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STATEMENT OF THE WORK 
 
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 I»ERF.>RME[) AT THE 
 
 HOM(EOPATHIC HOSPITAL 
 
 IN TORONTO 
 
 SINCE ITS OIENING WITHIN THE LAST 
 THREE YEARS 
 
 Ami an Appeal to all who favor the good zvork 
 
 shown to have been done to extena 
 
 its usefulness. 
 
 Toronto : 
 rKiMi-i) i.Y IM:.IF & graham, 23 Coi.borne Strket. 
 
 I89I. 
 
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SrATE^ME)Mir OF^ THB) WORK. 
 
 THE Trustees of the Hom'«jpathic Hospital of 
 this city make an appeal to the citizens to aid in the 
 maintenance of this charitable and benevolent insti- 
 tution— ^vhich is open to all classes and to all forms 
 of sickness but those of an infectious kind— and to 
 enable the Trustees to extend its usefulness, which is 
 much required, but which they are unable to <1(> 
 from their present small resources. 
 
 The reason infectious cases are not admitted is in 
 consequence only of the inability of the trustees to pro- 
 vide separate and exclusive compartments for them. 
 
 Homoeopathy has been practised here for more 
 than thirty years ; and it has for about twenty years 
 been legally recognized as an authorized branch of 
 the medical faculty of this Province. Its members 
 are to be found in every civilized country; and 
 they are admitted to be as learned in the scientific 
 branches of the medical art as those who adhere 
 to the old, or, as it is called by way of distinction, 
 the orthodox school. 
 
The Trustees opened a Free DispeiiHary hi 
 this city in the early part of 1SS7 ; nnil shortly 
 afterwards they opened an Hospital for the admis- 
 sion of patients, on Richmond Street West, having' 
 accommodation, however, for only eight beds. 
 
 Within a in(mth from that time they relieved and 
 treated several cases, but the demands upon them far 
 exceeded their resources. 
 
 In May, 1890, they bought the building now in 
 use for the Hospital, on the corner of Jarvis and 
 Shuter streets, for the sum of $13,000, upon which 
 they still owe about $12,000. 
 
 There are five public and two private wards, 
 containing thirty-three beds for patients, in the 
 
 building. 
 
 The Medical Staft consists of twelve gentlemen, 
 one of whom in rotation is the attendant House 
 Physician for a week at a time. 
 
 The Free Dispensary is still maintained for tlus 
 daily service of applicants. 
 
 There is not sufficient room in the present build- 
 ing, either for paying or non-paying patients, and 
 not nearly room sufficient for the accommodation of 
 private ward patients. 
 
 The want of such acconnnodation is a serious 
 lo33 to the Hospital. Provision cannot be made for 
 a very considerable number of pay patients, which 
 
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 wouM iitM greatly to the incouio. The medical 
 officers, in their respective attcinhmces, ami the 
 Lady Superintendent have been obliged to turn 
 away many applicants, both of the paying and non- 
 paying classes, simply from the want of room to 
 provide for thern. 
 
 There is a further loss daily sustained by reason 
 of the same want of house room. -'^ 
 
 We are prevented from receiving and educating a 
 special class of nurses for attendance in private 
 families. Applications arc frequently made for them, 
 but we cannot supply them, and it is only at times that 
 any of the regular household nurses can be spared. 
 
 The Resident Staff of the Hospital consists of a 
 Lady Superintendent, a Housekeeper, nine Nurses 
 four women servants and one lan servant. 
 
 There are about twenty Homi eopathic practitioners 
 in the City of Toronto, and there are many others in 
 full practice throughout the Dominion. 
 
 •They are each obliged to pass the like strict ex- 
 amination, before the Medical Board of the Province, 
 Hs those who have studied, and are practicing under 
 the oil I school system, — or they are obliged to pro- 
 duce their diplomas from some well known and re- 
 cognised Medical Body of another country. 
 
 We do not think it necessary to say anything in 
 defence of our system of therapeutics. 
 
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 It is too late to require any vindication in its 
 bjhaU. It has taken its place in tlio Medical Pro- 
 fession, and with the public genemlly, as a valid and 
 valuable curative method. Nor do we make any 
 (juestion respecting the Allopatliic course of ti'eatrncnb 
 as compared witJi our own. It may, however, he 
 permitted to us to state what the results appear to be 
 if truly given, and there is no doubt they ai*e, under 
 the two systems, for witli respect to results there can 
 be no controversy. 
 
