Excerpt from Report of the Trustees of the Boston City Hospital: On the Advisability of Establishing Cottage or Branch Hospitals in the Several Wards of the City The Trustees of the Boston City Hospital have received, through you, several requests of the two branches of the City Council, for information relative to the establishment of cottage or branch hospitals in different portions of the city of Boston. The first of these requests was an order of the Board of Aldermen, that "the Board of Trustees of the City Hospital be requested to consider and report to this Board as to the advisability of establishing cottage hospitals in Wards 4, 23, and 25; also the cost of establishing and maintaining the same." A subsequent order of the City Council was as follows: "Whereas the crowded condition of the City Hospital at the present time, and the increased demands that will of necessity be made upon it in the near future, make it imperative that a broad, comprehensive plan should be carefully considered in providing for its future growth, that the outlying wards may be properly cared for in such a plan; it is, therefore, ordered that the Board of Trustees of the City Hospital, through His Honor the Mayor, be requested to consider the advisability of establishing a branch of the City Hospital in the Brighton district, and also one in East Boston, Ward 23, and Charlestown, and report to the next City Council the result of their deliberations." Both these orders were passed at the end of the year 1891. Orders of a like import have been passed by the two branches of the City Council of the present year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.