Abstract
<h3>Effect of Economic Conditions on Hospitals</h3> On account of the bad economic conditions, the private hospitals have begun to experience difficulties. In Berlin, at the present time, the cost of maintenance per patient in the public welfare hospitals amounts to more than 3,500 marks a day. The city contributes, however, only 1,980 marks and the health insurance societies only 1,500 marks per patient. Consequently, the total indebtedness of the municipal general hospitals has reached the sum of 4,200,000,000 marks, while the deficits of the forty private hospitals (denominational institutions, homes for the aged, etc.) amount to 100,000,000 marks. The municipal government will therefore be compelled to lend its aid, and it has been proposed that the price of gas be raised 5 per cent. for the benefit of municipal welfare institutions. <h3>The Prussian Academy of Sciences</h3> At the last two sessions of the Academy of Sciences, Prussia's most distinguished scientific
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