History Buff: Nelson’s hospitals, part two

History Buff: Nelson’s hospitals, part two

Part two of History Buff’s history of hospitals in Nelson. Picking up where part one left off, Kootenay Lake Hospital, completed in 1918, finished off the 1920s with several new additions. An annex was added in 1927 to serve as the hospital laundry, operated by a Chinese business for much of the 1930s. A new nurses residence was constructed in 1927, a pathological laboratory was added in 1933, and a 1938 addition housed the laboratory and the pe…