Identifier: harvardmedicalsc00parkuoft (find matches)
Title: The Harvard medical school and its clinical opportunities
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Parkins, Leroy Edward
Subjects: Harvard Medical School Boston (Mass.) -- Hospitals
Publisher: Boston (Press of R.W. Hadley)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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infants,especially in regard to the proper method of artificialfeeding. Today the Hospital also offers postgraduate training tonurses and conducts a training school for nursery maids.Public lectures are given on the care and feeding of infanti^. The Hospital is a three story, fire-proof building of whitemarble; the style of architecture corresponds to that of the 59 Harvard Medical School. The Hospital has a capacity of60 beds. Last year 306 patients were treated in the wards.There are eighteen doctors on the staff, practically all ofwhom are professors or instructors in the Harvard MedicalSchool. Two house officers and fourteen nurses are in con-stant service. The clinics of the Hospital are used through-out the year for teaching purposes in the Harvard MedicalSchool. Thus the Infants Hospital serves a threefold pur-pose; first, it cares for sick babies; second, it is used as ateaching hospital; third, it trains mothers and nurses in thecare of infants. 60 c enHCZ. ro> O Oen >
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THE BOSTON FLOATING HOSPITAL THE Boston Floating Hospital began its beneficentwork in 1894. Mr. Rufus B. Tobey conceived theidea after talking with a former captain of the NewYork Floating Hospital. He thought that it would be a fineplan to take the sick babies, from the tenen^ent district, outwhere the cool breezes always blow. With the aid of friendshe was enabled to hire a barge. Volunteer nurses wentalong t) help the mothers care for the sick children. Fromthis modest beginning, which allowed but five trips a season,the project grew until one, then two trips a week were pos-sible. In 1897, the Hospital boat began making daily voy-ages. Each morning, during the summer, the Hospital boatleaves the wharf at North End Park to seek out the coolbreezes down Boston Harbor. It returns in the evening sothat mothers have an opportunity to see their babies. Pre-liminarv to the admission of any child to a ward on theboat it is examined on the dock to ascertain the nature ofits ailment. If a c

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