Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital, for the Year 1844 Col. Goodwin's report shows that there were admitted into the Hospital in Allen Street, during the year 1844, 269 male, and 166 female patients; total, 435. Of these 174 were paying patients and 250 were free the 11 others paid board a part of the time 5 183 were discharged well, 137 more or less relieved, and 47 died. 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.