Disease, &c.

TABLE C.-The diseases and conditions for which patients were admitted to hospital and treated in dispensary.

TABLE C.-The diseases and conditions for which patients were admitted, &c.-Continued.

To the Hon. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR:

The "Board of Visitors" of the Freedmen's Hospital, appointed by you some months since and consisting of Messrs. Arthur McArthur, James B. Edmunds, Alonzo Bell, Mrs. J. H. Baxter, Miss C. B. Babcock, Francis J. Grimke, and Dr. Thomas B. Hood, has the honor to submit the following report:

The hospital has been visited and inspected at intervals by a majority of the members of the Board, and by some of them many times, during the past summer. No visitor has had at any time any occasion to find fault. To the contrary, it is the judgment of the Board, without dissent, that the hospital is in good condition as to every detail.

The beds and bedding, the ventilation and cleanliness of the wards, the clothing of the inmates, and the food supply, all have been carefully inspected and commended.

The results of treatment, whether of medical or surgical cases, will, it is believed, compare very favorably with those of any like institution in the country.

The Board takes pleasure in stating the conviction that the management is careful and painstaking in the enforcement of cleanliness in the wards, closets, kitchens, and laundry, and in availing itself of every possible agency within the appropriation at its control to make and keep the hospital what a hospital should be.

The surgeon in charge, Dr. Purvis, has made what, in the opinion of the Board, are two important recommendations, viz, the erection of porches upon the southern side of the two wards lying on the north side of the inclosure, and the purchase of such a quantity of hose of proper caliber as would be available in case of tire.

The porches carried up to the level of the second floor would afford a pleasant place for the outdoor exercise of convalescents, and, what might prove even more important, would afford means of safety in the event of fire.

There being now no really adequate means of contending against a fire, and as a fire might occur at any moment, such means as are practicable should be at once adopted as would secure the rapid vacation of

the buildings by the inmates, and hose should be purchased and so kept that at a moment's notice it could be put in use.

We leave the details to be suggested by the surgeon in charge, but earnestly represent the necessity for prompt action in the matter of securing the inmates of the hospital from the results of a fire which may originate at any moment.

By direction of the Board,

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

FRANCIS J. GRIMKE,

Secretary Board of Visitors.

ALONZO BELL, President Board of Visitors.

REPORT

OF THE

BOARD OF VISITORS OF THE GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

NON-RESIDENT OFFICERS OF THE HOSPITAL, JUNE 30, 1884.

W. W. GODDING, M. D., Superintendent and ex-officio Secretary of the Board of Visitors SAMUEL B. LYON, M. D., Chief Clerk and Physician in charge of the Female Department A. H. WITMER, M. D., First Assistant Physician in charge of the Male Department. MAURICE J. STACK, M. D., Second Assistant Physician.

A. C. PATTERSON, M. D., Third Assistant Physician.

J. C. SIMPSON, M. D., Fourth Assistant Physician.

J. E. KENNEY, M. D., Night Medical Inspector.

I. W. BLACKBURN, M. D., Special Pathologist.

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