. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . ronic cases only,to a hospital. This change will allow the institution to receiveacute cases from an appointed district. The name of the institu-tion was changed to the Medfield State Hospital on the passageof the bill, which was signed by the Governor, April 28, 1914. The following list of medical officers shows their time of service at the Medfield State Asylum from the time of its establishmentto the year 1914: French (in office) 1896- ASSISTANT PHYSICIANS. Charles A. Drew 1896-1897 Ralph S. Wilde
. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . ronic cases only,to a hospital. This change will allow the institution to receiveacute cases from an appointed district. The name of the institu-tion was changed to the Medfield State Hospital on the passageof the bill, which was signed by the Governor, April 28, 1914. The following list of medical officers shows their time of service at the Medfield State Asylum from the time of its establishmentto the year 1914: French (in office) 1896- ASSISTANT PHYSICIANS. Charles A. Drew 1896-1897 Ralph S. Wilder 1903-1908 Thomas Howell 1896-1897 Helen T. Cleaves 1903-1910 Lawrence F. Patton 1897- G. Allen Troxell (in of- Edward A. 1897-1902 fice) 1904- Harriet M. Doane 1897- Walter Burrier (in of- Fred C. Shultis 1898-1902 fice) 1908- George B. 1898-1902 Edmund C. Burrell 1909- Florence H. Abbot 1898-1902 Jane B. Smith 1910-1912 George C. Browne 1902- E. Mabel Thomson 1913-1914 Lewis M. Walker (in of- Christina M. Leonard (in fice) 1903- office) 1913-. MONSON STATE HOSPITAL 733 MONSON STATE HOSPITAL/Near Palmer, Mass. In 1852 Massachusetts established at Monson, near Palmer, onthe Boston and Albany Railroad, one of three almshouses designedunder the peculiar settlement law of the state for the care of statepaupers. Later, when state paupers were transferred to the alms-houses at Tewksbury and Bridgewater, the unoccupied buildingswere placed at the disposal of the State Primary School for the children of this school were placed in familiesand the school was discontinued. In 1895 the Massachusetts Hospital for Epileptics was estab-lished for the care and treatment of 200 adult epileptics and wasendowed with the personal property, buildings and lands formerlybelonging to the above-named institutions. The establishment ofthe Massachusetts Hospital for Epileptics had been the outcomeof an agitation initiated by Drs. W. N. Bullard and H. R. Sted-man
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