The Harvard medical school and its clinical opportunities . g the year ending November 30, 1915, there were2001 admissions, making a daily average of 5, the majorityof which belong in the temporary care group, admittedunder Massachusetts laws which are unique in this Out-patient department admits about 1500 new cases ayear, only a quarter of which are referred to the house. The Hospital was frankly intended by the State authori-ties to be an institution for investigation and post-graduateteaching of the State Hospital ])hysicians, as well as a centerfor under-graduate teaching in t
The Harvard medical school and its clinical opportunities . g the year ending November 30, 1915, there were2001 admissions, making a daily average of 5, the majorityof which belong in the temporary care group, admittedunder Massachusetts laws which are unique in this Out-patient department admits about 1500 new cases ayear, only a quarter of which are referred to the house. The Hospital was frankly intended by the State authori-ties to be an institution for investigation and post-graduateteaching of the State Hospital ])hysicians, as well as a centerfor under-graduate teaching in tiie \arious medical schools,which ha\e availed themsehes extensixely of the opportuni-ties. Tlie Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseasesemploys a number of special officers on special investigations,using the wards and laboratories of the hospital as a centralresearch institute. Chemical, physiological, histological, psy-chological, clinical and other investigations are at all times inprogress. 76 »—» > o CO > r r. 5 b = D. -1 z 5^ ^?, = o. C/2 i 5 - G 5 ^ LT. * n - t PETER BENT BRIGHAM HOSPITAL AMONG the hospitals of Boston and vicinity,is one whichcan boast httle in point of age, but which, because of itsrapid development and efficiency, is winning for itselfrecognition among the best institutions of its kind. ThePeter Bent Brigham Hospital admitted its first patient Janu-ary 27, 1913. This event marked the culmination of years oxplanning and waiting on the part of a group of individuals. It adds no little to the interest one feels in the presentinstitution to know something of its beginning and the sourceof its endowment. The history of the Hospital begins withthe gift of its founder, Peter Bent Brigham, who was a nativeof Vermont, and died in Boston, Alay 24, 1877. By the pro-vision of his will, a fortune of $1,300,000. was left by to accumulate for a period of twenty-five years fromhis death. It was then to be used in the founding of ahospital for
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