Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 5, Number 1, Spring, 1993 Page: 9
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DALLAS
St. Paul's Sanitarium
1890s
Dr. Theodore L. Arnold immigrates from Switzerland to open a practice in otology and ophthamology
(1891). A new city hospital, Parkland, opens north of town in a wooded site near Oak Lawn and Maple
avenues (1894). Dr. Marcellus Clayton Cooper is the first African American dentist to open a practice in
Dallas (1894). St. Paul's Sanitarium (later re-named St. Paul's Hospital) opens as the first really modem
hospital in Dallas, with electricity and hot and cold running water (1897-98). Jessie Estelle Castle
Lamoreaux, a graduate of the University of Michigan, becomes the first woman dentist to open a practice in
Dallas (1897).
1900s
Dr. C. M. Rosser opens the University of Dallas Medical Department (1900) and the Good Samaritan Hospital
(1901). Ground is broken for the Texas Baptist Sanitarium (1904), which purchases the old Good Samitarian
Hospital building. Dr. Rosser's medical school becomes affiliated with Baylor University(1903). St. Paul's
opens a school for nurses (1900). Dr. Benjamin Bluitt, a prominent African-American physician, opens the
Bluitt Sanitarium (1905). A group headed by Mrs. Mary Sherman Allen applies for a Red Cross charter
(1905). Texas Baptist Sanitarium (later re-named Baylor Hospital) opens (1909).
1910s
A meningitis epidemic strikes Dallas (1912). Members of the Dallas County Graduate Nurses Association
establish the Dallas Baby Camp (1913). A new public hospital building replaces the old frame Parkland
Hospital (1913). The Southern Medical Association holds its annual meeting in Dallas, with 1,500
physicians attending (1915). Mrs. John O. McReynolds founds the Women's Auxiliary to the Dallas
County Medical Society (1917). Public schools, theaters, and churches close, and the State Fair is canceled
when an influenza epidemic affects nearly 7,000 victims, killing more than 20 (1918).9
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