Boston illustrated; . rparents or guardians are able to pay. No chronic or incurable cases, however,are admitted, nor are any affiicted with infectious or contagious diseases. Apleasant convalescent Home at Wellesley is maintained for the reception of BOSTON ILLUSTRATED Qb patients from the hospital during the summer months. A full staff of physi-cians is connected with the institution, and the nursing is directed by the Pro-testant-Episcopal Sisters of St. Margaret. There is a large out-patient de-partment. The structure now standing is only one wing of the Hospital asit will ultimately be wh
Boston illustrated; . rparents or guardians are able to pay. No chronic or incurable cases, however,are admitted, nor are any affiicted with infectious or contagious diseases. Apleasant convalescent Home at Wellesley is maintained for the reception of BOSTON ILLUSTRATED Qb patients from the hospital during the summer months. A full staff of physi-cians is connected with the institution, and the nursing is directed by the Pro-testant-Episcopal Sisters of St. Margaret. There is a large out-patient de-partment. The structure now standing is only one wing of the Hospital asit will ultimately be when completed according to the original plan. It isthoroughly constructed throughout, and especial care has been taken to securethe best ventilation and the most satisfactory sanitary arrangements. The hotels in the Back Bay section are fine structures in accord with theirelegant surroundings. The Hotel Brunswick is at the corner of Boylston andClarendon Streets. It is an immense six-story brick and sandstone building,. Hotel Brunswick. containing .350 rooms. It was built m 1874, and cost nearly $1,000,000. It issumptuously adorned and furnished inside, having two large dinmg-halls withmarble floors and Pompeian walls, and a rich and costly mediieval Brunswick is kept on the American plan. The Hotel Vendome is also an elegant structure, occupying an advantageousposition on the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street. Theavenue front is built of white Tuckahoe marble, and the Dartmouth Street frontof Italian marble. The building, including basement and Mansard roof, iseight stories high, and contains three hundred and sixty rooms. The plumbingof the house combines every recent improvement in workmanship and ventila-tion, and no open basins are placed in sleeping-chambers. The partition-walU5 BOSTON ILLUSTRATED.
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