Pavilion St-Jean-de-Dieu built in 1907 (ph_4086)

The wooden house, to the right in the photo, had two floors and could accommodate around twenty patients and served mostly to treat contagious diseases. The old people remember the Spanish Flu of 1918 which hit hard in this region. When the railroad was built, workers of different nationalities were hospitalized in Saint-Basile. In 1911, Dr. A.M. Sormany was the railway workers’ doctor. In 1925, the St-Jean-de-Dieu department was transferred to the third floor of the brick hospital.