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The animal rr) iri oí the Ulliversity Hospital Uur the yeair endlng Juno 30, 1804, has been ptrepaa-ed by Superimtendent Joseph riark. and ís In tli e prtater's bands tor publication. The repoarf coaita tas a large .-1111(111111 oí eteresting matter, nmoh of whieh wil] be oí interest to the public. The total mumber oí patients admitted during tJie year was 1502, of ivliom 869 were males and 633 females; 722 were married, 7.").', single, and 25 widowed. Tliere were 111 occupations representad among those dmitted, the housewife Ieading with 454 cases, the farmer seco-nd with 258, the student third, with 200, children fourth witli 195 and labarers iifth with 114. Twemtytwo- nationalities were representad, Americans leading with 1210. Canada üs second, with 101, Gennany third with 87 and England io.urth with 40. The larger nmmber of patients were between tweuty and thirty years old, 442 im nimibar. Tliere were 109 under ten years of age, 224 between ten and twenty, 240 between thirty and forty, 201 between forty and fifty, 149 between fifty and 6ixty, 96 between sixty and seventy, 32 between seventy and eighty, and 9 between eighty and ninety. In the surgieal elinic, presided over by Dr. Nanorede, 349 patients hare been admiitted, oí whom 130 were eured, 122 improved, four not improved, 88 were )not treated, and five dipd. Dr. Flemming Carrow reporta that in the department of Ophthalmology, a t-otal of ;")7G patients have been admitted. Of thtese 487 were cured, 49 iimprOTCd and 30 umimproved. Dr. Carrow ateo had 83 tln-oat patients, 51 - of whom were sared, 29 were iïnpi-oTed and 3 only were unianproved. In ear diseases there were 96 applicants. Twenty-nine were cured, 59 improved and 8 unimproved. Foj-ty-eigüit nose cases were attended to by Dr. Carrow. He cuired 34 of thora aind improved the 14. Dr. Can-ow's total niunber of ]iat!ents was 803, 601 of whom weic cured. Dr. James X. Martin states in his report íor the departmemt of diseasee of women and obstertrfcs, tliat there was ampie material dua-ing tlie year to Ilústrate about every disease peculiar to wnmen. Must of these diseases 'have had so nuamy clinlcal illustratioosthat the studente were enabled to study tirela in. detail. Dr. Martin report 833 cases, 299 oi which he lias cured, 197 have been Lnapiroved, 84 were unimpiroTied, 248 were not treated, and ." patients only, have died. In th-e dcpartinent oí nervous diseases, in charge oí Dr. W. J. Heidman, there were 142 patients. Twenty were cured, 80 were improved. S unimproved, 30 were not treated, and 4 died. Sixty-mine fornis of nervons disease are included undér the total number of case. Geórge Bock, professor of theory and practice of medicine and cllnical medicine makes soine requests of Uie boa-rd of regents. He says that tlie. past year a larger number of patients have been treated in tlie medical elinic thaji ever before in a coiTesponding period." '"As the service, grows,, the need of room becomes niiirr pressini;-. AVe need not only more room Sai general, in order to take patients now obüged to live in boarding houses, but we need evn imore au arrangement of rooms which will enable ns do away with the roomiing together of patients of different kinds. We also need more batli rooms. Most of all we need rooms for teaching. During the past threo years a considerable araount of eciemtific work ha.s been done In the laboiratory of clinical medicine. It need hardly be said that this was öome in he lace of niany obstacles, eánce the room at our disposal is miserably inadequate. At present, in additiom to lines of work mentioned in a ïormar report aaid in the 'Uni-srity Eecard,' investigations are maklng in Unorystosis, sovera.1 pioblems hi urinalyeis mul ether branenes oí climioal medleim." Dr. Doek repo-rts 243 patiemts admittei! Ln the department n' Interaal medicine. Of theee 184 were cured, 21) were niproved, 18 were noti reatcd, 3 died and 9 were transí to other clinics. In Dr. Wm. P. Rreakey's -eport for tlie department of skin diseases, there was a total of 220 patiënte, 13G of whom were cured, 61 of whom were discharged as improved, 17 nu-inipro ved and 0 not treated.. In nis addrees to the regents, Supt. Clark reporte a tJiorough disiiifection oL the ontire liospital during the su-mmer months. "At times," says the report, "we have liad one-thírd more in the wards than were ever intended they should accommodate. We are ia ureat need of small wards wit ha capacity Eor &ix or eight beds witli a capacity for six or eight beds cases should certainly have an exclusive ward, as necessary daily dressing is not agreeable to otlier patients. Also all pulmojiary üiseases, setting aslde the idea oí coaitagion, have harrowlng aind depressing effect upoii the weak and. nervous, for whom quiet is ko necessary." r.JI Cla.rk urges tlie necessity for a snütable building for a home for the mirses, "which would coul'er more comfoa-t physically and better advantages tor quiet amd etudy, besides better discipline could be ma.intained, were tney all do.mix;iled one roof." Tlie saperintendent takes occasion to thank the niany friends who hiave been so kind in coiitributlng flowers diiiring tine (iast yc.ir. especially tlie Fruit and Missioo. 'J he report shows the great work tliat is done in the University hospital and reflects honor npon the men wlio carry it on. Credit is certainly due Mr. Clark for hLs efficiënt management of the hospital.