 Tlie followinjj extracts are taken from " Boericko 
 & Tafals' Physicians* Price Current," published in the 
 United Sttites in 1890, page 128 and following pages, 
 and copied by it fi*om " Cock burn's Medical Reform. " 
 
 CHOLERA STATISTIC?. 
 
 ALLOPATHY. 
 
 la Dtoe (]i£fereDt European 
 Countriea 
 
 Cases. Deaths. Death Rate. 
 42,125 28,110 54.8 
 
 HOMtEOPATHY. 
 
 Id eight differunfe European 
 Countries, and in Cin- 
 cinnati. 
 
 Cases. Deaths. Death Rate. 
 8,508 785 8.6 
 
 YELLOW FEVER. 
 Cases. Deaths. Death Rate. Cases. Deaths. Death Rate. 
 
 158 
 
 79 
 
 90,187 12,290 
 
 50 
 23.5 
 
 555 
 
 8: 
 
 8.911 201 
 
 6.0 
 Q.0 
 
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 7 
 
 PNEUMONIA, (VIENNA). 
 
 ALLOPATHY. 
 
 Treatment. Cases. Deatbs. Death Rate. 
 
 ( 85 17 20 ) 
 
 ^eaesoction IDaratlon of Ulnesa 85 days. J 
 
 Treatment. Cases. Deaths. Death Rate. 
 
 Tartar Emetic (Duration of illness 28.9 days.. 
 
 Treatment. Cases. Deaths. Death Rate. 
 
 .,„,.. ( 189 14 7.4 \ 
 
 ^0 Medicine | Duration of illness 28 days. { 
 
 B0H(G0PATHT. 
 
 Cases. Deaths. Death Rate. • 
 
 58H 28 5.2 
 
 Duration of illness 11.75 days, 
 
 The HoiiKvopatliic column from abstract of 
 reports of seven Homoeopathic Hospitals in Europe 
 for 1S48. (N. Am. Jour, of Hom., Vol. II). Allo- 
 panh'ii column from reports of Dundee an-l 
 Edinburgh Hospitals {Medical Reform.) 
 
 ALLOPATHY. HOMOEOPATHY. 
 
 Cases Deaths Death- Cases Deaths Death 
 Rate Rate 
 
 Inflammation ) ^7 20 26 710 45 6.B 
 
 of LanfiS ) 
 Scarlet Fover 29 20,76 102 8 2.9 
 
 Inflammation) jq 7 70 64 3 5.5 
 
 of Brain ) 
 
 Apoplexy 3 83.3 21 6 28.5 
 
 Cholera 167 87 65.5 65 4 9.3 
 
27 Homa'opathic HoHpitulH in ISSG report 10,545 
 (M.s(«, deaths CSf), death-rate 0.5 2« Homu-opathie 
 Hospitals ill 18S7 report 12,710 cases, deaths 70li, 
 death-rate 5.5. 34 Honueopatliic Hospitals in 1888 
 ivport 33,001 cases, dcath.s 1,045, <leath rate 3.1. 
 
 There is much more of the like information which 
 it is not necessary to state. Every pa* t of the statistical 
 t.iljuhition ^dves the like results, tliat the ljom«i*o. 
 pathic treatment saves many more lives tlian arc 
 saved by the allopathic remedies. 
 
 In the Encyclopedia Britannico, Tit. Hoimvo/^alliy, 
 \'ol. XII., pp. 128-9, by J. Orey Glover, M.D., London. 
 M writer appai-ently not favorable to the new school 
 it is said— "The late Professor Henderson, the 
 " ablest and wisest of Hahnemann's supporters in 
 '• England, quotes the practice of Dr. Eleshmann of 
 " Vienna, and also other homoeopathic returns with 
 •great satisfaction, and undoubtedly an<l proporlj' 
 " they produce a great effect, showing a mortality of 
 "one in twenty-one cases only, which was a n)uch 
 "higher percentage of success than under the 
 *' ordinary treatment. But these showed, unin- 
 '• tpntionally on his part, what nature could do, and 
 '• his devotion and that of his school to therapeutics 
 ' has acted as a somewhat deserved rebuke to those 
 " physicians who get so absorbed in their study of 
 ' disease as to forget that the gi-eat interest of man- 
 

