DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



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REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BACTERIOLOGY AND 



HYGIENE. 



To President J. L. Snyder: 



The year which is just closing has been the most successfid in the history 

 of this department, both in respect to what has been actually done and 

 what has been projected. These satisfactory conditions may be attributed 

 to added assistance, to adjustment in our new ciuarters. and to enlarged 

 facilities. 



Our class work may be summed up as follows: 



~ It may also be pertinent for me, ev§n in this report, to refer to the work 

 of the college hospital, so carefully and capably conducted by Miss Ketchum. 

 With nearh- one thousand students, housed largeh' in dormitories, it is an 

 ever recurring gratification to know that there is some place where the sick 

 may be nursed properly at .small expense. This year has been marked by 

 few contagious diseases and yet there have been registered in the hospital, 

 as patients who have remained there for an average period of six and one- 

 half days, sixty-nine students. Fully as many more have called there for 

 care. It has become a rendezvous or home for the ailing and has fulfilled 

 its mission most pleasingly and satisfactorily. Without it, contagious dis- 

 eases could not be readily controlled or the sick properly cared for; even 



