ABSTRACT
By constructing an analytical paradigm between Hospital General Sainte-Marie and Central Maine General Hospital, a clarification is achieved that illuminates the medical culture of care that existed in each institution between the years 1892–1908. The patient data reviewed for each hospital includes: ethnicity, gender, occupation, medical conditions presented, causes of death, survival rates, and financing (extent of charitable care). This data can be used to construct a better understanding of the actual hospital work performed by the Grey Nuns; and how their unique approach to benevolence was expressed by their nursing care in comparison to a secular, male-dominated Yankee establishment just a few miles away.
