Show An Inexpensive Hospital Probably the most inexpensive hospital ever built in this country was erected In Cleveland during the War of 1812 says the Cleveland Plain Dealer Shortly after alter arriving arriving ing here with his hi men in May 1813 Capt Stanton Sholes ordered a group of his men to construct a hospital of logs for sick soldiers According to the captains captain's own account ac count the hospital was 30 by 20 feet smoothly and tightly covered and floored with chestnut bark with two tiers of bunks bunk around Braund the walls with ith doors and windows and not a nail a screw or iron latch or hinge about the building Its cost to the government was a I few extra rations |