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and for training of nurses for the sick. It. is managed 

 by a board of fifteen directors. The chancellor of the 

 university and the dean of the faculty of medicine are 

 directors ex-officio; three directors are appointed by the 

 government and the remaining ten are selected by the 

 government and subscribers. The medical officers are 

 all appointed by a conjoint board, consisting of the 

 senate of the university and the directors of the hos- 

 pital. The selection is made from the teachers of the 

 medical school and the appointment is made for six 

 years. The medical staff is composed of three physi- 

 cians, three surgeons, two gynecologists, one ophthal- 

 mologist, one dermatologist, one rhinologist and aurist. 

 A resident medical superintendent and six internes re- 

 side in the hospital. The clinical amphitheaters are 

 small, furnished with wooden benches and desks, the 

 latter a great convenience for the students in recording 

 their observations. The training school for this hospi- 

 tal has seventy pupil nurses, who remain for four years, 

 but receive a small salary after their period of appro- 

 bation. 



I found in this hospital, under the guidance of Dr. 

 Alexander MacCormick, professor of surgery in the Syd- 

 ney University, many rare and interesting cases of gas- 

 trointestinal surgery. Professor MacCormick has a 

 very large service in this institution. The remaining 

 members of the surgical staff are Messrs. Charles P. P. 

 Clubbe and H. V. C. Hinder, both of them eminent 

 and successful surgeons. The gynecologic practice is 

 in the hands of Messrs. Foreman and Thring, wnose 

 reputation extends far beyond the limits of Australia. 

 The last annual report of this hospital shows some very 

 remarkable statistics. Of 20 cases of hydatid of the liver 

 operated on all recovered. In 30 cases of cholecyst- 

 otomy operated on 26 recovered and 4 died. No death 

 in 64 radical operations for hernia. In 16 cases of su- 

 prapubic and perineal cystotomy 2 died and 14 recov- 

 ered. Sixty-five cases of simple appendectomy without 



