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tion, wall paper that has not been renewed for years, dark bedrooms that must be lived in because the tenants can afford no better; or when we visit the com- munity in the vicinity of the garbage crematory and find houses with no sewer connections, owned by men who charge the tenants a rent that precludes neces- sary repairs, a neighborhood where the air, instead of being sweet with the per- fume of the blossom-laden fruit trees, is foul with the smell of decaying garbage ; or, when we care for a family where the father, injured in the factory, has been sent to the hospital at the expense of the company, but with no provision for the wife and children, and no responsibility acknowledged by employers for the des- titution in the family; or, when we read of the case of the sick old man and help- less wife, the story of illy paid labor and the abnormally short working life; and in case of the broken-down young girl the story of a life of labor begun too soon — if we learn all this about bad housing conditions, unsanitary neighborhoods, lack of protection for the wage-earners, the helplessness of poverty-stricken old age, and the evils of child labor, and take no steps to remedy the evil and abate the causes of disease, then we have fallen short of the objects of our association."

The association has taken active part in the establishment of the sanitary for tuberculosis patients.

STATISTICAL REPORT, I9IO.

Cases reported to association 304

New cases 260

Old cases 44

Visits made 2,885

Ofifice dressings 50

Kindergarten children cared for no

School children cared for 39

Deaths 33

Graduate nurses employed 3

Practical nurses employed 16

Pupil nurse, Good Samaritan Hospital i

PATIENTS PLACED IN HOSPITALS.

Good Samaritan 14

St. Vincent's 11

County 6

Open Air Sanitorium 7

North Pacific Sanitorium i

Total

39

NATIONALITIES.

Scandinavian 21

Scotch 4

Russian 33

German 18

Chinese 2

English 5

American 205

Irish 6

Italian 5

Australian 2

Austrian i

French 2

GENERAL DISEASES.

(a. Specific Infections.)

Typhoid fever 7