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To the friends of the Taylor Lane Hospital, The Fourth Annual Report is submitted-

The fifth annual report is due, but as we have been living one day at a time, we will have to wait for means to print it.

A wonderful degree of success has crowned our efforts and great pleasure has been attained through this fact, but when overburdened the very motive that prompted establishment of the work, would be renewed by an innate spirit that said: "Go forth and do the Master's bidding."

To the many friends that stood by us and encouraged us, when the way seemed dark and dreary, we owe unlimited gratitude. With increase pride and confidence we can refer to the co-operation and confidence of the people in the city and in the state and to friends outside of the state who have had only the opportunity to hear of us. 

I have had a large practice among the various classes which has greatly handicapped me from applying all my energy to the perpetual establishment of the hospital. My aim from the beginning was to fill a need in a great field that had hitherto been untouched, that of establishing a hospital and training school for nurses. Columbia, a growing city of over fifty thousand people, half of whom are colored, has only this institution to look to for the care of the sick and afflicted of this part of its population.

Our first and second years marked great progress. During the third year there were five hundred patients admitted to wards of the hospital and during the fourth year the number of patients was over six hundred.