Health and medicine8 cards: 1 first, 1 claimed first and 6 beginnings
Hospitals, a sanatorium, a laboratory and a medical school.
- The Cotton Belt’s hospital for railroad workersAt West Elm Street and the tracks, for 17 years.
- The city runs a public hospitalBought and repaired for $3,500; later called the “old pesthouse.”
- Dr. Archie S. Senate moves his practice to East ErwinOn the 200 block, where Black entrepreneurs bought buildings.
- Mother Frances Hospital opens a day earlyMother Frances Hospital opened in Tyler on March 18, 1937, a day earlier than planned, to care for victims of the New London School explosion.
- Camp Fannin becomes a tuberculosis sanatorium122 patients arrived by train from Kerrville.
- Andrew Melontree Sr., a first in the hospital laboratoriesA lab technician and a laboratory director, both in 1956.
- The chest hospital joins the University of Texas SystemRenamed the University of Texas Health Center at Tyler.
- The UT Tyler School of Medicine seats its first classThe UT Tyler School of Medicine’s first class of 40 students received white coats in July 2023.