Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - (Page 11) BY ROBERT D. LEIGHNINGER, JR. LOUISIANA IS THE ONLY STATE in the Union with hospitals providing medical care to those who cannot pay for it. The original New Orleans Charity Hospital was built in 1736 with an endowment from a French shipbuilder. The institution wore out or lost to fire four buildings. The fifth, built in 1832, was falling apart in 1933 when its board of administrators asked that the Public Works Administration (PWA) fund a replacement. The PWA was one of many New Deal agencies established under President Franklin Roosevelt to invigorate the American economy during the depths of the Great Depression. The federal agency made contracts with private firms for construction of public works. In order to cover its 70 percent of the project, the hospital board proposed adding paying beds. Paying beds in a charity hospital? Betrayal of a tradition almost 200 years old? The idea provoked a howl of protest from members of the Orleans Parish Medical Society. They could not deny that many of the buildings being used by Charity Hospital were in bad shape. The leaking roofs, termite-eaten walls, and caving floors were obvious to casual inspection. Nor could they ignore the overcrowded wards where patients slept two to a bed, in chairs, and on floors. They could, however, argue that the overcrowding was unnecessary. One problem was that patients came to Charity from all parts of the state. They often, argued the Medical above: An illustration from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated depicting a Charity Hospital ward in the mid 19th-century. opposite page: Closed since Hurricane Katrina severely damaged the building in August 2005, Charity Hospital’s fate remains unknown. Fall 2007/LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 11 HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 Contents Friends & Letters Editor’s Column Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Big Charity: A History of New Orleans’ Public Hospital Historic New Orleans Collection Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets New Orleans’ Faubourg Tremé: Rooted in Tradition Jazz Notes Louisiana Association of Museums Chinatown New Orleans Louisiana Foodways A Question of Secession Louisiana Architecture Louisiana State Museum The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish Terra Incognita Bookstand Sound Advice Forum Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - (Page Cover1) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - (Page Cover2) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Contents (Page 1) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Friends & Letters (Page 2) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Editor’s Column (Page 3) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (Page 4) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (Page 5) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (Page 6) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (Page 7) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (Page 8) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (Page 9) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Big Charity: A History of New Orleans’ Public Hospital (Page 10) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Big Charity: A History of New Orleans’ Public Hospital (Page 11) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Big Charity: A History of New Orleans’ Public Hospital (Page 12) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Big Charity: A History of New Orleans’ Public Hospital (Page 13) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Big Charity: A History of New Orleans’ Public Hospital (Page 14) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Big Charity: A History of New Orleans’ Public Hospital (Page 15) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Big Charity: A History of New Orleans’ Public Hospital (Page 16) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Big Charity: A History of New Orleans’ Public Hospital (Page 17) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Big Charity: A History of New Orleans’ Public Hospital (Page 18) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Big Charity: A History of New Orleans’ Public Hospital (Page 19) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Historic New Orleans Collection (Page 20) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Historic New Orleans Collection (Page 21) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Historic New Orleans Collection (Page 22) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Historic New Orleans Collection (Page 23) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets (Page 24) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets (Page 25) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets (Page 26) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets (Page 27) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets (Page 28) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets (Page 29) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets (Page 30) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets (Page 31) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets (Page 32) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets (Page 33) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets (Page 34) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets (Page 35) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - New Orleans’ Faubourg Tremé: Rooted in Tradition (Page 36) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - 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New Orleans’ Faubourg Tremé: Rooted in Tradition (Page 47) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Jazz Notes (Page 48) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana Association of Museums (Page 49) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Chinatown New Orleans (Page 50) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Chinatown New Orleans (Page 51) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Chinatown New Orleans (Page 52) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Chinatown New Orleans (Page 53) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Chinatown New Orleans (Page 54) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Chinatown New Orleans (Page 55) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Chinatown New Orleans (Page 56) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Chinatown New Orleans (Page 57) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana Foodways (Page 58) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana Foodways (Page 59) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - A Question of Secession (Page 60) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - A Question of Secession (Page 61) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - A Question of Secession (Page 62) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - A Question of Secession (Page 63) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - A Question of Secession (Page 64) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - A Question of Secession (Page 65) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - A Question of Secession (Page 66) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - A Question of Secession (Page 67) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana Architecture (Page 68) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana Architecture (Page 69) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana State Museum (Page 70) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana State Museum (Page 71) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana State Museum (Page 72) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Louisiana State Museum (Page 73) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish (Page 74) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish (Page 75) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish (Page 76) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish (Page 77) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish (Page 78) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish (Page 79) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Terra Incognita (Page 80) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Terra Incognita (Page 81) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Terra Incognita (Page 82) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Terra Incognita (Page 83) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Terra Incognita (Page 84) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Terra Incognita (Page 85) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Terra Incognita (Page 86) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Terra Incognita (Page 87) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2007 - Terra Incognita (Page 88) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - 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