Boston City Hospital. Trustees

Boston City Hospital opened on 1 June 1864. Besides the main hospital the Trustees had charge of the South Department for contagious diseases, the Sanatorium Division at 249 River St., Mattapan (for tuberculosis patients), Long Island Division (for chronic diseases) and East Boston Relief Station. Relief Stations were closed to patients on 15 Mar. 1938; East Boston Relief Station was reopened on a twenty-four hour basis on 15 Oct. 1945. The trustees were initially incorporated by Chapter 174 of the Acts of 1880 and authorized to receive and hold real and personal estate bequeathed or devised to said corporation to an amount not exceeding $1,000,000. By the 1950s, the trustees were authorized to receive and hold real and personal estate bequeathed or devised to said hospital corporation to an amount not exceeding $10,000,000. The Hospital Department and the Health Department were merged as the Health and Hospitals Department by Chapter 656 of the Acts of 1965. The Board of Health and Hospitals by this same statute was incorporated as the Board of Trustees of Health and Hospitals.