_New Hospital buildings completed--Description of buildings and interior arrangements--Children’s Department established--First general Training School for Nurses in America definitely organized under the direction of Dr. Susan Dimock; one of the graduates of its first class (Miss Linda A. Richards) later helping to organize the training schools of the Bellevue Hospital of New York, the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Boston City Hospital--New England Hospital medical women invited to attend some of the Clinics at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary--Though delayed by the epizoötic epidemic and the great Boston Fire, the new Hospital buildings are finally formally dedicated--First Hospital Social Service in America organized in connection with the Maternity. (1871-1872.)_ Architects, contractors, builders and workmen, all took a personal interest in the plans of the new Hospital buildings, and all made larger or smaller contributions to the enterprise. With such a spirit the structure grew apace, and even early in the spring of 1872 a few patients were moved in--some who especially needed the advantages of the good air, sunlight and almost country quiet. But all the patients were transferred before the end of September. [Illustration: FIRST BUILDINGS OF THE NEW ENGLAND HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, ERECTED 1872. The main building was later named in honor of Dr. Marie E. Zakrzewska.] Dr. Zakrzewska writes: At last we were able definitely to inaugurate the work for which we had been preparing during the previous ten years, namely, to dedicate our own building to our threefold object--a clinical school for women physicians and students; a training school for nurses; and a charity, especially for lying-in patients. For this latter purpose a cottage, the “Maternity,” was expressly built, while the medical and surgical patients occupied the main building. Some rooms were reserved for private patients, who paid fully for all they received. This latter department is very desirable in all hospitals, not only for the accommodation of travelers who may be taken ill while sojourning in a strange city, but also for those who when boarding cannot have the comforts of a home; while it likewise gives to our nurses a fair chance to be trained in attendance upon the sick of all classes and conditions of life. Thus we had arrived nearly at the point at which we aimed, only that the means needed to carry on the work were not yet secured. We had no endowed wards and we had only a few endowed beds in the Maternity; therefore, we had no _Funds_ but must depend upon the daily interest of the public to sustain the institution. We now offered to the public not only the idea of reform, as we comprehended it, but also the visible embodiment of it in brick and mortar. Our vision had become materialized, and the work done within its walls spread the tidings of its success among the suffering and the needy.