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Morton entered the Lying-in
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that kept her from working in her later years and she was confined to her bed because of locked joints. In 1906, the Helen Morton Wing of Sewall
Maternity Hospital was named in her honor. She died in 1915, at the age of 81, in Boston. In her memory, her family donated an ambulance to the
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spent two years as director of an obstetric hospital in Paris in the 1860s. She was awarded a medal by the French government in 1864. She returned to Boston and was an attending physician at the
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