N.— 2. 



Report of Nnmler of Medical Practitioners in Massachusetts, most 

 of whom belong to the Massachusetts Medical Society. 



Suffolk Co. . 

 Barnstable Co. 

 Berkshire Co. 



Bristol Co. 

 [ hikes Co. 

 Essex Co. 

 Franklin Co. . 

 Hampden Co. 

 Hampshire Co. 

 Middlesex Co. 

 Norfolk Co. . 

 Plymouth Co. 

 Worcester Co. 

 Nantucket Co. 



Total . 



1237 



787,616 



This is not the true relative proportion of physicians to popula- 

 tion now, since the above is the number of physicians in 1847, while 

 the population is according to the census of 1840. 



Z. B. ADAMS. 

 Boston, Jpril20, 1848. 



[Stephen W. Williams, M. D., of Deerfield, Mass., in a letter 

 addressed to the Association, reports the names, as far as they could 

 be ascertained, of the practitioners of medicine in the five western 

 counties of Massachusetts. The number of practitioners in these 

 several counties is as follows: 



Worcester . . . . .191 



Hampden 

 Hampshire 

 Franklin 

 Berkshire 



61 



62 

 55 

 76] 



