| Title |
Bushnell General Hospital, Brigham City, Utah, 1943. |
| Photo Number |
P0884n1_01_80 |
| Description |
Photo of Bushnell General Hospital, Brigham City, Utah, in 1943. |
| Creator |
Unknown |
| Date |
1943 |
| Textual Date |
1943 |
| Keywords |
World War II |
| Subject |
Military hospitals--Utah--Brigham City--Photographs |
| Spatial Coverage |
Brigham City (Utah); Box Elder County (Utah) |
| Additional Information |
Bushnell General Hospital was completed and its first patients admitted on 10 October 1942. of that same year. Patients were primarily sick and injured military personnel from Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, in keeping with the government's policy of locating patients as close to home as medically feasible so that their families could more easily visit them. The medical staff specialized in orthopedic and neuro-psychiatric cases and in tropical diseases. It was the first military hospital to use penicillin, and the facility provided training for medical doctors being sent to the European and Pacific combat areas. Approximately 13,000 patients were treated during the hospital's life of less than four years. It closed in 1947, and in 1950 the facility became the Intermountain Indian School for Navajo students. |
| Collection Number and Name |
P0884 Wallace and Mary Doi Photograph Collection |
| Collection Name |
Wallace and Mary Doi |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Original Source |
N/A |
| Donated By/Purchased From |
Loaned to the University of Utah for scanning by Mary Doi. (Via Lorraine Crouse) |
| Rights |
 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s64j11p1 |
| Setname |
uum_map |
| ID |
950395 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64j11p1 |
