St. Luke's Home. Roxbury Street, Roxbury, 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. Thirty-five patients can be received. In the home, forty patients can be accommodated. Private patients are admitted at the discretion of the physicians, on payment of board. 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. 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. 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 May 1, 1876 was 4,917, an average of about 265 per year, and the number for the year preceding that date was 400. The institution can furnish accommodations to forty inmates. An annual report of the home is published. Vice-Presidents — Joseph Story, William Warren, W. B. Spooner, William Claflin. Treasurer - Daniel Allen. Clerk-S. W. Sargent. Superintendent and Physician· - Albert Day, M. D. Free Hospital for Women. 16 East Springfield Street, Boston. Established in December, 1875. The hospital is entirely free, and receives only those women who suffer from diseases peculiar to their sex, and have not the means to obtain the medical advice or the care which they need. It contains twenty beds, and is supported by contributions from religious societies and private individuals. The expense of a bed for the hospital year is one hundred and fifty dollars. Any society or any individual supporting a bed is to be represented by one member of the Board of Trustees and one lady on the Board of Visitors and the society or individual has the right to fill the bed with any poor and worthy woman if the medical staff consider her case a proper one for treatment in this hospital. The nursing is performed by the Sisters of St. Margaret. Application for admission must be made at the hospital. OFFICERS. President - B. E. Bates. Treasurer-E. H. Sampson. Secretary-J. W. Woods. Consulting Board —D. H. Storer, M. D., A. D. Sinclair, M. D., W. W. Morland, M. D., J. P. Reynolds, M. D. Visiting Surgeon - W. H. Baker, M. D. St. Ann's Infant Asylum and Lying-in Hospital. Founded by Romanist Sisters of Charity in September, 1868, and incorporated in September, 1870, as an institution for the maintenance and support of foundlings, orphan and half-orphan children. It also accommodates deserving, indigent females during their confinement in childbirth. For the year 1875, 78 women and 374 destitute infant children were received. The asylum will accommodate 10 patients and 50 children. Application should be made to the Sister Superior at the institution. No distinction is made on account of religion; and no patient is refused on account of her inability to pay. Attending Physician - Benjamin Cushing, M. D. Charlestown Free Dispensary and Hospital. 21 Harvard Square, Charlestown, Boston. The Charlestown Free Dispensary, which was organized April 25, 1872, in response to the suggestion of a physician of Charlestown, and opened May 1, was kept in operation for the reception and treatment of patients on three days of the week for the space of a year. For the year ending April 27, 1864, 897 patients had been treated. At meetings of the Managers held in October and November, 1872, it was decided to ask for an act of incorporation, which would include a hospital when such an institution seemed desirable. The act was granted March 4, 1873. Advice and treatment are given to patients in the Dispensary department on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 10 A. M. OFFICERS. Executive Committee - Henry Lyon, M. D., Chairman; J. S. Whiting, M. D., C. F. Fairbanks. Treasurer-B. F. Stacey. E. J. Forster, M. D. Physicians-J. G. Dearborn, M. D., R. A. Blood, M. D. Children's Sea Shore Home. Plymouth. Organized on the 27th of May, 1875, for the purpose of providing that poor sick children or those recovering from disease might obtain the advantage of change of air, and especially of sea breezes. During the first year the home was located at Beverly Farms, and 133 children received the benefits of the institution. In July, 1876, the Managers engaged the Clifford House, at Plymouth, and carried on their work at that place from early in the month until the middle of September. They hope the next year to purchase land and erect a building in some suitable locality in order to carry out more fully the objects of the home. Children suffering from acute disease, and those, likely to be benefited by the sea air, are received on application to either of the Managers. They will be retained for such time as, in the view of the attending physician, may seem desirable, generally from one to two weeks. When necessary, the mothers are allowed to accompany their children. No expense is incurred for the transportation or board of children or mothers. No diseases of a contagious character are received. A competent physician resides, at all times, at the home. In Patients are admitted to the State Hospitals for the Insane under the laws enacted for the purpose (Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1862, chap. 223). They are under the charge of the Board of State Charities. the city of Boston, the business connected with the committal of insane persons is transacted through the Secretary of the Board of Directors for Public Institutions; office at 30 Pemberton Square. WORCESTER Authorized by the Legislature March 10, 1830. By the report of the hospital for the year ending September 30, 1875, there were 478 patients in the hospital. Rate of cost per week, $3.98. Superintendent — B. D. Eastman, M. D. Assistant Superintendent — John G. Park, M. D. By an act of the Legislature in 1870, the Trustees were authorized to purchase a new site for a hospital and to erect buildings thereon, capable of containing 400 patients, the whole not to exceed $575,000. A tract of land, comprising 275 acres, on the borders of Lake Quinsigamond, in the suburbs of Worcester, was purchased; and the new buildings are now in process of erection. TAUNTON-Established May, 1851. By an act of the Legislature in May, 1873, the Trustees were authorized to |