NAME OF HOSPITAL. │ DATE OF APPOINTMENT. NO. OF WOMEN │ PHYSICIANS. ───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────── Cook County Hospital │ 1881 1 „ │ 1888 2 „ │ 1889 2 ───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────── Illinois Woman’s │ 1882 1 Hospital │ „ │ 1887 1 „ │ 1888 1 „ │ 1889 1 ───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────── Wesley Hospital │ 1889 1 State Insane Asylum │ Unknown 2 Finally, it is noteworthy that Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson holds an appointment to the Cook County Hospital as visiting physician, and Dr. Marie Mergler a similar appointment to the Woman’s Hospital. A special and extremely interesting branch of the struggle for hospital positions for women physicians has related to their appointment in the female wards of insane asylums. This movement also originated in Pennsylvania, and in the personal efforts of Dr. Corson, supported, as before, by Dr. Atlee. At the annual meeting of the State Society in 1877, the following preambles and resolution were read: “_Whereas_, The State Medical Society has taken a deep interest in the welfare of the insane during the last few years; and “_Whereas_, The inmates of our State hospitals are in nearly equal numbers of the sexes; and “_Whereas_, We have many female physicians who are eminent practitioners, and one at least[129] who has had experience in the medical management of the insane: therefore, “_Resolved_, That a committee of three persons be appointed by the president of this society, to report at its next annual meeting on the propriety of having a female physician for the female department of every hospital for the insane, which is under the control of the State.”