[2] The hospital closed in 1932 with the headline in the October 16 issue of the Oakland Tribune: "Fabiola Ends Experiment in 'Feminism'".

[4] A small dwelling house was rented and the hospital opened with a working force consisting of a matron and her assistant.

Eleven years later, the association acquired a tract of land in the suburbs and moved into a new building, the nucleus of the later hospital.

[5] While the grounds were an attractive feature of Fabiola Hospital, originally, there was a lack of provision for outdoor care of patients.

The carnival of flowers included decorated carriages of the leading charitably inclined society people of Oakland.

A graduate of the Massachusetts General Hospital was appointed superintendent of nurses in 1890, and but three changes were made in this office during these eighteen years.

Miss Katherine Fitch, a Johns Hopkins University nurse, was appointed in 1903 and the hospital's new building of 1908 was built in accordance with the plans and suggestions made by her.

A graduate of the Drexel Institute was in charge of the Diet Kitchen, where much of the food was prepared for the patients, and from which all trays are served.

The building was heated by a system of forced ventilation and had all the modern hospital conveniences of the day, including electrical and mechanical devices.

[4] Scrapbooks, account books, and letters of the period 1884 till 1952 are held in the collections of the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley.