REPORT  OF  THE  ACTING  PHYSICIANTN-CHIEF.
 

State Emigrant Hospital, Asylum and Refuge, )
Ward's Island, New York, January ist, 1886.   \

Hon. Henry A. Hurlbut,

President, and Board of Commissioners of Emigration :

Gentlemen.-—Owing to the continued disability of Dr. A. M.
Thomas, the duties of Physician-in-Chief still devolve upon me, and I
respectfully present the subjoined annual report of Ward's Island
Emigrant Hospital and Refuge for the past year.

Remaining in hospital Dec. 3ist, 1884.......................      208

Admitted during the year..................................   1,574

Born alive...............................................        90

Total treated.......................................   1,872

Discharged during year............................, .   1,602

Died                "          "..............................      100

1,702

Remaining in hospital Dec. 31st, 1885.................      170

Remaining in institution Dec. 31st, 1884.....................      434

Admitted to institution during the year......................   2,109

Number of births......................,..................        90

Total number cared for...................,  ........   ^t^SS

Discharged during the year..........................   2,280

Deaths during the year..............................      102

2,382

Remaining in institution Dec. 31st, 1885...............      251

Daily average number inmates.............................      294

Mortality rates.......................................   ___       ^.S

Mortality rates of hospital.............................„•.       5.3