A guide-book of Boston for physicians . t-patientdepartment, wellhoused in a newbuilding, in whichwere treated lastyear 16,169 pa-tients. It was inthis hospital thatthe late Dr. JohnHomans first de-monstrated to theprofession in NewEngland the pos-sibility of operatingsuccessfully uponcarney hospital ovarian tumors. At the harbor end of the district is Marine Park of the Bostonpublic park system, a favorite recreation ground in is a beautiful boulevard on the waters edge. A longbridge connects Fort Independence (a disused government for-tification ceded to the city for park purpose
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . t-patientdepartment, wellhoused in a newbuilding, in whichwere treated lastyear 16,169 pa-tients. It was inthis hospital thatthe late Dr. JohnHomans first de-monstrated to theprofession in NewEngland the pos-sibility of operatingsuccessfully uponcarney hospital ovarian tumors. At the harbor end of the district is Marine Park of the Bostonpublic park system, a favorite recreation ground in is a beautiful boulevard on the waters edge. A longbridge connects Fort Independence (a disused government for-tification ceded to the city for park purposes) with the boule-vard, and from here the parkway extends along Columbia Roadto Franklin Park and the Blue Hills. The statue facing the har-bor is of Admiral Farragut. At the foot of L Street is a public bath, open the year in the hot days with men and boys enjoying thepleasures of a swim, it is used by a few hardy men duringour coldest days. Photographs exist showing one foolish mailswimming among the floating ice DORCHESTER RUNNING southeast from the Dudley Street Terminalof the Boston Elevated Railroad, we proceed to Dor-L. Chester, along Dudley Street. We must take noticein passing of the buildings of the Little Sisters of the Poor, atthe beginning of Blue Hill Avenue, where once was the homeof Enoch Bartlett, famous for his Bartlett pears. Dorchester is a place of homes. It was the largest town inNew England in 1634, and was annexed to Boston in 1838. Itsinhabitants were the first onthe New England coast to es-tablish fisheries. Two sites areworth mentioning,— Meeting-House Hill, which has had achurch on its summit since1631, and the Old Burying-Ground at the corner of Stough-ton Street and Columbia Mather, the founderof the Mather family, lies buriedhere, and William Stoughton,the chief justice of the Salemwitchcraft trials. Another in-teresting landmark, really inRoxbury, but close to Dorches-ter, is at the corner of Washing-ton and E
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