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Show previous years, and second unfortunately we had a smaller staff than formerly. We treated 1449 inpatients and 6518 in our outpatient department. The inpatients remained 23341 days (total) in the Hospital, an average of 63 9 patients per day. We performed 736 operations. We kept the Nurses Training School running. To accomplish this work, we had only one doctor for three months, two doctors for six months, and three doctors for the rest of the year. This sounds nearly impossible but we did it and were not satisfied just to do the necessary work but in spite of the lack of doctors we tried to hold the standards of the Hospital up and to work as correct and as careful as possible. Each patient gets his history taken and as a routine we have urine, stool, blood and Kahn tests made In our laboratory 13,761 examinations were done and a cross statistic of these examinations shows: Examination of blood .. 6648 ,, ,, urine 3434 „ „ stool 2016 „ „ bacteria .. . . . . .. 1510 „ ,, gastric, chest, abdominal fluids, etc. 153 We are indeed lucky to have grade A trained nurses and technicians who do a remarkable amount of work which in western countries only graduate doctors are allowed to do. One might think that this indicates that the work is not properly done, but I can assure everyone that this opinion is influenced by _ 5 - |