REPORT OF THE PHYSICIAN-IN-CHIEF-
 

State Emigrant Refuge and Hospital,         (

Ward's Island, Jan. 1, 1884. \

Hon. Henry A. Hurlbut,

President^ and the Board of Commissioners
of Immigration:

Gentlemen :—I have the honor to submit the followio^ Annual
Report of tliis hospital for the year ending December 31, 1883.

Eeoiaining in hospital January 1, 1883  ...................         391

Admitted during the year..............................       3,818

Born alive.............   ..,..........................          1G4

Total treated.......-----.........................       4.373

Discharged....................................        3,755

Died........................................          349

4,104
Rsmaining iu hospital December 31, 1883.............         269

Remaining in institution Jauuary 1, 1883..................          868

Admitted to institution during the year.................       4,180

ISTumber of Births.........................,..........          164

Total cared for...................................         5,212

l^umber discharged during the year...............       4,210

Number died...................................         366

4,576
Remaining in institution December 31, 1883...........         636

Daily average number of inmates of institution............         649

Mortahty rates of institution............................         7.02

Mortality rates of hospital exclusive of '^coroner's cases"...,         7.19