The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-02
PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL.

Annual Meeting-Female Cliniss-Inte-
resting Reports-EleetiOn of Managers.
The annual meeting of the contributors to
the Pennsylvania Hospital was held yesterday
afternoon at the Hospital, Eighth street,
below Spruce. ]. M. Whitall presided.
Saunders Lewis, Secretary.
The report of the Board of Managers was
submitted, showing the total number of cases
treated during the year, 2094; new cases ad-
mitted, 1884; number of persons cured or
greatly benefited, 1928; outdoor cases which
have received medical or surgical aid, 594;
recent accidents brought into the institution
within twenty-four hours after the occurrence
of the mishap, S26; patients remaining in the
hospital for the sick, III.
The expenditures during the year were
$47, 1915. Receipts, $56, 56S'73. Donations
and legacies received and added to the endow-
ment fund, $S4, ,272'16. In addition to this
sum another bequest of $1,000 has been an
neunced, while the relaying of the curbstone
on Eighth street, from Spruce to Pine, has
been done gratuitously by Messrs Alexander
Derbyshire and John Z. Lewis, ct cost to
the donors of about $4,000. The board have
been advised that an effort has been made to
procure legislative action to alter the south
line of Spruce street, which is entirely without
their sanction or approval.
Lectures were delivered to the students of
the Womens Medical College in the months
of October, November, and December, 1870,
and January, February, and March, 1871,
chiefly in the wards of the hospital. Mixed
lectures have been entirely avoided.
The physicians report that these clinics
have much increased their labors, diminishing
the tir2e appropriated to patients, and have
called the attention of the board to the fact
that, while in the session Of 1S69-70, 500 stu
dents az of whom were woHaen) attended the
hospital clinics, in the session just closed but
2o6 students Cincluding 32 women) have
attended the course. In the absence of any
instructions from the contributors, the mana
gers will consider the subject of lectures to
females as left entirely to their discretion and
Judgment. The thirtieth annual report of
DIR. Kirkbride, physician in chief and super
intendent of the Hospital for the Insane,
shows that during the past year that lnstltu-
ton has been self-sustaining, and would con-
tinue SO were it not for the necessity of pro-
viding means for contemplated municipal
Improvements. This refers to the widening
of Market street and Haverford road. The
grading, curbing, and paving of these streets
would involve an outlay of about 100000.
During the history Of the Insane Depart
ment, out of 1896 patients admitted, the dura-
ton of the disorder in 1925 did not exceed
three months, although admittancs was not
applied for upon the appearance of the dis
treatment had proved unaVailing. In con-
Guiding their report the board record their
testimony to the worth and high character of
their late associate, Samuel Morris VAIN, who
died December 23, 1870. The report was re-
ferred to the incoming Board Of Managers,
with instructions to print SO much Of 1t as
they might deem expsdlsnt.
The following gentlemen were elected
Trustees of the PembsrtOn Trust Fund for
purpose of effecting the release of poor
debtors: Benjamin H. Shoemaker, Joseph
r. Chandler, Charles Ellis, Edward Town
send and John j. Lyle. Mr. Francis Wells
offered the following
Resolced That in disposing of the matter
of the medical instruction of women, the
Board of Managers be instructed not to adopt
any measure the effect of which shall be the
exclusion of the students of the Female Medi-
cal College from the instructions of the hos
pital.
Objection being made by several contri-
butoIs as to the wording of the above, Mr..
Wells offered the following substitute, which
was adoptsS:-
Resolg6d, Tk4t this nesting rSafira tia
instructors given at the lsat aARual raesuinl
to the Board of Managers, in reference to ths