| Memorial
History, 1910-1919 |
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1910 |
 Baptist
General Convention of Texas approves financial support of hospital,
with the charter, the hospital becomes the Baptist Sanitarium
and Hospital. |
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1911
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Four-story reinforced concrete building
is added, increasing bed capacity to 50. |
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1913
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Four
additional stories increase bed capacity to 115. A roof
garden is built on top of the 6th floor, specially equipped for "baby
camp" of up to 50 babies. |
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| 1914 |
Nursing
school extends course of study to three years. |
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| 1917 |
Rev.
Pevoto resigns. Lillie Wilson is named superintendent of the
hospital. |
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| Hermann
History, 1910-1919 |
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| 1914 |
 George
H. Hermann dies in a hospital in Baltimore, Md., at the age of
71, leaving the bulk of his $2.6 million estate to build and
maintain a hospital for the sick and poor of Houston. |
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| 1918 |
Original
trustees, as named in Hermann's will, resign, and a "reform" board
of civic leaders is appointed. |
