A history of the Massachusetts general hospital : (To August 5, 1851.) / By N. I. Bowditch ... (Privately printed in 1851.).
- Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch
- Date:
- 1872
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A history of the Massachusetts general hospital : (To August 5, 1851.) / By N. I. Bowditch ... (Privately printed in 1851.). Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![vor of the writer. It is a pamphlet of eight pages. It is signed by eleven Trustees, — all except Mr. Lee, who had recently died. It shows that private charity cannot meet the evils which this public institution is designed to remedy. It announces the purchase of the Joy Estate as completed, of which it remarks : The situation selected appears to unite every prac- ticable advantage ; we should almost say, the irrec- oncilable ones of propinquity and distance, being scarcely separated from the town by water, while its peninsular situation places it at the most desirable distance. It also adds, that the Trustees have pro- cured a grant of land west of the Almshouse [on Leverett Street], upon which they have voted to erect the General Hospital, as soon as the moneys, which they natter themselves will be readily subscribed, shall have been collected. On Dec. 29, the Ward Committees met with the Board of Trustees, and reported that in three days the subsections were $78,802. Committees for the towns of Salem, Beverly, New Bedford, Plymouth, Charlestown, Medford, Cambridge, Roxbury, and Newburvport.* were also appointed. Charles Bul- . * Committee for Salem.— Hon. Benjamin Pickman, Hon. Joseph Story-, N. Silsbee, Joseph Peabody, N. Bowditch, Nathaniel West, John Pickering, Dudley L. Pickman, Pickering Dodge, and Ezekiel Savage, Esqs. For Beverly.—Dr. Fisher, Hon. T. Stevens, Moses Brown, Esq. For New Bedford. — Win. Botch, jun., Samuel Rodman, James Arnold](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21032762_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
