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faces the Porter Square bookstore.Almshouse land, I think between Austin Street and Harvard Street.
Almshouse land, I think between Austin Street and Harvard Street.
And the almshouse was actually how we used to take care of the sick poor before there was health insurance.
has its almshouse, albeit now called a hospital.
And Laguna Honda was the San Francisco Almshouse.
It had originally been called the San Francisco Almshouse.
And I was wondering if you had any comments about the almshouse and what was there before.
Turned out that Laguna Honda had been the almshouse for the city, and it was on 62 acres.
There would be a free county hospital and a free county almshouse.
His orders were to change Laguna Honda from an old fashioned almshouse to a modern health care and rehabilitation facility.
And the reason I ended up staying so long is because typically the almshouse would get the bottom 1/10 of 1% of patients.
Well, there were three different almshouses.
The acutely ill would be taken care of in the free county almshouse-- county hospital.
Starting in the '50s, the almshouses across the United States were closed, and many of the county hospitals, except for San Francisco, which still has its county hospital and still
So they paid the daughter of the alms house director.
in general. And in French, the word for almshouse is hotel-dieu.
It used to be that every county in the country had a free county hospital and a free county almshouse, and that was how we took care of the sick poor.
So they were students at Marburg University, and they heard that there was a old woman in the alms house, i.e. in the poor house, who
And my feeling, my interpretation of this, is that the old woman in the alms house was passing on a female secret, a very, very cruel version
The monks get out early in the morning and they walk down the road barefoot, and they get the alms from these
And I got back as far as the mid to late 1800s, where I learned that it was part of the almshouse lands.
But what really made it incredible were the patients, because it turns out that Laguna Honda was the original almshouse for the city.
And then, if they needed additional care or nobody new what else to do with them, they were transferred to the almshouse.
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