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applied to Col. Weatherbe at the City Hall, for authority to take charge there. I accordingly went to the Y. M. C. A. Building, and have since then continued to direct the hospital without any further written authority, but with the consent ofthe Directors of the Institution, and the various emergency committees. During this period a number of Doctors have served temporarily under me, namely - Dr. Ford of Liverpool N. S., Doctors DeNormandie, Swift, Kellog (Obstetricians of the Red Cross Unit from Boston) Doctors Rolfe & Dole of the Surgical Red Cross Unit, Dr. VanWart of Fredericton, and Dr. E. R. Faulkner of New York. Most of these gentlemen have now returned home. so that my present staff consists of the following:

H. V. Andrews, Surgeon.
C. W. DeWolf, Asst. Surgeon.
L. M. Crosby, Specialist, Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat.
E. R. Faulkner, recently assigned to me to do general surgical work, and nose and throat.

This staff has to care for 58 patients, of which 8 are obstetrics, 9 are eye, and the rest surgical or trivial.

In addition to these patients, we now have 50 empty beds.

Female Ward. 15 beds, 2 of which are vacant.

Eye Ward. 12 beds, 4 of which are vacant.

Male Surgical Ward. 45 beds, 28 of which are vacant.

Obstetric Ward. 48 beds, 14 of which are at present vacant.

The Obstetrical ward is composed of single rooms, some of which have two beds in them, and the reason why there does not appear a larger number of vacant beds is that some are occupied by Doctors and nurses.

In addition to the beds which are now ready to receive patients, we have the beds and equipment for about thirty more, which could be set up in the present dining room, if this seems best to your committee. I have decided not to put up these beds, until it has developed that there is real need for their use.

X. RAY APPARATUS

We have installed on the floor near the operating room and large male surgical ward, a first class X. Ray apparatus, which was brought from Boston by the Medical Red Cross. This X Ray apparatus is now in operation, and owing to the fact that Miss Twombley, radiologist of my hospital in Boston, is here to do the work, we could probably take care of any demand there may be for X. Ray work from other hospitals. Male patients with fractures or foreign bodies needing X. Ray can readily be admitted to the 28 empty beds in the Surgical Ward for X. Ray, and the necessary surgery afterwards.