People of the six New England States up to this week had contributed $775,000 of a needed $1,500,000 for a New England Medical Centre. New England lacks such a centre. This one, to be built in Boston, will combine Boston Dispensary & Hospital for Children (oldest medical institution in Boston; established 1796*), Boston Floating Hospital (floats no more since the boat was burned in 1927) and Tufts College Medical School. Its prime purpose: to train family doctors for practice in rural New England. As recently as 1921, 78 Massachusetts towns had no physicians....
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