The Isolation Hospital Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 6/27/2010
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It died with Polio — a plague that put fear in parents every summer.




The house at 1920 7 Ave. South was built in 1922 as an orphanage but is best remembered as the Isolation hospital and the dedication of an English nurse named Mildred Dobbs who cared for patients with diphtheria, polio, even smallpox for 39 years . It was the third and final location for the isolation hospital a concept done away with after the polio outbreak in the 1950's.



Miss Dobbs was only allowed out once a month to get provisions as she had to be isolated too. A 2008 article in the Lethbridge Herald relates that "if she sent someone out to get supplies, they would hang the bags on the fence away from the door, and she would go out and get them." Maybe so, but her nephew Ken Dobbs was a good friend of mine and many times in the 1940s we got on our bicycles and delivered family baking right to her door. She died in 1974, well into her nineties. The main thoroughfare through Legacy Ridge in north Lethbridge, Mildred Dobbs Blvd., was named in her honour.

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