Identifier: kingshandbookofs00king (find matches)
Title: King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: King, Moses, 1853-1909 Clogston, William
Subjects: Springfield (Mass.) -- Description and travel Springfield (Mass.) -- Bibliography
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : J.D. Gill, Publisher
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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pital, on the Boston Road. the mayor. They are appointed by the mayor, subject to the approval ofthe board of aldermen. The physicians of the city contribute their serviceswithout charge, and a body of them form a medical staff who relieve eachother in attendance on the inmates. The admission to the hospital is not re-stricted; but the terms of compensation are fixed for each individual case, andpersons for whose support the city is responsible are admitted as free patients.The matron is Miss Millie H. Jacobs, a graduate of the MassachusettsGeneral Hospital Training-School for Nurses. The board of trustees arethe Mayor, ex officio, Henry S. Hyde, Lucinda O. Howard, Rev. David A.Reed, Charles Marsh, Mrs. J. A. Callender, and Mrs. Charles A. Nichols.The members of the medical staff on duty at the hospital are Alfred Lambert,V. L. Owen, William G. Breck, Marshall Calkins, L. S. Brooks, T. F. Breck,S.W. Bowles, S. D. Brooks. George C. McLean, S. F. Pomeroy, F. W. Chapin,Charles D. Brewer.
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222 AYJVGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. The Dorcas Chapin Hospital. —Mrs. Dorcas Chapin, widow of ChesterW. Chapin, recently signified her desire to make an endowment of $25,000for a hospital for this city. She says that the endowment of a hospital wasa favorite idea with Mr. Chapin; and often, in driving about town with her,he discussed sites for it and the service which it might be to poor people.He left his purposes in this respect unfulfilled, and Mrs. Chapin is nowurgent that they shall be carried out at an early day. It is her desire thatonly a portion of the fund be used for the erection of plain and economicalhospital buildings, and that the rest be reserved as an endowment, and as anucleus for future gifts and bequests by the charitably disposed. Steps areto be taken immediately to incorporate a board of trustees; and the cityis to be asked to turn over the present hospital site and buildings to thesame corporation, upon suitable conditions that a hospital shall be main-tained.

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