Laboratory in The Rest

ID: 4374 ~ Source: National Archives and Records Administration  ~ Creator: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare ~ Date: 1915
This file appears in: The Rest, Saint Elizabeths
Laboratory in The Rest
This file appears in: The Rest, Saint Elizabeths

The Rest was constructed in 1882 and served as Saint Elizabeths mortuary and pathology lab. One of the most prominent figures to work in The Rest was Dr. Isaac Wright Blackburn. Blackburn was appointed special pathologist at the hospital in 1884,…