ï~~ BUREAU OF HOSPITALS nurses under the schedules established by the Board of Estimate rtionment. As the source of nurse supply was almost entirely e B Red Cross service, the nurses returning from France being the rere t 'lable it was necessary to pay salaries which represented the min >n H at the nurses and Red Cross believed to be proper for the duties ston etailed work at Riverside. were Assistant to the Director, detailed to the direction of the drug iting rvice, after many conferences, established a routine method of treat er H;ch demanded a medical and nursing personnel about similar to those pital; the care of any other acute infection. The treatment consists of er rapid withdrawal of the drug, to which the patient is addicted, the minimum amount that the patients can get along with, without acute symptoms of deprivation. Wlen this point has been reached, for nt is admitted to the so-called hyoscin-ward where hyoscin, in a neces t quantity to bring about anaesthesia, is administered according cial b eeds of the individual patients for a period not exceeding thirty-six adop No two patients receive the same amount of hyoscin.. The doses te inj ered are much belqw those usually prescribed in the routine use of open edy. After the period of anaesthesia, the patients are transferred ervi escent wards where they remain for a period of four weeks, and are cipal arged. This treatment has been described in one of the bulleting or Department. th a large number of cases treated is convincing evidence of the fact njecti g addicts may have their drug of addiction withdrawn scientifically, -eral, and without much suffering, in a short period of time, but this fact I one solve the problem of drug addiction, and unless proper laws are 'his that will prevent the easy distribution of narcotic drugs to addicts, he di ts of the treatment will not materially influence the problem con-. this community. it RI erculosis-The tuberculosis service for women, temporarily susirvice during the War, was reopened at the Kingston Avenue Hospital. wh closing of the Riverside Hospital to tuberculosis made it necessary rits. } patients from there to Sea View and Metropolitan. This service ions established on April 1st, 1920. f the osy-The Riverside Hospital and the Willard Parker Hospital ual n treating two cases of leprosy for the United States Navy. gra oil, in various preparations, has been the chief agent used. I lar has practically recovered; the other case has improved but has y relapses. nza in Sanatorium at Otisville-In my report of 1918, attention:her ed to what seemed to be an immunity to influenza in the patients [ly ne atorium. This deduction was an error, for, in January, an epis im f fifty cases occurred, of whom five died. A corps of experienced 223 0