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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 arriving arriv-ing here with his 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 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 around the walls, with doors and windows and not a nail, a screw, or iron latch or hinge about the building." Its cost to the government was a few extra rations. |