Turn ofthe Century Hospitals

Turn of the Century Hospitals

In 1900, the Wentworth-Igo Hospital was founded at 2615 I Street. AfterDr. William H. Wentworth’s death from typhoid in 1901, Louise Igo, former head of the Sisters’ Hospital nursingschool, attended medical school attheUniversity ofCalifornia, San Francisco, and returned to Sacramento, in 1919, to establish the eight-room Igo Hospital at 1525 LStreet. Shelatermarried Flitcroft, andtogetherthey established the Igo-Flitcroft Hospital at 3014 M Street. Illness forced them to sell thebuildingin 1927. At the time, it was advertised as having 24 rooms and a well equipped surgeryand was sold for $41,000.46

Sutter Heights Hospital, 21st and T, 1908. Courtesy Bert L. Sieferman, DSC.

TheWentworth-IgoHospital,withthenameIgodropped, had been carried on by Dr. Wentworth’s heirs and closed in 1914,butreopenedin 1917astheKrullHospital. Itcontinued to be operated for about 10 years by Dr. Frank Krull.

The Sutter Heights Hospital appeared at 21st and T Streetsintheearly1900s, andwasrunbyastaffofspecialists that included a woman obstetrician/gynecologist. It was supported in part by a group ofcharitable women.

Under the auspices ofthe Episcopal Church, but nonsectarian, the Home ofthe MercifulSaviorwas opened,June 1,1907, on JStreet Ittreated crippled and invalid children and averaged 20 to 25 patients at one time.

Top: Wentworth Hospital, 28th and J, 1900, Sacramento Bee files; Bottom: Krull Hospital, 26151,1917-1927. Courtesy Dr. Frank Krull.