. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . rst favorable opportunity came when the state authoritiesdecided to make some change in the State Reform School atWestborough. In the end the school bought a new location a mileor two away in Westborough and became known as the LymanSchool for Boys. The old buildings, together with the lands thathad belonged to the school, were granted to the petitioners byact of the Legislature, June 3, 1884, and the Westborough InsaneHospital was established. It was the second in the world underhomeopathic management. Especial credit fo
. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . rst favorable opportunity came when the state authoritiesdecided to make some change in the State Reform School atWestborough. In the end the school bought a new location a mileor two away in Westborough and became known as the LymanSchool for Boys. The old buildings, together with the lands thathad belonged to the school, were granted to the petitioners byact of the Legislature, June 3, 1884, and the Westborough InsaneHospital was established. It was the second in the world underhomeopathic management. Especial credit for this success is dueto Drs. I. T. Talbot and Samuel Worcester, who first suggestedsuch a hospital in a paper before the Massachusetts HomeopathicMedical Society. Subsequently, in 1909, the name was changed toWestborough State Hospital. The first Board of Trustees consisted of Charles R. Codman,Henry S. Russell, Lucius G. Pratt, Francis A. Dewson, Archi- ^ Prepared by H. O. Spalding, M. D., with the assistance of Drs. Paine,of West Nev/ton, and Klopp, of AUentown, WESTBOROUGH STATE HOSPITAL 719 bald H. Grimke, Phoebe J. Leonard and Emily Talbot. To themwere granted the original school property, consisting of one largebrick building, one small brick building and several cottages, out-buildings and barns, and about 275 acres of land, and also ^150,000for such alterations as would provide accommodations for 325patients and necessary officers and employees. Their problemwas to convert the old buildings of a prison into buildings suitablefor hospital purposes. About the ist of May, 1885, plans had been prepared and thework of reconstruction was to begin, when the trustees appointedDr. N. Emmons Paine as superintendent, in order to have thebenefit of his experience and advice. The next year and a halfwere required for altering, furnishing and equipping the new hos-pital (for which an additional appropriation of $180,000 had beenmade in May, 1886, and for increasing the accommoda
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