SALARY COSTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21385, 21 April 1944, Page 2

SALARY COSTS

COOK HOSPITAL BILL 1 INCREASE OF £7921 TOTAL PAYMENTS £62,415 Salaries and wages at the Cook Hospital for the financial year 1944-45 will need a total of £62,415, according to estimates submitted at a special meeting of the Cook Hospital Board yesterday. The total is £7921 higher than for last financial year, and the managing-secretary, Mr C. A. Harries, submitted a statement showing in detail how the difference is accounted for. The main divisions of salaries and wages were detailed as under: Administration. £3600 (last year £3252); Cook Hospital staff, £46,887 (£40,182); grounds at hospital, £I7OO (£1546); Memorial Home, including ;gi*ounds, £3994 (£3650); outdoor relief, £375 (£362); Tolaga Bay Hospital, including grounds. £615 (£532); matei’nity annexe, including grounds, £2420 (£2274); Matawai district nurse, £3lO (£309); hospital farm, £BOO (£793); district nurses, Tolaga Bay and Gisborne (Health Department), £2OO (£200); hospital lorry driver, £332 (£332); dispen-sai-y, £505 (£416); seamstresses, £425 (£425); district nurse, town, £252 (£221); . total estimated outlay. £62,415 (last year’s actual cost £54,494). Medical and Nursing Staff In an analysis of the causes of the increase shown, Mr Harries pointed out that in respect of the medical staff provision had been made for an additional appointment, taking £650 per annum, of which only part would be payable in 1944-45, while certain increases had been granted to the present medical staff. • The net increase in medical costs would be £632. The nursing staff salaries would take £15,059, an increase of £3174; of which £879 was due to the iricrease in staff, £1152 to scale increases, £243 to the employment of an extra masseuse, £360 for the polyclinic block, and £540 to the chronic block. Domestic and telephone staff would cost £10,450, an inci'ease of £1405, this rise being typical in that it was largely accounted for by extensions of the hospital service. Net increases in other departments were: Engineers and fireman, £256; porters, £392; laundry, £226; bacteriological, £3; clerical, house steward's department, £114; building maintenance; £146.