al meeting of the Subscribere Hospital was held on Tuesday after now, at No, 2, Shantung Road. " Mr. Alabaster presided, and there were also present Dra, Macleod and Milles, the Rev.
Muirhead, and Messrs. J. G. Purdon, Wood, E. Cameron, ©. Thorne and C. MI. Ford.
The thirty-ninth annual report of the Hospital, which is now under the care of Drs. He fadeed and Milles, was report gives @ summary: of the different discuses and complaints for which patients were treated, and the nuns bers who applied for treatment during each month of the year. The number of patients fronted in the wards of the hospital during the whole your was 776, showing an increase of nearly 100 over the preceding yer, these 705 were mule patients and 71 female. There were 46 cases of cholera adi ducing the months of August, September and October; and of this number 18 divd. Two wards of the Hospital were used for vatment of these" exa new patients were prescribed for the Dispensary practice. Of these, 13,889 were ites, and. 9,288 females, 49 cases of fracture were treated, and G dislocate were reduced, £ opium po t, 36 being men cured nnd 7 died. were performed. OF the 776 patients treated in he ward, 60 died, includmy the 18 from cholera and.9 for opium poisoning, Che subscriptions and devotions received during the year amounted to Tle. 2,229.99, and the total come, including a balance lown from 1884, was al expenditure dur 2,417.72, leaving a balance of to be carried forward to the 1886 accoun The Rev. W. Murmueap referred warm terms to the valuable work which in the Hospital, saying that og way in which the Chinese, and women, flocked to it for treatment proved how thoroughly it waa appreciated by the natives. He was pleased to have another opportunity of bearing public testimony to the great services rendered to the institution by Mr, Wong Sheng-fu, the Assietant Medical Officer.
Me, THORNE moved—
That the Report and Accounts fur the past year be adopted and passed.
The motion was seconded by Mr. Purduu and carried nauimously.
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