More people were served at the American Hospital for Refugees situated at St. Luke's Hospital, No 2, last month than during any other month of its existence, 401 patients having been admitted while total visits of out-patients had numbered 10,728, the monthly report of the hospital for May reveals.
The report stresses the fact that the number of patients suffering from typhoid fever is increasing and would' seem to indicate that the Western district is badly infected. The hospital is offering free inoculations against typhoid and cholera, 1,766 having been given during the month.
During the month 683 free patients were treated and 425 were discharged while, at the end of the month, there were 274 patients in hospital. There were, during the month, 8,371 hospital days and 8,253: free hospital days with an average bed occupancy of 91.5 per cent, Operations carried out numbered 142 and there were 5,438 laboratory
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