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Show July 1 th number of patients treated was OS. There were US operations performed and only six persons dlsd as a result. Most of ths dsaths wsrs malignant oases and operations were neceeeary as a last resort, ths report shows. la 12 an even 1)0 patisnts war .treated. In the out patient department that la. patients who come to ths hospital for dally treatment and return to their homes without occupying oc-cupying cots or rooms, there were 11. divided aa follow: Adults. leOS: children. 41. Th mortality rat In the hospital hos-pital for the first six months ol this year waa a fraction more then per sent, which Dr. Btraup said represented a splsndld showing. Tba operating expanses for ths first six months of this yesr smoontsd to S41.0A0. More then 0e has been collected at tha hnenlfrrayantB HIGHEST RATIHS GIVEN COUNTY HOSPITAL r Inspection of Institution Is Followed . by ' Banquet . V, The Salt lata county hospital Twenty-first south and Stats streets, haa been officially placed on tha approved list of hospltale by ths Americas College of Physicians Phy-sicians and Burgeone Association of Hospitals, it was announced Friday night by Dr. F. K. Straup. oounty physician. The notification came In ths form of a letter from the secretary of the association at Chicago, whe eompilmented th oounty physician phy-sician and the hospital staff for the excellent showing made under official Inspection by aa official of the organisation. This approval places the Self Lake county hoe-pllal hoe-pllal In the asms class aa ths other three Bait Lsks City Instlr tuttone St. Mark's, Holy Cross and Grove's L. D. 8. Members of the hospital staff, physlclsns and ssvsrel prominent business men w .re invited to inspect in-spect th hoapltai Friday afternoon after-noon and a banquet followed the Inspection, where Dr. Straup made the announcement that the county Institution haa been officially rated as a class A hospital for ths first Urns In Its history. -REQUIREMENTS MET.. Tha approval was mads possible when toe hospital qualified la complete sanitation and proper equipment, maintenance of a -eta ft of phyeleiane which passes oa all oasee and ths kseplng of records as prescribed In the rules of the American Hoapltai association. In order to meet these requirements require-ments It wee necessary to Install complete laboratory equipment, which Include high " pressure sterilisation, a " complete X-ray equipment end the Installation of a new system of record keeping. The county hospital haa recently under one complete renovation under un-der the direction of. Commleetoner of Health and Charity W. H. ' Btenacker. The entire Institution haa been painted inside, floors resurfaced re-surfaced and Uaolaum placed to make It possible to keep the hospital hos-pital In a aaBitary condition. A sew lighting ayatam ha been ra-s ra-s tailed and other Improvements msde to eep pace with the general gen-eral renovation schema WARDS SI0RE0ATEO. Under the new reglms separation , of ths medical, surgical snd maternity ma-ternity warda haa been made. The old ecsrlet fever building has bees remodeled and turned over to the tuberculosis Isolation ward. At the banquet Mdy eight Dr. Straup read a report which ahowed that the hoapltai te now being operated at a eos of UA--pee rapua. aa agalnat 11 : for the prevlnua year. j-rom January 1 thla year to |