THE WAIKATO HOSPITAL.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8099, 10 January 1907, Page 2

THE WAIKATO HOSPITAL.

FACTS AND FIGURES. TESTIMONY TO ADMINISTRATION. At ycfterdny's meeting of the RaglaD Jounty Cmincil, Mr Bankart, one of the C unoil'd on the Waikato U -pi'il Board rep.rted on the business traarsc.ed during thepastyaar. In it hr. said that there had been admitted 431 pnrsons ( exclusive of 41 remaining on the :tlstM»rcb 1005; cf these 'J4came from tb« Ki>.!» Country and Kawbia, 86 fr >ra the Waipa County, 51 from Hamilton, 10 from Piako, lufrow Waikato, 31 fiom Te Aroha, 22 from '""am bridge and 22 from other districts. The til'l collective days' stay amounted to 12,315, the individual day's stay being :'A').7. The daily avenge est per head was 5s 81 (the average for the cilony being 5s 11 |d) or less paid by patients 4s Old. There was 11 C' ive i from the Government £IB2O, £2141 from l.inal bodies and £lOl7 from paiie;ts; exclusive of a balance of .61662 .">• 7>i the revenue for t'ip. y*ar was £f!o63, Tbeespenditute ■ m unted to £7715 16s Id f- r the hvpit il. £S7C tor the Old Men':. Home aid £206 for charitable aid. Inclined in toe expenditure was £3012 for new buildings, the total expenditure on buildings and necessary collateral expenses totalling £5504 in the last two years. The of cost of administration on the local expenditure was 20.75, the lowest but '.in-> in the coloDy, New Plymouth being i'JCS, and tha average for the colony 3 .4.

A tribute was paid to Dr. Douglas and Mr W. I Conradi for the manner in whicr. their respective duties had been carriec

Appended to the report was an interesting table of comparison between the principal hospitals, in which it was shown tb it the average nuaibor of patients iioder treatment iu the colony (exciusive of the four ceacres) is 185 for the year against Waikito's 462; the nuraoer remaining in hospital on Vlarch 31, 190*?, was 15, as against 2-1. The cost iper bead at Auckland was 5i vndthe preceutage on cost of administration 265. Alter the four chief centres, the hospital at Napier was the largest in the colony, and gWhangarei the .smallest -hown. The following figures ihow Napier, Whangerei and Waikato in that order:— Patients under treatment, (336, 112, 462 j iverp.ge daily cost, (is 21, 7s 2J, 5s Sd; less patients'fee«, 5s 91, 53 lOd, 4s O^d; patients' foes, JE339, JL94, J21U17; wages, £1547, £959, £U7d. New Plymouth with 391 patients, had the highest, average daily cost of 8s Sjd, less patients fees 6s i'fl, parieots' iee3 XISSS ; Thames with 153, had the lowest 4s less patients' ■ees 'ii \\>i. The amount of fees received from patents at the Waikato institution w,,s the second largest after the four centres were taken out. Auckland collected £2839, Wellington £2452, Dunedin £2224, jSew Plynioutn£lss9, Caris'.church £Huj. Tne Chairman said that was the first reuort the Hospital repreientatives he i presented, and Air Eankart deserved .hanks for the paiUß ha had taken with :t.