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ferent specialties. r J 1 lie hospitals of Adelaide receive 

 patients from all parts of the state and furnish the 

 medical department of the university with an abundance 

 of material, which is utilized by the teachers to greatest 

 advantage for bedside and amphitheater instruction. It 

 is somewhat remarkable that none, of the general hos- 

 pitals of Australia makes any provision for maternity 

 cases, but all medical schools have a large out-door ob- 

 stetric department, where the students receive practical 

 instruction at the bedside of the poor in this most im- 

 portant branch of the healing art. One of the rigid re- 

 quirements for graduation in all of the medical schools 

 is to the effect that the candidate must present evi- 

 dence that he has attended a specified number of con- 

 finement cases. 



THE ADELAIDE HOSPITAL. 



The Adelaide Hospital is the largest and only public 

 general hospital in the city and its medical affairs are 

 controlled by the clinical staff of the university. It was 

 founded 50 years ago and can accommodate 240 pa- 

 tients. The main building, of sandstone with brick cor- 

 ners, is two stories high. It is situated some distance 

 back from the street in the rear of an open square which 

 has been converted into a beautiful little park, with well 

 laid out gravel drives and walks and shaded with a va- 

 riety of trees and ornamented with shrubbery and 

 flowers. The remaining two including sides of the park 

 are occupied by one-story buildings, most of them of 

 recent construction. The operating theater now in use 

 is antique and the surgeons are anxiously awaiting the 

 opening of the new one. which is nearing completion 

 and which has been well planned and will represent 

 the most modern improvements in this, the most im- 

 portant part of any hospital. The wards in the old 

 building are somewhat gloomy and not sufficiently 

 lighted. The electric light has not as yet been intro- 

 duced, and the scanty gas jets at night can be no im- 



