Evening journal., 1916-03-16
DELAWARE HOSPITAL
HAD BUSIEST Year
Increase of Over 19 Per Cent.
In Days Service at
Institution
T. F. BAYARD AGAIN
NAMED PRESIDENT

Oficers and trustees of the Della
ware Hospital Corporation we're cleo
ted at the annual meeting in the hos
ptal yesterday afternoon. The re-
port of Thomas f. Bayard, the presi-
dent who was reelected yesterday,
showed the institution 10 be in q
iiourishing condition. According 10
the presidents report the number of
persons admitted last year was l,945,
as against 1.4S9 in 1914, or an in
crease of over 80 per cent. The total
days service. free and pay for the
year was 26,973. or an increase Of
over 19 per cent. The new wing of
the hospital which was placed In
use last June, the report stated, had
proved to be a great help.
At the election the following Otii-
GERS were elected for one year:
Thomas f. Bayard, president; Ben
jamin +. Shaw, vice-president; L.
Scott Townsend, treasurer; w. Poyn-
tell JohnstOns assistant treasurer :
William Poole. secretary.
The trustees who are TO serve un-
I'll 1920 chosen yesterday We're; VIII
liam =. Bancroft, John J Raskob,
rett. Mrs. James A. Hart. Mrs ELI
wood c. Jackson, Miss Marian G..
Dunham. Mrs +. William Curtis, w.
Poyntell Johnston, Richard w
Brown. Louis Topkis and Townsend
w. Miller
The report OF President bayard
was as follows.
"In accordance with custom. ! shall
not enter into any detail connected
with the reports Of the various officers
covering the several departments OF
the institution. which are already be-
fore you, except by way of a general
review
From the report OF the Senior
Resident Physician. it appears that
the work OF the hospital has increas-
ed almost beyond our means of adj
ministration. for we=are now hard put
10 Il to give actual sleeping accom-
modations to the many sufferers who
are admitted TO our wards. So much
is this fact that IN the mems wards
the normal spaces between the beds
which are empty in the day time, have
for the last six months been COM
pletely filed at night by extra cots
placed for the patients. Our tota
days service. free and pay, for tn,
year ending 1914 was 22.57S and oul
total days service. pay and free. foi
the year ending 1915 was 26,973, be
ing an incyease OF little over nine
teen per cent for the last year,
"The number ~ ambulance and pa
troll cases increased from $50 in 19l
to 1852 in 1915, an increase of owe
twonty-eight per cent The numbe
OF persons admitted i'm 1915 was 1874
as against 1889 in 1914. an increas
Of over thirty per cent. for the yea
'ln the pathological laborator.
there was $500 examinations made
1915 as against 5174 in the precedin
year. showing an increase of owe
twenty-siX per cent for the year
I'm the N-Ray department ther
were 423 examinations in 1915 a
against 800 examinations in the pre-
ceding year. an increase of over tort,
per cent In addition ten patient
were taken for treatment and 80
doses were administered.
"By reason of the fact that on
free maternity ward has not been fl
operation a whole year. we are un
able TO give comparative figures. bu
u is interesting and gratifying &
know that our hospital has treate
seyenty-seven free and pay maternit
cases during the year 1915 as agains
forty pay maternity cases during IN
preceding year The number OF OF
erations during last year was IN q
against 5SS for the year 1914, an il
crease OF over thirty per cent. for th
year.
In addition 10 all this. the numb,
OF minor cases treated in the dispel
sary is not recorded. but everyor