Visiting Physicians.- William H. Robey, M.D., Ralph C. Larrabee, M.D., Franklin W. White, M.D., Edwin A. Locke, M.D., Edward N. Libby, M.D., Francis W. Peabody, M.D., Francis W. Palfrey, M.D.

Assistant Visiting Physicians.- Cadis Phipps, M.D., Harold W. Dana, M.D., Thomas J. O'Brien, M.D., Albert A. Hornor, M.D.

Junior Visiting Physicians.- William R. Ohler, M.D., Edmund F. Walsh, M.D., Burton E. Hamilton, M.D., Harry A. Nissen, M.D., Joseph M. Lynch, M.D., Joseph E. Hallisey, M.D., John A. Foley, M.D., George C. Shattuck, M.D., Louis J. Ullian, M.D., Dwight O'Hara, M.D., Henry Jackson, Jr., M.D., Frank S. Cruickshank, M.D., Daniel J. Hogan, M.D., Louis F. Curran, M.D., Joseph T. Wearn, M.D.

Senior Surgeon.- George W. Gay, M.D.

Surgeons-in-Chief.- Paul Thorndike, M.D., Fred B. Lund, M.D., Howard A. Lothrop, M.D., Frederic J. Cotton, M.D., Joshua C. Hubbard, M.D., David D. Scannell, M.D.

Visiting Surgeons.- Horace Binney, M.D., Arthur R. Kimpton, M.D., Robert C. Cochrane, M.D., Halsey B. Loder, M.D., Irving J. Walker, M.D.

Assistant Visiting Surgeons.- Otto J. Hermann, M.D., Somers Fraser, M.D., Francis F. Henderson, M. D., Herbert H. Howard, M.D., James J. Hepburn, M.D.

Junior Visiting Surgeons.- Donald Munro, M.D., Edward Harding, M.D., Joseph H. Shortell, M.D., Augustus Riley, M.D., Wm. R. Morrison, M.D.

Assistants to Visiting Surgeons.- Thomas K. Richards, M.D., Thomas W. Wickham, M.D., George W. Papen, M.D., Charles C. Lund, M.D., Joseph H. Burnett, M.D., E. Everett O'Neil, M.D., Wm. F. Cotting, M.D., John J. Lucy, M.D., Howard A. Bouvé, M.D., Gerald L. Doherty, M.D.

Senior Surgeon for Gynecology and Obstetrics.— Charles M. Green, M.D. Surgeon-in-Chief for Gynecology and Obstetrics.— Nathaniel R. Mason,

M.D.

Visiting Surgeon for Gynaecology and Obstetrics.— Robert M. Green, M.D. Assistant Visiting Surgeons for Gynecology and Obstetrics.- John T. Williams, M.D., Frederick L. Good, M.D., Joseph P. Cohen, M.D.

Junior Visiting Surgeons for Gynecology and Obstetrics. Harold V. Hyde, M.D., Frederick J. Lynch, M.D., Reginald D. Margeson, M.D. Ophthalmic Surgeon-in-Chief.— (Position vacant.)

Assistant Visiting Ophthalmic Surgeons.— Jeremiah J. Corbett, M.D., L. Colby Rood, M.D., Leon W. Jessaman, M.D.

Asst. Visiting Ophthalmic Surgeons.- Joseph J. Skirball, M.D., Harry Schwartzman, M.D.

Surgeon-in-Chief for Diseases of Ear and Throat.- Harry P. Cahill, M.D Visiting Surgeon for Diseases of Ear and Throat.- Louis M. Freedman M.D.

Visiting Surgeon for Oral and Plastic Surgery.— Varaztad H. Kazanjian, M.D.

Assisting Visiting Surgeons for Diseases of Ear and Throat.— William T. Haley, M.D., Edward J. Monahan, M.D.

Junior Visiting Surgeons for Diseases of Ear and Throat. Philip E. A. Sheridan, M.D., William F. Regan, M.D., Edmund J. Butler, M.D, Philip R. Dwyer, M.D., Chester R. Mills, M.D., Francis G. Miniter. M.D.

Oral Surgeon-in-Chief.- Stephen P. Mallett, D.M.D.

