The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-27
Sport Of The Executive Surgeon
DR.. Z. I. Holt.
officers Chosen for the
Ensuing Year.
Treasurer's Report Shows Graft
flying Financial Conditions.

The annual meeting OF the Maine Eye
and Ear Intirmary was held yesterday az
ternoon.
The following is the report OF the ex-
ecutive surgeon, DIR. e. Il. Holti
Tbs statistics for the fifteenth year end.
ing hovem Der |, 1870, have been complied
from che records with the following re-
suits: Ophthalmic patients, 749; aural
patients, 25S; adjunct clinics, 24S; unfit
ana unrecorded, 141, Total, 1876.
Add this number to the previous rec
ords and IL makes the whole ", sso. line
number OF eye ana ear operations recorded
was s57, which added to those previously
peri ormed makes the whole number $3.50
Ihe whole attendance was o5US, which
added to the previous records. makes the
whole attendance ls7, us. The average
attendance was 20 per day. The total at
tsndancs Tor the eye and ear was 1854,
making an average of "a per day.
Two hundred forty eight have bHen
treated in the adjunct clinics OF the out
patient department. The register for the
year ending November /, 1900, shows that
g77 hours were spent In the clinical work
OF the ouU-patient department., The
prIvabe rooms have been occupied by l57
patients, and the wards by 5Sl patients,
making in all 53S in-patients OF the
werd patients SOs paid for board &C the
tate OF one dallar per d y; ~ paid part
The whole number of days OF board of
patients was IL ,619 days. The number Of
days OF free board given to patients was
2340, 1t being one-tfth of the whole NUM-
Der OF days CT board furnished TO all pa
tients, and costing the institution more
tnan ten times what has heen given II for
that purpose.
The calls for free board in addition to
free treatment continues to he frequent
and urgent and provision should be made
to supply funds Tor this demand In order
that the intirmary may minister. to the
wants of the deserylD g DOOR and Keep It's
expenditures within Its receipts. This
service has been limited for the past year
TO 70 OF the in-patientS who were materi-
ally assisted In the preservation or resto-
ration or sight or hearing. This services
calls for L high degreeAof discretion In
or Ter that its beneticence may not be d.
verified from Its true object, namely, to
help those who are suffering from sffec-
lions Of the eye or ear and are without
means to afford them relief and therefore
are worthy of true charity 1t calls for a
higher degree OF discretion than the adj
uniting OF persons in the out-patient de
partment which 80 intended only for the
poor VINO ere unable to pay, or In ths In
patient department. which treats In
wards those poor persons who can afford
only to pay their board, because IL ad
ministers a trust of money value TO par
greatest care and discrimination it sinks
to the leval OF a personal qualification on
the part or those who bestow 1t and ies-
sens the self respect OF those who receive
it, which is too often the beginning OF
mendioancy.
The WORK Of founding, maintaining and
experimenting the affairs of this charity
have required services which have made
lasting impression upon me and have
been torolbly reminded by my recent Ill
ness that must relinquish some Of these
cares and responsibilities
DIR. Holt devoted some space In his re-
port to an account of the unwilling of the
bust of Payson Tucker, recently presented
TO the Institution by Mrs. Tucker. He
then reviewed the history OF the institn-
tion at some length.
In conclusion Dr. Holt stated:
In the sum total OF these united efforts
and gifts OF the people. let us glance at
what has been accomplished. We have
these buildings, which for size, arrange
ment ana completeness compare favorably
with any institution of the kind In the
world Ne have registered over twenty
thousand patients, with an attendance OF
over a hundred thousand, and with over