the Brewster hospital

When segregation was a day-to-day issue there were many hardships for blacks. The obvious were the humiliation of being so blatantly separated just by skin color, the  there were the subtler problems of segregation such as having little access to health facilities. In Jacksonville Florida there was a large black community in and around LaVilla where there where no major hospitals until 1901 the year the Brewster hospital was founded. It was actually originally a school for nurses in training. How ever when the great Jacksonville fire broke out training was over and the test for them became real life, however it continued to train nurses. . After that the Brewster served as a black hospital. Helping the over all quality in life in LaVilla. Now though there was a hospital within walking distance. Back when it was taking patients it had 30 beds and was mostly a surgical hospital. It held 15 "pupil" nurses. Which means, each nurse could have up to two patents each. Georgia A. Brewster founded it. though she was not a doctor she donated a total $2,000 to it. The Brewster now proudly stands only a fraction of the old building, which had two floors and two wings. Today the Brewster has been relocated for restoration and it is only the size of a single duplex. How ever who knows what the future holds for the Brewster hospital. A new museum, a hospital? The answers are unknown, only time will tell. 

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by Kelsey Conner and Nick Daugherty