Tauranga Hospital Maintenance May Total £61,334

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14959, 23 April 1949, Page 3

Tauranga Hospital Maintenance May Total £61,334

Estimates For 1949-50 Adopted

Expenditure £4OOO Above Last Year's Figure

The expenditure for the Tauranga Hospital was about £4OOO more than the estimate for the year, reported the secretory of the Tauranga Hospital Board (Mr G. D. Stuart) when presenting' the financial estimates for 1949-50 at a special meeting of the board.

The secretary explained that provisions accounted for approximately £SOO of this figure, and the item included £854 for vegetables and eggs supplied from the hospital garden and poultry run. The expenditure on fruit and vegetables from outside sources was £685 for the year. Surgery and dispensary items absorbed about £OOO of the deficit. the main item being drugs and dressings. The hospital had had occasion to use streptomycin, which was an expensive drug. Instrument replacements, X-ray films and the surgical boot department would be the main items under renewals. The domestic account was well overspent, but quantities of textiles had been coming to hand for replacement purposes. The cost of nurses' uniforms, shoes and stockings also came under this heading and under the employment regulations the board had to supply nurses with two pairs of shoes and'six pairs of stockings annually and provide uniforms. Heat and light showed an increase and it was probable that consumption of coal would be a little higher with the operation of the new boiler house later in the year. The estimate for salaries and wages was not greatly at variance with the actual payments, but it would be necessary to provide for a higher figure for the coming year. It was probable that an additional engine driver would have to be employed for part of the year when die boiler house was in operation, provision was also made for a bacteriologist for eight months. This appointment would be contingent on ne space at present occupied by the.engineer being available for a moratory. The engineer, explained the secretary, should vacate the premises within the next week or so, and a start could then be made on renovating the building. •The grounds figure was lower SK - 11 ' 0 astimal "- but a credit of w 4 had been made to this account «* supplies to the hospital. The general maintenance establishment "em w?s wotf below estimate, but Mould be higher for the coming Jear. There were several buildings requiring painting and renovating, ine grounds item would include S V « gof the area in the vicinit y 01 the boiler house, improving the entrance path and frontage at the |„ ui '? es ' Home and cleaning of drains n the swamp area at the back of the hospital.

Katikati and Te Puke « was hoped during the year to oe able to supply Katikati and To use with their requirements from ywanga, and also do their laundry. " should be possible to effect some «ving through buying in bulk. tho UlgS should be more evident in "J smaller institutions' accounts J-* I'* 1 '* „ at Present supplies were obJS, u rom loc ' al retailers as against ™ board's wholesale buying. rem 1 oard h °P ed shortly to have inSit .• tnps with the truck t 0 the bS u V ons and the se could be comcent, i r ndvy and SLI PPIv trios. A beinl nen store was at present b G Yo or p ni sed and it should not tion re il was in full °P era *

berlc- 16 avera Se number of oc-upied s follows - the estimate tiroiiA 49 > for 1948-49 and PeS estimate l ' or 1949 "50 an--716 "?£ m that order:~General 75, The J n ] atern ity 14, 13.76, 14. Taurl„« Sls of expenditure at the the S?? Hos P ital was as follows, 49 a ,^ Q llaled expenditure for 1918PVn^ ar ;»S first, then the actual estimate'7" ,' lhflt y ear and the tOl ; 1949 - 50 aPPear in. par«*.—Provisions, £7OOO, £7492

18s lOd, (£7500): surgerv s" d H '"- pensarv. £6495. £7076 8s 9d f£7l2oV domestic, £5915. £8954 14s 4d salrries and wages. £29 500, £30.759 4* Id (£34.214): establishment. £4615. rni<?rellanor".is. ■"" •-> ■ ° > r6SO): total £51,000, £50,023 3s sd, (£61,334).