Health Equity Timeline of MetroWest | Leverage The Power of Our Past

"Thirteenth Annual Announcement of the New England Female Medical College"

The First Female Medical College Established

A mother comforts her child in 1908

Mother's Rest Association purchases property in Needham

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A graduating class of nurses from Plymouth Hospital and Nurses Training School, from a report printed in 1914. Boston, MA. (Courtesy Lisa Gordon)

Plymouth Hospital Opens as First and Only Black Hospital in MA

Admission ticket to the Massachusetts House of Representatives on June 25, 1919, the day the state officially ratified the 19th Amendment.

19th Amendment: Women in Massachusetts earn Full Voting Privileges