A HISTORY OF HOSPITALS AND SHELTERS FOR THE SICK 45
Turn of
the
Century Hospitals
In 1900, the Wentworth-Igo Hospital was founded at 2615 I Street. After Dr. William H. Wentworth’s death from typhoid in 1901, Louise Igo, former head of the Sisters’ Hospital nursing school, attended medical school at the Uni versity of California, San Francisco, and returned to Sacra mento, in 1919, to establish the eight-room Igo Hospital at 1525 L Street. She later married Flitcroft, and together they established the Igo-Flitcroft Hospital at 3014 M Street. Ill ness forced them to sell the building in 1927. At the time, it was advertised as having 24 rooms and a well equipped surgery and was sold for $41,000.46
Sutter Heights Hospital, 21st and T, 1908. Courtesy Bert L. Sieferman, DSC.
