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1892. NEW ZEALAND.

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS IN THE COLONY (REPORT ON THE), BY THE INSPECTOR OF HOSPITALS.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of' His Excellency.

The Inspector of Hospitals to the Hon. the Minister of Education. Sir,— I have the honour to lay before you the following report on the charitable institutions and hospitals -of the colony : — The leading ideas embodied in the law which regulates our New Zealand charitable institutions are — 1. To decentralise administration as much as possible, and at the same time keep in check the evil tendency towards the multiplication of small local bodies inaugurated by the abolition of the provinces in 1876. 2. To remedy the want of uniformity and justice in the distribution of subsidies to the different districts without at the same time drying up the springs of charity. It would be difficult to find a more striking illustration of the evils of compromise, and of the difficulty of avoiding it, than is seen in the attempt to harness together contradictory tendencies under each of these two objects. The necessity of decentralisation is imposed on New Zealand statesmen alike by the physical configuration of our country and by the history of its different settlements. This is the most unmistakable peculiarity of all our political and social problems. To superficial students of our institutions this central fact was obscured to a large extent by the centralising forces latent in what was called the great public works policy of 1870. No doubt this anomalous episode of our history was in some degree a struggle to strengthen the central power against the overshadowing powers of the provinces, but the real motive was the necessity of consolidating our securities with a view to a great borrowing policy. To this end the provinces were abolished in 1876, and no adequate provision was made for the devolution of the numerous local functions they performed. From time to time new local bodies were created as necessity arose, armed with rating and borrowing powers; so that in 1885, when Parliament found itself obliged to face the question of charitable institutions and hospitals, two great dangers had to be guarded against —too many local bodies and the killing of charity. The excessive multiplication of local bodies was fast becoming an intolerable evil; and yet it was a vital necessity that our charitable institutions and hospitals should be locally administered. The law passed in that year, with some amendments introduced in 1886, has been in operation ever since ; and all the experience which has been gained in the working of it has only served to cast a strong light on the evils and the dangers which surround this problem. The Act attempted first of all to give effect to the prime necessity for local power based upon local taxation. This has been successfully achieved, and it is unquestionably the most statesmanlike step which has yet been taken in any of our Australasian Colonies in dealing with this question. What we possess owing to this law is at this moment the despair of New South Wales and Victoria. The old and incurably vicious system which prevailed here before 1885, under which political importunity was found to be successful in making up for the shortcomings of local charity, is still in full swing with them. While, however, this great advance has been made, the excessive multiplication of local bodies has culminated in a reductio ad absurdum of the whole system, and it has become plain even to the dullest observer that contradictory tendencies cannot be successfully harnessed together even by a Parliament. In the creation of existing Charitable Aid Boards, the aim was to bind together large and important districts having a community of interests and easy means of intercommunication ; but it was found necessary to make provision for the incorporation of separate institutions. The demand for this could not be resisted ; and to illustrate how it has worked. I cannot do better than set forth what has recently taken place in Auckland. The Auckland Charitable Aid Board has struggled gallantly to fulfil its difficult task of administering the various institutions within its province. It attempted to relieve all cases of genuine distress without at the same time sacrificing the ratepayers. There had been in existense in Auckland for many years an institution called the Ladies' Benevolent Society. This became a subsidiary organization under the Board, who handed over to it from year to year a proportion of the rates, on which a subsidy of £1 4s. in the pound was paid by the State. Finding itself compelled to adopt this society, while at the same time it was either unable 1—H. 3.

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or unwilling to be responsible for the way in which the money was spent, the Board contented itself with informing the Controller-General that it could not be fully responsible for the expenditure. The Audit Department refused any longer to acquiesce in this state of things. The Board did not see their way properly to supervise the working of the society, and the society wanted to be free from control. The result was that a petition was sent in to the Government asking for incorporation as a separate institution under the Act. The consent of the Charitable Aid Board was required by law before the petition could be entertained. This consent was secured by giving an undertaking that the society should not in future become a burden on the rates. The Board in thisjway -contracted itself out of its legal responsibilities by means of a bargain which had no real validity ; and the society was left free, so far as local control was concerned, to collect subscriptions, which the State was bound to subsidise at the rate of £1 4s. in the pound. The bait is the State subsidy. As long as this is given for outdoor relief, so long does the State provide a nutrient medium for the culture of parasitical organisms to prey upon itself. The second great object of the Act of 1885 was to remedy the glaring want of uniformity and justice in the distribution of charitable subsidies to the different provinces without at the same time drying up the springs of charity. The Province of Otago had for many years been honourably distinguished for the voluntary support of its charitable institutions, while the Province of Canterbury was similarly distinguished, for the magnificence of its grants from the public treasury. In Dunedin every citizen of a liberal turn of mind was a marked man; benevolent ladies haunted his office by day and his home by night. In the easily-canvassed parts of the city, to have an office was equivalent to paying a second rent in charitable subscriptions. The willing and accessible few had to pay for the inaccessible and indifferent many. In this way the people of Otago were driven to rebel against the voluntary system; and their exasperation was intensified by the contrast offered by Canterbury. There, over and above the sums given on the pound-for-pound principle in 1884, they saw that a sum of £9,664 was given directly by the State for charitable-aid expenditure, as against £276 given to Otago; while in the same direct way— i.e., without any local subscriptions— £2,931 was given in Auckland and £850 in Taranaki, where the voluntary contributions for the year • amounted only to £66. Such was the state of things which compelled Parliament to systematize the distribution of State subsidies for charitable aid. It was felt, however, that any law which set the tax-gatherer to remedy these inequalities would be apt to kill the spirit of voluntary giving which it was so desirable to foster. Accordingly, it was provided that for all subscriptions the State would give £1 4s. in the pound subsidy, while the rates should only be subsidised to the extent of pound for pound. As by the first great principle of the Act administration was successfully decentralised by the new law, yet the number of local bodies has been so increased as almost to paralyse its working altogether, so by the second great principle uniformity and justice in distributing the subsidies were secured, but at the price of almost entirely stopping voluntary subscriptions. The following figures show how voluntary contributions have been affected by the law of 1885-86. In the year before the Act was passed— i.e., in 1884, —Otago raised £3,242 by subscriptions, Canterbury raised £1,100. In 1892, Otago raised £203, Canterbury £29. Law has commuted the voluntary burdens of the benevolent minority into a compulsory tax on all citizens ; constraint has superseded duty; and who shall appraise correctly the loss and gain of such an exchange ? We cannot escape the consequences of our neglect of social duty. Let this fail beyond a certain point, and, if society is to exist, compulsion must be brought in to support it. This despairing of duty, and this falling-back on compulsion, is illustrated in rather a startling fashion in our dealings with many other social problems. With regard to nearly all of them we seem to have been living in a fool's paradise of hope. Duty is considered to have become bankrupt in so many of our undertakings that there seems to be a world-wide movement in favour of compulsion by law. The New Zealand Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act of 1885 has successfully localised administration and taxation, it has established a uniform system of distributing subsidies; but it has also fixed in the popular mind, and especially in the minds of the least self-reliant of our people, the belief that they have a right to a living whether they work or not. Every year my conviction deepens that w r e cannot leave this law where it is—we must complete the reforms which it has already made by removing the inconsistencies which compromise retained. What we need is a measure to consolidate the local bodies into about twenty strong Boards for the whole colony. I believe it is impossible to effect any real reform of the abuses of our charitable-aid and hospital system, except as part of a comprehensive Local Government Act. The whole system of subsidies in aid of local government must be recast. It is perfectly clear to me, for instance, that, so long as the local administrators of outdoor relief are able, as at present, to get half its cost from the consolidated revenue—that idlers and drunkards will absorb a very large proportion of what is meant for the victims of weakness and calamity—that respectable men and women, worn out with toil and old age, will be thrust aside by impudent beggars, and that deserted wives and families will abound. To cast the whole burden of outdoor relief on the local ratepayers must, I fear, be admitted to be impossible in the present state of public opinion regarding the saving virtue of direct taxation. It must therefore be accompanied by a remission of existing burdens. To secure this vital reform it would be wise to concede a great deal. The State might take over the whole cost of the children who are now paid for partly out of rates, and who are being boarded out by the Boards, or otherwise provided for in a very parsimonious fashion. I have satisfied myself, by personally visiting all the children boarded out in the chief centres by the Boards, that the whole system must be reformed in the following points: (1) The children must not be intrusted to persons who are themselves in receipt of charitable aid; (2) they must be boarded out in the country; and (3) there must be organized a comprehensive and thoroughgoing system of visitation, such as it is not possible for the existing Boards to undertake. The following case, which occurred on my recent visit to Auckland, may be taken as an illustration of some of the evils which have to be guarded against:—

" Auckland, 11th May, 1892. " Sib, —I regret to inform you that, in the course of my visitation of the children boarded-out by your Board, I found such a state of things in one of the houses I called at to-day that I dare not hesitate to state officially what I have already told you privately. Mr. Strathern, your visitingofficer, accompanied me. At Mr. Stickley's house, Mount Eden, eight children are boarded. Four of these children are paid for by their mothers or friends. The other four are paid for by the Auckland Charitable Aid Board. The surroundings and interior of this house are squalid and dirty in the extreme. The wife, Mrs. Stickley, tried to excuse the confusion by saying that they were clear-ing-up and were caught at their worst; but it was evident that the normal condition of the place was filthy beyond measure. It was only by persisting in seeing everything for myself that I found my way into a side room, where two girls—Mabel and Alice Edgecumbe, aged respectfully ten and seven years—slept. The bed occupied by these children was unspeakably filthy. The bedding was very scanty, and so dirty as to be unfit for a dog-kennel. The mattresses were wet and rotting, and clearly had not been attended to in any way for a very long time. I called Mr. Strathern's attention to these facts, and asked why he had never reported these things. He said he had never seen this room, and did not know of its existence, and he agreed that never in all his life had he seen anything so bad; and, indeed, I can understand how a man by himself would hesitate before making such an examination as I found it necessary to make. After completing my investigation at Mr. Stickley's house, I resolved to see the two children, who were at school. I called out the two girls, whom I found fairly clean in their dress at first sight; but, on a closer examination, I found them very insufficiently clad for this cold weather, and the boots worn by the older one were completely useless. The soles were entirely gone, and the child would have been better barefooted. The most distressing thing of all, however, was to hear these children, in reply to my questions about their bed, say, "We have a nice, clean, warm bed." When I told them that I had just seen their bed, and tried to find out why they told me what was not true, they looked at me and were evidently too terrified to say a word more. All I could discover was that sometimes they were beaten by a big boy named "Cecil," with a stick. The girls have a pinched look, and are very thin.- I believe they are not sufficiently fed.—l have, &c, D. MacGeegoe." As I have already indicated, there seems to be arising all over the world a strong movement in favour of legally compelling society to deal more generously with the aged poor than is possible under the existing workhouse system. The experience of the English Poor-law administrators has demonstrated the necessity of putting an end to outdoor relief, or, at any rate, of limiting its evil effects by what is called the workhouse test. In many towns both in England and America outdoor relief has been entirely abolished, and with the most beneficial results—local charity organizations have sprung up and faced the difficulty in each case. Discrimination has superseded routine, and deserving applicants for relief have been treated more rationally and sympathetically than was possible under a system where shameless beggary and deception gave the best chance of success. This is the great reform in which all our efforts ought to be concentrated, for it is the only means of resuscitating the voluntary charity which our law has all but killed. lam sure that so long as the State finds half the money the existing abuses must continue. No subsidy, therefore, ought to be given for money spent in outdoor relief. Many of the Charitable Aid Boards who cried out against this proposal in the Bill of 1890 have since heen taught by a hard experience how necessary it is: the Dunedin Trustees, whose then Chairman distinguished himself by his opposition to the Government proposals, have repented. I suggested to the Trustees at one of their meetings that they should send, their Inspector to look up some of their cases in the country districts—with the result that in the Otago Daily Times of the 31st December, 1891, such a scandalous state of things was revealed as must have, I should think, satisfied every reflecting person that the system could no longer be tolerated. In the hope of inducing the local bodies to throw the whole cost of outdoor relief on the ratepayers, and thus evoke the indispensable local supervision and discrimination by means of charity organization societies, while at the same time we revive the old system of voluntary charity, I have come to the conclusion that the State would do wisely in taking over from the local bodies the whole cost of properly caring for neglected children. Eecent legislation in Germany, Denmark, and other countries, and such old-age pension schemes as have been proposed by Mr. Chamberlain and others in England, indicate the rise of a strong public sentiment in favour of a more sympathetic and discriminating treatment of the aged poor. The idea is that the respectable poor ought not to be treated in the same way as thriftless spongers and broken-down drunkards, but rather as worn-out soldiers who have deserved well of their country. Our unjust system of distributing the proceeds of labour, it is argued, must compel society to face the duty of making such provision for deserving old age as shall not involve any sacrifice of selfrespect in accepting it. Of all the methods of effecting this desirable object that recently inaugurated in Denmark seems to me the safest. The object is to depauperise the aged and deserving poor. These people are no longer considered as paupers or treated as such. The law leaves the workhouse system untouched —it simply removes a carefully-selected class from its control, and constitutes them a class of State pensioners under strict conditions. The aid they need is to be theirs by right and not by charity, and its acceptance does not involve the forfeiture of their rights as citizens. Every applicant for admission to those privileges goes before a magistrate, who takes every precaution to prevent men and women who have idled away the best years of their lives from being accepted. No one is admitted as an old-age pensioner till he is sixty years of age. He must not have been sentenced for any transaction generally considered dishonourable. He must not have deprived himself of the means of living in favour of his children or others, or caused his poverty by a disorderly and extravagant mode of life, and for ten years preceding his application he must have had a fixed residence in the country, and during that period he must not have received charitable aid, nor have been

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found guilty of vagrancy or begging. Each town or commune must find half the money required for this pension fund. The establishment of a Labour Bureau and a Department of Labour marks a new departure in simplifying and making more manageable the problem of poverty. I have always felt that the rapid fluctuations of our labour-market and the nomadic conditions of life thrust upon a large section of our labourers loudly demanded some definite organization to meet the frequently-recurring difficulties arising therefrom. By the systematic collection, sifting, and focussing of information regarding the demand for and supply of labour in the different districts of the colony, the Government ought to be able to draw a clear line of distinction between the honest and willing labourer in search of work and the classes for whom our public charities are really required. The State control over the means of transport might, under a rigorous scrutiny to prevent imposition, be legitimately used to bring the labourer to his work as cheaply as possible. And, finally, by means of State farms or labour colonies the unemployed could be made self-supporting, and tided over times of depression. In any case, it is imperative that our methods of dealing with the unemployed shall be governed by and rooted in the laws of supply and demand as far as possible; and that our charities shall not be abused either in the interests of labour or capital—of labour by making existence possible for the loafer who will not work ; of capital by subsidising the sundowner to await the intermittent needs of his employer, who is thus absolved from taking any human interest in his men.

AEEOWTOWN HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 1 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 76 Total under treatment ... ... ... 77 Discharged ... ... ••■ •■• ... ... 68 Died ... ... ... ••• ••• ... ... 4 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 .. ... ... ... 5 Sex. —60 males, 17 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Arrowtown and Arrow district, 35; Macetown, 17; Cardrona, 13; Pembroke, 1; Skipper's, 7; Arthur's Point, 1; Queenstown, 3. Country.— England, 15; Ireland, 9; Scotland, 12; New Zealand, 27; Victoria, 5; Queensland, 1; Tasmania, 2; Denmark, 2; Switzerland, 2; Germany, 1; China, 1. Beligion. — Church of England, 32; Boman Catholic, 13; Presbyterian, 27; Wesleyan, 1; Lutheran, 1; Salvation Army, 1; Confucian, 1; Freethought, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 1,432; individual average days' stay, 18-60. Daily average cost per head, Bs. Id.; less patients' payments, 6s. lOd. Outdoor Patients, 3 ; attendances, 3. Eeventje and Expendituee. Bevemie. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 281 3 6 : Eations, and fuel and light ... 168 4 10 Local bodies ... ... ••• 179 9 9 j Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 10 6 8 Subscriptions and donations ... 95 2 8 j Surgery and dispensary ... ... 23 17 6 Patients'payments ... ... 87 19 0j Bedding and clothing ... ... 1117 6 Balance from last year ... ... 3 4 7 | Furniture, repairs, and earthenware 5 010 Salaries and wages ... ... 315 16 8 Funerals ... ... ... 3 0 0 Printing and advertising ... ... 176 Interest ... ... ... 1 14 0 Insurance ... ... ... 3 15 0 Other expenses ... ... ... 3184 Total ... ... £646 19 6 Total £576 8 10 This Hospital is well planned, suitably furnished, and well managed in all respects. The tendency in small hospitals to swell their list of patients by repeated admissions of the same patient, of which I noticed one or two instances here last year, has been stopped. It would be a great improvement if the drain from the back door were laid with earthenware pipes. The charge per week made on those who are able and willing to pay is £1 for subscribers, and for non-subscribers £1 10s.

ASHBUETON HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 15 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 153 Total under treatment ... ... ... 168 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 148 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 13 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 7 Sex. —138 males, 30 females. Locality from which Patients came. —Akaroa County. Nationality. —English, 56; Irish, 49; Scotch, 20; Colonials, 30; Australians, 5 ; foreigners, 8. Beligion. —Church of England, 73; Eoman Catholic, 44; Presbyterian, 35; Wesleyan, 7; Salvation Army, 3; Lutheran, 1; Unitarian, 1; Baptist, 3; New Connection, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 4,509; individual average days' stay, 26-90. Daily average cost per head, ss. 3Jd.; less patients' payments, 4s. BJd.

