The William J. Hicks Memorial Hospital is probably the least documented of the Oxford Orphanage buildings. It was replete with several sick wards, an operating room and a dentist's office. Until the 1950s childrens' tonsils and appendixes were removed there. One alumnus tells of a particular dentist who smoked cigars in the examination room, and gagging when the dentist kept putting his smoke-covered fingers in the child's mouth! The hospital was torn down sometime in the late 1970s - all that remains is a rectangular depression behind Master's Cottage, where the picnic grounds and playground now stand. |
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Architect's Rendering (Size: 33 k) |
Waiting Room (Size: 64 k) |
Sick Ward (Size: 126 k) |
Dentist's Office (Size: 67 k) |