wards
for infectious cases ; male and female contagious disease wards, and
mortuaries. The offices of the resident officials, a dispensary and
doctors' quarters, nurses' home and chapel, with a further provision of
European and native kitchens, make the hospital complete and
comfortable. This hospital has accommodations for 250 patients,
European and colored, and from the day of its erection it has been of
indispensable service. During the single year of 1897, 2683 patients
were admitted, 798 of whom were Europeans, and the remainder natives
and persons of color. Six hundred and sixty-three patients were
admitted free, or on subscribers' letters. Besides this service it
should be noted that the number of day
patients
treated during the same year was 1220; one of the hospital doctors is
in attendance in the day-patients' room for an hour every morning to
give advice without charge to the poor. To all who cannot afford to pay
for treatment, medicines are furnished free. Every subscriber is
entitled to give a letter of admission to one patient for every £2 23. subscribed,
upon the sole stipulation that the person receiving the letter must be
too poor to pay for his or her own treatment. The staff of the hospital
