Excerpt from Fifty-Third Annual Report of St. Luke's Hospital: From October 1, 1914 to September 30, 1915 All that has been said and written relative to the condition of the old buildings applies with even greater force than ever before. Never before in the history of the Hospital have the demands for space in the wards and low priced private rooms been so great. 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.