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[page 487] proofs of the management of a hospital is the success of it. I see by the last report that there were 57 persons recovered in the last year; and that there were there, 439 the largest number, and 390 the smallest number in one year. now to take the mean difference between these two would make an average of 414. Now the ratio of 57, the number recovered, to 414, would make about 7 percent wouldn't it, of persons discharged from the hospital recovered? A. I haven't reckoned it. Q. That is about 7 percent out of 100? A. Yes, sir. Q. Of the persons in the hospital last year recovered. That is all. By Dr. Eaton: Q. And that really doesn't represent the number of cures I understand, because a while ago, on account of a legislature incurable were sent home. Is that correct? A. Yes, sir. Q. Do you know how many were sent back to the places they came from? A. They are being sent from time to time as incurable. But there were quite