Annual report of the trustees of the Boston City Hospital. 1879/80-1881/82Printing Department, City of Boston, 1880 |
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Abscess Acute admission Amenorrhoea Aneurism April 30 Board of Trustees bones Boston Six Bread Wheat Brought forward Butter Cancer Carried forward catarrh certificate City CHARGE OF DRS Chronic City Council City Hospital City of Boston Cocoa Comp Continued Contusion cost Coxæ Cyst Department for Diseases Died Diphtheria DISCHARGED DISEASES OF WOMEN Dislocation Eczema Entropion Epistaxis Epithelioma Erysipelas excised expenditure Females fever Fistula Foreign bodies Fracture FUNCTIONAL DISEASES Fund Glands Gonorrhoea GOODNOW Hæmaturia Hospital staff Hydrocele incised Inflammation Injuries Lacerated Wound Largest number M.D. Out-Patient Department Males MEDICAL DISEASES Menorrhagia Milk and Sugar month Nævus Necrosis Nervous System Neuralgia number in Hospital number of patients nurses Ophthalmic Paralysis Paraphimosis patients admitted patients treated Phimosis phthisis pital Pruritus Relieved Remaining in Hospital Resident Physician rheumatism rooms Rupture Scrofulous Scrofulous Disease sick Six per cent Stock strabismus Stricture SURGICAL DISEASES Syphilis Talipes Throat Tonsillitis Training School Ulcer urine vagina Varicocele wards
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Page 81 - Boston, who shall have been such for at least three years prior to the date of their appointment, one for the term of five years, one for four years, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and thereafter as the terms of office expire in each year one member for a term of five years.
Page 77 - A blank form will be furnished to applicants to be filled in with answers to the following questions in the candidate's own handwriting, and sent to the Superintendent of City Hospital, Boston, Mass. QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED BY CANDIDATE. 1. Name in full, and present address of candidate. 2. Are you a single woman or widow? 3. Your present occupation or employment. 4. Age last birthday, and date and place of birth. 5. Height? Weight? 6. Where educated ? 7. Are you strong and healthy?
Page 72 - ... all utensils perfectly clean and disinfected ; to make accurate observations and reports to the physician of the state of the secretions...
Page 76 - Whenever, in the opinion of the Trustees, the circumstances of the patient will warrant it, the whole or a part of the board shall be paid. If separate apartments, or articles not usually furnished at the Hospital, are provided, such payment shall be made therefor as the Trustees shall deem reasonable.
Page 73 - No person shall be admitted to the Hospital whose case is judged to be incurable, unless there be urgent symptoms, which, in the opinion of the Physician or Surgeon, are capable of being relieved.
Page 69 - July, 1849, bequeathed to the city " all the rest and residue of his estate, real and personal, not otherwise disposed of," for the purpose of establishing, in the Eleventh or Twelfth Wards of the city, a Hospital for the sîck.
Page 81 - Boston," and said committee and its successors in office, elected according to law in said city, shall continue a body corporate for the purposes hereinafter set forth, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities set forth in all general laws, which now are or may hereafter be in force, relating to such corporations.
Page 78 - ... the mayor, who shall be its presiding officer; the president of the board of street commissioners ; the president of the board of park commissioners ; the city engineer ; two citizens, neither of whom shall hold any other office in said city government ; one member of the board of aldermen, and one member of the common council board, to be appointed as hereinafter provided.
Page 74 - Sect. 9, page 433, provides that said scrip shall be deposited with the Auditor of Accounts, who shall receive the interest as the same shall become due thereon, and add it to the moneys which shall have been appropriated for the use of the Hospital.
Page 76 - Patients may be visited by clergymen of their own selection, and where there is a wish for the performance of any particular religious rite, it shall be indulged when practicable. It is expected that patients will implicitly obey the rules of the Hospital. Complaints, for whatever cause, may be made to the Superintendent or Visiting Committee, and when reasonable shall be by them reported to the Trustees. ' VISITORS. No person shall visit any part of the premises, except on business, or at such times...