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LAUNCESTON HOMOEOftTHIC
HOSPITAL
IENTH ANNUAL ME!
LAUNCESTON,l-'rlday.
The tenth annual meetli ot tiie
Launeeston Homoeopathic Hospital
was held this evening, S. Hearj;
Bdtcliie, president, iu the ehi •
The annual report submitt L by the
hon. Bee. (Mr. F. Styaut-ISro le) dealt
with tlie events o£ the ist year.
Thanks were tendered, to e State
Government for grafting th subsidy
ot. £200 on the f for £ prlnei e. The
BVBU of £350 hud been rcceivi in legacies
and hod been placed ajinterest,
ns according to the rules t» money
could not be used for mnint Lanee. It
was hoped that this would orin the
nucleus of a fund for 4ncr lsed' a
cominodation as the wards nd j»eon
taxed to the fullest extent lilriug the
greater portion of tbe past year, j
The annual medical report of the
hon. medikftl officer (Dr. P. ©olglas
Smitih stated Inter alia:—Wbarefe "5
patieots represent tlie greatest nifiber
admitted during any prcviousrear,
this year 120 were received in] the
hospital as in-patients. Therewere
remaiulng at the cud of JunejMOS,
hree patients, and at the end o/June,
909, ten patients were to hwital.
hose discharged and died totaUd 113.
f these, S3, or T'J per ceu were
ured; 10, or 9 per cent wpe imroved
or' relieved; four wer unimroved;
one was sent out owlif to the
nfectious nature of the ease and '.»,
r S per cent. died. Of th/dcaths,
ne was due to pneumonia, seen were
ne to causes necessarily fp\, such
s advanced cancer and hear disease;
nd one patient died of a. Mfblnntion
f enteric fever, advandl chronic
right's disease, hydntldswd tw0 <> r
hree other ailments. . Ttrty-seven
ase$ of enteric fever wre t»*eate
uring the year, and the op
ied was the patient abovp
he average number of patients in
ospital during the year J as 8.S, and
-would point out that thf means that
e could not with our pjsent accomodation
Kdmit oiore on we liavo
one. In fact, many (flUcants for
daiiss5on had to be d/llaed, owing
o the Impossibility
or them. It is, tbeSl
f urgent necessity tiia'l
ommodatlon should be,
istant date. I witui
nder your notice ourf
ore up-to-date and
ppllanoes.
The hon. secretary s
f Gil patients had
he hospital during
uring that time ti)
1, or a mortality of
nd eight cases of .
een treated, from
eath occurred, and
lready broken. 4."
onstitution by a ti
rave maladies. ^
The reports we!
fficers elected fo 1
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