Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sixty-First Annual Report of the Presbyterian Hospital of the City of Chicago, 1944 During the year 1944 Presbyterian Hospital rendered patient days of service, the greatest number In Its history. The occupancy averaged or, if the children and maternity departments are excluded, for adult medical and surgical beds. There were patients admitted to the hospital and births in the maternity department. Of the patient days' care, were free and part pay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.