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Pre-World War I plans to build a hospital at Seventh Avenue, to be named Bay Ridge Hospital, were altered, and that location became Victory Memorial Hospital, [4] as "a monument to the soldiers of the section who died in service." [5] The result was described as "There would be no more Bay Ridge Hospital. Or would there?"
Photo: Imperial War Museums. The Canary Girls were British women who worked in munitions manufacturing trinitrotoluene (TNT) shells during the First World War (1914–1918). The nickname arose because exposure to TNT is toxic, and repeated exposure can turn the skin an orange-yellow colour reminiscent of the plumage of a canary. [1]
Victory Memorial Hospital, 9036 7th Avenue, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Opened in 1927, closed in 2009, now SUNY Downstate at Bay Ridge, an outpatient clinic that is part of SUNY Downstate Medical Center. It was known locally as the "Baby Hospital." [114] Williamsburg General Hospital. 757 Bushwick Avenue. Opened in 1859 as Brooklyn Throat Hospital ...
BayRidge Hospital is a non-profit [1] inpatient behavioral health hospital located in Lynn, Massachusetts, operated by nearby Beverly Hospital. [2] The hospital opened in 1996. [ 1 ] Beverly Hospital's parent company, non-profit Northeast Health System, affiliated with Lahey Clinic in 2011, forming Lahey Health System. [ 3 ]
Victory Memorial was a not-for-profit, voluntary hospital. [1] Most of the hospital's "complex of dun-colored buildings at the southeastern edge of Bay Ridge" were built in 1927, [2] but they opened earlier in a single building at their 92nd Street/Seventh Avenue Brooklyn location.
The hospital held 300 beds, and its location was prime for aiding wounded troops. She inspired many other Americans to join the war effort by opening up their own hospitals. 1917: In 1917 World War I Army nurses Edith Ayres and Helen Wood (nurses held no rank during World War I) became the first female members of the U.S. military killed in the ...
Wagner made her "General Hospital" debut in 1984, before leaving for the first time in 2005. After taking a break, she then returned and left for a second time between 2007 and 2008, before ...
Darwan Singh Negi is carried into a hospital, by L.N.C. (restored by Adam Cuerden) Christmas truce , by A. C. Michael British recruiting poster from 1915 at German bombing of Britain, 1914–1918 , by the Publicity Department of the Central Recruiting Depot (restored by Adam Cuerden )