hospital all the lands and buildings thereon now belonging to the State reform-school, and situated on the westerly side of the town road, and westerly of a direct line drawn from the junction of the driveway leading from the public road to the main buildings, so called, to a point fifty feet south-easterly of a large pine-tree standing near the shore of the lake, between the farm barn and the building known as the ice-house: provided that said division-line may be varied in its course, or differently located, if the trustees of the State reform-school and the authorities of the lunatic hospital mutually so determine.

SECT. 3. The government of the Westborough Insane Hospital shall be vested in a board of seven trustees, appointed and commissioned by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council, subject to removal only for sufficient cause; five of whom shall be men, and two of whom shall be women. And the term of office for all the trustees shall be five years; but, of those first appointed, one member shall hold office for five years, two for four years, one for three years, two for two years, and one for one year, from the first Wednesday of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four; and on the first Wednesday in each succeeding year one or more members shall be appointed for five years to fill the vacancy or vacancies then occurring.

SECT. 4. The trustees of the Westborough Insane Hospital shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking and holding to them and their successors, in trust for the Commonwealth, any grant or devise of lands, and any donation or bequest of money or other personal property, made for the use of the institution of which they are trustees, and for the purpose of preserving and investing the proceeds thereof in notes or bonds secured by good and sufficient mortgages or other securities, with all the powers necessary to carry said purposes into effect. And they shall have authority to expend any donation or bequest, or any part of the same, in the erection of new buildings on the land belonging to the hospital: provided that all such buildings shall belong to the hospital, and be managed as a part thereof.

SECT. 5. The trustees of the Westborough Insane Hospital shall have and exercise the same powers and duties as are prescribed in the eighty-seventh chapter of the Public Statutes, and all existing acts in addition thereto and modification thereof; and all the provisions of said chapter, and the acts in addition thereto and modification thereof, so far as the same can be made applicable, are hereby extended and made applicable to the management of said State insane hospital at Westborough.

SECT. 6. The Board of Trustees shall appoint a homœopathic physician and assistant physicians, and such other officers and agents of the said corporation as they shall deem necessary, who shall respectively hold and perform the duties pertaining to their offices and agencies during the pleasure of said board; and the said board shall from time to

time fix the salary of such superintending physician, assistant physicians, officers and agents, subject to the provisions of chapter eighty-seven of the Public Statutes.

SECT. 7.

In making commitments of insane persons according to the provisions of chapter eighty-seven of the Public Statutes, the judges named in section eleven of said chapter shall inquire of the applicants for the commitment of any insane person, whether it is their desire that such person should be treated upon the principles of medicine known as the homoeopathic; and when such applicants answer in the affirmative, such insane persons shall be committed to the Westborough Insane Hospital in preference to any other place, provided the said hospital is able to receive them. And such insane persons, not exceeding one hundred in number, as may now or hereafter be inmates of the State lunatic hospitals, and may desire the special treatment above mentioned, or for whom such treatment may be desired by the patient's family or by any person upon whose application such insane person was committed to any State lunatic hospital, may be transferred by the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, to the Westborough Insane Hospital, when the same shall be in readiness to receive them; and any other inmates of the State lunatic hospitals may be transferred to the Westborough Insane Hospital whenever the same is in a proper condition to receive them.

SECT. 8. The Board of Trustees established by this act shall, within thirty days after its passage, be appointed and qualified, and, at or before the expiration of thirty days after said appointment, shall submit to the Governor and Council plans for such alteration in the buildings assigned to the Westborough Insane Hospital, and such additions thereto, as shall be deemed necessary to fit them for the residence of three hundred and twenty-five patients, and of the physicians and other officers and attendants who shall care for such patients; and, upon the approval of said plans by the Governor and Council, the said trustees shall proceed at once to make contracts with the lowest responsible bidders for the alteration and repair of the buildings aforesaid, and for necessary additions thereto, to an amount not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

SECT. 9. Upon the completion of the buildings in the manner provided for in section eight, the trustees of the Westborough Insane Hospital shall give notice to the Governor of the Commonwealth, who shall make proclamation that upon a given day the said asylum will be opened for the reception of patients; and thereafter the judges authorized to commit insane persons shall be at liberty to commit, and the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity shall proceed to transfer, insane persons of the class mentioned in section seven of this act; and patients so committed and transferred shall be supported in the same manner as is now

provided in sections thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, and thirty-four of chapter eighty-seven of the Public Statutes.

SECT. 10. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved June 3, 1884.

With the passage of this bill, the work of your committee was completed. The State of Massachusetts, by act of incorporation, had established a homoeopathic insane hospital, and its management was vested in a board of trustees to be appointed by the Governor.

It may not be out of place here to mention the subsequent appointment of trustees, which was as follows:

Hon. Charles R. Codman of Barnstable, for five years; Col. Henry S. Russell of Milton, Mrs. P. J. Leonard of Bridgewater, each for four years; Hon. Lucius G. Pratt of Newton, for three years; A. H. Grimké, Esq., of Hyde Park, Miss Anna R. Faulkner of Billerica, each for two years; Lowell M. Miles, Esq., of Fitchburg, for one year. Subsequently Miss Faulkner and Mr. Miles declined to serve; and the Governor appointed to fill the vacancies, Mrs. Emily Talbot of Boston, and F. A. Dewson, Esq., of Newton.

The trustees are actively engaged in securing the best plans and the most approved arrangements for the new buildings, which they hope to have ready for occupancy before the close of 1885.

The success of your committee in securing from the State such recognition, and the establishment of a homœopathic insane hospital, has been more speedy and complete than they had any reason to expect at the time of their appointment.

It can be attributed alone to the hearty assistance by their professional brethren throughout the State, and to the sense of the justice of our cause which has pervaded the various committees and legislatures which have had a part in this

measure..

Not a cent has been expended, nor a promise offered, to secure the favor of any person, from the first; and the institution is secured and stands on its merits alone.

Its future success will be of great interest and value to every member of this Society, and your committee trust that it will receive the hearty support of our entire profession. Respectfully submitted.

XIII.

LUTHER CLARK, M.D.,

of Boston, died at the summer home of his daughter, in Lincoln, on the 26th of September, 1884. He died fromexhaustion, the result of chronic weakness of the viscera of both chest and abdomen. His entire professional life was a struggle against invalidism; notwithstanding which, he accomplished a vast deal of labor.

Dr. Clark was of excellent New England stock. His father, John Clark of Waltham, was a man of marked integrity of character, much trusted by the community with political office, and as a manager of large property interests. The late Gov. Gove used to call him "the honest man of Waltham.” His mother was a woman of great strength of character. They seem to have been much relied upon in times of sickness or other calamity. At one time, during an epidemic of small-pox, they made their house a hospital for such as chose to submit to inoculation in order to insure a milder form of the disease.

Luther, the youngest of five children, was fitted for college by the Rev. Samuel Ripley, and entered the sophomore class of Harvard in 1830, graduating with high rank in 1833. Among his classmates were Dr. J. C. Bates, Drs. Morrill and Jeffries Wyman, Professor Bowen, Professor Lovering, George E. Ellis, Waldo Higginson, Fletcher Webster, and Thomas Wigglesworth. He entered Harvard Medical School the same year, graduating in 1836. Commencing practice in Boston, he was very soon compelled to go abroad on account of pulmonary hemorrhage. Returning, he began practice