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Mary Shattuck married Amos Shattuck, descendant of Lemuel Shattuck from Ashby who later became a well known merchant in Concord, Mass. Shattuck truly began to make changes in public health when he moved to Boston in 1835. He maintained a bookstore, but he was soon elected as a Massachusetts State Representative. He introduced several progressive reforms for Boston, but he truly changed the face of public health when he was asked to compile a report on sanitation in Boston. So it was that, in 1850, he published his groundbreaking Report for the Sanitary Commission.

In the late 1950's the State of Massachusetts built a new hospital in Jamaica Plain, Mass and named it the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital. It was research hospital devoted to chronic disease. Each of Boston's Medical Schools had medical residents there. One had to apply to get in. Patients had to agree to receiving new treatments. Mass residents were given preference but I remember working on a young boy from Rindge, NH while I was there. The Lemuel Shattuck Hospital today is devoted to solving the country's drug addiction problem.

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Great background information. Thank you.

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