AMERICAN VETERINARY HOSPITAL. 
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY HOSPITAL 
Practical Department of the American Veterinary College. 
TENTH ANNUAL REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
, Gentlemen: 
Once again it is my pleasant duty to present you with a report, 
which will, I hope, be satisfactory to the most sanguine, and 
which will impress the public with the value of the work done in 
the Hospital Department of the American Veterinary College. 
In my last report I stated that the number of our patients had 
exceeded those of previous years. To-day I can still make the 
same statement. The figures show that twenty-one thousand three 
hundred and one animals were treated inside of our walls during 
the past year. These figures compare advantageously with the 
clinical facilities of many of the older European schools, and 
surpasses the record of any other veterinary institution on this 
continent. 
Are those figures the highest to which we can pretend to 
reach ? I do not believe it. If you glance .over the figures 
representing the work of 1883, 1884, 1885, you will observe that 
they are nearly the same. This is easily accounted for. They 
represent the total of patients that could be accommodated. Our 
clinics, our operations, our list of boarding patients have remained 
nearly the same. Why ? On account of want of accommodations. 
Clinical material has often been discharged for want of accommo¬ 
dations ; operations declined for want of facilities; boarding pa¬ 
tients refused admission for want of room. These conditions 
apply to all animals—horses, dogs, etc. 
JL)o not these facts show the imperative necessity of providing 
at the earliest time these greatly needed accommodations, this 
much wanted room. 
The following is the report of cases during the entire ten 
years. In the year ending 
March 10th, 1876, there were entered in the clinical book. 731 animals. 
“ 1877, “ “ “ 1,071 “ 
“ 1878, “ , “ “ 1,478 “ 
“ 1879, “ “ “ 1,896 
“ 1880, “ “ “ 2,442 
“ 1881, “ “ . “ 2,585 “ 
1882, “ “ “ .3,182 
“ 1883, “ “ “ 2,679 
“ 1884, <• “ “ 2,561 
“ 1885, “ “ “ 2,686 
Total....21,301 
