The full name of the hospital was the Chicago Municipal Isolation Hospital. It originally housed smallpox victims in the late 19th Century. It was run on behalf of the city by a Catholic order of nuns called the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ until its closing in 1950 whereupon it became the city dog pound and later 23rd Ward Streets and San HQ. The PHJC archives are at Notre Dame Hospital. The
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