For the last seven years of her life, Baxter served as president of Wayside Emergency Hospital in Seattle. Based on the hospital ship Idaho, it was the only free hospital in the city. Roger S. Green and other public-spirited men of the city bought the ship and gave it for the benefit of those too poor to pay for hospital care. Baxter explained,— "It is a charity ship, pure and simple. The only requisite for admission is that theapplicant be sick and helpless."
