The Portland daily press., 1897-11-09
EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY.
The Annual Reports and Election of Off
GERS Yesterday.

me Annual Reports and Election of Off
GERS Yesterday.
me annual meeting of the Eye and
Lar ln1irmary was held yesterday after
noon. These reports were made and off.
GERS elected:
FRED N. Dow, president of the board Of
trustees made his report of which the fol-
lowing is an abstract:
ba. Ling ing tne past year the same policy
nas oeen followed that has characterized
..ie management of the Infirmarv from
avs ihoeptlon. A most interesting fact dis
S toaou W mat report is the increase in the
enllanos upon the Infirmary for assist
a o, since our last report ali legal
GuesGlons as to the will of the late Ira =
harrington in which the in stitution was
interested, have been decided in favor of
ne institution. Provision has been made
lor The creation of special trust, the In
come only to be used for current neoessi-
ties OF the Infirmary. During the year
tne gasoline engine plant has been com
pleted, aud proved satisfactory. Last De.
cember 1t was the privilege of the board
20 grant diplomas to the first graduates
from the school for nurses connected with
| Inc lnfirmary. Suitable buildings In the
Vicln1ty of the 1ntlrmary have been pur-
chased, in which it is intended to provide
| IN the near 1uIure outside rooms for the
nurses and some of the officers of the In
urinary. The appointments of the In
urinary in all Its various Departments are
IN every particular satisfactory. Again
the trustees desire to record an expression
OF tne1r appreciation of the ability and
zeal with which the various officers and
| employees of the oInfirnary have dis
| charged their duties.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
Col. q. S. Osgood, treasurer, reported
as follows:
Balance from last treasurer S 1882. 90
SundTy donations, fees, etc., COILS
state appropriation, 5000. 90
INCOME from Investments S,2l327
$40, sos O5
CONTRA.
improvements on property, s,sss. 70
Furnishings, 500. SO
General expense, 4,1S5. so
Interest paid, e9S. 90
s14, $685. IS
Cash on hand, 1,029.27
SIC, 698. 05
Expense Of maintain free beds,
year ending November 6, 1897 S., 353. 90
whole expense of maintaining
free beds to November 8, 1896, Is, $50 95
SIS, S75.95
Total amount disbursed to No
vember s, 1886, s51sa 1926, 755. SO
Amount disbursed for year end
ing November 6, 1897, -. 1865 rs
Total for 10 years Taa $241, 424.77
The total indebtedness is, 80 Il $46, 600. 90
REPORT oF THE EXECUTIVE SUR
GEON.
To the Trustees of the Maine Eye and
Ear Infirmary:
The statistics for the twelfth year, end
ing Nov. 1, 1897. have been compiled from
the records with the following result:
Ophthalmio patients, 1868
Aural, 377
Adjunct clinics, 377
Unfit and anreoorded, 90
Total, 1909
| Add this to the prveious records, and
IL makes the whole number treated IA 1858.
The number of eye and ear operations
recorded was 4S1, which added to those
previously performed makes the whole
number 4,408. The whole attendance
was IL, 021, which added to the previous
records makes the whole attendance
| SO, 176. The average attendance was 43
per day. The total attendance for the
| eye and ear was 10, 923, making an aver
age of SO per day.
The adjunct clinics in the out-patient
department. for the treatment of all other
diseases have been continued throughout
the year.
The Register for the year endingssNov
| l, 1897 shows that s,S45 hours were spent
in the clinical work of the out-patient de-
partment, an increase Of 81 per cent.
over that Of last year. The private
rooms have been occupied by l7s patients,
and the wards by 4o2 patients, making
in all $50 in-patients OF the ward pa
tients 277 paid for board at the rate of
| one dollar per day; 40 paid a part of
| their board, and IS were entirely free.
The number of days Of free board given
to patients was 1858, equal to the board
ing of one patient for nearly fifteen years,
and an amount five times that provided
for in the free beds furnished by the
friends of the Intirmary. Notwith tand-
ing there has been a greater call tor free
board, in addition to free treatment, than
In any previous year, the service has been
limited to those who were in the most
straitened circumstances and in mo
need of such charitable assistance This
embraces 1875 of the in-patients, who were
materially assisted in the preservation or
the restoration of sight and hearing.
| There have been over five hundred opera
tions performed in the operating room,
embracing every part of the field of sur
gerry, by no less than thirty different
operators The sterilizing plant has been
| found insufficient and, being run by gas,
is too expensive, SO that | have exchanged
it for q larger size and improved form, to
| be run by steam, and since steam has
now to be kept up constantly for use in
the laundry, the additional expense for
that to be used in sterilizing will be but
q trif1e.