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Local hospital
hospitals in Hancock County go jack many years. One of the Irst in Bay St. Louis was the king’s Daughters Emergency iospital, located on the 2nd loor of Dr. D.H. Ward’s bui-lling (the old Breath Home) on Vlain Street. The first patient vas admitted June, 1928. The iospital later moved to 126 Car-•oll Avenue and was in opera-ion until the early 1960’s, king’s Daughters closed, and Hancock General Hospital, Dunbar Avenue, opened in L963. Hancock Medical Center, Drinkwater Road, replaced iancock General Hospital in L987. (Photo courtesy of the iancock County Historical Soc-ety which received it from vtartha Keen of Waveland. The historical Society is in the pro-:ess of making copies of photos >f businesses, homes and fami-ies and individuals of the area
and preserving them for our county’s history. For further information, call Charles Gray,
president, 467-4090. Photos	older than 25 years for publica-
will be returned to the owners.)	tion They will be returned to
The Echo welcomes photos	their owners.
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