Report of the fiscal year 1926-1927 shows the following
service: patients admitted, 1986; full pay days treatment, 13,-
921; part pay days treatment, 503; free days treatment, 1788;
total number of days treatment, 16,312; surgical operations,
026; anaesthetics, 827; laboratory examinations, 5530; ob-
stetric cases, 189; X-ray examinations. 470: ambulance calls,
195; dispensary cases, 243.
The board of directors are: president, M. J. Slattery, vice-
president, Robert A. McCrea; secretary, Alexander Stewart;
treasurer, Peter Gray; W. B. Rodgers, R. L. Thompson, J. W.
Vickerman, L. K. Porter, Edward Sutter, W. A. Jones, G. C.
Gerwig, W. P. Fraser, A. G. Liddell and J. D. Hills, D. D.
Eva M. Braun, R. N., is superintendent.
The present staff doctors are: D. A. Atkinson, C. C. Croft,
W. B. Denslow, R. E. Davison, J. S. Donaldson, A. H. Elli-
ott, J. C. Gamble, A. H. Gross, J. C. Kelso, G. C. Kneedler,
J. J. Kvatsak, D. G. Lerch, J. L. McBride, C. F. Metzger, C.
K. Ownes, E. H. Ramsey, D. W. Seville, W. B. Shepard, E.
H. Sloan, W. J. K. Snyder, E. L. Sutton, G. H. Walker, J. C.
Welch, H. E. Woelfel, F. L. Schumacher and Zoe Allison
Johnston.
The Ladies Advisory Board has forty members. Mrs.
Nellie E. Robertson is chairman. Their work has been
crowned with great success. A large amount of money has
been raised by them. The work of the Home and Hospital
Club, the Jane Fraser Club, the Avalon Hospital and Relief
Club, The West View Suburban Hospital Club, and other
organizations and clubs in the North boroughs have aided
greatly in advancing the hospital. The needs of the hospital
constantly increase. There is still much to be done. The
most urgent needs at present are a nurses’ home and an isola-
tion building.
The remarkable history and growth of Suburban General
Hospital is an evidence of its high standing in the community
it serves. It successful development is due to the public
spirit and support.
TUBERCULOSIS LEAGUE
Many noted health authorities the world over agree that
tuberculosis is the greatest single factor destructive of the
the health of a city’s population. Up to the year 1906, Pitts-
