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Jane L. Quinn applica- tion. BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING January 3, 1930 A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held at the Town Office Building at 7:30 P.M. Messrs. Maddison, Baldrey, Slocomb, Glynn and Custance were present. Hearing was declared open on the application of Jane L. Quinn, owner of the property situated on Spring Street, near Concord Avenue, known as the Theodore A. Parker homestead, for permission to use the home for convalescents, elderly people and invalids. The Clerk read the notice of the hearing. Dr. Dora W. Faxon was present and explained that she desired to purchase the Quinn property for a home in the future, but at the present time, she could not afford not to have an income from the property. She explained that the house is not a large one and she did not expect to keep more than eight or ten patients. She explained that she had been a practising physician for 25 years and could give credentials. She had a sanatorium in West Newton where she was considered an asset to the neighborhood. When asked if it was her intention to enlarge the house, she stated that as time went on, there is a partly developed frame of a house that she might want to develop and take a few more patients, but that house has not more than eight rooms, and the house as it is could accommodate not more than eight patients.' Mr. C.E. McCarthy appeared representing Dr. Wright, who is at present in the South and cold not be at the hearing. Dr. Faxon explained that she did not desire to take tubercular cases and that her work has been always upon mental cases, but this move is entirely away from mental cases. Mr. McCarthy stated that from a telegram received from Dr. Wright, the latter wished to know the facts about the use of the building, whether it was to be used for nervous, mental or tubercular cases, and if so that was his objection. He did not desire to restrain Dr. Faxon from the use of the property, but he felt they should be safeguarded. Dr. Faxon asked whether or not Dr. Wright boarded patients in her home on Concord Avenue. Mr. McCarthy stated that he was not aware that Dr. Wright boarded cases at her home on Concord Avenue and that she was now in Florida and there was no-one in charge of her house, and he did not believe this was so, but he could find out definitely and inform the Board of Appeals. Mr. McCarthy felt that the granting of the use of these premises for a sanatorium might establish a precedent for its use as such, and that once it was established, it might be used for any type of case.