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HOSPITAL REPORT FOR 1906.
To the Chairman and Councillors of the Willesden
Urban District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you the
annual Hospital Report, the fifteenth of its series.
It has again to be recorded that the number of
patients treated has exceeded that of any previous
year.
The possibility of this I drew your attention to
in my report a year ago, and I suggested then that
it was advisable you should consider the question of
permanently increasing the nursing staff, whereby
the patients might be more expeditiously dealt with,
and their stay in hospital reduced to the minimum
period, for it would only be by such means that a
hospital of this dimensions could cope with the number
of patients to be treated.
Your sanction to this increase of staff having
been given, the necessary number of nurses were