A guide-book of Boston for physicians . d attractive in itsinternal detaiL There is a training school for nurses connected with the hos-pital,— the Massachusetts General, Waltham, Childrens, New-ton and Adams Nervine schools sending a certain number oftheir nurses in the latter part of their third year of nursing is provided by a corps of carefully selectedgraduate nurses. Visitors are always welcome. The Free Hospital for Women is situated on Pond Avenue,opposite the Riverdale Park, in Brookline. This hospital, fash-ioned after the plan of the Womans Hospital in the State ofN
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . d attractive in itsinternal detaiL There is a training school for nurses connected with the hos-pital,— the Massachusetts General, Waltham, Childrens, New-ton and Adams Nervine schools sending a certain number oftheir nurses in the latter part of their third year of nursing is provided by a corps of carefully selectedgraduate nurses. Visitors are always welcome. The Free Hospital for Women is situated on Pond Avenue,opposite the Riverdale Park, in Brookline. This hospital, fash-ioned after the plan of the Womans Hospital in the State ofNew York, was established in 1875 by Dr. W. H. Baker, andwas first located on East Springfield Street, Boston. From thisinstitution for twenty years came the teachings of Marion Simsand Thomas Addis Emmet to the medical profession of NewEngland through the Professor of Gynecology in the Harvard GUIDE TO BOSTON 133 Medical School, the surgeon in chief to the hospital. The pre-sent building was erected in 1895, and has an ultimate capa-. FREE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN city, when completely finished, of sixty beds. It is an incorpo-rated institution, being supported by an endowment fund andby the annual subscription of churches and charitable individ-uals. The object of the hospital is the surgical treatment ofthe diseases peculiar to women, and only the poor are admitted,all the beds being free. The hospital has in connection with itan out-patient department at No. 633 Massachusetts Avenue,Boston, where a large gynecological clinic is held morning,afternoon and evening. The number of patients treated in thehospital in 1905 was 353. In Newton is a large hospital of nearly one hundred beds,with a mixed staff of regular and homeopathic physicians anda training school for nurses. In Waltham is a hospital, interesting very largely because ofthe unique Waltham Training School for Nurses which is asso-ciated with it. A most comprehensive course of training is givento nurses, covering four yea
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