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Be venue and Expendituee. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 773 15 7 Eations and light ... ... 352 0 1 Local bodies. ... ... ... 520 0 0 Wines, spirits, ale, etc. ... ... 22 17 0 Subscriptions and donations ... 2 2 0 Surgery and dispensary .., ... 123 18 7 Patients'payments ... ... 128 17 0 Fuel ... ... ... 57 10 0 Bedding and clothing ... ... 3065 Furniture, earthenware, and ironmongery ... ... ... 58 311 Washing and laundry ... ... 39 12 6 Salaries and wages ... ... 375 1 6 Funerals ... ... ... 10 10 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 71 7 1 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ~. ... ... 417 3 Interest ... ... ... 5 3 0 Insurance ... ... ... 10 10 0 Other expenses... ... ... 32 0 6 Total ... £1,424 14 7 Total ... £1,193 17 10 This Hospital I found in a thoroughly satisfactory state. I was especially struck with the unremitting attention with which Dr. Trevor was treating a bad case of amputation at the shoulder. I was afraid the man would die ; but subsequently I found that he made a satisfactory recovery. The nursing department has been greatly strengthened by the addition to the staff of Nurse Doyle, who is a very capable assistant to Mrs. Mackay.

• • ■ AUCKLAND HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 94 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 954 Total under treatment ... ... ... 1,048 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 847 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 99 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 102 Sex. —7l9 males, 329 females. Localities from, ivhich Patients came. —Auckland City and Suburbs, 664; hospital district (other parts), 220 ; North of Auckland district, 89 ; southern districts, 40 ; shipping, 35. Nationality. —English, 339 ; Scotch, 104 ; Irish, 158; New Zealand, 331; Australian, 25 ; American, 14 ; German, 13 ; Fijian, 1; Dutch, 4 ; Swedish, 5 ; Norwegian, 14 ; Canadian, 2 ; Finns, 7; African, 2; Samoan, 3 ; Indian, 4 ; French, 3 ; Danish, 4 ; Portuguese, 3 ; Austrian, 4 ; Chinese, 2 ; Nova Scotian, 1 ; Italian, 1 ; Eussian, 2 ; Greek, 1; unknown, 1. Beligion. —Church of England, 567 ; Soman Catholic, 203 ; Baptist, 27 ; Wesleyan, 66; Presbyterian, 137 ; Congregationalist, 5 ; Salvationist, 13 ; Lutheran, 3 ; Church of Christ, 4 ; Brethren, 7; Jewish, 4; unknown, 12. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 35,164; individual average days' stay, 33-55. Daily average cost per head, 4s. llfd.; less patients' payments, 4s. lfd. Outdoor Patients. —Individual cases, 473 ; attendances, 4,101. Beventje and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. ■ Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 2,405 15 9 ! Eations ... ... ... 1,856 4 5 Local bodies ... ... ... 2,405 15 9 Wines, spirits, ale, and porter ... 198 1 5 Subscriptions and donations ... 10 10 0 j Surgery and dispensary — Bequests— Instruments ... ... 138 8 3 Interest ... ... ... 62114 7 Drugs, &c. ... ... ... 1,014 10 4 Capital ... ... ... 2,500 0 0 Fuel and light ... ... 624 17 2 Eents ... ... ... 207 6 1 Bedding and clothing ... ... 184 4 3 Patients'payments ... ... 1,435 11 9 Furniture and earthenware ... 204 5 10 Other sources... ... ... 68 9 9 Washing and laundry ... ... 104 2 7 Salaries and wages ... ... 2,212 6 8 Water-supply ... ... 138 10 0 Funerals ... ... ... 48 15 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 190 5 4 Additions to buildings ... ... 935 10 3 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 96 15 4 Maintenance of grounds ... 114 13 11 Nurses' home maintenance ... 608 1 4 Insurance ... ... ... 13 17 6 Stamp duty ... ... ... 12 1 1 Cab-hire ... ... ... 35 9 6 Costs Lovett's action against the Board ... ... ... 728 3 6 Proportion of office expenses ... 196 0 0 Total ... ... £9,655 3 8 Total ... ... £9,655 3 8

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After much turmoil, this institution has entered on what, I hope, will be a long period of effective and peaceful work. I think there will be a danger to the efficiency of the nursing staff if the proportion of experienced nurses to probationers is allowed to fall by pressing economy too far. It is a great pity that a proper supply of hot water was not provided for the fever wards. This ought to be remedied as soon as possible, considering how important properly-regulated bathing has become in the treatment of typhoid fever. I noticed a considerable falling-off in the amount recovered from patients for their maintenance and treatment in the Hospital, and on inquiry I found that, since February, 1891, patients coming from the northern districts are charged only 3s. per day, while the daily cost per head is 4s. llfd. The grounds round the Hospital are not kept so well as they ought to be, and especially the tennislawn in front ought to be kept in better order. As a whole, this Hospital is thoroughly well managed, and deserves the confidence of the public. I am glad to find that the Board won their case on appeal against Lovett, for I am certain that surgeons all over the country would have found their position very embarrassing had it been otherwise. Nowadays many fractures and other injuries are successfully treated which formerly would have been held to necessitate immediate amputation ; and if the risk of failure which has to be faced in such cases were to be made a ground for actions of mal-praxis, wooden legs would be commoner than w T e hope to see them.

BLENHEIM HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 21 Admitted during the year... ... ... ... ... 90 Total under treatment ... ... ... 11l Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 78 ' Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 8 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 25 Sex. —85 males, 26 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Marlborough, Wellington, Napier. Nationality. —English, 52 ; Irish, 16 ; Scotch, 10; Maori, 1; New Zealand, 27 ; German, 1; Victorian, 2 ; Chinese, 1; French, 1. Beligion. —Church of England, 67; Eoman Catholic, 23; Wesleyan, 8 ; Presbyterian, 11; Freethinker, 1; Confucian, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 7,638; individual average days' stay, 68-81. Daily average cost per head, 3s. lid.; less patients' payments, 3s. 7Jd. Bevenue and Expendituee. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 743 15 4 Eations ... ... ... 477 13 1 Local bodies ... ... ... 629 5 5 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... 20 11 6 Patients'payments ... ... 126 7 0 Aerated waters ... ... 8 10 0 Surgery and dispensary ... 184 410 Fuel and light ... ... 70 10 0 Bedding and clothing ... ... 78 7 2 Furniture and earthenware ... 85 12 6 Washing and laundry ... ... 1000 Salaries and wages ... ... 427 19 4 Funerals ... ... ... 36 0 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 39 12 7 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 23 13 2 Interest ... ... ... 457 Insurance ... ... ... 11 0 0 Other expenses ... ... 21 8 0 Total ... ... £1,499 7 9 Total ... ... £1,499 7 9 This Hospital continues to be one of the most effective country hospitals in the colony. Its surgical record for the year is even brilliant. Dr. Cleghorn's success in cases of brain surgery shows what can be done by a man who keeps himself thoroughly abreast of the most recent developments of medical science.

CHAELESTON HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ••■ 5 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... ... 28 Total under treatment ... ... ... 33 Discharged ... ... ... ... ••• ... 25 Died ... ... ... ... ... ••• •■■ 4 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ••• .... 4

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Sex. —Male. Localities from which Patients came. —Brighton to Westport, Nationality. —English, 9; Irish, 13; Victorian, 1 ; Eussian, 1; Scotch, 4 ; New Zealand, 3 ; French, 1 ; Canadian, 1. Beligion.— Church of England, 8; Eoman Catholic, 13; Wesleyan, 2; Lutheran, 1; Presbyterian, 7; Freethinkers, 2. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 2,146; individual average days' stay, 59. Daily average cost per head, ss. 11-J-d.; less patients' payments, 4s. 9Jd. Outdoor Patients.— lndividual cases, 11; attendances, 179. Bevenue and Expendituee. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 269 14 0 Eations ... ... ... 204 3 4 Local bodies ... ... ... 160 0 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c ... 6 15 6 Subscriptions and donations ... 100 0 0 Surgery and dispensary ... 58 17 7 Patients'payments ... ... 128 5 4 Fuel and light ... ... 20 14 0 Other sources ... ... 0 14 11 Bedding and clothing ... ... 18 3 1 Furniture and earthenware ... 11 4 0 Salaries and wages ... ... 278 6 6 Funerals ... ... ... 500 Eepairs ... ... ... 706 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 12 17 3 Interest ... ... ... 0 4 0 Insurance ... ... ... 400 Other expenses ... ... 12 18 2 Total ... ... £658 14 3 Total ... ... £640 3 11 This Hospital is kept open simply as a means of subsidising a doctor at the expense of the State to induce him to stay in the district. The total number of patients treated during the year was thirty-three. In consequence of the individual average stay being so high as fifty-nine days, the average daily cost per head has been kept down to ss. 11-J-d. Great interest is taken in the management by the people of the district; and, notwithstanding frequent outbreaks on the part of the doctor, the Hospital is well managed, and the patients are well attended to.

CHEISTCHUECH HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 96 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 1,076 Total under treatment ... ... ... 1,172 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 975 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 86 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 11l Sex. —7s6 males, 416 females. Localities from which Patients came. — Christchurch and suburbs, 841; Lyttelton, 59; Amuri, 16; Kaikoura, 14 ; Ashburton, 6 ; Hokitika, 1; Hawke's Bay, 1; other portions North Canterbury District, 234. Country. —New Zealand, 399 ; England and Wales, 387; Ireland, 196; Scotland, 92; Australia, 20; Germany, 21; Austria, 4; France, 7; Sweden, 7; Norway, 8; Switzerland, 3; Portugal, 1; Holland, 4; Denmark, 7 ; Eussia, 2; Greece, 2 ; America, 9; India, 1; China, 2. Beligion. —Church of England, 569; Eoman Catholic, 204 ; other denominations, 399. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 40,020; individual average days' stay, 34-14. Daily average cost per head, 3s. BJd. ; less patients' payments, 3s. 4d. Outdoor Patients. —lndividual cases, 873; attendances, 2,620. Bevenue and Expendituee. Bevenue. £ s. d. i Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 3,040 2 10! Eations ... ... ... 1,811 12 3 Local bodies ... ... ... 3,476 18 9 j Wines, spirits, ale, &c... ... 269 19 8 Subscriptions and donations ... 417 3 j Surgery and dispensary ... 731 14 7 Bequests ... ... ... 50 0 01 Fuel and light '... ... 68111 0 Patients'payments ... ... 723 1 3 Furniture and earthenware ... 128 12 2 Other sources ... ... 16 13 0 I Bedding and clothing ... ... 300 9 10 Balance from last year ... 545 13 7 Salaries and wages (including washing and laundry, and those engaged, in vegetable - gardens and recreation-grounds) ... 2,704 17 1 Funerals ... ... ... 28 6 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 368 1 6 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 60 12 11 Interest ... .. ... 11 7 6 Insurance . . ... ... 54 7 6 Other expenses (including £75 Bs., casual ward, Lyttelton) ... 230 8 3 Total .£7,857 6 8 Total £7,382 0 3

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The great want of this Hospital is a nurses' home. At present the accommodation in this respect is very deficient, and it will continue to be impossible to put the nursing-staff on a proper footing of efficiency until it is remedied. The trustees have long been anxious to put this right; and, now that they have found a means of getting the money, I hope they will thoroughly reorganize the whole nursing-staff, and so put themselves abreast of the other metropolitan institutions in this respect. All the other departments of this Hospital are satisfactory, and, as a whole, it is a credit to the city.

Akaeoa Hospital. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 4 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 17 Total under treatment ... ... ... 21 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 19 Died ... ... ... ... ... Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 2 Sex. —17 males, 4 females. Locality from which Patients came. —Akaroa County. Nationality. —English, 9; Colonials, 6; Irish, 3; Danes, 2; Maori, 1. Beligion. —Church of England, 9; Eoman Catholic, 5; other denominations, 7. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 914 ; individual average days' stay, 43-50. Daily average cost per head, 6s. 9fd. Outdoor Patients, 15. BEVENUE AND EXPENDITUEE. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 155 16 5 Eations ... ... ... 100 3 7 Derived from North Canterbury Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 5 16 0 Hospital Board, of which it is a Surgery and dispensary ... ... 2578 branch hospital ... .. 155 16 5 Fuel and light ... ... ... 12 4 0 ! Salaries and wages ... ... 150 0 0 Other expenses ... ... ... 18 1 7 Total ... ...£31112 10 Total ... ... £311 >12 10 This is administered as a branch of the Christchurch Hospital. I visited it on the 12th March, and found everything in good order. The only patient was one old chronic case, who has been a sort of nest-egg for years.

COEOMANDEL HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 1 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 9 Total under treatment ... ... ... 10 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... Sex. —Male. Locality from which Patients came. —Coromandel. Country. —New Zealand. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 243; individual average days' stay, 24-30. Daily average cost per head, £2 os. 2d: ; less patients' payments, £1 19s. sd. Outdoor Patients. —Eight. Bevenue and Expendituee. Bevenue. £• s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 601 14 0 Eations ... ... ... 87 10 0 Local bodies ... ... ... 200 0 0 Surgery and dispensary ... 28 13 0 Subscriptions and donations ... 336 10 0 Fuel and light ... ... 960 Patients'payments ... ... 9 16 0 Washing and laundry ... ... 10 0 0 Balance from last year... ... 59 12 8 Salaries and wages ... ... 343 8 8 i Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 3150 Insurance ... ... ... 550 Paid to Mercury Bay Hospital Committee... ... ... 691 18 0 Total :.. ... £1,207 12 8 Total ... ... £1,179 15 8 The time has clearly come for closing this Hospital. A great many persons when taken ill in the district prefer to go to Auckland for treatment. The number of patients treated during the year was only ten, and each of these cost the colony two pounds a day.

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CEOMWELL HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 2 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 59 Total under treatment ... ... ... 61 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 55 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 3 Sex.--b\ males, 10 females. Localities from tuhich Patients came. —Bannockburn, 20; Cromwell, 9; Pembroke, 6; Mount Pisa, 5 ; Kawarau, 4 ; Lowburn, 4; Nevis, 2 ; Luggate, 2 ; Hawea, 2 ; Victoria Bridge, 2 ; Bendigo, 2; Clyde Eoad, 1; Tarras, 1 ; Dunedin, 1. Country. —England, 19 ; New Zealand, 17 ; Ireland, 9 ; Scotland, 9; Greece, 3 ; America, 2 ; France, 1; China, 1. Religion. —Church of England, 18; Eoman Catholic, 15 ; Presbyterian, 18; Wesleyan, 4; Greek Church, 3 ; Freethinkers, 2 ; Confucian, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 1,332; individual average days' stay, 21-84. Daily average cost per head, 12s. 8-Jd.; less patients' payments, lis. Id. Outdoor Patients. —lndividual cases, 16 ; attendances, 27. Bevenue and Expendituee. Bevenue. £ s. d. I Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 189 17 0 Eations ... ... ... 154 2 11 Local bodies ... ... ... 189 17 1 j Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 17 6 6 Subscriptions and donations ... 136 4 6 ! Surgery and dispensary ... ... 66 9 6 Patients'payments ... ... 107 7 1 : Fuel and light ... ... ... 29 11 3 Sale of medicine ... ... 050' Bedding and clothing ... ... 4880 Sale of share of water-race ... 42 0 2 Salaries and wages ... ... 420 411 Water-supply ... ... ... 39 111 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 19 8 1 Insurance ... ... ... 550 Commission ... ... ... 2200 Bent of office, two years... ... 10 0 0 Other expenses ... ... ... 1450 Total ... ... £665 10 10 Total ... ... £846 3 1 It is very difficult to justify the continued existence of this institution, so near to Arrowtown on the one hand, and Clyde on the other, and connected with both by a good road. It is only the fact that there is such a large extent of thinly-settled country extending to the head of Lake Wanaka, and where people cannot avail themselves of any other hospital, that makes any defence possible. The efficiency of the management and the care taken of the patients by the doctor are beyond dispute.

DUNEDIN HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 84 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 828 Total under treatment ... ... ... 912 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 705 Died ... ... ... .., ... ... 123 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ~. ... ~. 84 Sex. —s7B males, 334 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Dunedin and suburbs, 674; Balclutha, Tuapeka, and Tapanui, 88; Palmersjton, Nenthorn, Naseby, and Hyde, 96; Oamaru, 9; Timaru, 2 ; Invercargill, Bluff, and Ei vert on, 6; West Coast, 10; Queenstown, 2; Gore, 4; Cromwell, 1; Clyde, 2; shipping, 18. Country. —England and Wales, 217; Scotland, 206; Ireland, 108; New Zealand, 273; China, 30; Victoria, 15; South Australia, 2; New South Wales, 3 ; Jersey, 5; Norway, 1 ; Germany, 6; France, 2 ; Sweden, 5 ; Peru, 1; Holland, 2 ; Denmark, 4 ; West Indies, 5 ; South Africa, 2; Italy, 1; Tasmania, 6; New Hebrides, 4; United States (America), 11; Eussia, 1; Tripoli, 1; Nova Scotia, 1. 2—H. 3.

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Beligion.— Church of England, 290; Eoman Catholic, 146; Presbyterian, 332; Baptist, 22 ; Wesleyan, 37 ; Congregational, 5 ; Church of Christ, 15; Christian Brethren, 3 ; Freethinkers, 3; Confucian, 30 ; Jewish, 3 ; Independent, 3 ; Salvationist, 11; Quaker, 1; no religion, 11. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 29,822 ; individual average days' stay, 32-70. Dailyaverage cost per head, 4s. 5d.; less patients' payments, 3s. lOd. Outdoor Patients. —lndividual cases, 1,692 ; attendances, 7,956. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 4,590 2 8 Eations ... ... ... 1,585 16 6 Local bodies ... ... ... 2,975 8 8 Wines, spirits, ale, &c... ... 170 17 10 Subscriptions and donations ... 241 8 6 Surgery and dispensary ... 843 11 8 Sales ... ... ... 48 12 8 Fuel and light ... ... 530 4 2 Students'fees ... ... 24 3 0 Bedding and clothing ... ... 77 2 0 Patients'payments ... ... 888 8 4 Furniture, earthenware, and stores 178 6 0 Other sources ... ... 27159 Salaries and wages ... ... 2,141 15 5 Water-supply ... ... 52 0 0 Funerals ... ... ... 36 0 0 Eepairs 240 10 8 Additions to buildings ... ... 689 17 2 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... 101 17 6 Interest ... ... ... 0 7 4 Insurance ... ... ... 3136 Bedsteads ... ... ... 212 10 0 Incidental expenses ... ... 394 2 1 Total ... ... £8,795 19 7 Total ... ... £7,286 110 The opening of the new nurses' home, an admirably - designed and commodious building, marks a new departure in the history of this institution. The whole of the nursing department has been completely reorganized under Miss Mawe, an experienced nurse imported from England. At the date of my last visit this change was just being arranged for, and the new matron had not arrived, but I expect to find at my next inspection that many improvements have been effected. The two great objections urged against this Hospital by the local reformers were the old-fashioned nursing system and the unsuitable character of the building. With, the completion of the new wards now in course of construction both these causes of complaint will have disappeared, and I hope to see this Hospital take its natural position at the head of the hospital system of the colony. Its position as the centre of our medical education system gives it an importance belonging to none of our other institutions. The system of local government established under our Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act does not seem to meet the requirements of the Dunedin Medical School; but surely it is not too much to hope that the interests concerned will somehow contrive to agree on some workable scheme for embodiment in the new Bill which must soon come before Parliament. The mere fact of the existence of the colonial Medical School in Dunedin must involve the gathering thither of interesting and difficult cases from all parts of the colony, and the local ratepayers will be blind indeed if they hesitate to make any sacrifices required to make this a thoroughly efficient institution. I observe the daily cost per head has risen to 4s. 5d., as compared with 3s. lOd. last year. This is accounted for by a rise of £56 for fuel and light and £606 under the head "Other expenses," of which the chief items were —bedsteads, £212 10s.; honorary medical staff, students' fees, £110 55.; refund of matron's passage, £40; architect's fees, £20; cleaning dust-bins, &c, £22 Os. 3d.; wages cleaning wards, relieving staff for holidays, &c, £88 15s. 6d.

