accruals are expected for this collection.

Recommended Citation

Memorial Hospital System, "IC103: William Burton Thorning: Surgeon" (1931). Memorial Hospital System Collection. 806.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/memorial_hosp/806