This hospital is intended for the reception of (1) persons suffering from incurable diseases, also infirm persons who are no longer able to look after themselves, even with the assistance of outrelief; (2) those, who, owing to their past irregular mode of life (intemperance, immorality, criminality, etc.), are unsuited to admission to the usual municipal infirmaries; (3) destitute persons who might still be given outrelief, but who, by reason of their irregular mode of life, as above stated, would be better provided for in a public institution; (4) those in receipt of relief who are believed to be likely to give way to mendicity; and finally (5) persons sentenced to disciplinary detention who are infirm or ill, and incapable of work. In general, the class of persons accommodated are the undeserving infirm poor who are not thought worthy of permanent association with indoor paupers of more or less respectable antecedents. Although under the management of the same Director, and administered by the same Committee of the Town Council, the hospital is entirely independent of the house of correction, and its inmates are disregarded in the statistical data which follow. The numbers detained at Rummelsburg during the financial year 1907-8 were as follows:-- ----------------------+---------+----------+--------- | Males. | Females. | Total. +---------+----------+--------- Number detained on | | | April 1, 1908 | 1,349 | 36 | 1,385 Admitted during year | 1,428 | 102 | 1,530 +---------+----------+--------- | 2,777 | 138 | 2,915 +---------+----------+--------- Discharged during the | | | year | 1,128 | 55 | 1,183 Died | 21 | -- | 21 +---------+----------+--------- | 1,149 | 55 | 1,204 +---------+----------+--------- Number remaining on | | | March 31, 1909 | 1,628 | 83 | 1,711 ----------------------+---------+----------+--------- Of the 1530 persons admitted during the year 1381 (1,282 men and 99 women) had been committed by the Police Authorities of Berlin, and 149 (146 men and 3 women) were reinstated with a view to their completing sentences interrupted owing either to temporary removal to hospital or to escape. The offences which led to commitment were the following:--