Massachusetts at the beginning of the nineteenth century had no hospitals of any kind. In 1764, on the death of Thomas Handcock, it was found that provision had been made in his will for the establishment of a hospital for mental diseases in Boston. An expenditure of six hundred pounds was authorized for the purpose of "erecting and furnishing a convenient House for the reception and more comfortable keeping of such unhappy persons as it shall please God, in His Providence, to deprive of their reason in any part of this Province."[14] The Selectmen of Boston declined this legacy on the grounds that there were not enough mental cases in the vicinity to warrant the existence of such an establishment. This proved to be an error of judgment on their part. In 1811 the Massachusetts General Hospital was incorporated and a fund of over $93,000 was subscribed for building purposes. As it was deemed more urgent, the department for mental diseases in Charlestown was opened first. It was ready for the reception of patients on October 6, 1818, when it admitted a young man supposed to be possessed of a devil. This department became the McLean Asylum in 1826 as the result of a legacy of $25,000 left to the institution by a Boston merchant of that name. The corporation finally received in all an amount approximating $120,000 from the McLean estate. As early as 1822 the first published report of the hospital[15] called attention to the fact that the various amusements offered the patients included "draughts, chess, backgammon, ninepins, swinging, sawing wood, gardening, reading, writing, music, etc." A carriage and pair of horses for the use of patients was purchased in 1828. In 1835 the first pianos and billiard tables were installed and a library of one hundred and twenty volumes placed in the wards. Hot water heating was introduced in 1848. It is interesting to note that in 1827 the visiting committee reported that the rates for the maintenance of patients should not be less than three dollars or more than twelve dollars per week. In 1882 the McLean Hospital established the first training school for nurses connected with any institution for mental diseases in this country. The first class was graduated in 1886. In 1895 the hospital was removed to Waverley, Massachusetts. A chemical laboratory was opened in 1900 and a psychological laboratory in 1904. Hydrotherapy was first used in 1899, and a gymnasium was built in 1904. In 1913 the hospital owned three hundred and seventeen acres of land and had a capacity of two hundred and twenty beds, with a plant valued at nearly two million dollars.