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which dimmish the need of cash outlay. The value of these 

 gifts can not be estimated. 



New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Illinois, Califor- 

 nia and Ohio contain about 35 per cent of the total population 

 of the country, yet contribute about two thirds of the cost of 

 maintaining hospitals, or over eighteen million dollars, while 

 the next 21 states, which contain almost exactly the same per- 

 centage of inhabitants as the first 6, spend for this purpose 

 less than six millions, or a little more than a fifth of the entire 

 cost for the United States. The 5 states, Missouri, New Jersey 

 Maryland, Minnesota, and Michigan, although containing but 

 13.6 per cent of the population, expend $3,698,224 for the sup- 

 port of hospitals, while the last 17 states beginning with North 

 Carolina and ending with Oklahoma have 15.5 per cent of the 

 total population and gave but $898,419 for the support of 

 hospitals. 



These financial comparisons indicate the conditions 

 necessitating extensive hospital facilities rather than the 

 advance in benevolent enterprises, though the latter is more 

 generally a concomitant of settled and prosperous community 

 life. 



The subsidies received by hospitals from public funds were 

 $2,276,336, which equals 18.1 per cent of the cost of mainte- 

 nance in 1903. The hospitals in the following states and 

 territories were not aided by payments from taxes : California, 

 Idaho, Indian Territory, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, 

 Tennessee, and Utah. Elsewhere the subsidies run from $340 

 in Wyoming to $725,554 in Pennsylvania, and cover percent- 

 ages of cost varying from 0.5 per cent in Minnesota to 24.5 

 per cent in the District of Columbia. Other states having 

 institutions receiving notable amounts are Georgia, Connecti- 

 cut, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Maryland, Rhode Island, Maine, 

 New Jersey, Arizona, and New York. Institutions in 29 states 

 are helped through subsidies to the extent of less than 8 per 

 cent of the cost of maintenance. 



The total sum received by hospitals in pa3mGLent for care 

 of patients was $12,181,484, which forms 43.2 per cent of the 

 cost of maintenance. In 24 states, including some doing the 

 largest hospital work, as New York, Pennsylvania, Massa- 



