A Tremendous Year's Work During the year 1918-19 no fewer than 2,434 in-patients, of whom 454 received free attention, were care for by St- Luke's Hospital, while out-patients totalled 69,401, including those who only made a demand on the dispensary. Interesting as these figures are, they naturally fail to give any complete idea of the immense work necessitated by these patients, and the annual report, from which these figures are taken, modestly hides the engrossing story of the hospital's year in a mass of figures. These people who were treated came for the most) part from Shanghai, but many had their residences in such places' as Canton, Shantung, Tientsin, Amoy, Chekiang, etc., showing the growing renown of the hospital and the work it does; there were bankers and coolies, boatmen and beggars, landowners and laundry men, masons, millers and monks and a hundred other professions and trades amongst those who received benefit. The report contains a list of contributors to the hospital funds whose gifts amounted in all to $5,466.20 out of a total income of $61,142.12 from which sum there lis a balance of $3,654.71 to be car-[ried into the succeeding year, an increase of $640.96 as compared with the year 1917-18.
The foregoing figures bear out the statement in ithe report that "although we have been kept busy this year, the work has been one of a steady development and extension, with, we feel, a steady _improvement in nearly all diree~ tions." The report goes on to phasize the fact that the cramped space at the disposal of the hospital authorities seems to have reached the limits of its ability to accommodate any further improve ments or more workers, and unless they are soon able to obtain more. room they would come to a stand~ still. The receipt of a motor am-balance from the Shanghai Recreation Club, and the installation of an X-ray plant have proved of great benefit to the hospital.
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