Abstract
The Hobashira Clinic locating in a remote village, Hobashira District, Saikawa-machi, Miyako-gun, Fukuoka-ken, whose parent hospital is the National Kokura Hospital, was established in July 1982. Since then four years' statistical observations were made.
1) In the first year of opening of the Hobashira Clinic, the average number of outpatient per day was 23.7. After then the number of out-patient degreased year by year as the population in the village decreasing. From 1966 the average number of out-patient per day became less than 20 per day.
In the parent hospital in 1962 the average number of out-patient per day per physician was 33.4, and the average number of patient is increasing year by year up to 35.9 in 1966.
2) Patient's payment per day in the Hobashira Clinic was 220 yens less than that of the out-patient clinic in the parent hospital.
3) During 4 years 68 cases from the Hobashira Clinic were transferred to the parent hospital.
4) Each physician must be spent about 3 weeks in a year in the Clinic in order to carry out medical activity there. In other word, in the parent hospital one member of physician is always absent through a year.
5) Since the opening the Clinic trafic condition around Hobashira District remarkably improved and at present it is only an hour and a half ride from there to the parent hospital.
