The maximum bed capacity under the French was about seven hundred beds. The hospital built by them was well manned and equipped, and was a very much better institution than any hospital in America that I know of at the same period carried on by a firm or corporation. The French did most of their work by contract so that almost all of their patients were employees of the various contractors. Each contractor was made responsible for sick employees whom he sent to the hospital, and was charged one dollar a day for each sick employee as long as he remained in the hospital. A dollar a day was a very moderate charge for the care and attention given a sick man in Ancon Hospital, and I know that the charge did not cover the cost to the old company. It is the general belief among the people on the Isthmus, who were there during the general construction work of the old French Company, that a very small portion of the employees of the contractors came into the hospital. Notable among these is Sir Claude Mallet, who was the English representative in the city of Panama during the period referred to, and who is at present the British minister to the Panaman Government. From my knowledge of human nature I feel sure that the French contractors did not send a large proportion of their sick to Ancon Hospital. I am surprised that under these circumstances the hospital ever contained seven hundred patients. If we had been doing the work and had twenty-five or thirty American contractors employing sixteen or seventeen thousand men, I should be very much surprised if we at any time had seven hundred patients in the hospital, if the contractors were required to pay one dollar per day for each of the seven hundred patients. Attached to the hospital the French had a dairy with a very complete set of dairy buildings. In connection with this dairy was a farm of some three or four hundred acres. The water supply for the hospital during the French occupation came from three or four beautiful springs which issued from the side of Ancon mountain. Night soil was taken care of by a bucket system of closets. The hospital system, on account of the topography, was necessarily the pavilion system. This system was probably the best that could be adopted for both the local and climatic conditions. The cooking was done at one central kitchen, and the cooked food distributed to the wards, where it was consumed. The nursing force was composed of Catholic Sisters, assisted by negro maids and orderlies. These orderlies and maids did the manual work and rough nursing, under the supervision of the Sisters. The medical staff consisted of a sufficient number of French physicians. The superintendent during most of the period of construction of the old company and up to the time that we took charge in 1904 was Dr. La Crosade. He remained with us for several years, and did for us most valuable and useful work.