HOSPITAL BOARD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 679, 12 April 1923, Page 5

HOSPITAL BOARD.

ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR

A statement of estimated receipts and expenditure for the year ending March 31, 1924, was submitted to the meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board" to-day. 'lhe statement was as follows: Estimated receipt.-: Credit balance Is! April, 1923, £3202 is lOd; outstanding subsidy, £l3O 3s 9d; patients' payments (estimated) £4000; payments bv Old People's Home inmates, £800; payments bv Otaki patients, £300; sale of pigs. £100"; donations and subsidy, £200; balance to be raised by levy at 9/6 3-10.1 per £IOOO, ±13.942 15s sd; balance to be raised by subsidy at 12/3 per £l. £l J 539 19s; total, i'3i.215.

Estimated expenditure : Provisions, £2800'; surgery and dispensary, £1500; wines and spirits, £100; maintenance buildings and grounds, £1600; furniture and earthenware, £SCO; bedding and drapery, £•100,; uniforms. £130; coal, £2000; pa's,

£9OQ; wood, £SO; laundry and cleaning, £450; rates, £140; insurance, £170; ambulance and funerals, £300; printing, £200; administration, .£1650; freight and cartage, £SO; miscellaneous, £37s;'interest on leans, etc., £2600; salaries and wages (not office, gardeners, lauudrv. ambulance) £7500; Old People's Home. '£2800; Otaki Hospital, £2000: Charitable Aid, £3000; total, £31,215. Estimated capital receipts: ('redi| balance on Ist April, 1923, £757 3s fad; balance to be raised by levy, £590 3s 3d;' balance to be raised bv subsidy, £590 8s 3d; total, £1963.

Proposed capital expenditure: Sterlising plant, £350; alterations to store, £125; ulterations to room for ophthalmic surgeon, £125; electric wiring-, £800: sinking fund, £563; total, £1968.