DUNSTAN HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 4 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 36 Total under treatment ... ... ... 40 Discharged ... ... m ~, >>> ~. 35 Died ... ... .„ ... ... ... ... 2 Eemaining on 3lst March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 3 Sex.— 3o males, 10 females. Localities from which Patients came—Clyde and district, 6; Tinker's and Matakantii, 7; Alexandra and district, 10; Baldhill Flat, 7 ; St. Bathan's, 3 ; Moa Flat, 1; Ida Valley, 3 ; Naseby, 1; Bannockburn, 1; Matukituki, 1. Country. —England, 9 ; Scotland, 1; Ireland, 9; China, 4; Prussia, 1; Greece, 1; New Zealand, 12 ; Australia, 2 ; America, 1. Beligion. —Church of England, 16; Eoman Catholic, 10; Presbyterian, 8; Confucian, 4; Baptist, 1; Greek Church, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 1,376; individual average days' stay, 34-04. Daily average cost per head 9s. Bfd.; less patients' payments, 7s. llfd.

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Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 382 18 0 Eations ... ... ... 91 011 Local bodies ... ... ... 257 19 6 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 8 7 0 Subscriptions and donations ... 11l 9 0 Surgery and dispensary ... ... 32 16 8 Fatients' payments ... ... 120 10 6 Fuel and light ... ... ... 2575 Other sources ... ■■■ ••• 080 Bedding and clothing ... ... 614 11 Balance from last year ... ••• 95 611 Furniture, earthenware, and repairs 20 18 2 Salaries and wages ... ... 385 0 0 Water-supply ... ... ... 15 12 6 Funerals ... ... ... 400 Fencing and grounds ... ... 400 Eepairs and additions ... ... 816 0 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 2220 Interest and exchange ... ... 014 6 Insurance ... ... ... 12 19 6 Bent of office ... ... ... 5 0 0 Other expenses ... ... ... 2610 Total ... ... £968 11 11 Total ... ... £669 10 7 "• ' """"' ~"' ~ T-iiim ■ —■-■■ ii I found this Hospital in good order. On looking through the cases treated during the year I ascertained that the trustees had gone to the expense of sending a patient suffering from stricture to Dunedin without any necessity for doing so. My visit having this year taken place earlier than usual, and before the dry weather had set in, I found the garden in good order, and well stocked with vegetables. There were only two patients in the house on the date of my visit, The average daily cost per head is 9s. Bfd.

GISBOENE HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 7 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 156 Total under treatment ... ... ... 163 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 133 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 19 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 11 Sex. —118 males, 45 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Borough of Gisborne, and Cook and Waiapu Counties. Nationality. —British, 157 ; foreign, 9. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 4,160; individual average days' stay, 25-52. Daily average cost per head, ss. 5Jd.; less patients' payments, 4s. 2fd. Outdoor Patients. —Nil. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. s. d. From Government ... ... 453 3 3 Eations ... ... ... 177 2 7 Local bodies ... ... ... 300 0 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c.... ... 24 8 7 Subscriptions and donations ... 146 17 9 Surgery and dispensary ... 71 11 0 Eents ... ... ... 60 16 0 Fuel and light ... ... 6.115 7 Patients'payments ... ... 252 0 0 Bedding and clothing ... ... 53 17 4 Other sources ... ... 20 4 0 Furniture and earthenware ... 55 16 0 Balance from last year ... 64 18 0 Salaries and wages ... ... 446 19 6 Eepairs and additions to buildings 172 12 5 Brinting, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 22 5 4 Insurance ... ... ... 16 16 3 Other expenses ... ... 28 12 4 Total ... ... £1,297 19 0 Total ... ... £1,131 16 11 The daily cost per head has fallen this year from 7s. Ofd. to ss. SJ-d., mainly owing to an increase in the number treated during the year, which rose from 114 to 163, with an average individual stay of twenty-five instead of twenty-six days. There were twenty-six cases of typhoid up to the time of my visit on the 4th January. The matron and her assistants must have had a heavy time of it, and 1 have since been informed by Dr. Innes that Nurse Gifford deserved great credit for her efforts. A nurses' room is very much wanted. The hall and large ward have been freshly painted, and look much better than at my last visit.

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GEETMOUTH HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 44 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 120 Total under treatment ... ... ... 164 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 92 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... 25 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... 47 Sex. —l 49 males, 15 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Grey Valley, 53; Maori Creek and Marsden, 27; Arnold, 25 ; Greymouth, 23 ; Brunnerton, 14 ; North Beach, 9; South Beach, 6 ; Eeefton, 5 ; Dunedin, 1; Wanganui, 1. Country. —England and Wales, 60; Ireland, 53 ; Scotland, 16 ; New Zealand, 11; China, 6 ; America, 6; Germany, 4 ; Sweden and Denmark, 4; Italy, 1; Isle of Man, 1; Victoria, 1; New South Wales, 1. Beligion. —Church of England, 69; Eoman Catholic, 53; Presbyterian, 21; Lutheran, 6; Confucian, 6; Wesleyan, 4; Freethinkers, 3; Baptist, 1; Salvationist, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 15,581; individual average days' stay, 95. Daily average cost per head, 3s. lfd.; less patients' payments, 3s. Id. Outdoor Patients. —lndividual cases, 187 ; attendances, 603. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... .. 1,327 0 3 Eations ... ... ... 684 11 6 Local bodies ... ... ... 731 8 4 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 80 0 0 Subscriptions and donations ... 531 0 4 Surgery and dispensary ... 55 15 9 Patients'payments ... ... 38 6 0 Fuel... ... ... ... 69 6 0 Other sources... ... ... 5 4 6 Light ... ... ... 45 18 9 Furniture, earthenware, and ironmongery ... ... ... 72 15 5 Salaries and wages ... ... 1,243 16 0 Funerals ... ... ... 12 2 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 53 7 3 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 56 3 6 Interest ... ... ... 27 15 11 Insurance ... ... ... 30 0 0 Other expenses ... ... 26 17 3 Total ... ... £2,632 19 5 Total ...' ... £2,458 9 4 This Hospital, on the day of my visit, contained thirty-seven male and six female patients. Of these, a very large proportion were refuge cases, so that the individual average stay was ninety-five days, thus bringing down the average daily cost per head to 3s. lfd., and that notwithstanding the large sum of £1,243 paid for salaries and wages. The medical and surgical work of this Hospital is thoroughly well done, and the management is excellent.

GBEYTOWN HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 3 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 55 Total under treatment ... ... ... 58 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 54 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 1 Sex. —4B males, 10 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Greytown, 13; Martinborough, 12; Foxton, 11 ; Carterton, 9; Lower Valley, 3; Te Whiti, 3 ; Gladstone, 3; Morrison's Bush, 1; Kaiwaiwai, 2 Masterton, 1. Country. —England, 15; Ireland, 8 ; Scotland, 4 ; New Zealand, 21; Germany, 1 ; Wales, 2 ; Denmark, 1; France, 2 ; Sweden, 1; Australia, 3. Beligion. —Church of England, 32 ; Eoman Catholic, 8 ; Presbyterian, 13 ; Freethinkers, 2 ; Wesleyan, 2; Unitarian, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 964; individual average days' stay, 1662. Daily average cost per head, 7s. 6j-d.; less patients' payments, 6s. 9Jd.

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Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 229 311 Eations, fuel, and light ... ... 92 10 8 Local bodies ... ... ... ... Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 114 6 Subscriptions and donations ... 163 15 0 Surgery and dispensary ... ... 30 19 11 Patients'payments ... ... 36 15 6 Bedding and clothing ... ... 512 5 Balance from last year ... ... 42 1 4 Furniture and earthenware ... 17 5 2 Salaries and wages ... ... 159 10 8 Funerals ... ... ... 120 Eepairs ... ... ... 43 3 1 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 200 ; Insurance ... ... ... 4100 i Other expenses ... ... 4 17 8 Total ... ...£47115 9 Total ... ...£363 6 1 A very commendable feature of this Hospital is the fact that the individual average stay is sixteen days, the lowest in the colony, and that notwithstanding the temptation to Teduce the daily average cost by allowing patients to stay on. The Hospital is well managed, and the patients are well looked after. One of the two detached cottages has been moved close up to the back door, thus giving additional ward space, and greatly adding to the convenience of the Hospital. Ido not think it a safe plan to depend so largely on water drawn from a well close to the back door, and sunk through a deposit of shingle.

HOKITIKA HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 29 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 192 Total under treatment ... ... ... 221 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 172 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... 19 Eemaining on. 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 30 ' Sex. —l7l males, 50 females. Locality from which Patients came. —Westland. Nationality. —English, 56; Scotch, 36; Irish, 52; German, 14; Italian, 9; Colonial, 45; Chinese, 9. Beligion. —Church of England, 65; Eoman Catholic, 66; Presbyterian, 62; Lutheran, 8; Baptist, 7 ; Confucian, 13. Total 'collective days' stay in hospital, 11,700 ; individual average days' stay, 52-94. Daily average cost per head, 3s. 6Jd.; less patients' payments, 3s. sd. Outdoor Patients. —Individual cases, 217 ; attendances, 348. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 1,032 2 9 Eations ... ... ... 592 0 3 Local bodies ... ... ... 375 0 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c... ... 88 2 0 Subscriptions and donations ... 569 4 6 Surgery and dispensary ... 148 16 8 Bequests ... ... ... 7 2 0 Fuel and light ... ... 124 3 2 Patients'payments ... ... 58 14 0 Bedding and clothing ... ... 98 16 2 Other sources ... ... 16 2 7 Furniture and earthenware ... 13 4 0 j Washing and laundry ... ... 28100 , Salaries and wages ... ... 772 6 8 : Funerals ... ... ... 30 4 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 35 9 8 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 38 4 8 Interest ... ... ... 0 19 9 Insurance ... ... ... 26 5 0 Commission ... ... ... 200 Other expenses ... ... 5816 Total ... ... £2,058 510 Total ... ... £2,057 3 6 This institution has been reorganized since my last visit, and I observe that a reduction of £300 has been made in the sum paid for salaries and wages. A matron and an assistant nurse have now sole charge of the nursing.

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INVEECAEGILL HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 19 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 216 Total under treatment ... ... ... 235 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 196 Died ... . . ... ... ... ... ... 17 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 22 Sex. —l7B males, 57 females. Locality from which Patients came. —Southland. Country. —England, 51; Scotland, 56; Ireland, 41; New Zealand, 64; Denmark, 4; Finland, 2; Germany, 5 ; Holland, 1; Jersey, 1; Africa, 1; Victoria, 2; New South Wales, 1; Tasmania, 1; Sweden, 2; United States America, 2; St. Helena, 1. Beligion. —Church of England, 74; Eoman Catholic, 46; Presbyterian, 93; Lutheran, 5; Wesleyan, 6 ; Salvationist, 7 ; Independent, 1; Baptist, 1; United Presbyterians, 1 ; no religion, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 8,255; individual average days' stay, 35-13. Daily average cost per head, 4s. 9-J-d.; less patients' payments, 4s. 5-J-d. Outdoor Patients. —Individual cases, 577; attendances, 1,707. Be venue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. cl. j Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 935 2 6 Eations ... ... ... 389 6 3 Local bodies ... ... ... 769 15 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 30 14 10 Subscriptions and donations ... 121 18 3 Drugs ... ... ... 89 16 3 Bents ... ... ... 5 0 0 ! Instruments ... ... ... 76 17 8 Patients'payments ... ... 148 12 1 Fuel and light ... ... 161 9 11 Other sources ... ~, 8999 Bedding and clothing ... ... 8800 Furniture and earthenware ... 74121 Washing and laundry ... ... 5466 Salaries and wages ... ... 791 11 6 Water-supply ... ... 4 5 0 Funerals "... ... ... 20 10 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 93 8 2 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 42 14 9 Interest ... ... ... 24 18 2 Insurance ... ... ... 946 Other expenses ... ... 23 5 10 Total ... ... £2,069 17 7 Total ... ... £1,975 1 5 This Hospital, except for the defects alluded to in former reports, I found in good order. The surgeon is skilful and attentive to his duties. I called the attention of the Chairman to the position of one of the attendants, and the matter was promptly put right. The number of patients on the date of my visit was twenty-one. All spoke well of the treatment they received. Owing to some friction between the Trustees and the Charitable Aid Board, another medical man was employed to look after the inmates of the Old People's Home instead of the hospital surgeon, who formerly did the work. I am not able fully to judge of all the circumstances ; but I hope those concerned will carefully consider how far it is justifiable to cause increased expenditure of public money by their action.

KUMABA HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 12 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 89 Total under treatment ... ... ... 101 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 82 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 9 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 10 Localities from which Patients came. —Kumara district, 73; Grey district, 14; Hokitika district, 4 ; Christchurch Eoad, 8 ; Eeefton, 2. Nationality. —Colonial born, 22; English, 38; Irish, 24; Scotch, 8; Chinese, 3; Italian, 2; Prussian, 1; Danish, 2; Portuguese, 1. Religion. —No record kept. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 6,908 ; individual average _days' stay, 68-39. Daily average cost per head, 2s. 4Jd.; less patients' payments, Is. lOfd. Outdoor Patients. —lndividual cases, 60 ; attendances, 265.

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Bevenue and Expendituee. Revenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 253 6 6 Eations ... ... ... 206 1 8 Local bodies ... ... ... 83 7 8 Wines, spirits, ale, &c... ... 37 7 6 Subscriptions and donations ... 197 10 8 Surgery and dispensary ... '44 14 4 Patients' payments ... ... 182 7 3 Fuel and light ... ... 3216 Bedding and clothing ... ... 1054 Furniture and earthenware ... 1550 Salaries and wages ... ... 394 7 6 Funerals ... ... ... 15 0 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 18 14 2 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 14 11 6 Interest ... ... ... 12 18 9 Insurance ... ... ... 8 15 0 Other expenses ... ... 22 12 10 Total ... ...£716 12 1 Total ... ... £832 15 1 The number of patients at this Hospital who were treated during the year has very nearly doubled, while the cost per head per day has fallen from 4s. 7|-d. to 2s. 4fd. —the lowest in the colony. This result must, however, be taken in connection with the fact that the average days' stay for each patient was sixty-eight days. This is owing to the fact that here, as all over the West Coast, helpless chronics have to be admitted, and cannot be got rid of till a central refuge is provided. The marked improvement in the results for last year is due to the great vigour and ability of Dr. Miles.

LAWEENCE HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... .., ... 9 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 146 Total under treatment ... ... ... 155 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 137 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 12 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 6 Sex. —108 males, 47 females. Locality from which Patients came. —Tuapeka County. Country. —New Zealand, 57 ; England, 25 ; Scotland, 25 ; Ireland, 26 ; Wales, 2 ; Victoria, 8 ; Tasmania, 2 ; Canada, 1; Italy, 1; China, 3 ; Denmark, 1; Portugal, 1; St. Helena, 1 ; Eussia, 1; Sweden, 1. Beligion. —No record. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 3,370; individual aveiage days' stay, 21-74. Daily average cost per head, ss. 6-|d.; less patients' payments, 4s, 2d. Outdoor Patients. —Seventy-six.

Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 551 19 0 Eations ... ... ... 266 3 0 Local bodies ... ... ... 264 14 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 28 5 9 Subscriptions and donations ... 0100 Surgery and dispensary ... ... 9239 Patients'payments ... ... 232 12 6 Fuel and light ... ... ... 60 10 10 Other sources ... ... ... 13 16 2 Bedding and clothing ... ... 12 4 1 Balance from last year ... ... 248 3 4 Washing and laundry ... ... 050 Salaries and wages ... ... 376 2 6 Water-supply ... ... ... 10 0 0 Funerals ... ... ... 300 Eepairs ... ... ... 22 18 9 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 916 1 Insurance ... ... ... 1 17 6 Other expenses... ... ... 49 18 0 Total ... £1,311 15 0 Total ... ... £933 5 3 The management of this Hospital continues to be highly satisfactory in all respects. I observe, however, that there is an increase of over Is. in the average daily ccst. This, I find, is accounted for by the total collective days' stay being 1,822 days less than the previous year, while the number of patients treated is all but the same as last year.

