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medical students, and by Miss Boyes Smith, the 

 Professor of Domestic Science, for teaching her 

 students this aspect of their work. 



We were fortunate in securing several acres of 

 beautifully planted old grounds for our institution, but 

 the buildings from first to last have been the simplest 

 and most homelike imaginable. Indeed, for some 

 years our nurses had to be accommodated in a wooden 

 stable modified on very primitive lines, and the 

 hospital itself was an ordinary colonial wooden cottage, 

 good enough for anyone so far as sunshine, fresh air, 

 &c., were concerned, but containing practically nothing 

 outside the range of the humblest cottager. Costly 

 elaborate buildings would have been the reverse of 

 an advantage, and we were more than gratified when 

 Mr. Wolf Harris, of Queen's Gate, Kensington, 

 coming "forward some three years ago to munificently 

 help and endow the Society with the whole estate, 

 and to supply us with the means of extending the 

 buildings, wrote his wishes as follows :-- 



" I specially desire that, as far as possible consis- 

 tent with doing full justice to the babies admitted, the 

 hospital will continue to be so directed and managed 

 that any mother in ordinary circumstances visiting it 

 may feel that almost everything done in the institu- 

 tion could be effectively carried out by herself in her 

 own home after receiving the necessary instruction. 

 As conducing to this end, it is hoped that strict 

 economy and simplicity in regard to buildings, furnish- 

 ings, appliances, clothing, &c., will be maintained as 

 heretofore, and that the treatment will continue to 

 be conducted, as far as possible, on broad, simple, 

 practical, scientific lines, easily comprehensible by 

 the ordinary mother. 



I have no copy of the annual statistics at hand, 

 but I think I am safe in saying that the average 

 mortality has been under 10 per cent, of the admis- 

 sions. The infants who have died have generally 



