The Children's Hospital.

1429 Washington Street, Boston.

The Hospital was founded in 1869, for the purpose of providing medical and surgical treatment for the diseases of children, and for the attainment and diffusion of knowledge regarding the diseases incident to childhood. It received an act of incorporation February 26, 1869.

Patients between the ages of 2 and 12, suffering from acute diseases, are received at the Hospital. No patient is admitted whose case is considered chronic or incurable, unless there be urgent symptoms, which, in the opinion of the medical staff, are capable of being relieved; nor will any be admitted having an • infectious or contagious disease. Application for admission may be made any day at 9 A.M.; but accidents and other cases of an urgent character will be received at any time. The beds in the Hospital are free to those who are really poor; but a moderate charge is made to those who are able to pay. Patients from beyond the limits of the city will be received on payment of not less than $4 a week. The Hospital has 30 beds.

During the year ending December 27, 1873, 99 patients had been received at the Hospital; and since its organization, 377. Of these, 123 had been discharged, 46 of whom were well; 21 remained under treatment.

The immediate care of the Hospital and the nursing is intrusted to ladies connected with the Protestant Episcopal Sisterhood of St. Margaret's, from East Grinstead, England.

In the summer of 1874 the Hospital established a Sanitarium in the town of Weston, for the use of its convalescents.

The annual meeting of the Corporation is held December 28th. A report of the Hospital is published annually.

Physicians -William Ingalls, M.D., A. M. Sumner, M.D., W. L.. Richardson, M.D.

Surgeons-F. H. Brown, M.D., S. W. Langmaid, M.D., John Homans, M.D.

St. Luke's Home.

7 Florence Street, Boston.

Organized October 18, 1870, and incorporated January 1, 1872, for the purpose of providing gratuitous medical treatment to women and children convalescent from disease, and to the poor in the neighborhood of the Home. In June, 1873, the Trustees opened a Sanitarium` at Quisset, in the town of Falmouth, where patients can have the advantage of country air during the summer months.

Private

In the Home, 13 patients can be accommodated. patients are admitted at the discretion of the physicians, on payment of board. During the year ending September 30, 1873, 96 patients were treated. Patients are admitted on application to the physician in attendance, either at the Home or at his residence. Friends of the patients are admitted on Friday from 3 to 5 P.M.

The annual meeting of the Corporation is held on St. Luke's Day. The Protestant Episcopal Sisters of St. Luke have the immediate care of the Home.

OFFICERS.

President - Pelham Williams.

Treasurer- F. C. Foster.

Secretary-Causten Browne.

Consulting Physicians — F. E. Oliver, M.D., H. I. Bowditch, M.D., J. N. Borland, M.D.

Attending Physicians-O. W. Doe, M.D., A. M. Sumner, M.D.

Greenwood Institute.

Greenwood, Wakefield-Office, 18 Pemberton Square, Boston.

This Institution, situated at Greenwood, eight miles from Boston, on the Boston and Maine Railroad, was organized in June, 1870, for the reception and treatment of patients of either sex suffering from disease or derangement of the nervous system, caused by overtaxing the brain, by too sedentary habits, or the excessive or injudicious use of alcoholic or narcotic stimulants.

The terms for board and treatment are from $15 to $30 a week, varying according to the accommodations required for patients. In cases requiring extraordinary care and attention, there will be a proportionate extra charge. Payment required in advance. Patients are expected to remain at least three months, unless sooner cured.

Superintendent and Physician — Albert Day, M.D.

Washingtonian Home.

41 Waltham Street, Boston.

Organized in 1857, and incorporated in 1859, for the cure of inebriates who wish to reform.

Persons having a permanent home within the State, whose circumstances render it imperatively necessary, may be admitted to a free bed: all other persons will be charged for their board, according to their ability to pay, and the rooms, attendance, and accommodations furnished them. Application can be made to the Superintendent at the Home, at any hour. A recommendation by some responsible person is required.

The whole number of patients under charge from the opening of the Home until April 30, 1873, was 4,087; and the number for nineteen months preceding that date was 397. The Institution can furnish accommodations to forty inmates.

An annual report of the Home is published.