Download or read book Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of St. Luke's Hospital, 1919 (Classic Reprint) written by St. Luke'S Hospital and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of St. Luke's Hospital, 1919 Under present conditions, without assistance, it will be impossible to maintain a free list of from thirty to forty per cent of our patients as well as about fifty per cent of the pay patients at rates which do not meet the full cost Of their care. It is of course wholly unnecessary to present arguments Or evidence as to the absolute need for the work which the Hospital does, in so far as its means will permit, and it ought to be unnecessary to do more than make known the imperative necessity for adequate support. To sum the whole matter up in a few words, to maintain our old standard we must have an income available for current expenses from services outside the earnings of the Institution of not? Less than per. Annum and further if the Hospital is to progress, a sum of not less than must be secured for new buildings and equipments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.