A. BRITISH HOSPITAL FOE. WOUNDED IN CON- STANTINOPLE—RESULT OF APPEAL.
[TO THE EDITOR OF TUB " SPECTATOR...1
"Bra,—Early in November last you were good enough to publish an appeal from me for funds for the opening of a British hospital for wounded in this city. I shall be greatly obliged if you will atow allow me to state through your columns that the response to 'that appeal was most generous. A total of about £1,550 was received in subscriptions, and a further sum of over ..42300 was guaranteed from different sources; but the outlay not having .exceeded the receipts there has been fortunately no occasion to call upon the further guarantees. Two hundred patients were admitted during the five and a half months that the hospital remained open (November 11th to ',April 26th). The average stay of each patient was 27'7 days, and -the average number of patients in the wards throughout the ywhole period was 33.4, this figure rising at times to a maximum -of 57 or 58.
It is hoped shortly to send to each subscriber a brief report on the hospital, with list of donations and audited balance-sheet. But in the meantime I desire to express my sincere thanks to the „generous subscribers to the fund, to the members of the Hospital Committee, to the surgical and nursing staff, and to all who have lelped towards carrying the undertaking to a successful issue.—
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