Charity Hospital School of Nursing - Caps and Capes Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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DEDICATION Because of her patient understanding, individual attention, sense of humor and her untiring effort to give us needed knowledge, we proudly dedicate this 1955 CAPS AND CAPES to SISTER GERTRUDE. Her treatment of humanity has been an inspiration to us and has gained our highest admiration. We hope we may follow in her footsteps.

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CHARITY HOSPITAL OF LOUISIANA HISTORICAL SKETCH In the year 1736 1’hospital des pauvres de la Charite was established through the bequest of a sailor named Jean Louis. The structure, known as St. John’s Hospital, is heralded as the original Charity Hospital of New Orleans and is one of the oldest hospitals in the United States. This building was replaced by a second hospital which was devastated by a hurricane in 1779 and rebuilt in 1786 by the great philanthropist, Don Almonastery Roxas, a Spanish nobleman. An act of the legislature of the year 1813 may be considered the incorporation of the Charity Hospital as an institution of the State of Louisiana. During the years that followed, New Orleans grew rapidly and it was not long before a large and better equipped institution was needed. A new hospital referred to at the time as a model of hospital architecture of the nineteenth century was built during the years 1832-1833. To this new building came the Sisters of Charity at the invitation of the Board of Administrators, and they have been caring for the patients of the hospital by governmental authorization since 1834.