Visiting Oral Surgeons.- William H. Canavan, D.M.D., Thomas Hennessey, D.M.D.

Assistant Visiting Oral Surgeons.- Douglass M. Baker, D.M.D., Geo. F. Winchester, D.M.D.

Visiting_Anæsthetists.— Frank L. Richardson, M.D., Nathaniel N. Morse, M.D.

Assistant Visiting Anæsthetist.- Lincoln F. Sise, M.D.

Visiting Physician for Neurology.- Arthur W. Fairbanks, M.D.

Assistant Visiting Physicians for Neurology.- Abraham Myerson, M.D., Miner H. A. Evans, M.D.

Junior Visiting Physician for Neurology.- Percy L. Dodge, M.D. Physician-in-Chief for Physical Therapeutics.— Frank B. Granger, M.D. Visiting Physician for Physical Therapeutics.- Robert Bonney, M.D. Assistant Visiting Physician for Physical Therapeutics.- Joseph Resnik, M.D.

Physician-in-Chief for Diseases of the Skin.- Townsend W. Thorndike,

M.D.

Visiting Physician for Diseases of the Skin.- William P. Boardman, M.D.

Assistant Visiting Physician for Diseases of the Skin.— M. C. von Groll, M.D., Walter T. Garfield, M.D.

Junior Visiting Physicians for Diseases of the Skin.- John G. Downing, M.D., Bernard Appel, M.D.

Physician for Contagious Diseases.- Dr. Edwin H. Place, M.D.
Rantgenologist-in-Chief.- Paul F. Butler, M.D.

Visiting Rontgenologist.— Max Ritvo, M.D.

Asst. Visiting Ræntgenologist.— Isaac Gerber, M.D

Physician-in-Chief for Immunology.

George P. Sanborn, M.D.

Assistant Visiting Physicians for Immunology.— Edmund F. Walsh, M.D., LeRoy A. Luce, M.D.

Pediatrician-in-Chief.— Martin J. English, M.D.

Visiting Pediatrician.— Thomas E. Buckman, M.D.

Assistant Visiting Pediatrician.—Augustine W. McGarry, M.D.

Junior Visiting Pediatricians.— Eli Friedman, M.D., Edward S. O'Keefe, M.D., John J. Dunphy, M.D.

SOUTH DEPARTMENT.

Medical Director.- John J. Dowling, M.D.

Physician-in-Chief.— Edwin H. Place, M.D.

Assistant Physicians.- Lee E. Sutton, M.D., Maurice Prizer, M.D., Fred Heimlich, M.D.

HAYMARKET SQUARE RELIEF STATION.

Resident Surgeons.- John G. Breslin, M.D., Bernard F. Devine, M.D.

EAST BOSTON RELIEF STATION.

Resident Surgeons.- Arthur G. Holland, M.D., Edward T. Downey, M.D.

PHYSICIANS TO THE CONVALESCENT HOME.

John P. Treanor, M.D.

Henry F. R. Watts, M.D.

Bradford Kent, M.D.

INSTITUTIONS DEPARTMENT.

Office, 804-809 City Hall Annex.

[Special Stat. 1919, Chap. 222; Ord. 1920, Chap. 7; Stat. 1921, Chap. 173; Stat. 1922, Chap. 231; Ord. 1924, Chaps. 9, 10.]

DAVID J. JOHNSON, M.D., Commissioner. Term ends in 1926.
MARGARET FOLEY, Deputy Commissioner.

JOHN J. RYAN, Supt. of Long Island Almshouse and Hospital.

By Chap. 9, Ordinances of 1924, the Penal Division of this department was separated therefrom and established as the Penal Institutions Department, to be in charge of one commissioner. This official has the control and active management of the House of Correction and Deer Island.

The above-mentioned ordinance supersedes Chap. 7, Ord. of 1920 only so far as concerns the fourth or Penal Division of the Institutions Dept. The Infirmary and Child Welfare management remain in charge of the Institutions Commissioner.

