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Sutter Hospitals
The United States War Department intervened in Sac ramento medical services during World War I, paying to establish an Isolation Hospital in 1918 to care for venereal disease cases. Operational costs were at city expense, how ever, and they were high enough to lead to its closure, in 1919, in spite of persuasive arguments in favor of keeping it open, as an important factor in controlling venereal diseases.49 During the disastrous influenza epidemic that swept the country at the end of the war, ahospital was organized in the city library and so-called “party girls” were gratefully ac cepted to do volunteer nursing.50
Sutter General Hospital, 28th and L, 1923.
