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ra. December 3, 1927 WINNETKA TALK 6572 Patients Are Treated in Y ear at Evanston Hospital To what extent hospitals experience "peak loads" was shown in the report of Miss Ada Belle McCleery, superin- tendent of the Ev- anston hospital, to} the hospital asso- ciation at its and nual meeting, Nov! The number of patients at the hos- pital on certain dates varied from 125 on the least busy]! day to 229 as the largest number. The holiday sea son especially) states Miss Mc- Cleery, means a de- crease in the num-w, W. Buchanan ber of patients be- cause of the desire of the patients and the efforts of the doctors to prevent hospital sojourns at that time. Miss McCleery's report showed that during the year 6,572 patients were treated and that the average number of days' stay per patient was 13. Of the patients admitted during the year --6,408--pay patients were 2,266, part- pay were 3,695, and free patients were Toloff Photo Contagion on Wane W. W. Buchanan, president, also made a report stating that the year completed, the thirty-sixth in the his- tory of the hospital, was its year of greatest usefulness. One of the facts of his report was that the number of contagious cases has decreased so ma- terially because of the success of pre- ventive medicine that it was possible to convert two floors of the isolation building to general medical use, and the name of the building was changed to the "West building." Physical changes in the plant in- cluded radical additions and replace- ments in the laundry, remoceling of the educational building for the school of nursing, and completion of Hendry house. Mr. Buchanan was re-elected presi- dent of the hospital association and other officers re-elected to their posi- tions were: Mrs. Perkins B. Bass, sec- retary; Mrs. James A. Patten, vice resident; Edwin Sherman, treasurer. he executive committee nominated and elected consists of J. Horton Fall, Jr., Chester A. Cook, William H. Dur- ham, James A. Patten, C. H. Poppen- husen, Harrison B. Riley, George G. Thorp and E. P. Welles. Directors elected to serve until 1930 were W. W. Buchanan, Frank S. Cun- ningham, William H. Dunham, Albert E. Cross, Mrs. James A. Patten, Mrs. Charles Henry Betts, William A. Dyche, J. H. Fall, Jr, Mrs. James A. Odell and Henry A. Patten. Lists Gifts for Year Gifts received during the year in- cluded: $10,000 from Arthur B. Jones in his will as a memorial to two of his children who died in infancy; the Webster Library fund amounting to $2,150 and the Medical Science endow- ment amounting to $1,500, turned over by the trustees of the Evanston Public Library, custodians of the fund and the endowment; $5000 to the permanent endowment fund by Charles F. Grey; $1,000 from Mrs. Lilly Parker Stacey: $500 from Harry B. Hurd; $10,818.40 income from the trust fund established under the will of Charles F. Grey; $9,868.74 from the Chicago Community trust, from the fund established by Mr. Patten; stocks from Mr. Patten which when sold yielded $28,636.50; $1,454.79 from the Woman's Auxiliary for the Occupational Therapy depart- ment; $1,320 from Thrift house; $15, 525.31 from hospital Sunday in the churches; two scholarships for the school of nursing from Mrs. Patten. Nortk Shore Girl Heads Green Lantern at N. U. Miss Elizabeth Tawrence, 520 Lake : 1 avenue, Wilmette, has been elected Jane Kuppenheimer Memorial Hall president of the Green Lantern, social Skokie School, Winnetka organization of the freshman girls at Northwestern university. Sponsored by the Women's Self-Government Asso- J ciation, so-called lantern organizations exist for Northwestern women in all four classes. They provide social events irrespective of sorority affiliations, and Thursday Afternoon and Evening perpetuate school traditions. December 8th Pledge Winnetka Girl to At 4:00 and 8:00 P. M. Calothia Literary Society Presenting The Calethia Literary societ f "" . " "" . ' 7" Northwestern Hoi ata The Three Wishes and A Marionette's Dream the pledging of membership of Kathryn Adams, junior in the College of Lib- eral Arts, of 1241 Ash street, Winnetka. Tickets $1.10--Balcony 50c, for e Calethia society is one of the strongest and oldest literary organiza- Young People Only tions on the Northwestern campus, and election to its membership is a mug, sought for honor. The society will On Sale at COMMUNITY PHARMACY, WINNETKA CARLSON'S HUBBARD WOODS PHARMACY study modern plays and opera this HILLMAN'S DRUG STORE, GLENCOE year. KENILWORTH PHARMACY, KENILWORTH Mrs. John Denham, 165 Kenilworth Direction Rachel Busey Kinsolving avenue, Kenilworth, entertained at bridge at her home Friday evening. 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