History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, including Lynnfield ...

374 HISTORY OF LYNN.
Benevolent Institutions,
etc.
Lynn has a full share of organizations, benev^olent, social,
But few, however, can even be named
literary and recreative.
here ; nor is it necessary that they should be, as our annual
Directories give all the information that in most cases would
be desired, their names usuall}^ indicating their fields of labor.
But one or two merit special notice.
Lynn Hospital. Allusion to the history of this institution
may be found on page 270. At the close of 1889, the finances
appeared in a satisfactory condition. The receipts for the
3^ear from incomes, bequests, and donations, were $13,311.58,
and the expenses $10,749.29. The average number of patients
for the year was 21, and the expense for each patient
for board, medicine, and attendance, was $511.87 per annum.
The medical cases were in number 558, and the surgical, 703 ;
diseases of the eye, ear, and skin, 136. The Hospital fund,
June, 1890, has reached about $85,000. Of that, $26,000
have been invested in land and buildings, and $2,500 in furnishings
; leaving over $56,000 invested in securities, the
income of which is devoted to running expenses. The annual
expense of maintenance is now about $10,000. And the
income from investments being about $3,000, some $7,000
have to be raised each year. The working men, in all departments
of trade, have year by year liberally contributed.
And indeed all classes have shown their appreciation of the
value of the institution in the true way, by pecuniary aid.
The Oxford Club, until its rooms were destroyed by the fire,
raised each year, from $900, the amount of its first annual
contribution, to $3,600, the result of its last entertainment.
And there have been several opportune donations from sympathizing
individuals, as well as bequests. The annual church
collections have each year for several years amounted to $1 ,000.
The late collections in response to the renewed appeals of the
managers, when no single subscription above $10 was asked,
resulted in nearly $6,000. The managers regard the Hospital
as eminently an institution for the people, and the people, on