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Excerpt from 45th Annual Report, 1920 In this Forty-fifth Annual Report of the Hospital for Sick Children is a record of service which surpasses that of any previous year. The Trustees hope that its claims will make a stronger appeal to the child-loving people of the Province than ever before to carry on the good work, and urgent plea is made to the liberality of its friends. Prices of almost all supplies reached their peak during the period cov ered by this report. It is evidence of economical management that the increase in the daily cost of caring for each cot patient was only seven cents more than in 1919. But, before the downward trend in prices began, the overdraft was on maintenance account. In addition. 'the Hospi ta'l had to purchase outside accommodation for a part of the personnel, so great has become the pressure upon the available space in the Mai-n Build ing. Because of improvements and renovations, the capital outlay exceeded Thus the Hospital's burden of debt is far greater than ever in the past. It is hoped that the record of service will encourage the friends of the Mother Charity to further evidence of their sympathy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.