THE MASTERTON HOSPITAL.
ANNUAL REPORT OF DR. MuGREGOR.
The annual report of the InspecHospitals and Charitable Insitutions (Dr. MoGregor) to the Premier, shows that the number of patients in the Masterton Hospital on March 31st, 1905, was 12, the number admitted during the year 146, the number discharged 134, the number that died 15, leaving nine patients m the institution on Maroh 31st, 1906. The number of patients treated during the year as 158 (118 males and 40 females). Seventy - three patients came from Masterton, 8 from Masterton suburbs, 8 from Eketahuna, 4 from Alfredton, 3 from Carterton, 10 from Maurioeville, 6 from Pahiatua, 10 from Whareama, Tenui and East Coast, 6 from Branoepeth and Taueru, 6 from Martinborough and Lower ;Valley, 3 from Wairarapa South, 4 from Welling, ton, 1 fiom Petone, 4 from Hawke's Bay, 2 from Otago, 1 from Motueka, and 1 from Auokland, while 8 were swaggers. Sixty-five patients helonged to New Zealand, 43 to England, 7 to Ireland, 10 to Scotland, 11 to Australia, 4to America, 2 to Wales, 1 to Prussia, 1 to Denmark, 1 to Tasmania, 2 to Sweden, 1 to Canada. I'be religions were as follows—Church of England 67, Roman Catholics 41, Presbyterians 19, Wesleyans 15, Congregational 1, Salvationists 4, Baptist 1, Methodist 3, Lutherans 2, Plymouth Brethren 2; no religion 3. The total collective days' stay in the hospital was 4,432; the individual days' stay was 28.8; the daily average cost per head was 6s Id, less patients'payments, 5s 1%&. The receipts for the year totalled £6,861 58 sd, and the expenditure £1,713 7a 3d. The report adds—"The new hospital plans have been approved of long ago, but another year has gone without any visible progress. However, tenders have been called, and it is to bp trusted that this is a real beginning. The Trustees had a good matron in Miss Petrement. The old hospital baa long been an opprobrium, aid nothing good can be said of it."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8229, 5 September 1906, Page 5
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327THE MASTERTON HOSPITAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8229, 5 September 1906, Page 5
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