Excerpt from Fifty-Fourth Annual Report of St. Luke's Hospital: From October 1, 1915 to December 31, 1916 It is a pleasant duty to make public acknowledgment of the receipt of a most generous gift from Mr. Hobart W. Williams of real estate at 19, 21, 23, and 25 South Water Street, valued at as an endowment, the income from which is to be applied to the current ex penses of operating the Hosp-ital. This increase in income comes at a most opportune time, when we were feeling most acutely the pressure of the very great increase in the cost of practically everything used in the Institution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.