CLASS OF 1864

Dr. George Howard Malcolm Rowe died at his home in Boston, January 30, after a prolonged illness.

He was the son of Jonathan and Maria Louisa (Morrison) Rowe, and was born in Lowell, Mass., February 1, 1841. His preparation for college was obtained at Phillips Exeter Academy.

After graduation he studied medicine at Harvard, receiving his medical degree in 1868. In the fall of that year he became assistant physician at the Boston Lunatic Hospital, after a few months leaving for a similar position in the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. In April, 1869, he was appointed assistant superintendent of the Boston Lunatic Hospital, and remained there until his appointment in June, 1879, as superintendent and resident physician of the Boston City Hospital. Ill health compelled him to resign this position in 1908, after a longer period of service than that of any other superintendent of a general hospital in the United States.

His scientific interest in medical advancement, his sagacious forecast of municipal needs, and his liberal policy in administration. made his work a controlling element in the development of the City Hospital to a foremost place in size, scope, and equipment. He was also deeply interested in raising the training school for nurses to the highest standard of efficiency, was a close student of sanitation and its relation to public health, was especially conversant with hospital construction, and contributed much to the literature of these subjects.

Dr. Rowe was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Medico-Psychological Association, the Boston Medico-Psychological Society, and the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, and was at one time president of the Association of of Hospital Superintendents of America and Canada. He was a man of wide culture, fond of music, a clever organist, and well versed in the -best literature of the day.

He belonged to many philanthropic organizations, to the St. Botolph, University, Eastern Yacht, and Beacon clubs, and to Alpha Delta Phi.

At the funeral services, held at Mt. Vernon Congregational church, with which Dr. Rowe was connected, Rev. Dr. Cyrus Richardson '64 officiated with the pastor of the church, and among the pall-bearers were Dr. Edward Cowles '59 and Dr. John L. Hildreth '64.

Dr. Rowe was never married.