Excerpt from Fifty-Fifth Annual Report of St. Luke's Hospital: From January 1, 1917, to December 31, 1917You will note by the statistics which follow that while the increase in the number of patients cared foi during the year is but one percent, there 1s an increase of 6 in the amount of work done. This 1s due to the fact that the average stay of a patient was greater.It must be borne ln mind when making comparison with last year's report that the 1915-1916 report coy ered a period of fifteen months, owing to the change ln our fiscal year, while this report is for the twelve months of 1917 only.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.