Portal:Featured Image Of The Week
From Asylum Projects
Revision as of 03:41, 16 October 2022 by M-Explorer (talk | contribs)
Featured Image Of The Week
The hospital was established in 1852 as one of three state almshouses needed to help care for the unprecedented influx of immigrants into Massachusetts at that time. The almshouses were the Commonwealth's first venture into caring for the poor, a duty which had previously been carried out by the cities and towns.