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Old Oak Creek Hospital
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Dr. Morrow built the hospital in 1914 with an up-to-data operating room, X-ray machine, and dark room. It was one big room that had little rooms off it. Currently it contains four separate apartments. It has three upper story dormers and a chimney. Two porches with a six step staircase are also in the front of the building. Another entrance in the front of the building has a gabled roof.
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An old time doctor
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An old time doctor
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The first four years the doctor used a horse and buggy, sled, or rode horseback to visit his patients. In 1914 he purchased an automobile and went through 12 before he retired.
Dr. Morrow said, “Around Christmas time December 1910, I was called to a saloon where a fight had taken place. One man had a cut running down the side his face. I proceeded to stitch the slash on the man’s face using the pool table as an operating table.”
Information gathered with the help of Mike Yurich of the Historical Society of Oak Creek & Phippsburg by Gina & Kensie at Soroco High School, May 2004.
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