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hospital has three operating rooms, cystoscopic room, a department for ear, eye, nose and throat treatment, X-ray, Basal Metabolism, a well equipped laboratory, and a nursery in the maternity department. It has a one hundred bed capacity. The third was Burns Hospital in Cuero, Texas. Originally founded in 1911 by Dr. John W. Burns to fill a long felt need, San Antonio being then the nearest place affording hospital facilities to the citizens of Cuero, it passed into the hands of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament of Shiner, Texas in 1934. The Sisters took charge of it in October of that year and have since been in full control, having improved. enlarged, and modernized the old hospital in keeping with the latest developments in hospitalization. 65 Hospitals of tire Sisters of tlte Hol,y Family of Nazareth, r928. This congregation, founded by Mother Mary Francis Siedliska in Rome, Italy, in 1875, first came to Texas in 1928, following the grant of five acres of land by the City Council of Dalhart on April 24, 1928 for the purpose of erecting a hospital. The late Mother M. Ignatius, the erstwhile provincial of the Order residing in Chicago, accepted the grant and commenced the construction of the hospital in July of that year. The Loretto Hospital of Dalhart was put up at a cost to the Sisters of $200,000 and represented the latest in hospital building and equipment. It was solemnly dedicated on May t, 1929, to the service of the sick regardless of creed or nationality and has been steadily enlarged to meet its growing patronage that comes from Texas and the neighboring states of New Mexico, Colorado. Kansas. and Oklahoma. 66 Three years later, the Congregation acquired Nazareth Hospital in Mineral Wells from the Crazy Water Company, and the hospital was blessed and dedicated by Bishop Joseph P. Lynch on June i , 1931. It has since become one of the best in the state. It is a general hospital. open to the public and all reputable physicians. The number of free patients ha~ averaged over r 5 percent of the total treated and cared for. The Sisters next purchased in 1933 the Hargrave-\1/alker Hospital in Wichita Falls in answer to repeated requests for a Catholic conducted hospital. The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth remodelled and modernized it. renaming it Bethania in memory of the little villa~e of 65 Shelly, (Ip. &it., 133-13S; correspondence in possession of Author. 66 Letters from Mother M. Aloy~ius. Provincial. Chicago, Jul~· 6, 1951; Si$ter M. Getulia, Supt., Mother Frances Ho~pital. Tyler. Tc:1:as, Jul~· !,. 1951, to the Author; !lee also Shelly, ~- cit., I 38.
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