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MASTEETON HOSPITAL. Number of patients remaining on 31st March, 1891 ... ... 4 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 77 Total under treatment ... ... ... 81 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 66 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 10 Sex. —71 males, 10 females. Localities from which Patients came. — Masterton, 21 ; Whareama, 17 ; Pahiatua, 13; Eketahuna, 8; Brancepeth, 5; Bideford, 5; Mauriceville, 5; Gladstone, 2 ; Martinborough, 2 ; Auckland, 1 ; Dunedin, 1; unknown, 1. Country. —England, 27 ; Scotland, 13; Ireland, 17; New Zealand, 15; Norway, 2; Wales, 2 ; Australia, 1 ; Canada, 1 ; Austria, 1; Denmark, 1; Greece, 1. Beligion. —Church of England, 28 ; Eoman Catholic, 17; Presbyterian, 15; W T esleyan, 14 ; Lutheran, 4 ; Greek Church, 3. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 2,916; individual average days' stay, 36. Dailyaverage cost per head, 4s. BJd. ; less patients' payments, 3s. lOfd. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 358 6 11 Eations ... ... ... 176 12 1 Subscriptions and donations ... 286 1 10 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 814 0 Bequests . ... ... ... 43 19 1 Surgery and dispensary ... ... 56 11 8 Patients'payments ... ... 116 0 9 j Fuel and light ... ... ..." 36 10 7 Bedding and clothing ... ... 27 8 4 Furniture and earthenware ... 10 6 5 Salaries and wages ... ... 269 16 2 Funerals ... ... ... 12 0 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 14 6 0 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 26 16 6 Insurance ... ... ... 11 0 0 Commission ... ... ... 27 11 0 Other expenses ... ... ... 7 7 6 Total ... ...£BO4 8 7 Total ... ... £685 0 3 This Hospital is an object of legitimate pride to the district. A very great deal of interest is taken in its welfare by the townspeople, and, as a consequence, it is thoroughly well looked after. A great deal of credit is due to Mr. Boddington for his careful supervision for so many years.

NAPIEE HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 20 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 319 Total under treatment ... ... ... 339 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 295 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... 21 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892... ... ... v . 23 Sex. —2ss males, 84 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Hawke's Bay and adjoining districts. Country. —England, 94; Scotland, 46; Ireland, 61,; New Zealand, 109; Australia, 7; Tasmania, 2 ; Germany, 2 ; France, 1; Eussia, 1; India, 2; Denmark, 4 ; Norway, 3 ; Sweden, 1; Austria, 1; Finland, 1; Jamaica, 1; Brazil, 1; China, 1; Newfoundland, 1. Beligion. —Church of England, 153; Eoman Catholic, 81; Bresbyterian, 73; Wesleyan, 7; Lutheran, 11; Salvation Army, 2 ; Baptist, 1 ; Congregationalist, 1; Adventists, 4 ; undenominational, 5 ; no religion, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 8,390; individual average days' stay, 24-75. Daily average cost per head, ss. 2Jd.; less patients' payments, 3s. lljd. Outdoor Patients. —97o.

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Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. i Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 906 6 8 Eations ... ... ... 409 10 8 Local bodies ... ... ... 200 0 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 34 19 6 Subscriptions and donations ... 341 0 9 Surgery and dispensary... ... 198 12 6 Bequests ... ... ... 235 6 0 Fuel and light... ... ... 166 13 2 Bents ... ... ... 60 7 6 Furniture and earthenware ... 91 12 2 Patients'payments ... ... 531 19 5 Salaries and wages ... ... 824 3 1 Other sources ... ... ... 317 10 0 Water-supply... ... ... 24 7 9 Balance from last year ... ... 291 19 3 Funerals ... ... ... 519 6 Eepairs ... ... ... 200 10 9 Brinting, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 31 14 10 Insurance ... ... ... 48 8 3 Other expenses ... ... 143 14 2 Total ... ...£2,884 9 7 Total ... ...£2,180 6 4 This is in many respects one of the best hospitals in the colony. The medical superintendent resides at the institution, and devotes his whole time to it. He has had very great hospital experience, and is most attentive to his work. I have observed some want of harmony among the nursing staff; but I understand that this has been remedied. The time cannot now be far distant when some change must be made regarding the head of the staff, though I am bound to say I have seen no signs of inefficiency in Dr. Menzies's work. When the time comes I think the Trustees ought to consider whether Napier, having regard both to the amount of its population and the number of medical practitioners resident in the town, ought not have an honorary visiting staff for it's hospital. In a town of this size, with such a hospital, a junior resident surgeon, with an honorary staff, would enable the community as a whole to reap more fully the advantages which hospital practice gives to members of the medical profession. Should, however, the Trustees see fit to entertain this suggestion, they must expect a great deal more difficulty in the harmonious management of the institution than the existing system involves.

NASEBY HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 3 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 56 Total under treatment ... ... ... 59 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 50 Died ... ... :.. ... ... ... 4 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 5 Sex. —so males, 9 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Naseby, St. Bathan's, Black's, Hamilton, Gimmerburn, Sowburn, Eyeburn. Nationality. —English, 20; Scotch, 23; Irish, 11; German, 1; Italian, 2; Chinese, 2. Beligion. —Church of England, 19; Eoman Catholic, 13; Presbyterian, 23; Lutheran, 2; Confucian, 2. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 998; individual average days' stay, 16-91. Daily average cost per head, 16s. 3d.; less patients' payments, 15s. 3Jd. Outdoor Patients, 6; attendances, 20. Bevenue and Expendituee. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 370 1 9 Eations ... ... ... 129 7 8 Local bodies ... ... ... 245 16 11 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... .., 22 8 6 Subscriptions and donations ... 61 10 9 Surgery and dispensary ... ... 30 11 0 Patients'payments 48 11 0 Fuel and light... ... ... 27 10 10 Other sources ... ... ... 9 10 0 Bedding and clothing ... ... 16 5 1 Balance from last year ... ... 301 1 6 Furniture and earthenware ... 100 Washing and laundry ... ... 7 15 0 Salaries and wages ... ... 413 15 4 Water-supply ... ... ... 17 16 0 Funerals ... ... ... 14 6 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 51 17 0 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 12 14 9 Interest .., ... ... 0 10 6 Insurance ... ... ... 700 Other expenses ... ... 5758 Total ... ...£1,036 11 11 Total ... ... £810 3 4 3—H. 3.

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This year has shown a great falling-off in this institution in the number of patients, and a great increase in the daily cost per head, which has risen from 10s. 7Jd. to 16s. 2d. My experience leads me to believe that in such a place as Naseby this indicates a weakening of confidence in the institution. How far this may be owing to suspicions which I found current regarding the sobriety of the nursing staff, or how far it indicates want of confidence in the doctor, the Trustees, I have no doubt, will soon ascertain. It would be a great pity if, for any preventible reason, there should be any falling-off in the position which this Hospital has maintained for so many years. So far as my actual observations went I could find nothing to account for the change.

NELSON HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 17 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 98 Total under treatment ... ... ... 115 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 86 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... 19 Sex. —81 males, 34 females. Locality from which Patients came. —County of Waimea. Country. —New Zealand, 52; England, 33; Scotland, 11; Ireland, 11; Germany, 3; other countries, 5. Beligion. —Church of England, 64 : Eoman Catholic, 21; Presbyterian, 9; Wesleyan, 12; Lutheran, 6; Baptist, 2; Jewish, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 7,368; individual average days' stay, 64-61. Daily average cost per head, ss. 5Jd. ; less patients' payments, ss. OJd. Outdoor Patients. —Individual cases, 458; attendances, 2,516. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. I Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 865 17 6 | Eations ... ... ... 448 10 3 Local bodies ... ... ... 881 5 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 54 16 6 Eents ... ... ... 83 5 0 Surgery and dispensary ... ... 145 16 2 Patients'payments ... ... 155 5 0 j Fuel and light ... ... ... 160 10 5 Other sources ... ... ... 3 2 2 | Bedding and clothing ... ... 30 18 11 | Furniture and earthenware ,i. 61 12 11 Salaries and wages ... ... 927 19 0 Water-supply ... ... ... 29 15 0 Funerals ... ... ... 730 Painting ... ... ... 42 17 6 Eepairs ... ... ... 32 15 6 Additions to buildings ... ... 379 12 0 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 14 17 6 Other expenses ... ... ... 59 8 4 Total ... ...£1,988 14 8 Total .. £2,396 13 0 I have nothing further to report of this institution than simply to repeat that it continues to work harmoniously and efficiently. The number of patients treated during the year is the same within one as last year, and the daily cost per head is nearly the same.

NEW PLYMOUTH HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ~. 10 Admitted during the year ... ~. ~, ... 132 Total under treatment ... ... ... 142 Discharged ... ... ... ... ~. ... 120 Died ~, ~. ~. ... ~, ~, 10 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892.., ~, ~. ~. 12 Sex. —llo males, 32 females. Localities from which Patients came. —New Plymouth, 21; Taranaki County, 76; Hawera County, 33 ; Clifton County, 2 ; Greymouth, 2 ; Auckland, 4 ; Wellington, 2 ; Mokau, 1; Patea, 1. Nationality:— English; 63; Scotch, 7; Irish, 20; Colonial, 40; German, 3; Danish, 1; Swiss, 1; American, 1; Prussian, 4 ; Italian, 1; Java, 1. Beligion. —No record kept. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 4,099; individual average days' stay, 28-86. Daily average cost per head, 6s. 9d.; less patients' payments, 4s. 7Jd. Outdoor Patients. —No record kept.

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Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 581 19 2 Eations ... ... ... 295 3 4 Local bodies ... ... ... 541 19 3 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 41 3 7 Patients'payments ... ... 439 15 6 Surgery and dispensary... ... 141 12 3 Fuel and light ... ... ... 120 811 Bedding, clothing, furniture, and earthenware ... .. 73 9 8 Washing and laundry ... ... 3140 Salaries and wages ... ... 511 1 7 Water-supply ... ... ... 10 0 0 Funerals ... ... ... 170 Eepairs ... ... ... 36 19 1 Additions"to buildings . . ... 30 12 2 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 20 13 11 Interest ... ... ... 1 14 7 Insurance ... ... ... 20 18 9 Hawera Cottage Hospital ... 150 0 8 Other expenses ... ... 7745 Total ... £1,563 13 11 Total ... ...£1,563 13 11 In this Hospital there is an increase in the number of patients, and a fall in the daily average cost per head. The number of patients on the day of my visit was eight, so that a comparatively large part of the available accommodation was unused. Perhaps, if the district continues to increase so rapidly'in population as it has been doing recently, it may be necessary to utilise the whole of this commodious building; but for a long time to come it is probable it will only require labour to keep it clean. The nursing is efficient, and the doctor is attentive to his patients. A harmonium has been provide 1 by public subscription. The lighting of the operating-room has been greatly improved. The patients all spoke highly of the kindness with which they are treated.

OAMABU HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 12 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 99 Total under treatment ... ... ... 11l Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 94 Died ... ... ... . . ... ... '... 8 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ~. ... ... 9 Sex. —81 males, 30 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Oamaru, 53; Waitaki district, 58. Country. —England, 23 ; Scotland, 18; Ireland, 20; New Zealand, 38 ; Australian Colonies, 9; America, 3. Religion. —Church of England, 38 ; Eoman Catholic, 36 ; Presbyterian, 33 ; others, 4. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 3,960; individual average days' stay, 35 67. Daily average cost per head, 4s. lOd.; less patients' payments, 4s. Bd. Outdoor Patients. —lndividual cases, 66 ; attendances, 320. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 112 17 5 Eations ... ... ... 184 16 5 Subscriptions and donations ... 102 811 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 4 4 0 Eents ... ... ... 853 4 6 Surgery and dispensary ... ... 74165 Patients'payments ... ... 30 18 1 Fuel and light ... ... ... 64 611 Interest, &c. ... ... ... 156 9 6 Bedding and clothing ... ... 40 14 7 Balance from last year ... ... 11l 5 0 Furniture and earthenware ... 30 0 8 Washing and laundry ... ... 1100 Salaries and wages ... ... 454 15 8 Funerals ... ... ... 10 10 0 Eepairs and additions ... ... 55 11 3 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery .. ... ... 12 12 1 Improvement of grounds ... ... 30 4 3 Other expenses .. ... ... 24 17 7 Total ... ... £1,367 3 5 Total ... ...£9BB 19 10

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Some of the floors in this Hospital were lately taken up and found in a very decayed state, and covered with fungus. The ventilation of the large male ward is still very bad. I am afraid that there is a tendency to crowd too many patients into this ward to save trouble. On the day of my visit ten of the twelve male patients in the Hospital were in this room, and the air was very close and oppressive. The doctor is very attentive, and the patients spoke highly of Mr. and Mrs. Desmond.

PATEA HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 3 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ..'. 25 Total under treatment ... .... .. 28 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 26 Died ... ... ... 1 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 1 Sex. —2s males, 3 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Batea, 10 ; Hawera, 2 ; Alton, 5; Waitotara, 1; Waverley, 8; Normanby, 1; Manutahi, 1. Nationality. —English, 12; Scotch, 2; Irish, 7; Colonial, 5; Maori, 1; Swede, 1. Religion. —No record. .Total collective days' stay in hospital, 487; individual average days' stay, 17-39. Daily average cost per head, lis. 11-fd.; less patients' payments, lis. Id. Outdoor Patients. —Nil. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 100 0 0 Eations ... ... ... 5914 Local bodies ... ... ... 100 0 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 5 2 0 Patients' payments ... ... 22 0 2 Surgery and dispensary ... ... 396 Balance from last year ... ... 107 611 Fuel and light ... ... ... 13 14 3 Furniture and earthenware ... 600 Salaries and wages ... ... 194 7 0 Funerals ... ... ... 366 Eepairs ... ... ... 0 13 6 Brinting, advertising, postage, and stationery ... .. ... 213 6 Insurance ... ... ... 1 10 0 Other expenses ... ... ... 1180 Total ... ... £329 7 1 Total ... ... £291 15 7 On the date of my visit this Hospital was empty ; and, so far as I can see, it is not necessary to keep it open any longer.

PICTON HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 7 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 53 Total under treatment ... ... ... 60 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 47 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 11 Sex. —56 males, 4 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Hospital district, 53 ; shipping, 7. Country. —England, 20; Scotland, 3 ; Ireland, 7 ; New Zealand, 13 ; Tasmania, 1; North America, 3 ; Italy, 1; St. Helena, 1; Holland, 3; Norway, 3; Germany, 3 ; West Indies, 1; Denmark, 1. Beligion. —No record kept. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 3,086; individual average days' stay, 51-43. Dai y average cost per head, 3s. 5-J-d.; less patients' payments, 2s. lOfd. Outdoor Patients. —Nil.

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Bevenue and Expenditure. Revenue. £ s. d. I Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 240 0 4 Eations ... ... ... 12110. 8 Local bodies ... ... ... 208 0 5 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 15 14 0 Patients'payments ... ... 84 19 4 Surgery and dispensary... ... 31 2 11 Fuel and light... ... ... 20 10 5 Bedding and clothing ... ... 18 19 0 Furniture and earthenware ... 111311 Washing and laundry ... .. 15 12 5 Salaries and wages ... ... 249 6 8 Travelling-expenses ... ... 2 5 0 Funerals ... ... ... 10 0 0 Eepairs ... ~. ... 386 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery' ... ... ... 12 3 2 Insurance ... ... ... 680 Other expenses ... ... 1455 Total ... ... £533 0 1 Total ... ... £533 0 1 The opening of the Mahakipawa Goldfield has postponed indefinitely' the closing of this Hospital, which seemed at one time inevitable. It is a homely, well-managed institution, half hospital and half refuge. It contained eight patients on the last occasion on which I visited it. Of these, four were chronic cases, all of whom were over three years in the Hospital.

QUEENSTOWN HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 12 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 92 Total under treatment ... ... ... 104 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 92 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 .. ... ... ... 9 Sex. —79 males, 25 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Lake County, Queenstown, Arrowtown, Vincent County, Southland. Country. —New Zealand, 34; England, 13; Scotland, 23 ; Ireland, 21; China, 3 ; Australia, 2 ; Holland, 2; Italy, 1; Mexico, 1; Sweden, 1; America, 1; Austria, 1; Malta, 1. Beligion. —Church of England, 21; Eoman Catholic, 29; Presbyterian, 47; Confucian, 3; Wesleyan, 1; Salvationist, 1; Lutheran, 1; Freethought, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 2,723; individual average days' stay, 26-18. Daily average cost per head, 7s. 2fd. ; less patients' payments, ss. 4d. Outdoor Patients. —lndividual cases, 38 ; attendances, 75. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 368 19 3 Eations ... :.. ... 207 5 10 Local bodies ... ... ... 266 5 0 Surgery and dispensary ... ... 52 16 4 Subscriptions and donations ... 117 0 8 Fuel and light ... ... ... 112 19 1 Patients' payments ... ... 259 11 7 Bedding, clothing, furniture, &c. ... 63 18 11 Salaries and wages ... ... 441 1 7 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 410 Other expenses ... ... ... 103 4 0 Total ... ... £1,011 16 6 Total ... ... £985 6 9 This Hospital contained four patients on the day of my inspection. The male ward is well designed and comfortably furnished. The centre block consists mainly of the doctor's quarters. It will probably be a long time before it will be either necessary or possible to complete the plan by providing a southern wing, and so give the whole a symmetrical appearance.

BEEFTON HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 10 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 90 Total under treatment ... ... ... 100 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 85 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 .., ~, , , ~, 5

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Sex, — 96 males, 4 females. Locality from which Patients came. —lnangahua County. Country.— England, 21; Scotland, 12; Ireland, 30; New Zealand, 16; United States of America, s'; China, 4; Austria, 2; Sweden, 1; Wales, 1; Eussia, 1; Finland, 1; Tasmania, 1; Germany, 1; Victoria, 1; Portugal, 1; Denmark, 1 ; New South Wales, 1. Religion.— Church of England, 41; Eoman Catholic, 30; Presbyterian, 13; Wesleyan, 4; Lutheran, 4 ; Pagan, 4 ; Salvationist, 2 ; Greek Church, 1; no religion, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 4,224 ; individual average days' stay, 42-24. Daily average cost per head, 6s. 0-Jd. ; less patients' payments, ss. 4d. Outdoor Patients. —lndividual cases, 86 ; attendances, 445. Bevenue and Expenditure. Revenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 650 1110 Eations ... ... ... 292 5 8 Local bodies ... ... ... 100 0 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 35 17 5 Subscriptions and donations ... 430 2 8 Surgery and dispensary ... 92 5 6 Patients'payments ... ... 150 5 3 Fuel and light... ... ... 99 14 10 Balance from last year ... ... 192 5 2 Bedding and clothing ... ... 23 5 4 Furniture and earthenware ... 23 15 6 Washing and laundry ... ... 575 Salaries and wages ... ... 539 10 0 Water-supply ... ... ... 4 11 10 Funerals ... ... ... 3 15 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 52 5 4 Additions to buildings ... ... 10 17 6 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ~. ... ... 26 9 0 Insurance ... ... ... 939 Commission ... ... ... 10 610 Other expenses ... ... 45 17 3 Total ... ...£1,523 411 Total ... ...£1,275 8 2 This Hospital is in all respects a model of what a country hospital should be. The management is admirable, and the whole district has reason to be proud of it.

