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Children's care in this record runs as a line of its own, and it runs mostly through other houses' wards until it crosses the river. Mishawaka's hospitals kept children's care inside the general hospital: St. Joseph Hospital's pediatric service was a ward of the Poor Handmaids' house, not a children's hospital, and the hospitals section's account of the city's medicine carries sick children as patients of the general line from 1910 forward. The county's children's-hospital form was founded across the river in 1950 — the Northern Indiana Children's Hospital of South Bend, a hospital for children alone — and it is boundary-printed here as the form's local instance, its line descending to the children's hospital service of the Memorial/Beacon system in the present day. Saint Joseph Regional's Mishawaka campus carries pediatric care in the current frame as a service of the general hospital, which is where the line began. The entry's finding is the line itself, printed at its true proportions: a century of children's wards in Mishawaka, and the children's hospital — as an institution with its own name and building — a South Bend fact of 1950, shared by the county's families ever since without ever being seated here.