“In 1898, during the Spanish American War, the MGH accepted patients who were suffering from typhoid fever and malaria contracted in the semitropical climate of Cuba and Puerto Rico.  A tent-ward had been erected on the Bulfinch lawn and nurses were assigned to care for them.  Most patients recovered and were able to go home.”

The Autobiography of Grace Whiting Myers, 1949.
Grace Whiting Myers was an MGH Medical Librarian.