EIVEETON HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 12 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 97 Total under treatment ... ... ... 109 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 95 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... 8 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 6 Sex. —71 males, 38 females. Locality from which Patients came. —County of Wallace. Country. —England, 23; Scotland, 14; Ireland, 26; New Zealand, 30; Maori, 2; China, 6; Tasmania, 2 ; New South Wales, 1; Victoria, 2 ; Gibraltar, 3. Religion. —No record. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 3,646; individual average days' stay, 33-45. Daily average cost per head, 6s. 5Jd. ; less patients' payments, ss. B£d. Outdoor Patients. —Individual cases, 134 ; attendances, 219. Bevenue and Expenditure. Revenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 559 14 11 Eations ... ... ... 270 19 0 Local bodies ... ... ... 504 18 7 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 59 7 5 Subscriptions and donations ... 74 311 Surgery and dispensary ... 114 15 4 Patients'payments ... ... 126 19 9 Fuel and light ... ... 55 4 2 Other sources ... ... .... 015 0 Bedding and clothing ... ... 916 0 Balance from last year ... ... 1.1 15 3 Furniture and earthenware ... 57 18 5 Salaries and wages ... ... 531 9 0 Funerals ... ... ... 750 Additions to buildings ... ... 129 15 4 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 10 14 9 Interest ... ... ... 0 11 8 Insurance ... ... ... 8 17 0 Commission ... ... ... 32 19 5 Other expenses ... ... 1254 Total ... ...£1,278 7 5 Total ... ...£1,301 17 10

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This is a new hospital, well designed and well managed. Mr. Thompson has a well-deserved reputation all over the district for his care of and kindness to the patients, and the doctor is attentive to his duties.

BOSS HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... 6 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 32 Total under treatment ... ... ... 38 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 24 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892... ... ... ... 9 Sex. —Males. Locality from which Patients came.- —Eoss and neighbourhood. Country. —England, 4; Scotland, 7; Ireland, 11; New Zealand, 4; Denmark, 4; Italy, 2; Germany, 2 ; Wales, 1; France, 1 ; United States of America, 1; China, 1. Religion. —No record. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 2,484; individual average days' stay, 65-37. Daily average cost per head, 3s. 3Jd.; less patients' payments, 3s. 2d. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 154 6 5 Eations, &c. ... ... ... 121 11 7 Local bodies ... ... ... 133 12 7 Surgery and dispensary ... ... 14 2 6 Subscriptions and donations ... 103 811 Fuel and light ... ... ... 18 510 Patients' payments ... ... 15 5 6 Furniture and earthenware ... 215 6 Salaries and wages ... ... 220 0 0 Water-supply ... ... ... 4 10 0 Funerals ... ... ... 700 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 314 0 Insurance ... ... ... 626 Other expenses ... ... ... 8 11 6 Total ... ... £406 13 5 Total ... ... £406 13 5 This institution has fallen on evil days. The Trustees have to keep it up with very straitened means, and it is badly in need of being refurnished. The doctor is devoted to his work, and is worthy of a better sphere. The patients are well looked after, and are very contented.

THAMES HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 13 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 182 Total under treatment ... ... ... 195 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 165 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... 12 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892... ... ... ... 18 Sex. —lsl males, 44 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Thames Hospital District. Country. —New Zealand, 80; England, 59; Scotland, 12; Ireland, 30; Australia, 3; China, 3; America, 1; Norway, 2; Germany, 3; West Indies, 1; Africa, 1. Beligion. —No record kept. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 5,125; individual average days' stay, 26-28. Daily average cost per head, ss. 9fd.; less patients' payments, 4s. 9-Jd. Outdoor Patients. —lndividual cases, 207 ; attendances, 527. Bevenue and Expenditure. Revenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 693 4 8 Eations, fuel, and light ... 349 0 10 Local bodies ... ... ... 610 0 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c ... 4 17 0 Subscriptions and donations ... 62 11 3 Surgery and dispensary ... 185 7 9 Eents ... ... ... 18 0 0 Bedding, clothing, &c. ... ... 42 10 4 Patients'payments ... ... 257 12 6 Salaries and wages ... ... 703 0 0 Balance from last year.., ... 19 10 11 Funerals ... ... ... 5 17 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 44 8 3 Additions to buildings ... ... 98 5 6 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 22 9 2 Insurance ... ... ... 22 14 10 Other expenses ... ... 105 7 -Total £1,660 19 4 Total £1,583 18 5

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This is one of the most satisfactory hospitals in the colony. My annual visit to it is a pleasure. The professional ability of the surgeon and his devotion to his work are in the highest degree satisfactory. The nursing staff are capable, and full of enthusiasm for their work. The vexed, question of how to deal with delirium tremens cases has been dealt with here by providing a suitable detached ward, where the troublesome and noisy patients can be treated without upsetting the other patients. The patients are contented and thoroughly well treated.

TIMAEU HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ~. ... ... 26 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 219 Total under treatment ... ... ... 245 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ~. 201 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... 16 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892... ... ... ... 28 Sex. —134 males, 111 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Hospital district, 230; outside hospital district, 15. Nationality.— English, 71 ; Scotch, 27 ; Irish, 51 ; Colonial, 90 ; German, 2 ; Chinese, 1; Finn, 1; Swedes, 2. Religion. —Church of England, 107 ; Eoman Catholic, 65 ; Bresbyterian, 42 ; Wesleyan, 10 Methodist, 6 ; Baptist, 7 ; Plymouth Brethren, 2 ; Salvation Army, 4 ; Jewish, 1 ; Pagan, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 7 ,609; individual average days' stay, 316. Daily average cost per head, ss. 2|d. ; less patients' payments, 4s. 10Jd. Outdoor. Patients. —Individual cases, 211 ; attendances, 761. Bevenue and Expenditure. Revenue. £ s. d. j Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 1,018 13 1 I Eations ... ... ... 429 8 7 Local bodies ... ... ... 1,018 13 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 31 7 0 Bequests ... ... ... 35 0 0 Surgery and dispensary... ... 141 14 5 Eents ... ... ... 14 12 6 Fuel and light... ... ... 169 13 2 Patients'payments ... ... 134 4 5 Bedding and clothing ... ... 72 6 5 Other sources ... ... ... 150 Furniture and earthenware ... 7105 Washing and laundry ... ... 20 13 1 Salaries and wages ... ... 631 6 3 Water-supply ... ... ... 21 17 4 Funerals ... ... ... 7 14 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 312 4 3 Additions to buildings ... ... 52 19 5 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 35 10 8 Insurance ... ... ... 16 13 5 Law-costs ... ... ... 28 6 4 Other expenses ... ... 58 1 4 Total ... ...£2,222 8 0 Total ... ...£2,037 6 1 This is an exceedingly commodious building, affording sufficient means of treating all the hospital patients in South Canterbury; but the existence of similarly excellent hospitals at Waimate and Ashburton gives such a plethora of hospital accommodation to this district that the Timaru institution has to be equipped for a great deal more work than it gets to do. For many years there had been a Medical Superintendent who did all the work, but last year the Trustees and the resident medical men laid their heads together and introduced a new system of management, which is as yet on its trial. The medical work is taken in turns by three doctors who are established in the town, and the resident has been dispensed with. It probably was felt that there was not enough work to keep him fully employed. I shall be in a better position next year to estimate the advantage or otherwise of the new departure. Meanwhile lam able to say that the management is as careful and vigorous as ever.

WAIKATO HOSPITAL, Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ~. 10 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ~, 169 Total under treatment ... ... ~, 179 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 155 Died ... ... -!-,. ... ... ... 9 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892... ~. ~, .., 15

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Sex. —l 34 males, 45 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Waipa, 72 ; Waikato, 59 ; Piako, 36 ; Eaglan, 5 ; Kingcountry, 3 ; Auckland, 3 ; Eawhia, 1. Country. —England, 58; Scotland, 13; Wales, 2; Ireland, 27; New Zealand, 65; Australia, 6; British America 1; East Indies, 1; Greece, 1; Denmark, 1; United States of America, 1; Germany, 1; Austria, 1; Earotonga, 1. Beligion. —Church of England, 91; Eoman Catholic, 28; Presbyterian, 29; Wesleyan, 17; Salvation Army, 2; Hauhau, 8; Society of Friends, 1; Baptist, 2; Fatalist, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 5,221; individual average days' stay, 29-17. Daily average cost per head, 75.; less patients' payments, ss. 2fd. Outdoor Patients. —Nil. Eevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 1,070 12 7 j Eations ... ... ... 336 8 7 Local bodies ... 914 12 8 ! Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... 22 11 0 Patients' payments ... ... 465 1 6 j Surgery and dispensary ... 202 19 9 j Fuel and light ... ... 129 2 4 | Bedding and clothing ... ... 41 12 5 1 Furniture and earthenware ... 46 13 2 : Washing and laundry ... ... 68 10 7 Salaries and wages ... ... 659 4 8 Water-supply ... ... 11 0 0 Funerals ... ... ... 20 7 6 Eepairs ... ... ... 103 1 4 Additions to buildings ... ... 620 0 6 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... 20 10 5 • • • Insurance ... ... ... 20 6 0 Other expenses ... ... 147 18 6 Total ... ... £2,450 6 9 Total ... ... £2,450 6 9 On the day of my visit this Hospital contained thirteen patients. Owing to the increasing demand for accommodation, the building has been extended, at a cost of £620. The additions give two new wards, a useful side-room, and a dining-room. The institution is in a very satisfactory condition. The nursing is careful and intelligent, and shows that good results have attended the systematic instruction which Dr. Kenny has made a feature of his work. I observe that there is a considerable increase in the cost per patient, consisting chiefly of an increase of £75 for rations, £39 more than last year expended on the surgery and dispensary, and £49 increase in the item of fuel and light.

WAIMATE HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 6 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 96 Total under treatment ... ... ... 102 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 91 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 6 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 5 Sex. —78 males, 24 females. Locality from which Patients came. —Waimate County. Nationality. —English, 21; Scotch, 23; Irish, 22; New Zealand, 30; Australian, 2; Dane, 1; German, 3. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 2,846 ; individual average days' stay, 27-90. Daily average cost per head, 6s. 10^-d.; less patients' payments, 6s. 5Jd. Outdoor Patients. —lndividual cases, 67 ; attendances, 146. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. [ Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 438 1 2 | Eations ... ... ... 168 15 7 Local bodies ... ... ... 370 0 0 j Surgery and dispensary... ... 57 16 9 Subscriptions and donations ... 51 4 7 , Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 11 12 0 Patients'payments ... ... 79 1 9 ; Bedding and clothing ... ... 613 7 Other sources ... ... ... 2 9 0 Furniture, &c. ... ... ... 26 2 10 Fuel and light... ... ... 60 17 10 Salaries and wages ... ... 455 15 6 Eepairs ... ... ... 35 15 8 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 14 16 6 Consultation-fees .., ... 5 5 0 Interest and insurance ... ... 31 11 6 Other expenses ... ... 101 8 8 Total ... £940 16 6 Total ... ... £976 11 5 4—H. 3.

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This Hospital has a chronic feud with the South Canterbury Charitable Aid Board, and gives a very instructive illustration of the working of the existing law. In South Canterbury, owing to the amount of money from the Land Fund available for local purposes at a certain stage of the provincial history, the ideas of the people were large. Splendid buildings for hospital purposes were erected at Timaru, sufficient for the whole of the district for years to come. Even yet they are never anything like full. At every visit I find splendid wards quite empty of patients. Not content with this, fine hospitals were erected also at Waimate and Ashburton. The members of the Charitable Aid Board are also Trustees of the Timaru Hospital, which is not a separate institution, while the Waimate Hospital is. The Timaru Board, having sufficient room, and to spare, for the whole district, grasp at every opportunity to shut up or starve the Waimate institution as unnecessary. The Waimate people for years raised voluntarily the £100 required of separate institutions until last year, when they were £43 short, and this year they are £49 short. The Timaru Board, who voluntarily raise nothing for their own Hospital, because the law does not require it, take advantage of the shortcoming of their neighbours to try to close their Hospital. They cannot legally do it, because the Act provides no penalty for failure on the part of any existing separate institution to continue to raise the full £100 by voluntary subscription. Here reason and injustice are so mixed up that it passes the wit of man to find a solution. The Waimate people want to be made into a separate hospital district, and thus add one more to the already excessive number of our independent local bodies. In my opinion, this would be a mischievous and retrograde step. It would be much better to carry on with as much mutual forbearance as possible until such time as the promised Local Government Consolidation Bill makes it possible to deal with the whole question in a comprehensive fashion. Apart from this burning question, which keeps the district in a perpetual turmoil, the Waimate Hospital is a thoroughly satisfactory institution, and deserves the public confidence to a very high degree.

WAIPAWA HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 8 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 209 Total under treatment ... ... ... 217 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 183 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 17 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 17 Sex. —l 96 males, 21 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Kaikora and coast, 21 ; Waipukurau, 9; Bush, 92 ; Makaretu, 13; Woodville, 17; Porangahau and Wainui, 25; Waipawa, 10; Te Aute, 10; Pahiatua, 9; Hastings, 4; Wellington, 3 ; Gisborne, 1; Napier, 1; Palmerston North, 1; Sydney, 1. Nationality. —Colonial born, 52; English, 49; Scotch, 29; Irish, 47; Scandinavian, 18; Australian, 6; Maoris, 4; Eussian, 3; American, 4; German, 2; French, 1; Swiss, 1; Portuguese, 1. Beligion. —Church of England, 99; Eoman Catholic, 43; Presbyterian, 45; Lutheran, 24; Wesleyan, 6. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 5,843; individual average days' stay, 27. Daily average cost per head, 4s. 7fd.; less patients' payments, 4s. 2fd. Outdoor Patients. —None. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 559 6 3 Eations ... ... ... 422 10 7 Local bodies ... ... ... 400 0 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 18 6 6 Subscriptions and donations ... 182 3 8 Surgery and dispensary... ... 11 9 9 Patients'payments ... ... 120 0 6 Fuel and light. . ... ... 91 13 4 Other sources ... ... ... 70 15 0 Bedding and clothing ... ... 54 17 10 Balance from last year ... ... 112 3 8 Furniture, earthenware, and repairs 39 5 4 Washing and laundry ... "... 1300 Salaries and wages ... ... 571 210 Funerals ... ... ... 48 6 0 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 18 1 6 Interest ... ... ... 0 17 8 Insurance ... ... ... 21 0 0 Other expenses ... ... 51 17 6 Total £1,444 9 1 Total £1,362 8 10 I have nothing to report about this institution but that, as usual, it is in every respect one of tiie best managed hospitals in the colony.

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WANGANUI HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 22 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 209 Total under treatment ... ... ... 231 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ••• 187 Died 19 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892... ... ... ... 25 Sex. —203 males, 28 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Wanganui, 63; north of Wanganui, 20; south of Wanganui, 148. Country.— England, 71; Scotland, 19 ; Ireland, 60; Colonies, 72 ; United States of America, 2; Germany, 1; Sweden, 2; Holland, 1 ; Denmark, 1; Belgium, 1 ; Norway, 1. Beligion.— Church of England, 98 ; Eoman Catholic, 57; Presbyterian, 50 ; Wesleyan, 11; Baptist, 2 ; Lutheran, 2 ; Salvation Army, 3 ; Unknown, 8. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 8,093; individual average days' stay, 35-03. Daily average cost per head, 3s. 6Jd.; less patients' payments, 2s. llf d. Outdoor Patients. —Individual cases, 69; attendances, 295. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 419 0 8 Eations ... ... ... 322 18 0 Local bodies ... ... ... 439 18 11 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 17 4 1 Subscriptions and donations ... 24 8 0 Surgery and dispensary... ... 148 310 Eents" ' '... ... ... 315 13 9 Fuel and light ... ... ... 103 9 9 Patients'payments ... ... 234 18 6 Bedding and clothing ... ... 27 19 3 Other sources ... ... ... 22 11 0 Furniture and earthenware ... 13 15 11 Balance from last year ... ... 90 3 4 Washing and laundry ... ... 41 15 7 Salaries and wages ... ... 612 4 9 Water-supply and rates... ... 37 18 4 Funerals ... ... ... 15 7 6 Eepairs ... ... ... 15 2 8 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 13 8 2 Insurance ... ... ... 8150 Other expenses ... ... 59 17 0 Total ... ...£1,546 14 2 Total £1,437 19 10 It is no longer possible to justify the continued use of this building for hospital purposes. It is old, badly planned, badly ventilated, and the condition of the drainage arrangements makes it, I believe, dangerous to health. It contained one case of erysipelas at the date of my inspection, and lam aware that the visiting surgeons are thoroughly dissatisfied wdth its condition. The Trustees ought not to lose a day in taking steps to build a new hospital.

WELLINGTON HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... ... 122 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 983 Total under treatment ... ... ... 1,105 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 877 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... 84 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 144 Sex. —749 males, 356 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Wellington, 775; suburbs of Wellington, 85 ; Featherston, 2; Carterton, 2; Greytown, 1; Masterton, 3; Palmerston North, 13; Canterbury, 2; Otaki, 36 ; Auckland, 3; Lyttelton, 1; Paremata, 1; Woodville, 5 ; Manakau, 9; shipping, 33 ; Levin, 7; Waikanae, 7 ; West Coast, 7; Christchurch, 8; Halcombe, 2; Campbelltown, 2; Pukerua, 1; Ashurst, 1; Eangitikei, 2; Blenheim, 1; Paikakariki, 2; Tenui, 2; Feilding, 4; Pahautanui, 6 ; Foxton, 8 ; Southland, 1; Tapanui, 1 ; Horokiwi, 2 ; Sandon, 1; Hawera, 3; Tawa Flat, 1; Dunedin, 4; Tekoa, 1; Shannon, 2; Wanganui, 3; Waipawa, 1; Hokitika, 1; Timaru, 1; Botorua, 1; Wainuiomata, 1; Hunterville, 1 ; Karanga, 2 ; Taranaki, 2 ; Crofton, 1; other places, 5; no residence, 39.

