THE WAHGANUI HOSPITAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12599, 13 September 1905, Page 7

THE WAHGANUI HOSPITAL.

ANNUAL REPORT

iNTERESTING FIGURES

(By Telegraph.)

(From Our Special Parliamentary

Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, September 12. 1 tako the following from the Inspector's report of the "Wanganui Jfcf.ospnal ■ The number of patients on 31st March, 1904, was 48; admitted during the year, 561 ; total under treatment, 609; discharged, 013; died, 42; remaining on iilsli March, 1095, 54; sex, 3ti\i males, 22(i temules; loca.ities from which patients came, Wanganui borough bu4, Wanganui County 51, Waimanno County 2(J, Waitotara County (51, Ran-g-itikeV County 144, Marten Borough 12, Patea 10, Palmerston 3, Hawera 2, Tiiranaki: 2; ~total coLectiyti days' stay in hospital, 20,719; individual average dayl}' stay, 34.02; daily average cost per head, 4s. 9sd., less patients' pay^ inputs 4s. l^cl.; outdoor patients, individual cases 124, attendances 690. Receipts and expenditure :—lleceipts : From Government, £1973 Bs. Id.; from Government (Nurses' Home), £140 : local bodies, £142G 12s. 2d.; subscriptions and donations, £38 19s. lid., subscriptions and donations (Nurses' Home) £cfS;5 Bs. 3d.; bequest, £5000; rents, £1040 os. Id.; patients' payments, £679 7s. Id.; other sources, £185,25. Sd.; balance from last year, £1646 2s, Id.; total, £12,525 os. 4cl. Expenditure:— Rations,- £1370 14s. Id.; wines and spirits and ale, £77 75.; surgery and dispensary, £470 16s. 7d.; fuel and light, £426 14s. 2d.; bedding and clothing, £152 16s. 4d.; furniture and earthenware, £126 Is. 4d.; salaries and wages, £1325 9s. 5d.; water supply, £100; funerals, 14 55.; repairs, £399 Bs. 9d.j new buildings and additions, £1668 Is. 6d.; printing, advertising, postage, and stationery, £49 4s. 5d.; mtorest, £202 Is. Id.; insurance, £27 10-5.; repayment of loan, £5000.; other expenses, £200 12s. 3d.; total, £11,610 Is. lid. The Inspector winds up with his usual observation, as thus :—Visited, 23rd December, 1904. The fine Nurse1;' Home m now occupied. The new ward containing twenty-four beds is, I tnink, unnecessarily large, but well finished. Thero is a bow window projecting into the ward which loses a bed, and tho ceiling of the commodious linen room at tho back is horribly discoloured. Tho lavatory block attached, to this ward is nob cross-venti-lated, and schemes for remedying it wero discussed with tho chairman. A great deal of interest is taken in tho we!faro of tho hospital, and it is well administered.