 
 " kiinl ill it is to Imvc it cured with us little «lrlny as 
 " |M.s.sil»lo. It niuy 'to udinittcd that hoinn'opathy 
 has done soiiH' soivici' in dircctiiijjf more .s[K'oi»il 
 ■attention to variiais powerful dnijjs, such as aeonitf, 
 "nux vomica, belladonna, and to the advanta<re <.f 
 •'^^'iviiifr theni in simjsler forms, than were common 
 '■ Itefoi'o the days of Hahnemann. " And after specif v- 
 ini( his ^M-eat defects, the article concludes -" Hut 
 " with all his defects, it must he arlmitted that he 
 " had the jrreat merit of distui-hini: and discreditin!' 
 ■ indeft iisihie modes of practice." 
 
 The following' are some of the returns wjn'ch were 
 nude to the Lo<,dslative Assemhiy hy Provincial 
 H()spitals for th.. years 1S8.S, 1889 and 1890, from 
 loth SeptembiM- to 10th September of each year 
 The piM'centaffes are as follows : - 
 
 TORONTO GENKRAL HOSPITAL. 
 
 
 Cases. 
 
 Dkaths. 
 
 PlCRCRNTAGI- 
 
 1888 
 
 2.047 
 
 177 
 
 O.fiO 
 
 1889 
 
 2,()D1 
 
 1(;9 
 
 <).(J0 
 
 1890 
 
 3,IG8 
 
 218 
 
 G.JiO 
 
 (TlTY HOSPITAL, HAMILTON. 
 
 1888 702 53 
 
 1889 
 18J0 
 
 727 
 715 
 
 49 
 CO 
 
 740 
 r..(iO 
 
10 
 
 OENERAL HOSFJTAL, KINGSTON. 
 
 1888 
 1889 
 1800 
 
 512 
 571 
 61G 
 
 33 
 20 
 38 
 
 GENERAL HOSPITAL, LONDON. 
 
 1888 5G4 , 38 
 
 1881) 469 82 
 
 1890 476 I 32 
 
 OENERAL PROTESTANT HOSPITAL, 
 
 1888 
 1889 
 1890 
 
 889 
 365 
 382 
 
 35 
 47 
 44 
 
 IIOM. OATH. HOSPITAL, OTTAWA. 
 
 1888 009 1 46 
 
 1889 682 40 
 
 1890 731 I G2 
 
 CENERAL HOSPITAL. GUELPH. 
 
 1888 200 
 
 1889 440 
 
 1890 429 
 
 BELLEVILLE HOSPITAL 
 
 1888 86 
 
 1889 112 
 
 1890 137 
 
 HOMCEOPATHfC HOSPITAL. 
 
 Firat Return 1890 93 I 
 
 14 
 23 
 
 20 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 13 
 
 0.50 
 4. CO 
 0.10 
 
 6.80 
 0.75 
 0.75 
 
 9.0 
 13 
 11.50 
 
 7.30 
 0.85 
 8.50 
 
 7.0 
 
 ' 5.25 
 
 0.0 
 
 9.8 
 
 7.14 
 
 9.50 
 
 5.85 
 
 When the number of patients in an hospital is 
 small for the year, the death-rate cannot be fairly 
 tested by comparing it with the deaths in an hos- 
 pital in which the number of patients is very much 
 
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 largei 
 
n 
 
 In every hospital the patients wlio recover, un- 
 less in soino very exceptional case, exceed the num- 
 ber of those who die. 
 
 Tlie greater number of patients treated must 
 therefore, as almost an invariable rule,, show a com- 
 paratively lower death-rate ; or, to express it other- 
 wise, out of a large number of patients treated, the 
 happen:. of several deaths will not add materially 
 to the death-rate percentage. If, for instance, 3,000 
 patients be treated and 200 die, the death rate 
 would be 6M per cent., and if 300 died, the death-rato 
 would be 10 per cent. 
 
 But if only two patients be treated and ono 
 die, the death-rate would be 50 per cent., and if 
 twenty were treated and two died, the death rate 
 would be 10 per cent. Neither of these latter cases, 
 however, would be a fair test of the treatment being 
 either judicious or injudicious. 
 
