The hospital at Fort Dodge was built in 1867 and was a one-story stone hospital that included the Post Surgeon's office, exam room, dispensary, washroom, kitchen, dining room, quarters for the hospital steward and a 12-bed ward. Wood burning stoves heated the facility and candles or oil lamps provided lighting. SUBMITTED PHOTO / Dodge City Daily Globe
By Kathie Bell/Special to the Globe It was not built in time to possibly save Isadore Douglass from a tragic death. The first hospital at…