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Nationality. —English, 406 ; Scotch, 85 ; Irish, 152 ; Colonial, 405; Indian, 1; Swedish, 7 ; Danish, 5 ; Chinese, 3 ; French, 2 ; Maoris, 4 ; Swiss, 2 ; German, 10 ; Norwegian, 6 ; American, 6 ; Italian, 3 ; Welsh, 4; Channel Islands, 1; Holland, 1; Eussian, 2. Religion. —Church of England, 550 ; Eoman Catholic, 270 ; Bresbyterian, 132; Baptist, 18 ; Wesleyan, 67; Salvation Army, 19; Methodist, 10; Brethren, 11; Jewish, 1; Congregationalist, 5; Lutheran, 5 ; Freethinkers, 3 ; Confucians, 3 ; no religion, 11. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 43,010; individual average days' stay, 38-92. Daily average cost per head, 3s. 10Jd.; less patients' payments, 3s. 3Jd. Outdoor Patients. —lndividual cases, 2,145 ; attendances, 6,232. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. j Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 2,530 0 01 Eations ... ... ... 2,611 12 3 Local bodies ... ... 2,530 0 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... 195 19 10 Subscriptions and donations ... 82 0 3 Surgery and dispensary ... 638 4 6 Bents ... ... ... 1,514 2 3 Fuel and light ... ... 735 18 11 Patients' payments ... ... 1,242 8 6 Bedding and clothing ... ... 442 5 0 Other sources ... ... 18 15 6 Furniture and earthenware ... 136 11 4 Balance from last year ... 987 3 11 Washing and laundry ... ... 415 2 8 Salaries and wages ... ... 2,544 5 4 Water-supply ... ... 54 8 0 Funerals ... ... ... 27 1 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 184 3 7 Additions to buildings ... ... 426 9 3 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 60 17 3 ... | Interest ... ... ... 4132 \ Insurance ... ... ... 18 2 6 Commission. ... ... ... 22 3 0 j Other expenses ... ... 221 2 0 Total ... ...£8,904 10 5j Total ... ...£8,738 19 7 i —— This Hospital I have visited frequently during the year, and its management is constantly under my eye. It is working with the utmost harmony and efficiency. There is only one point on which I think it necessary to give a note of warning—namely, the large proportions that the out-door department is assuming. The number of individual cases has risen from 1,936 last year to 2,145 this year, and the number of attendances from 4,095 to 6,232. When these figures are considered in relation to our population it will be seen that a very serious question emerges, and it becomes still more serious when I state that among the cases treated free there were sixty-five individuals suffering from venereal diseases in six months. Very great credit is due to Dr. Ewart and his staff for the admirable devotion with which they faced the deplorable epidemic of typhoid fever which prevailed during the fall of the year. The resources of the institution were strained to the utmost, and there is no doubt that more accommodation is required, especially for females and surgical cases. The daily average cost was 3s. 104; d., which is reduced to 3s. 3Jd. by patients' payments.

WESTPOET HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1891 ... ... .... 14 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 77 Total under treatment ... ... ... 91 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 74 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 7 Eemaining on 31st March, 1892 ... ... ... ... 10 Sex. —76 males, 15 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Borough and County of Westport and Buller District. Nationality. —English, 27; Scotch, 11; Irish, 20; Welsh, 3; New Zealand, 18; Australian, 2; Tasmanian, 3 ; Shetlander, 1; Norwegian, 3 ; French, 1; Greek, 1; German, 1. Beligion. —Church of England, 46 ; Eoman Catholic, 21; Bresbyterian, 12 ; Lutheran, 2; Wesleyan, 2; Methodist, 3; Baptist, 1; Congregationalist, 1; Salvationist, 2 ; Greek Church, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 4,169; individual average days' stay, 45-81. Daily average cost per head, 55.; less patients' payments, 4s. 6^d. Outdoor Patients. —Fifty.

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Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. l Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 443 16 6 j Eations ... ... ... 264 16 6 Local bodies ... ... ... 419 16 7 j Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 20 14 9 Subscriptions and donations ... 49 0 0 Surgery and dispensary... ... 100 3 3 Patients'payments ... ... 97 18 3 Fuel and light... ... ... 27 12 0 Other sources ... ... 30 0 0 Furniture and earthenware ... 74 10 4 Salaries and wages ... ... 449 6 6 Funerals ... ... ... 31 5 0 Eepairs ... ... ... 57 15 0 Insurance ... ... ... 10 0 0 Other expenses ... ... 480 Total ... ... £1,040 11 4 Total ... ...£1,040 11 4 I found that considerable improvements had been made in this Hospital since my last visit. The ventilation of some of the wards, which I complained of last year, has been attended to, the closets and urinals are improved, and the condition of the surroundings is much better. The number of chronic cases is still a marked feature of the Hospital. The management is good, and the surgeon is very attentive to his patients. There were nine patients on the day of my visit, and none of them made any complaint. There is a slight increase in the number treated during the year, and the daily average cost per patient has been reduced from 6s. 3fd. to ss.

' • ■ EEFUGES. The old people's refuges at Invercargill, Dunedin, Ashburton, Christchurch, Napier, and Auckland, have all been inspected and found to be well and carefully managed. The trustees of the Otago Benevolent Institute still persist in their indefensible system of keeping from forty to fifty children in the same institution as the old people, instead of boarding them out, as they ought to do, under proper supervision. The Napier Charitable Aid Board have under consideration a scheme, which I hope they will carry out, for securing a suitable refuge in the country. They will thus be enabled soon to abandon the buildings on the hospital hill, which are getting too old for occupation. D. MacGregor, M.A., M.8., Inspector of Asylums and Hospitals.

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Table showing Admissions, Discharges, &c., of Patients at Hospitals for Year ended 31st March, 1892.

No. of Patients on March 31,1891. No. of Patients admitted during Year. No. remaining on March 31,1892. Sc iX. Total Colle.ctive Bays' Stay in Hospital. Individual Average Days' Stay. Daily Percentage of Cost of No. of Outdi tor Patients. Hospitals. Total under Treatment. No. discharged. Deaths. M. F. of Patient. tion on Total Expenditure.* Individual Cases. Attendances. Akaroa Arrowtown Ashburton Auckland Blenheim Charleston Christchurch Coromandel Cromwell Dunedin Dunstan Gisborne Greymouth Greytown Hokitika Inveroargill Kumara Lawrence Masterton Napier Naseby Nelson New Plymouth .. Oamaru Patea Picton Queenstown Eeefton Kiverton Ross Thames Timaru Waikato Waimate Waipawa Wanganui Wellington Westport 4 1 15 94 21 5 96 1 2 84 4 7 44 3 29 19 12 9 4 20 3 17 10 12 3 7 12 10 12 6 13 26 10 6 8 22 122 14 17 76 1S3 954 90 28 1,076 9 59 828 36 156 120 53 192 216 89 146 77 319 56 98 132 99 25 53 92 90 97 32 182 219 169 96 209 209 983 77 21 77 168 1,048 111 33 1,172 10 61 912 40 163 164 58 221 235 101 155 81 339 59 115 142 111 28 60 104 100 109 38 195 245 179 102 217 231 1,105 91 19 68 148 847 78 25 975 10 55 705 35 133 92 54 172 196 82 137 66 295 50 86 120 94 26 47 92 85 95 24 165 201 155 91 183 187 877 74 4 13 99 8 4 86 3 123 2 19 25 3 19 17 9 12 5 21 4 10 10 8 1 2 3 10 8 5 12 16 9 6 17 19 84 7 2 5 7 102 25 4 111 3 84 3 11 47 1 30 22 10 6 10 23 5 19 12 9 1 11 9 5 6 9 18 28 15 5 17 25 144 10 17 60 138 719 85 33 756 10 51 578 30 118 149 48 171 178 80 108 71 255 50 81 110 30 25 56 79 96 71 38 151 134 134 72 196 203 749 76 4 17 30 329 26 416 10 334 10 45 15 10 50 57 21 47 10 84 9 34 32 81 3 4 25 4 38 914 1,432 4,519 35,164 7,638 2,146 40,020 243 1,332 29,822 1,376 4,160 15,581 964 11,700 8,255 6,908 3,370 2,916 8,390 998 7,368 4,099 3,960 487 3,086 2,723 4,224 3,646 2,484 5,125 7,609 5,221 2,846 5,843 8,093 43,010 4,169 43-50 18-60 26-90 33-55 68-81 59-00 34-14 24-30 21-84 32-70 34-04 25-52 95-00 16-62 52-94 35-13 68-39 21-74 36-00 24-75 16-91 64-61 28-86 35-67 17-39 51-43 26-18 42-24 33-45 65-37 26-28 31-06 29-17 27-90 27-00 35-03 38-92 45-81 s. d. 6 9f 8 1 5 3J 4 111 3 11 5 Hi 3 8J 40 2 12 8* 4 5 9 8| 5 of 3 1} 7 6i 3 6J 4 9J 2 4| 5 6J 4 8i 5 2§ 16 3 5 5| 6 9 4 10 11 11} 3 5i 7 2f 6 0i 6 5| 3 3J 5 9i 5 2J 7 0 6 101 4 7j 3 6i 3 10J 5 0 48-08 47-10 31-83 25-94 30-16 45-47 37-47 71-11 52-01 30-80 60-75 41-43 52-89 44-63 39-43 42-23 49-10 41-37 43-36 39-27 52-72 39-34 37-62 47-42 67-46 49-02 44-77 44-39 41-63 55-04 48-79 33-62 28.53 48-21 43-25 43-53 38-92 43-17 15 3 473 11 873 8 16 1,692 187 217 577 60 76 970 6 458 "3 4,101 179 2,620 27 7,956 603 348 1,707 265 20 2,516 '66 320 38 86 134 75 445 219 44 111 45 30 21 28 356 15 207 211 J 527 761 '64 146 69 2,145 50 8,712 295 6,232 • Totals 7,614 8,401 6,844 703 854 I ■ 2,395 301,841 35-93 29,365 787 6,006 Cost of admi .istration includes salaries, wages, and office expenses.

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Table showing Receipts on Account of Hospitals during the Year ended 31st March, 1892.

Hospitals. From Government. From Hospital Boards and Local Authorities. Voluntary Contributions. Bequests. Rents. Payments by Patients. Other Sources. Balances from Last Year. Total Receipts. Akaroa Arrowtown Ashburton Auckland Blenheim Charleston Christchurch.. Coromandel .. Cromwell Dunedin Dunstan Gisborne Greymou th .. Greytown Hokitika Invercargill .. Kumara Lawrence Masterton Napier Naseby Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Patea Picton Queenstown .. Beefton Biverton Boss Thames Timaru Waikato Waimate Waipawa Wanganui Wellington Westporfc £ s. d. 155 16 5 281 3 6 773 15 7 2,405 15 9 743 15 4 269 14 0 3,040 2 10 601 14 0 189 17 0 4,590 2 8 382 18 0 453 3 3 1,327 0 3 229 3 11 1,032 2 9 935 2 6 253 6 6 551 19 0 358 6 11 906 6 8 370 1 9 865 17 6 581 19 2 112 17 5 100 0 0 240 0 4 368 19 3 650 11 10 559 14 11 154 6 5 693 4 8 1,018 13 1 1,070 12 7 438 1 2 559 6 3 419 0 8 2,530 0 0 443 16 6 £ s. d. 155 16 5 179 9 9 520 0 0 2,405 15 9 629 5 5 160 0 0 3,476 18 9 200 0 0 189 17 1 2,975 8 8 257 19 6 300 0 0 731 8 4 375 0 0 769 15 0 83 7 8 264 14 0 200 0 0 245 16 11 881 5 0 541 19 3 £ s. d. 95 2 8 2 2 0 10 10 0 100 0 0 4 17 3 336 10 0 136 4 6 241 8 6 111 9 0 146 17 9 531 0 4 163 15 0 569 4 6 121 18 3 197 10 8 0 10 0 286 1 10 341 0 9 61 10 9 £ s. d. 3,12l'±4 7 50 "o 0 7 2 0 43 19 1 j 235 6 0 £ s. d. 207 "6 1 6016 0 5 "o 0 60 7 6 £ s. d. 87 19 0 128 17 0 1,435 11 9 126 7 0 128 5 4 723 1 3 9 16 0 107 7 1 888 8 4 120 10 6 252 0 0 38 6 0 36 15 6 58 14 0 148 12 1 182 7 3 232 12 6 116 0 9 531 19 5 48 11 0 155 5 0 439 15 6 30 18 1 22 0 2 84 19 4 259 11 7 150 5 3 126 19 9 15 5 6 257 12 6 134 4 5 465 1 6 79 1 9 120 0 6 234 18 6 1,242 8 6 97 18 3 £ s. d. 68 9 9 o'±4 11 16 13 0 42 5 2 100 11 5 0 8 0 20 4 0 5 4 6 6 13 0 89 9 9 13 16 2 317 10 0 9 10 0 3 2 2 £ s. d. 3' 4 7 545 13 7 59 12 8 95 6 11 64 18 0 42 1 4 9 9 7 248 3 4 291 19 3 301 1 6 £ s. d. 311 12 10 646 19 6 1,424 14 7 9,655 3 8 1,499 7 9 658 14 3 7,857 6 8 1,207 12 8 665 10 10 8,795 19 7 968 11 11 1,297 19 0 2,632 19 5 471 15 9 2,058 5 10 2,069 17 7 716 12 1 1,311 15 0 804 8 7 2,884 9 7 1,036 11 11 1,988 14 8 1,563 13 11 1,367 3 5 329 7 1 533 0 1 1,011 16 6 1,523 4 11 1,278 7 5 406 13 5 1,660 19 4 2,222 8 0 2,450 6 9 940 16 6 1,444 9 1 1,546 14 2 8,904 10 5 1,040 11 4 83 5 0 100 0 0 208 0 5 266 5 0 100 0 0 504 18 7 133 12 7 610 0 0 1,018 13 0 914 12 8 370 0 0 400 0 0 439 18 11 2,530 0 0 419 16 7 102 8 11 853"4 6 156 9 6 111 5 0 107 6 11 117 0 8 430 2 8 74 3 11 103 8 11 62 11 3 •• 0 15 0 192 5 2 11 15 3 35 "o 0 18 "o 0 14 12 6 1 "s 0 19' 10 11 51 4 7 182 3 8 24 8 0 82 0 3 49 0 0 31513 9 1,514 2 3 70 15 0 22 11 0 18 15 6 30 0 0 2 9 0 112 3 8 90 3 4 987 3 11 Totals 3,493 1 8 995 2 10 30,658 10 4 23,559 15 3 14,736 6 7 3,132 7 7 9,318 7 10 3,295 13 11 79,189 6 0

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Table showing the Expenditure on account of Hospitals during the Year, ended 31st March, 1892.

a Including fuel and light. t> Including £608 Is. 4d., maintenance of nurses' home, and £728 Ss. 6d., costs of Lovett's action against the Board. o Including £75 Bs., casual ward, Lyttelton. i Amount paid to Mercury Bay Hospital Committee. c Including interest. ' Including rates. N.B.— In those hospitals where nothing is set down under the heading of " Washing and Laundry," the expenditure on these items is included in " Salaries and Wages," thus adding to the percentage of cost of administration on total expenditure

