Drug stores in Black Walnut Hills: Walnut Hills Pharmacy, 1908-1924
Drug stores in Black Walnut Hills: Walnut Hills Pharmacy, 1908-1924 The first Black-owned Drug Store in Walnut Hills – probably the first in Cincinnati – Continue Reading
Category: Hospitals and Medicine
The Last Global Pandemic in Walnut Hills: Another Wave in February 1919
As we have seen, the height of the “Spanish Influenza” Pandemic reached its peak in Cincinnati in late 1918. The Health Department ordered schools in Continue Reading
The Last Global Pandemic 1918-1919: “Negroes Plead for a Change of Environment”
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918, like the Covid 19 Pandemic, attacked different segments of the population with different severity. Then as now the Black population Continue Reading
The Last Global Pandemic: Hughes High School, 1918-1919
By 1918, Walnut Hills High School had adopted a “classical” curriculum aimed at preparation for college. Students from our neighborhood could also attend the much Continue Reading
The Last Global Pandemic: Walnut Hills High School, 1918-1919
The Walnut Hills High School yearbook, the Remembrancer for 1918-1919, presents a spectacular perspective on the year of the “Spanish” Flu. 1918 was also the Continue Reading
The Last Global Pandemic: “Spanish” flu, 1918-1919
The global influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 still ranks as the last great pandemic. There is not much information in the usual sources for effects in Continue Reading
Charles Dillard
Dr. Dillard grew up in Walnut Hills in the 1940’s-50’s, attending Frederick Douglass School and Walnut Hills High School. He followed his father into medicine Continue Reading
Dr. Lucy Oxley
Dr. Lucy Oxley, the first African American woman to earn an MD from the University of Cincinnati medical school (1935), ran her practice in Walnut Continue Reading
Children’s Hospital founders
In 1883, three Episcopalian women determined to open a new hospital in Cincinnati to care for sick children. The idea originated with a Mrs. Robert Continue Reading
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell, a Walnut Hills contemporary of Caroline and Harriet Beecher Stowe, was the first woman to earn an MD in the United States, and Continue Reading