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Catherine Street Hospitals

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            The Catherine Street hospitals were actually a large cluster of buildings of various sizes.  The first of the buildings was constructed in 1891 with an additional building for the Homeopathic Department.[60]  Outside money for their construction was provided by the government and the city of Ann Arbor.  Both hospitals were eventually linked by a passageway and additional space for offices and services was built onto it.  In 1927, the old Homeopathic building burned down.[60]

            In 1910, a building for the Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology was constructed at the cost of $33,000.  However, space for patients and teaching in this building was limited.  The building was later used for maternity patients when the new main hospital opened.[60] 

            During a serious smallpox epidemic in 1908, adequate facilities for treatment were not present.  With $25,000 provided by the City of Ann Arbor, the university was able to build a Contagious Disease Hospital, isolated from the other hospitals.[60] 

            Another addition to the Catherine Street hospitals came in 1906 when the Psychopathic Hospital was completed in 1906.  It was the first Psychopathic Hospital in the country.  It was capable of accommodating forty patients.[60]

            The final building erected in the cluster was the Dermatology ward which was built in 1918 at the cost of $7,445.  Its existence was short-lived.[60]

            The Catherine Street Hospitals have long since been demolished.  The Taubman Medical Library and Medical Science Unit II stand on that site today.

 

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