The Boston Almshouse and Hospital (now known as the Infirmary) was established on Long Island in 1887 and today its extensive plant consists of 9 large and 6 small buildings valued at $1,018,200. In 1924 the number of inmates cared for was 2,170 or 1,558 men and 612 women. The two schools formerly in charge of the Children's Inst. Trustees having been discontinued, the Parental School in 1914 and the Suffolk School for Boys in 1920, the child welfare activities are now confined to a placingout system whereby neglected and dependent children committed by the courts are boarded or indentured in country families in Massachusetts. Disciplinary day schools are maintained by the School Committee to take care of such juvenile offenders as were formerly committed to the said training schools.

The institution steamboat, "George A. Hibbard," is maintained for Long Island transportation service.

LAW DEPARTMENT.

Office, 11 Beacon Street.

[Ord. 1904, Chap. 23; Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 20.]

E. MARK SULLIVAN, Corporation Counsel. Term ends in 1926.
JOSEPH P. LYONS, Assistant Corporation Counsel.
JOSEPH A. CAMPBELL, Assistant Corporation Counsel.
ANDREW J. CASEY, Assistant Corporation Counsel.
DANIEL J. KANE, Assistant Corporation Counsel.
SAMUEL SILVERMAN, Assistant Corporation Counsel.
H. MURRAY PAKULSKI, Assistant Corporation Counsel.
P. NICHOLAS PETROCELLI, Assistant Corporation Counsel.
LEO SCHWARTZ, Assistant Corporation Counsel.
HALE POWER, Assistant Corporation Counsel.
DANIEL J. GILLEN, Assistant Corporation Counsel.
WALTER J. O'MALLEY, City Conveyancer.

LUCIUS F. HICKS, City Conveyancer.

EDWARD MCGRATH, Claim Agent.

The office of "Attorney and Solicitor" was established in 1827; the office of Corporation Counsel and that of City Solicitor in 1881. The office of City Solicitor was abolished and the department placed under the sole charge of the Corporation Counsel in 1904.

LIBRARY DEPARTMENT.

Office, Central Library Building, Copley square.

[Stat. 1878, Chap. 114; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 24; C. C., Title IV., Chap. 23; Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 21; Spec. Stat. 1919, Chap. 116.[

The Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, five in number, are appointed by the Mayor, one each year, for a term of five years. They were incorporated in 1878, and authorized to receive and hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding $1,000,000. This amount was changed to $10,000,000 in 1919. The first Trustees were appointed under an ordinance of October 14, 1852. The old Library Building on Boylston street was opened to the public in September, 1858, and closed finally in January, 1895. The Central Library Building on Copley square, costing $2,756,384, was first opened on March 11, 1895. The Library is maintained by an annual appropriation included in the regular budget of the City Government. Of this appropriation ($828,567 in 1924) about $100,000 was used for the purchase of books and periodicals. The 46 Library trust funds in the custody of the City Treasurer amounted to $715,278 on February 1, 1925.

The annual reports, the first of which appeared in 1852, have been continued without interruption.

LIBRARY SYSTEM.

The Library system consists of the Central Library in Copley souare; seventeen major branch libraries with independent collections of books and fourteen minor branches. There were, on February 1, 1925, in the Central Library (including mechanical departments), branch libraries and reading rooms, about 600 employees.

Besides the daily delivery of books called for at the various branches, 199 public and parochial schools, 42 institutions and 58 fire-company houses are regularly supplied.

For reading and reference the Library is open to all without formality. On February 1, 1925, there were 123,994 cardholders having the right to draw books for home use. The total number of volumes was 1,333,264, and of newspapers and periodicals something over 3,000. Books issued in 1924, for home use and for use through schools and institutions, numbered 3,132,194.

CENTRAL LIBRARY, COPLEY SQUARE.

Lending and reference, 986,401 volumes.

Periodical reading-rooms, 1,495 periodicals.

Newspaper reading-room, 276 current newspapers.

Patent Library, 17,551 volumes.

Bates Hall for reading and reference. About 10,000 volumes are on open shelves.

Other Activities. The Fine Arts Department has facilities for copying and photographing, a collection of photographs of architecture, sculpture and painting, numbering 69,475 (including process pictures), besides illustrated books, portfolios, etc., and 11,085 lantern slides. Special assistance is offered to classes, travel clubs, etc. Free lectures, mostly on art topics, are given during the winter season. The room for younger readers has about 10,000 volumes on open shelves for reading and circulation. A