A guide-book of Boston for physicians . ST. ELIZABETH S HOSPITAL 40 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION headquarters of the army for New England. On the oppositeside of the square is the Franklin Square House, a hotel foryoung workingwomen. It occupies the building that was for-merly the New England Conservatory of Music, and which, pre-vious to that, had been the St. James Hotel. Beyond the Frank-lin Square House is the old, but not particularly interesting,South Cemetery. At No. 6l West Brookline Street, and facing BlackstoneSquare, is St. Elizabeths Hospital, in charge of the Franciscan Sis-ters.
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . ST. ELIZABETH S HOSPITAL 40 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION headquarters of the army for New England. On the oppositeside of the square is the Franklin Square House, a hotel foryoung workingwomen. It occupies the building that was for-merly the New England Conservatory of Music, and which, pre-vious to that, had been the St. James Hotel. Beyond the Frank-lin Square House is the old, but not particularly interesting,South Cemetery. At No. 6l West Brookline Street, and facing BlackstoneSquare, is St. Elizabeths Hospital, in charge of the Franciscan Sis-ters. This institution was founded in 1868, incorporated in 1872,and has been on its present site since 1888. The hospital occu-. BOSTON CITY HOSPITALAND TENT WARDS USED FOR SOLDIERS AT THE TIME OF THE SPANISH WAR pies several old mansions that have been remodelled and addedto, to suit its purpose. The entrance, No. 6l, is the old residence —of Justin Winsor, for many years the librarian of Harvard Col-lege Library, and later of the Boston Public Library. St. Eliza-beths is a general hospital of about one hundred beds. It hasmedical, surgical and gynecological and obstetrical wards,besides the usual out-patient departments. This institution hasbeen an important factor in the development of gynecology GUIDE TO BOSTON 41 in this community. At present only women and children areadmitted as ward patients. The number of ward patients treatedis between eight and nine hundred annually. Connected withthe hospital is a training school for nurses. Across Blackstone Square from St. Elizabeths,at No. 40 West~Newton Street, is the Maternity Department of the MassachusettsHomeopathic Hospital, with seventeen beds. In 1904 t
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