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T HE administration of the municipal hospitals in the metropolis ■is controlled by the Second Division of the Municipal Administration. A director — who is not a medical man — supervises the admi? nistration and finance of the hospitals. Everything within the individual hospital, hospital department or laboratory which concerns treatment of patients, nursing and laboratory work is in charge of the respective senior physician or surgeon*in*chief. The whole of the senior physicians and surgeons* in*chief, in conjunction with the Mayor and Alder* man of the Second Division of the Municipal Ad* ministration, the Director of the Public Health Ser* vice and the Director of the Hospitals, constitute a Hospital Board which meets at least once a year (in November) to discuss hospital questions in general and to examine the budget of same for the following year. The Mayor is chairman of the Board and convenes a meeting as often as he thinks fit. At the annual meeting in November the Board elects four senior physicians or surgeons who, in the following year, together with the Director of the Hospitals, constitute a standing committee assembling at least once per month and, in addition, as often as