A guide-book of Boston for physicians . ary has a staff of aboutone hundred. Nearly onehundred thousand visits aremade at the central stationannually, while the district physicians make between twentyand twenty-five thousand calls. At the foot of Bennet Street, facing on Harrison Avenue, isthe south branch of the Boston Lying-in Hospital, where thestudents of the Harvard Medical School reside while they arecaring for their obstetric cases under the supervision of thephysicians of the hospital. Continuing out Washington Street, one comes, at CastleStreet, to the place where the superstructure o
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . ary has a staff of aboutone hundred. Nearly onehundred thousand visits aremade at the central stationannually, while the district physicians make between twentyand twenty-five thousand calls. At the foot of Bennet Street, facing on Harrison Avenue, isthe south branch of the Boston Lying-in Hospital, where thestudents of the Harvard Medical School reside while they arecaring for their obstetric cases under the supervision of thephysicians of the hospital. Continuing out Washington Street, one comes, at CastleStreet, to the place where the superstructure of the ElevatedRoad branches to the east and west. Here is situated, on theright, the Wells Memorial Institute, the headquarters of theCentral Labor Union and a large number of trade unions. Thisinstitution provides for instruction in trades and domestic arts,and furnishes a meeting-place for various organizations.— The Boston Female Asylum, on the other side of the street,is one of the very old institutions of Boston. It receives and. THE OLD BOSTON DISPENSARY GUIDE TO BOSTON 39 cares for destitute girls. It was established early in the lastcentury, and has some seventy-five beds. On Florence Street, a little farther south, is St. StephensEpiscopal Church. This society does the most important workof the Protestant churches in the South End. Dover Streetis one of the main thoroughfares leading to South the right, midway between Washington Street and thebridge, is one of Bostons Public Baths. In the channel is aswimming-bath during the summer, which is entered from thisbridge. Farther south on Washington Street one finds, on the right,Waltham Street. Here, at No. 41, is the Washingtonian Home,an institution for the care and treatment of male alcoholics. Ithas accommodations for aboutthirty patients. On the left of WashingtonStreet, at the corder of MaidenStreet, is the Cathedral of theHoly Cross, a large and impos-ing stone structure. This is thelargest Catholic churc
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