Excerpt from Report of the Trustees of the Boston City Hospital: On the Advisability of Establishing Cottage or Branch Hospitals in the Several Wards of the City Seventh, the cost of maintaining smaller or local hospitals. First, the present hospital accommodations existing in the city of Boston. The Boston City Hospital was opened for the reception of patients in May, 1864. At that time there were 200 beds, which were estimated to be quite enough to meet the demands for some years. The Massachusetts General Hospital at that time had 180 beds. The Carney Hospital, which was opened in the previous year, had 60 beds. The various other hospitals at that time available for general or special cases furnished about 80 beds more, giving a total of 520 beds then available for the treatment of the sick. The population of Boston in 1864 was Hence the number of beds was in the proportion of one bed for every 516inhabitants. AS will be seen, this number was not a sufficient supply of beds according to the data furnished by American as well as English cities, and as shown by sabse quent experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.