Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1845

pg 90                                 7.  The Infirmary

                  It had been begun in the autumn of 1844, but it was only in 
             the course of 1845 that it was finished such as it is today, 
             namely, a brick building 60 x 20 ft., of two stories.  Part of it 
             was at first occupied by the printing office.  It was only on the 
             return of F. Superior in 1846 that it was regularly divided into 
             separate apartments in such a way as to fill the wants of an 
             infirmary.  There are four rooms on the ground-floor and four 
             upstairs--amply sufficient for the wants of the college and the 
             community.  Up to the present time it has been necessary to use 
             one half of those rooms to lodge persons for whom there is no 
             accommodation elsewhere.
                  Under the present heading it is proper to say something about 
             the maladies and the deaths that have successively afflicted the 
             mission.
                  On their arrival at the Lake the Brothers were informed that 
             the place was considered unhealthy.  The following spring two of 
             them were the proof and the victims, Bros. Joachim and Paul, whose 
             death contributed much to confirm the bad reputation of the place