After 150 years the French Hospital closed, it had offered medical care during Los Angeles’s most dangerous, disease-ridden years
Dec 21, 2017 E.L. Hamilton Photo Credit: Clotee Pridgen Allochuku CC By 2.0 When an L.A. hospital ceased operations on November 30, 2017, it closed its doors on a piece of Los Angeles history that stretched back nearly 150 years to the city’s dusty and dangerous birth. Founded to protect French expatriates from smallpox, the French … Read more