Hospitals. Rations or Provisions. Wine, Ale. &c. Surgery and Dispensary. Fuel and Light. Bedding and Clothing. Furniture, Crockery, &c. Washing and Laundry. Salaries and Wages. W ff- Funerals. supply. Repairs. Additions to Buildings. Printing, Advertising, Postage, and Stationery. For Interest. For Commission. For Insurance. Other Expenses. Total. Akaroa Arrowtown .. Ashburton .. Auckland Blenheim Charleston .. Christchurch Coromandel .. Cromwell Dunedin Dunstan Gisborne Greymouth .. Greytown Hokitika Invercargill .. Kumara Lawrence Masterton Napier Naseby Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Patea Picton Queenstown .. Reefton Riverton Boss Thames Timaru Waikato Waimate Waipawa Wanganui .. Wellington .. Westport £ s. d. 100 3 7 a i68 4 10 352 o 1 1,856 4 5 477 13 1 204 3 4 1,811 12 3 87 10 o 154 2 11 1,585 16 6 91 o 11 i77 2 7 684 11 6 a 92 10 8 592 o 3 389 6 3 206 1 8 266 3 o 176 12 1 409 10 8 129 7 8 448 10 3 295 3 4 184 16 5 59 1 4 121 10 8 207 5 10 292 5 8 270 19 oi 121 11 7 a 349 o 10! 429 8 7 336 8 7 168 15 7 422 10 7 322 18 o\ 2,611 12 31 264 16 6 5 16 o 10 6 8 22 17 O I98 I 5 29 I 6 6 15 6 269 19 8 17 6 6 170 17 10 870 24 8 7 80 o o 1 14 6 88 2 o 30 14 10 37 7 6 28 5 9; 8 14 o 34 19 6 22 8 6 54 l6 6 41 3 7 440 520 15 14 o £ s. d. 25 7 8 23 17 6 123 18 7 1,152 18 7 184 4 10 58 17 7 73i 14 7 28 13 o 66 9 6 843 11 8 32 16 8 71 11 o 55 15 9 30 19 11 148 16 8 166 13 11 44 14 4 92 3 9 56 11 8 198 12 6 30 11 o 145 16 2 141 12 3 74 16 5 3 9 6 31 2 11 52 16 4 92 5 6 I "4 15 4 14 2 6 ! 185 7 9 141 14 5 202 19 9 57 16 9 11 9 9 148 3 10 638 4 6 100 3 3 £ 8. d. 12 4 O '• 57 10 o 624 17 2 70 10 o 20 14 O 68l II O 9 6o| 29 11 3 53° 4 2 25 7 5 61 15 7 115 4 9 ■• 124 3 2 161 9 11 32 1 6 60 10 IO: 36 IO 7 166 13 2 27 IO 10 160 IO 5 120 8 II 64 6 11 13 14 3 20 10 5 112 ig 1 99 14 10 55 4 2 18 5 10 £ s. d.i II 17 6; 30 6 5 z8 4- 4 3 78 7 2 18 3 1 300 9 10} 43"8 o 77 2 o 6 14 11 53 17 4 5 12 5 98 16 2! 88 o o 10 5 4 12 4 1 27 8 4 ~£ ?■ d. 5 o 10 58 3 H 204 5 IO 85 12 6 11 4 o 128 12 2 178 6 o; 20 18 2 55 16 o 72 15 5 17 5 2 13 4 o 74 12 1 15 5 o 10 6 5 91 12 2 IOO 6l 12 II £ 8. d. 39 12 6 104 2 7: 10 o o 10 o o •• I •- i 28 10 o' 54 6 6 ; o 5 oi 1 ! •• ! £ s. d. 150 o o 315 16 8 375 1 6 2,212 6 8 427 19 4 278 6 6 2,704 17 1 343 8 8 420 4 11 2,141 15 5 385 o o 446 19 6 1,243 16 o 159 10 8 772 6 8 791 11 6 394 7 6 376 2 6 269 16 2 824 3 1 413 15 4 927 19 o 511 1 7 454 J 5 S 194 7 o 249 6 8 441 I 7 539 10 o 531 9 ° 220 o o 703 o o 631 6 3 659 4 8 455 15 6 571 2 10 612 4 9 2,544 5 4 449 6 6 £ s- d. 13S IO O •• 39 1 11 52 o o 15 12 6 " I 450 •• 10 o o •• I £ s. d. 3 O Oj 10 10 o 48 15 o 36 o o 500 28 6 o •• 1 36 o o 400 12 2 0 I20 30 4 O 20 10 o 15 o o 300 12 O O 5 19 6 14 6 o 7 3 0 170 10 10 o 3 6 6 10 o o £ s. d. - 71 7 1 190 5 4 39 12 7 706 368 1 6 •• J 240 10 8 8 16 o 172 12 s 53 7 3 43 3 1 35 9 8 93 8 2 18 14 2 22 18 9 14 6 o 200 10 9 51 17 o 75 13 ° 36 19 1 55 11 3 o 13 6 386 £ B. d. 935 10 3 i •• I t 689 17 2 i •• i 1 £ 8. d. 176 4 17 3 96 15 4 23 13 2 12 17 3 60 12 11 3 15 o 19 8 1 101 17 6 22 2 o 22 5 4 56 3 6 200 38 4 8 42 14 9 14 11 6 9 16 1 26 16 6 £ s. d. 1 14 o 5 3° 457 040 11 7 6 o 7 4! o 14 6| 27 15 11 o 19 9 24 18 2 12 18 9 £ b. d. - • • I •• ! •• i 22 o o! •• I •• 200 27 II o £ 8. d. 3 15 ° 10 10 o 13 17 6 11 o o 400 54 7 6 550 5 5o 31 3 6 12 19 6 16 16 3 30 o Oj 4 10 o 25 5 o 946 8 15 o 1 17 6 11 o o 48 8. 3 700 £ s. d. 18 1 7 31 8 4 32 o 6 b i,6g 4 9 4 21 8 o 12 18 2 c 230 8 3 d 6gi 18 o 24 5 o 606 12 1 35 1 o 28 12 4 26 17 3 4 17 8 58 1 6 23 5 10 22 12 10 49 18 o 776 143 14 2 57 5 8 59 8 4 227 5 1 55 1- 10 1 18 o 16 10 5 103 4 o 45 17 3 12 5 4 8 11 6 i°5 7 9 86 7 8 147 18 6 106 13 8 51 17 6 59 17 ° 221 2 o 480 £ B. d. 311 12 10 576 8 IO 1,193 r 7 IO 9,655 3 8 i,499 7 9 640 3 11 7,382 o 3 1.179 15 8 846 3 r 7,286 1 10 669 10 7 1,131 16 11 2,458 9 4 363 6 1 2,057 3 6 1,975 1 5 832 15 1 933 5 3 685 o 3 2.180 6 4 810 3 4 2,396 13 o 1,563 13 11 988 19 10 291 15 7 533 ° 1 985 6 9 1, 275 8 2 1,301 17 10 406 13 5 1,583 18 5 2,037 6 1 2,450 6 9 976 11 5 1,362 8 10 i,437 19 10 8,738 19 7 1,040 11 4 16 5 1 30 18 11 73 9 8 40 14 7 7 15 ° 24 7 9] 17 16 o 29 15 o; 10 o o: 379 12 o 30 12 2 31 14 10 12 14 9 14 17 6 20 13 11 12 12 1 2 13 6 12 3 2 410 26 9 o 10 14 9 3 14 o 22 9 2 35 10 8 20 10 5 14 16 6 18 1 6 13 8 2 60 17 3 o 10 6 "• .. I 20 18 9 •• I 30 o 8 600 11 13 11 3 1 4 ° 1 10 o 1 14 7 •• ! 18 19 o 63 18 11 23 5 4 9 16 o 15 12 5 - - I •• I 1 10 o 680 I " 1 •• ! I •• 5 7 5 - t •• I •• i 10 6 IO! 32 19 5! 9 3 9 8 17 o 626 22 14 10 16 13 5 20 6 o e 3i 11 6 21 o o 3 15 o 18 2 6 10 o o ; 35 17 5 59 7 5 23 15 6 57 18 5 2 is 6 4 11 10 3 15 o 750 700 5 17 o 7 14 o 20 7 6 52 5 41 1 10 17 6 129 15 4 o 11 8 1 I •• I 4 I0 ° I 44 8 3 312 4 3 103 1 4 35 15 8 9 8" 5 6 52 19 5 620 o 6 "• i ' 4 17 °l 31 7 0 22 11 o] II 12 o 18 6 6 17 4 1 195 19 10 20 14 9 169 13 2 129 2 4 60 17 10 01 13 4 103 9 9 735 18 11 27 12 o 4,831 17 6 42 10 4 72 6 5! 4 1 12 5 6 13 7 54 17 10 27 19 3 442 5 ° •• 7 10 5 46 13 2; 26 2 10 39 5 4 13 1.5 11 136 11 4 74 i° 4 1,582 5 11 ■• | 20 13 1 I 68 10 7 •• I 21 17 4 11 o oj 48 6 o 15 7 6 27 1 o 31 5 o •• ! ■• ! O 17 8; •• I •' 13 o o 41 15 7 4 J 5 2 8 f 37 18 4 54 8 o 15' 2 8 184 3 7 57 15 ° •• I 426 9 3 4 13 2 '' 22 3 Oj • • i •• i -• i .. I ! ■• ! ; 1 i ! !5l8 2 9 Totals .. 16,918 13 3j 1,635 I 4l 16,325 17 71 1867 7 4I 26,143 2 ol '475 13 8i 12,609 2 '3.373 19 I: 898 O 6] 98 16 ln7 o 3' 5,134 16 IQl i74,039 4 l2,OI7 9 2! l49i 19

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Return showing the Receipts and Expenditure of the under-mentioned Charitable Institutions during the Year ended 31st March, 1892.

District. Balance from Last Year. From Government. Repavments by Persons relieved. Voluntary Con- Bequests, tributions. Receipts. Indoor Relief. Outdoor Relief. Expenditure. Total. Children's Portion of Expenses. From Rates. Rents. Other Sources. Total. North of Auckland Auckland Coromandel and Thames Waikato .. Bay of Plenty Cook Hawke's Bay Taranaki Patea and Wanganui Palmorston North* Wellington Wairau Picton Nelson Bullcr Inangahua Grey .. Westland Ashburton and N. Canterbury South Canterbury North Otago Otago United Southland £ s. d. 102 8 5 27"o 10 84 12 4 78 5 5 570 12 0 11 7 6 198 5 2 £ s. d. 535 11 1 3,873 4 4 995 1 10 610 14 4 160 14 6 272 18 2 864 9 5 694 4 6 678 1 11 637 8 5 4,321 8 11 650 18 7 84 6 8 989 2 11 410 3 6 400 0 0 484 0 0 870 7 4 6,808 0 7 1,092 7 6 591 8 0 5,521 6 8 1,168 0 5 £ s. d. 535 11 1 2,376 0 7 976 9 6 446 12 2 160 14 6 240 0 0 947 14 1 624 13 7 708 12 3 258 12 5 3,856 19 1 509 5 1 88 14 11 881 5 0 344 3 5 400 0 0 506 1 3 549 14 11 6,320 1 8 1,074 17 7 747 19 7 5,685 1 9 1,238 10 4 £ s. d. 11 5 0 797 14 1 157 8 8 7 5 0 13 0 0 63 9 6 5 10 0 219 7 1 370 2 6' & ' s. d. £ s. d. 661 16 4 4,131 17 11 98 15 9 j 2 10, 38 7 6 22 1 2 19 0 0 12 9 0 317 0 4 560 18 6 39 5 0 5 13 0 72 16 0 £ s. d. 60 5 0 14 14 6 40 0 0 3 0 0 £ s. d. 389 15 5 9 6 0 66 6 0 27 8 6 33 9 £ s. d. 1,184 15 7 i 12,290 13 8 i 2,264 2 7 i 1,225 0 4 356 2 6 642 11 1 2,511 9 11 1,352 5 7 1,602 18 4 1,214 18 2 13,074 14 1 1,239 7 4 421 16 11 2,829 19 8 832 19 4 880 11 10 1,576 15 9 1,585 3 9 13,382 19 3 2,891 17 10 1,508 15 5 13,545 12 8 2,670 19 6 81,086 11 1 £ s. d. 527 4 0 5,701 19 3 1,024 0 7 391 8 8 246 15 1 804 19 1 100 12 6 557 16 7 £ s. d. 592 10 8 4,199 5 2 1,123 10 0 307 17 3 235 19 4 360 5 11 1,302 2 2 1,251 1 0 1,007 6 2 £ s. d. 1,119 14 8 9,901 4 5 2,147 10 7 699 5 11 235 19 4 607 1 0 2,107 1 3 1,351 13 6 1,565 2 9 £ s. d. 86 7 4 842 10 5 522 10 6 138 18 0 67 14 0 204 1 0 111 16 6 318 2 0 3,167 3 0 39 2 8 221 14 10 516 13 3 42"o 0 1 17 0 906 17 6 0 16 0 13 17 6 3,073 1 4 168 16 10 7,049 17 1 428 8 4 113 18 7 1,002 7 2 644 3 10 510 16 0 705 13 5 862 8 6 8,280 7 11 1,589 12 1 671 6 10 8,130 16 2 1,450 6 0 10,122 18 5 597 5 2 113 18 7 2,309 16 8 790 2 4 778 15 3 1,546 4 0 972 13 11 13,133 17 4 2,516 13 7 1,379 8 2 14,475 18 3 2,429 7 1 2,464.' 3 4 172 15 0 7 10 0 1,307 9 6 145 18 6 267 19 3 840 10 7 110 5 5 4,853 9 5 927 1 6 708 1 4 6,345 2 1 979 1 1 688 1 11 145 18 6 240 14 8 622 5 1 55 11 6 2,822 18 5 1,122 18 2 639 19 8 2,572 0 6 491 18 0 80 11 10 506 10 6 .. •■ I 78 12 5 •• .. 676 16 3 102 2 11 776 8 3 100 16 6 10 0 14 2 6 141 13 8 299 4 5 77 3 0 51 16 3 i 27 7 9 150 19 0 i 29 11 11 ; 42 14 6 '.'. 160 6 0 251 12 7 1514 0 2 10 0 339 1 4 4 0 0 67 17 5 47 16 6 21 14 5 512 11 8 22 9 3 Totals 7,320 11 8 529 0 10 2,170 9 4 14,331 4 32,713 19 7 29,477 14 9 2,178 5 5 2,285 11 3 4,410 18 3 29,081 12 7 41,819 19 7 70,901 12 2 * From 3rd December, 1891.

DISEASES AND DEATHS IN HOSPITALS. Table showing the Number of Cases of Disease and of Deaths from each Cause in the various Hospitals in the Colony during the Year 1891.

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rt °£ £ O rt c nj I v 'rt i . S o o t : 5 " i rt rt o V q* o ■2 Z o c c £ si Orders, Diseases, &c. 5 a i i u I a — i rt I M U Q Q ! a a, J3 (A rt rt o a U Q Q V rt Q U 2 rt I i> (J I G rt a w rt rt J> % rt I U G U G rt ' u U I G rt rt Order i.— Miasmatic if) 1— I i. Small-pox 2. Chicken-pox 3. Measles 4. Epidemic Rose-rash 5. Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina) 6. Typhus Fever 7. Relapsing Fever 8. Influenza 9. Whooping-cough 10. Mumps 11. Diphtheria 12. Cerebro-spinal Fever 13. Simple and Ill-defined Fever 14. Typhoid Fever 15. Other Miasmatic Diseases •• •■ 2 • • - " " - " •• •■ 1] • • - - - - !•• ■ •• - •■ - - ••! •■ • 7 - .. " - :- •I •• IO •• •1 • H - h H •• 1 *■ .. 1 •1 "I 16 ■• .. • • •• ■■ •• 13 h - - - " H 18 - ' • I " - 2 •• •• • ■■ - •• 14 .. ..; ..... .. . .. .. - - '• •" - 4 " •- 6 "I ••- " ■" .. .. - - 3 ■• 8 1 - .. - •• •• - ■■• ■'• •• •• • ■ 7, •• • - - .. • . J .. " ••! 1 •• 2 "I • 2 • - '■• • 1 • - 1 "I - - ■■! ..... - •• I - -i " 1 ■ 4 • • ■■ -! .. .. • 1 2 •• •• • - - ■■ ••! H • - - ■ ! •■ .. - " 2 ■• ■■ 6 20 •• • ••••• " •■ ■■ - - • •I •■ I 3 45 • - 3 7 •- • 29J I . 19 • - 14 n8 11 ■4 •■ 2 - I ■• ■• r l J •■ 2 2 6 •• 1 " ■■ ■■ o O o 9 !- 1 10I 2 3 .. 3 1 ;■• 2 ••I •1 •• - - ■• •• - ■• •• •• ■ • •• - .. •• •• - ■• ..! •■ M — M - h1 1 6 !— — 1 1 1 1 .. 6 —— I ! — I 1 I ! I — H Total Order 1 .. 52 !•• 11 A 11 2 39 1 37 39 1 169 14 —— 29 - 4 1 II A " - 1 - •• •• • ! \—\ — — — — — —— —' - !— i I 1 — Order 2.—Diarrhoea!. 1. Simple Cholera 2. Diarrhcea 3. Dysentery •■ •• •• •• I •• 1 •• 5 1 — 1 •• •■ 2 "• •• A •■ I •• 2 •• 1 ~~ "I •• •• •• 2 ■ 1 • •• - •• I- ■■ • S - •• 2 ■■ .. •• • • - 5 1 1 ■ • .. •• 1 .. •• m • •• Total Order 2 .. — M 1— — - H H H -~ _ H H H - H I— 2 •• 1 •• I 1 •• ! - ■■ 7 .. H ! J .. 1 I I I ■■ •• ! •• •• ■ I — — — — ~ — — ! I '— — — — CO I. Order 3.— Malarial. 1. Remittent Fever 2. Ague 3. Beriberi •• •• •• •• •• •• •• "I •• "I ■1 •• I " •• .. ■ 2 1 - ■■ •• H - •• • -•! - - - •■ -! !•■ .: • - - .. ■ • ■- •• - - .. 1 ■■ ■- !- •• - .. - - Total Order 3 .. — 1 i — - H - H H H H H ~ H - A H H _ H H 2 1 !■■ ■• .. • .. .. ■• ■■ •• ■■ •■ •• - •• •• .. •• .. ! — \—\ — — -j ! ! :— — — U- ■ r 1 — Order 4.— Zoogenous. 1. Hydrophobia .. 2. Glanders .. .. 3. Splenic Fever 4. Cow-pox and other Effects of Vaccination •• ■• - •• • " "I ■ i •■ •• .. - •• •• •1 1.. •■ •• • - • ■• •• ■ ■ •■ ■•• •• - ■• 1 .. - • • ■■■ H ■■ • ■• • .. - ■ - .... • •• ■• •■ - ••! !■• • - ■■! •• - - ■ l -H H H H H 1 t s ! H H - H : !— — 1 1 H H 1 1 — Total Order 4 .. ■■ • .. .. .. - .. - - -!•• .. ■• •• ■• '- •• - •• ■ i 1 1 L— -- — — — J I I — — I— I I I ! \ — — Order 5.— Venereal. 1. Syphilis 2. Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra, Ulcer of Groin 20 .. IO 29 2 3° 1 3 i 1 8 25 •• •• •• ■• • ■■ •• •■ •- ■• ■• •• .. ..j ! • ■■ •■ Total Order 5 .. i H 1 1 !— H H H H 18 H H i I — - H H I 1 i B 1 1 H 5o .. 4 .. • ■ 1 .. : .. 2) .. 54 •• •■ I . . .. 2 .. .. -. .. • •

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DISEASES AND DEATHS IN HOSPITALS. Table showing the Number of Cases of Disease and of Deaths from each Cause in the various Hospitals in the Colony during the Year 1891— continued.

