Home for Incurables and Convalescents

Incorporated 1906

1912: 102 Court Street
750-756 High Street

1878 - after 1957

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From: Social Services Directory of Newark 1912

Capacity, 22 ward beds for incurable cases: 4 private rooms and 7 rooms with 2 beds each for incurables and hospital cases. For the continuous care and medical treatment of incurable women. Formerly under the Y. W. C. A., now independent. Application made direct to hospital. Rate, $7, $8, $10 per week. Ward patients $6 per week. Have some free patients.

Gives instruction to enable women to become, not trained nurses, but intelligent attendants on the sick, and awards certificates to those who attain requisite proficiency. Cooking for invalids is included.