Boston City Hospital Admissions 1867-1870

The Boston City Hospital was founded in 1864, and continued under that name until 1994 when it became the Boston University Medical Center. The archives of former Boston City Hospital, now at the Boston Public Library, do not contain any patient files or registers.  One of the many unique items from the NEHGS archives is a 517 page register of patient's admissions from the Boston City Hospital covering 1867-1870.  This is the only surviving example of a 19th century patient register from Boston City Hospital. This register was donated by an NEHGS member in 1973.

The data included in the patient register includes: patient registration number; date of admittance; name of patient; amount of times previously admitted; the hospital ward they were admitted to; rate of their individual board costs; age; married or single; occupation; disease of the patient; place of birth; residence (including street address for city residents); when discharged from the hospital; final results of their stay; surgeon and physician assigned to patient; and remarks.  In the remarks field you will often get the date of death, or a variety of personal remarks about the patients stay at the hospital.

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