Early history of Kerman Morsalin hospital

The history of hospital construction is primarily divided into pre-islamic and isalmic pe-riods; the latter also witnessed the emergence of european and american hospitals afterthe arrival of western medicine in iran. kerman morsalin hospital, belonging to churchmission society hospitals, is an example of such hospitals built under the supervision ofbritish doctors in iran. this hospital, listed as one of the iranian national heritage, is con-sidered as one of the ?rst contemporary hospitals of this city. but, there was no evidenceabout its construction date. therefore, i used the interpretive-historical methodology byorganizing and analyzing historical documents to discern the early history of this hospi-tal. the aim of this research was to ?nd out when the morsalin hospital was built. medi-cal activities of the church mission society, with the cooperation of dr. grif?th, beganin 1901. at first, there was not a special place to work and hence, he started treatingpatients at home. however, thirteen years later, in 1914, dr. dodson started constructingthe hospital. this is the hospital which nowadays is known as morsalin hospital.