The total number of men admitted as Unclassified Students was 382. Of this number, 234 have actually registered. It will be difficult at the end of the year to classify these men on their records, which will exhibit the greatest variety; but the experience will be most useful to us, and will provide us with a very considerable body of data for testing and judging the validity of our requirements for admission. REPORT OF THE MEDICAL ADVISER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY: SIR, I have the honor to present the following tables showing the illness among Harvard students for the academic year 1917-18. The total of 1,400 is less than for many years, 689 less than last year. The 16 cases of appendicitis is a remarkably small number. The average total of appendicitis for the preceding seven years is 38.6. Only 400 students were cared for at the Stillman Infirmary as compared with 813 for 1916-17. The average for the preceding six years was 560. The Infirmary is still in need of funds to construct porches, where patients may receive the great benefit to be derived from open air treatment in suitable weather, and to pay for certain necessary improvements, especially in the elevator service. There was one death only at the Infirmary, Mr. George A. Madigan, 1919, of pneumonia on April 18, 1918. The following gifts to the Infirmary have gone far to make the hours less tedious and more pleasant for practically every student whose illness has obliged him to go to the Infirmary: From Dr. B. A. G. Fuller, Review of Reviews, Scribner's, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Monthly, Century, Life, Collier's, Munsey, and The London Illustrated. From the Crimson management, two copies daily of the Crimson. From the Physiological Laboratory, Lawrence Scientific School, three books. From student patients, two books for the nurses' library, and four for the patients' library. During the summer of 1918 the Medical Adviser and Dr. Albert P. Norris of Cambridge served as surgeons to the R.O.T.C., including the three weeks in camp. At Camp Thayer five tents were set up for a field hospital. One tent, furnished with tables, lockers, medical and surgical supplies, was called the dispensary and used for consultation and treatment of ambulatory cases. Another tent was equipped for a diet kitchen and under the management of Mrs. Bailey added greatly to the efficiency of the hospital. Two other tents were furnished with canvas cots and constituted our two hospital wards. Both the dispensary and the diet kitchen were supplied with excellent water piped from the town water main which conveniently passed along the road bordering the camp. With the good food supplied by the diet kitchen we were able to care for all cases of illness and accident, with the exception of two, in this field hospital. Previous arrangements had been made with the Clinton Hospital, three miles distant, to take patients from our camp. One case of appendicitis and one of suspected gastric ulcer were all it was found necessary to send. Over 20 cases of sunstroke and exhaustion were successfully treated in the field hospital. MARSHALL H. BAILEY, Medical Adviser. |
