The total number of out-patient visite during the year was 117,397, being an increase of 12,785 over the "previous year.—In-patients during the year had numbered 3,183, an increase over the' previous year of 281, He would ask them to look at that—pathetic column headed casualty list; the would find that' vehicular seeld alone numbered 1,638 as against 1455 the year before, Then there Were many other casualties, such jax patients suffering from knife: wounds, 116 men and 16 women; and bomb throwing 56 men and six women, and so on, Also there was. the terrible list_ of attempted suicides, numbering 347 fen and the huge total of 749 women, All these cases wore increasing year year, putting a terribly heavy strain its staff and its finances. referred his hearers to the paragraph by Dr. Patrick which he said: exceeding "the "maximum by" nearly Sane te accommodation by sucht think wenae te willie" flores Sith thee meantime funds" are the ervetion and more adequate bull These conditions indicated extreme degree of ovgrerowding. The staff hud to do its work under very difficult conditions indeed. If they looked over the premises, they would find a collection of rambling buildings, badly planned, inadequate and not well suited to their purpose. This was not the fault' of the: architects, for they had done ama: ingly good work with unpromising material; the buildings had never" been intended for. their present purposes. They would find. mission hospitals all jover China' better equipped and 100 per cent. better suited than the Shantung Road Hospital, and town the size of Shanghai this should not be. This wax not the fault of the community altogether! the Shanghai commanity was one of the most onerous in the world, and they would see that the donations during the year amounted to the excellent sum of Tis, 31,000. They could not expect to. get very much more in charity. If they turned the balance sheet they would. see that in the assets column a. very large <um was made up of a. be quest which they were hardly allow-fed to touch at all,
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