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English
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Ogden's Forgotten City Hospital
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Spring 2019
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87
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2
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press
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132-147
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Ogden City Hospital was Ogden’s first acute care hospital. Also known
as Ogden General and Ogden Medical and Surgical Hospital, it was the
second largest hospital in Utah Territory when built in 1892 and the only one sponsored by a local governmental entity. The hospital grew out of the ambition of the city’s business and political leaders to assert Ogden’s importance within the area’s growing railroad economy and a desire on
the part of the city’s physicians for a facility in which to care for patients.
The hospital is particularly significant because of Ogden City’s role in
its founding and in its initial years of operation. It was built with public
funds, bonded for by the city, and, during its first five years, operated as
a part of the city’s budget.
This hospital is mostly forgotten today. Those who are aware of it mistakenly describe it as having closed almost immediately after opening, a victim of city retrenchments during the Panic of 1893. One writer dismisses it as not a real hospital, a designation he reserved for the coming of the Dee Memorial Hospital in 1911. In fact, Ogden City Hospital arose at a time of particular civic ambition, and, after some initial setbacks that did not include closing, it served the community as a valued resource until its replacement in 1911.
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