214 VIKINGS OF TO-DAY 



Medical Cases. 



Diseases of 



Digestive system 633 



Respiratory and circulatory system . . . .194 



Nervous system 60 



Excretory system 40 



Women 64 



Diseases of special organs 



Eye (including 34 cases of night blindness). . .211 



Ear 40 



Nose and throat 93 



Skin 105 



Minor cases Headaches, colds, strains . . . .167 



Cases of rheumatism 64 



Surgical Cases. 



Affections of the upper limbs . . . . . 306 



Affections of the lower limbs ...... 94 



General surgical cases Glands, bones, special agues, 



rickets, tumour, fistula, etc 188 



Sundry minor cases 210 



Total 2,493 



Operations performed under chloroform . . . 17 



Major operations without chloroform 1 1 



Minor surgical operations, including teeth .... 269 



There were in Battle Harbour Hospital the follow- 

 ing named cots or beds : viz., Exeter, Brighton, Red- 

 hill, Hutchinson, Macpherson ; also the John Foun- 

 tain Elvin and John Charles Harris memorial cots. 



In the male ward were first the "Brighton cot." 

 This was occupied by a poor Newfoundland fisher- 

 man whom I brought 80 miles in the Princess 

 May. He had consumption, and died after about 



