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 . .11 



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 



