In them a very large number of persons are annually given the best of medical and surgical care.

At its free clinic some eighty thousand patients find relief in the course of a year.
The increase in private hospital facilities has also been noteworthy.

Among the new institutions doing admirable work should be mentioned the University Hospital, an Episcopal institution; the Mary J.Johnston Hospital, a Methodist institution; and St.Paul's Hospital, a Catholic institution.

Patients are admitted to all of them without regard to their religious belief, a policy the liberality of which must commend itself to all broadminded persons.
In enumerating the hospitals of Manila, the old Spanish institution, San Juan de Dios, should not be forgotten, for it has been improved and modernized until it offers good facilities for the treatment of the sick and the injured.
All of the above mentioned institutions are in effect acute-case hospitals designed for the treatment of curable ailments.

Cases of dangerous communicable disease are excluded from them, but are adequately provided for at San Lazaro where the insular government has established modern and adequate hospitals for plague, smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, etc., as well as a detention hospital for lepers, pending their departure for Culion.
An insane hospital capable of comfortably accommodating 300 inmates has also been provided.