Increasing Numbers

INCREASING NUMBERS
APPLYING FOR ADMISSION TO THE HOSPITALS.

Sixty-Seven Per Cent of the Patients in the Hospitals Come From the Farms of Michigan.

The monthly average of the University hospital tor March, 1899, are the largest on record, those of February, 1899, being the second largest. The total number of patients registered during March was 178. Seventy-seven of these were "in" patients and 101 "out" patients. The average number of patients during the month was 84, the highest number 88, and the lowest 78. At one time or another over one hundred patients were kept waiting for beds, there being at times as many as thirty applications on hand.

The average number of patients in the homeopathic hospital of the University of Michigan, for the month of March, was sixty-three, which is the largest number in the history of the institution, and ten more than the legitimate capacity of the hospital. The receipts for the same period amounted to $1,386.93, which was within $390 of the total yearly receipts four years ago.

The classification of patients by occupation in the homeopathic hospital of the University of Michigan is as follows, the percentage of the entire number admitted being taken as 100: Farmers wives 25, farmers 14, farmers children 22, farm domestics 2, farm hands 4, total farm class 67; mechanics 6, paupers 2, domestics 1, children not from farms 1, students 10, unclassified 13.