 There must too, of course, at all times be allow- 
 ance made for any unusual number of dangerous 
 diseases, which any particular Hospital may have had 
 to deal with during the year. 
 
 The return which will be made by the Homoeo- 
 pathic Hospital for the year ending the 30th Sept., 
 1891, will show the number of patients treated to 
 have been 286. In that number is included the 4ti 
 children which were born in the Hospital, of which 
 
12 
 
 number three were still-born. Exclurlinof these three, 
 who were never patients, there were seven deaths out 
 of 286, ivhich sJioivs a death rate 0/2.8^. 
 The causes of the seven deaths wei'c — 
 
 Tubercular consumption 2 
 
 Scrofula 1 
 
 Ulceration of Stomach 1 
 
 Meninijitis 1 
 
 Nephritis (died within twenty 
 hours after admission to the 
 Hospital, from aneurism of 
 
 Aorta) ... 1 
 
 Infant Syphilis (a short time 
 afterbirth) ...; 1 
 
 \ '•*■. 
 
 The free dispensary of the Hospital from the Ist 
 of January to the end of September, 1891, shews — 
 Patients treated (representing 735 
 
 families) 985 
 
 Repeated Prescriptions ... 2, 1 83 
 
 Tota • Prescriptions 3,1 1 8 
 
 Being 273 days. 
 
 Less Sundays ... 39 " 
 
 Total 234 " 
 
 Showing that 13.3 were prescribed for daily. 
 
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 It now appears the HoimieopAthic Hospital lias 
 •sliovvn f^ood work performed with Kinall means, nnd 
 with a very limited and ill-adapted buildinp; for our 
 purposes. 
 
 It has L'iven assurance that it can, under its ad- 
 ministration, do much greater and much needed work 
 in the public interest, if its means are extended, and 
 the result under such treatment shows a greater 
 savino- of human life than there is by any other cura- 
 tive institution of the sick governed by a different 
 system of practice. 
 
 As the undertaking has outgrown the small be- 
 ginning of the Dispensary, so it has also outgrown the 
 capacity of the building at present used as an Hos- 
 pital ; and we are compelled, in order to carry out the 
 purposes of an eflficient establishment, to provide a 
 building sufficiently large to meet the requirements 
 of this rapidly-growing city, both for infectious and 
 non-infectious cases. 
 
 We depend upon our citizens, and we earnestly 
 entreat them to help us liberally in this work ; 
 for such an Institution is much wanted, and will 
 abundantly repay the community for the charity 
 extended to the recipients of their bounty. 
 
 That further hospital accommodation is urgently 
 required in this city, appears by the report of Dr, 
 Allen, the Medical Health Officer, recently made to the 
 
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 Lical Boar,] of Hoalfch. 
 
 commented upon in fcho 
 
 ■»aU ot 20th November, just issued. U is said 
 
 ^0 fewer than 55 cases of diphtheria were reported 
 
 for the week ending last Sat.miay, and those who 
 
 are conversant with the deadly nature of this dis- 
 
 "ease know what this means;" and from the sanie 
 
 report .t appears that it is feared typhoid is likely 
 
 to Visit us also. 
 
 It is in view of the present prosperous condition 
 of he e,ty, and of the great future there is for 
 ■ t. that the trustees,^ having shown a public neces- 
 sity for a larger and, in their opinion, for a more 
 -enehcal hospital service in this city, now appeal to 
 the ctizens to aid them in this great public object 
 
 The trustees believe they may also, with confid- 
 once, make application to the Legislature for a grant 
 to supplement whatever other funds they may be able 
 to raise to c"'"'" ""^ ^' • 
 
 y out this good work. It is a public 
 
 work, and it is a charity. It is to aid the sick 
 the destitute, for it is with the sick 
 poor— we have them with us alway. 
 
 and 
 as it is with the 
 
 ADAM WILSON, 
 
 President. 
 
 November, i^g-i. 
 
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 'So'iE.—FredericJe lioper,E8q., Secretary of the Iloina'- 
 opathic Hospital, whose office is at the G.N. JV. 
 Telegraph Co., Wellington Street, uHl receive 
 
 either subscriptions or donations for the above 
 
 purposes.