The  Chairman.  Do  the  other  ph}'sicians  go  through  the  wards  at
specified  times?

Doctor  Mabon.  Yes;  particularly  in  the  acute  service,  our  physi-
cians spend  all  their  time  in  the  wards.  For  instance,  in  our  acute
service  we  receive  at  that  institution  about  two  thousand  cases  a  year,
and  in  our  acute  service  we  have  four  or  five  i)hysicians  on  the  ward
at  all  times  except  at  meal  times  and  except  in  the  evening.  They
report  there  for  duty  at  half -past  8  in  the  morningand  after  their  noon
meal  they  go  back  there  and  stay  until  5  or  6.  xhey  have  stenogra-
phers there  with  them  who  take  down  the  results  of  the  examination.
Mr.  Wallace.  Doctor,  please  describe  the  building  that  you  keep
the  acute  patients  in.
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Doctor  Mabon.  The  buildinf^  that  we  keep  the  acute  patients  in  is
comi>osed  in  part  of  a  general  dormitory,  which  looks  like  a  general
hospital  ward.  There  is  another  dormitory  also.  We  have  a  number
of  smgle  rooms  there,  three  of  which  are  used  by  the  physicians  and
the  stenographers  in  examining  patients  and  in  recording  the  facts.
