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Rh The number of patients who died in the course of the year, was

The number of patients remaining under treatment on the 30th day of June, 1873, was

The use of the word "discharged" in the preceding tables designates persons formerly in the military or naval service of the country, and admitted by authority of the act of July 13, 1866; and those designated as "civilian" are civil employes of the Army admitted by order of the Secretary of War, under authority of the same act.

The recoveries this year were 68+ per cent. of the discharges, 46+ per cent. of the discharges and deaths together, 33- per cent. of the admissions, and 9- per cent. of the whole number of patients under treatment. The ratio of recoveries to discharges was somewhat higher,and that of the deaths to the whole number under treatment slightly lower than the average of several preceding years, and both are more favorable, perhaps, than they are likely to be in the years that are to come. As, under the original organic act and that of July 13, 1866, all cases of mental disease, of whatever duration or complication, that arise, or have arisen, in the Army and Navy, and in the District of Columbia, may be, as the most of them, in fact, are, sent to this institution, in which, when once legally within its walls, the chronic cases find a home for the remainder of their lives; and as the reception of all cases of insanity, recent and chronic, entitled to treatment in this hospital,