O O S-S rt o rt < O rt i 1 O a rt 5 a j o u a & £ t o rt rt Si u a rt it E « rt 5 1 E rt rt o rt Orders, Diseases, &c. rt u u a u Q « rt U G u a Q rt a u a r— H U P rt rt o rt U rt Order i.— Miasmatic T in en W CO i. Small-pox 2. Chicken-pox 3. Measles 4. Epidemic Rose-rash 5. Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina) 6. Typhus Fever 7. Belapsing Fever 8. Influenza 9. Whooping-cough 10. Mumps 11. Diphtheria 12. Cerebro-spinal Fever 13. Simple and Ill-defined Fever 14. Typhoid Fever 15. Other Miasmatic Diseases .. I - i • • • ■ - •• •• I ■• 4 1 ■• - •• i •• • • • ! ■• ■• • .. •• .. ■• _ 6 ••I -I •• 6 •1 • ■ •• ■• •• 1 •• ■• •• •■ •• •• 2 20 ■- 1 ..I 4 • •• 5 " .. .. •• •1 ..I •• 3 • • ■ • • • • • ■-; • " - •• - 2 - •• 3 1 - - • •• " " 4 1 •• •• • 24 •■ 194 8 1 7 - - - •■ • 1 • - •• - - - ■• • .. • - • ... • 2 :•■ " 13 1 j ' - ■■ 11 1 - ■• ■■ •• I i - h - -.. __ - 34 2 - - •• ■■ ■• - - - •■ •• 1 • :■• •• • ... 1 - - •• - - •■I 3 3i •• 2 6 3 26 - 6 .. - :■■ 4 3| 2 • :•■ 4 - - :•• •• •• ■• - 47 362 19 •• I I •• .. j i 1 3l :•■ 1 ••! •■1 1 .. I ■.. - 2 :■■ 2 4 1 - - 37 •• ••I I •• ••I •• ■■ I4| ••I - "I 1- • • .. ■■ ••! !•■ - •• - •• ! " Total Order 1 .. — — — M - H H H H H 8 H H H r— i •• - - HG iol 22 35 1 12 4 - 31 2 .. •• - 4 ■• 21 1 5 689 47 •• ■• O — — — — — —\ —J — — — — — Order 2.— Diarrheal. 1. Simple Cholera 2. Diarrhoea 3. Dysentery .. .. •• •■ •• 10 7 •■ 3 ■• •• ■• ■ •• •■ •' •• " •• " *- •■ •• •• •• •;• •■• - - - I :-■ :•■• :•■ .. .. 3 2 " - - - 30 24 3 4 I" - ■• - ■■ 1 :■• • • :■• - " - I •• - -• Total Order 2 .. — — — — —J hH H H ~ H - H H — - 3 ■ • " .. J 7 - 1 .. 1 • • • - - 3 2 •• - - 54 •• •1 — — —A — — — — — — — — — w Order 3.— Malarial. 1. Bemittent Fever 2. Ague .. .. .. .. 3. Beriberi •■ *• •• " : "I • •• •■ •• •• ■• "I •• •• - 2 - " - • - - - - ■•■ 4 1 I - • • - - .-• •• •■ - " - .. - • Total Order 3 .. M M H H — - H H H H H •• I •• 2 .. 1.. ••I I •• .. • I -.I 1 ..1 1 1 ■■- - o CO •• • •• •• •• ■■ •• ■■ I --I ■• •• I •• — — — — 1— — — — 1 —I — I— — 1 1 !— I l -- 1— — 1-4 Order 4.— Zoogenous. 1. Hydrophobia .. 2. Glanders 3. Splenic Fever .. 4. Cow-pox and other Effects of Vaccination •• - ■■ I • • " • - ■■ ■■ " •• ■• " •• " - •• - ■• - ■• - - • • .. - - .. - - " - - - - - - - • •■ Total Order 4 .. — - H H H - H H H - - - • - • ■ .. • • - - .. - •" ■• •• ■• •• — — — — — — — i— — — — Order 5.— Venereal. 1. Syphilis 2. Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra, Ulcer of Groin i 14 95 29 15 I 125 1 2 •• 1 ■• 2 ■■ 1 •■ •• ■■ Total Order 5 .. — i 2 — • • •• H 7 2 — 29 — 1 H .. — 2 .. - s .. — .. H .. i 220 29

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DISEASES AND DEATHS IN HOSPITALS. Table showing the Number of Cases of Disease and of Deaths from each Cause in the various Hospitals in the Colony during the Year 1891— continued.

rt < Ort rt 'rt o s JZ w rt 5 a rt a. rt aj u a to rt Si o a rt rt c S c ' ; 1 E rt i» U j G o I ; 0 o c 51 rt rt rt Orders, Diseases, &c. rt « u a 6 a j ci 1 i i— 1 6 a —Trt w % rt rt i; o a o rt a rt U rt rt rt aj a %\ rt rt % o a % rt ci v Q G a V, rt rt a 6 a ?n rt rt Si u a 1 1 u a rt n rt Order 6.— Septic. I 1. Phagedena 2. Erysipelas 3. Pyaemia, Septicaemia 4. Puerperal Fever, Pyaemia, Peritonitis •• 2 1 1 •• 1 1 ■• .. I 2 2 •■ ■•■ •• 1 - - • ■■ 20 3 3 •■ •■ A •■ ■ ■ •• ■■ - - - - •■ 1 ■• - •• ... •■ •• •• - •• .. 2 ■• •• - •• •• - •• •■ 2 •• - 1 •• .. - .. - 1 ■• - - I-I - •• - - • • •■ •■ • • .. .. Total Order 6 .. — — — M H — H H H — - H - I 1 4 2 - 1- - 26 .. •• 1 - - • - •'■ 2 ■• ■• ■• • ■ Total Class I. .. — — H H — — — H - H H H ~ H I i no 12i •■ 16 1 16 2 43 2 8 2 4-71 3 58 1 256 *7 31 A 10 - A 13 .. » 1 11 1 2 7 • •■ <rj CO Id t— \ 1. Thrush 2. Other Diseases from Vegetable Parasites .. 3. Hydatid Disease 4. Other Diseases from Animal Parasites •• i ■■ - :•:■ — •• .•:■ •• ■■I •■ I ! — — - •• —j — •• • • • •• - •: •- * •• • — — !• • '— • - — ■■ • • — •• 5 - • — - •■ •• — - j - I •• :-:• •• ■'• 2 - - 1 ■■ •• - •••■ 1 - ■ 1 - •■ • •■ - i •• - •• .. - Total Class II. .. — — h— - H ~ H ! i H — H H \ i ! H i - I • ! ■• .. 2 .. i- .. 5 .. .. - .. ■• .. •• •• •■ — — — — — — — ~ ! o H co ■t— 1 1— 1 1. Starvation Want of Breast-milk 2. Scurvy T . (a. Chronic Alcoholism 3. Intemperance - , ,- ■ ~. D r (b. Delirium 1 remens 4. Other Dietetic Diseases 2 ■• ■■ i •■ ■•■ • ..! •■ -:•: ■:•: •• ■■ - •• •• - " " - ■:• •• ■■ •• •• ■• 1 ■ • •• - - •■ • - 1 ■■ ■ •• •• • .. 1 • 1 " .. "I H 2 •• • •• •• .. •• 17 16 -! 3! 3 1; I •:•: I - 1 ■■ " •:- 7 2 •• 1 I II i • - 3 ■■ - - " .. A 2 I * ••! - ■■ • •• •• .. 1 •• - •• •• '" • .. - 1 •• 1 • •• ■'• ■• - - ■• - •• • - •• - ■ • •• — 1 1 — H H - H H — - H H — H - H - H Total Class III. 35 -• :■■ .. •■ ■■ 1 ■■ • •• .. 9 12 •• - • •■ ■• - 3 - ■ • •■ 2 4 5 —.' — — — — — — i— — — —j — — — \— — O H co CO CO O I 1. Bheumatic Fever 2. Bheumatism 3. Gout 4. Bickets 5. Cancer 6. Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Peritonitis 7. Tubercular Meningitis, Acute Hydrocephalus 8. Phthisis 9. Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula .. 10. Purpura, Haemorrhagic Diathesis 11. Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythsemia 12. Diabetes Mellitus 13. Other Constitutional Diseases 32 •• 35 1 1 67 2 2 :•:•■ :■:• :•:• 12 A ■ \ •• 1 - :•• ■•■■■ •• •- ■■ •• - - •- i 4 1 6 ••I •■ ■■ - " ' - •; 3 3 3 - .. ■■ • A I 5 •• •• 4 •• ■• " • ■ 3 " ■• 3 2 • •• 4 • 13 1 ■ .. " " I 13 2 •• 4 2 6 8 • 3 6 •• • 2 4 14 •• 6 • •• •• ■• 1 • •■ 10 29 8 38 •• - • • -'5 - ■ '• 9 ■■ 3 ■■ - ■• - 2 2 1 - '' - - - 1 1 - 1 ■■ ■• •• 1 "s •■ 2 •1 - •• • I 7 - 3 1 ■■■■ • • • • • ■• 6 1 6 '■• - - •■ 7 2 1 - " " •• •• .. ••I * ■:- 3 •• - .. 2 - •• 5 1 ■• .. 2 14 3 6 •• ■• - 5 - ■• 6 - 5 1 " •■ •■ 8 •■ •• i 2 ■■: 4 1 3 " 22 3 24 4 i 7 1 1 •• - 1 1 1 • 3 2 1 1 1 2 1 • •• - I 2 •• 1- " • ■• - •• - i ■■1 - •• - 1 • - - •• 1 1 ••! •• " •1 6 • ■• ■■ •• - - ■■• • • •• •• "' - - - • - - 11 • • •• •■ - • " - 2 '•• - • • ■•; 3 \ 1 1 • - •• •• - •• I 3 1 • - 1 1 •• •• ■■ • 1 ■■ ■■ ■I ... " • I 8 - " ■■! • - ■ '■■ ■ . • - - - 1 - •• • •• .. : •• •• - - •• •• - • • - .. .. - 4 .. • • - ■• .. • • .. ■■ -. •■! •• • • -. .. •• •• Total Class IV. .. 1 1 —\ -H — — H H ~ — - M - - H H \~l H 144 .. .. 16 r 3 2 13 3 N 43 11 46 N 20; 20 1 1 2 12 H 16 1 *3 2! 7 2 32 J 3

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DISEASES AND DEATHS IN HOSPITALS. Table showing the Number of Cases of Disease and of Deaths from each Cause in the various Hospitals in the Colony during the Year 1891— continued.

rt o i o 05 CJ rt o rt < oi rt rt % O G rt 'rt vi rt rt -• Q G rt rt o 6 I Q rt a O I Q E U C o rt rt O G rt rt a j aj aj 'tb C rt 1 — — rt 5 Orders, Diseases, &c. Si rt rt u O G rt Si o a rt £ o a I rt rt — rt a w ~rt O Q g rt rt 1* rt Si a a ~—\ % I rt rt % o a 1 rt 3 a 6 |a 1 « rt : Si a 1 a rt ~rt rt o rt - 1 - r T Order 6.— Septic. i. Phagedsena 2. Erysipelas 3. Pyaemia, Septicaemia 4. Puerperal Fever, Pyaemia, Peritonitis •• •• " •■ 1 •• - 17 3 ■• •• •• •■ • • " - • • •• - I •• - 1 1 '*l ..I •• •• - ■• • •■ - •• 1 ■■ ••! •• •- 1 •■ ■r I "j •• " 1 52 14 5 " - 2] - • • - ••I '■• 1 - • - • ••! ■■ - I - " i ■■ •• - - - ■ - • 1 •• - - - • •• - - - ■■ Total Order 6 .. I — — — M ~ H - - H H H H - — H H •• •• I 1 - 20 2 • • • • - 1 • .. .. - 1 1 - - 72 •• " •• Total Class I. .. I I I — H H — H H H h~ H H - H H 3 " ' 1 .. _i54j 12 22 •• 45 16 5 • 64 5 • ■ 6 •• 11 •• 10 2 - 29 5 • • 1 1 °40 •■ ■■ — — — ~ — — — — — — t— — — — — o < co IS 1. Thrush 2. Other Diseases from Vegetable Parasites .. 3. Hydatid Disease 4. Other Diseases from Animal Parasites I "" I - 2 ■• - 1 ■■ - ■• 1 5 4 •• 1 •■ ■ I- •• • • ■■ 1 ■■ - - •• • • •• - ■• .. 1 •■ • 1 •■ 9 I "I •• 2 •• - - - •■ ■• H - •■ - - ■• • - •• -i •• - •■ •• •• 2 - - 27 9 •- • • !- ■■ • •• •• .. - - - - •• •• • - - — — 1 1 H H H H H — H - H H H h— — Total Class II. .. 2 ■■ s ■• 9 .. •• 1 - - - 2 ■■ ■• .. •• .. - I2 - 36 — I — — — — — — — — — o Hco ■Q 1. Starvation Want of Breast-milk .. 2. Scurvy , , (a. Chronic Alcoholism 3. Intemperance | ft _ De li rium Tremens .. 4. Other Dietetic Diseases •• •• - •• ■■ - - I ! .. ] •• 1 - ■• ■• ■■ •■ - ■ - - ■■ • •• 1 •■ •• 6 •• - !i 31 18 •1 • • •• • • " ■• •• •■ •• " ' 2 " - •• - - •• •• ■ • ■■ - - ■• - •• '"I •• •• - - 4 1 in 72 ■■ 1 .. •• 1 - 13 n •• 1 ■■ 1 2 - 2 • • 5 •• 2 - 1 1 ■: 3 2 3 • • - • - • H h • !■• - - •• "i •• - - .. ■■ - ■■ ■ - ■ - -. •• •• - - -• '■ •■ Total Class III. —I 1 I— j M \—\ 25 - .. H ■■ - 2 6 h— 50 • H •• H .. 2 2 - - 2 - - — 3 — 5 188 - • • •• •• ■1 •• "■ •• I — — — — — — — — — — — -- < o E_co co co o > 1. Bheumatic Fever 2. Bheumatism 3. Gout 4. Bickets 5. Cancer 6. Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Peritonitis 7. Tubercular Meningitis, Acute Hydrocephalus 8. Phthisis 9. Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula .. 10. Purpura, Haemorrhagic Diathesis 11. Ansemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythaemia 12. Diabetes Mellitus 13. Other Constitutional Diseases 15 - 3 •■ ■• •• •• • • 2 •• •• 1 •■I - I 2 1 I •• I - - - - 21 32 7 •• 32 3 1 62 ■ ■■I •I • IO • A I " " 1 2 5 2 - I I « I6 H ■ • • • 2 •■ - 1 7 - •' 4 •• 1 1 • •• ■■ 2 •■ 1 - 3 12 24 3 37 9 9 51 26 • •I • ■• 9 2 9 20 5 1 3 •• •■! • • ■ •• 1 2 il - •• 1 ** * i •■[ 1 1 1 •■ I •• • • • ■ • • 6 - - h - •• •• ■•I -! 1 I 2 • 3 - •• 2 10 - - 3 •• ••I " " ••• • - •• -? • •• ' •• a •• •I • 2 - 3 •• 13 •' - I • - .. 104 284 3° 227 15 20 7 1 10 5 i ■■! - » 5 2 14 4 4 2 •• 2 1 1 2 • ■ ••I 2 I 6 A " 332 46 I, 7: 1 1 - - • - • * 1 ■'■ •• - •• 1 ... 1 - - •• .. - - 23 3 I I 9 2 • I - 2 I I I 1 • - •■ - 1 -■ ■ • ■• - •• 9 1 ■• I •• - - " - H • ■• • ■ ■■ .. 1 23 2 • ■ 1 1 •• - •• 1 4 •• » •• - • 2 I " .. 103 15 22 •■ - ... •• .. • • .. - .. • - ■• .. .. .. .. • ■ - .. .. •■ - ■ ■ •• •■ •• • Total Class IV... — — 1 1 — - H - - H H H — H 39 7 s 1 184 22 28 3° Uo! 5 196 47 7 .. - 1 10 I 2 5 2 31 16 .. 1,200 181 ■ ■

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DISEASES AND DEATHS IN HOSPITALS. Table showing the Number of Cases of Disease and of Deaths from each Cause in the various Hospitals in the Colony during the Year 1891— continued.

£ rt 6 'rt 'rt rt Si u a q »i & rt z 'rt I rt rt c s o a, rt 3 & c m l O Z. c rt aj u a rt o 0 6 4) - o rt •3 o Orders, Diseases, &c. I Si rt rt s krr rt Si u a Kt- % rt rt £ p | Q U Q ¥1 rt rt Si u a u rt Q u c rt rt a '§. t rt v u a rt a rt a u" rt "rt G I « rt j 6 Q rt ! 3£ U ! G i Si rt rt Q rt to a co , r! W Cm co In w 1. Premature Birth 2. Atelectasis 3. Cyanosis 4. Spina Bifida 5. Imperforate Anus 6. Cleft Palate, Hare-lip 7. Other Congenital Defects 8. Old Age •• i •■ • - • • •• • - •• !■■ - •• • •• - - - - • • - - • •1 •1 - ■ -I - " •1 •• • •1 - - - - ■■ ■■ • •• 1 ■ ■ " - •• '• - - - - •• * •• -• - •• - "I ■■ •• I • •• •• - .. •■ "I •• " •• • - - • • •■ " •1 • - - - - - - " • ■• 2 6 •• 3 _; - - • • 3 3 4 8 2 - - 2 IO ■■ A •■ 5 - 2 A ••! !•• - - - - • I 1 • "i •• 1 — — — — H H H H H H Total Class V. .. 9 - • • ■■ • ■ - ■• 2 • • 10 1 5 2 1 •• i ■■ •• •■ ■• •• •I — — — — — — — — —j — — — — - — I— I Order i.— Diseases of Nervous System. 1. Inflammation of Brain or its Membranes.. Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 2. Apoplexy 3. Softening of Brain 4. Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis 5. Paralysis 6. Paralysis Agitans 7. Insanity, General Paralysis of Insane 8. Chorea 9. Epilepsy 10. Convulsions 11. Laryngismus Stridulus .. 12. Idiopathic Tetanus 13. Paraplegia, Diseases of Spinal Cord 14. Other Diseases of Nervous System 2 - 4 2 3 2 I I 6 •• - •• -■! 1 1 1 •• •• I 1 •■ ■■ - - - •• ■■ ■• •• 1 - •1 "I •■ - " 1 •• 1 * 1 1 2 1 • 1 2 I I 3 1 - ' - •■ A •• 1 ■•• - - - - ■I ■■ •■ 3 •1 • • - 9 2 8 8 •■I • 1 1 - ■1 E -• •• 1 1 2 1 •• 1 I I ■■ 1 " •• ■• ■ ■ • • • • "I •' - !■■ - - - - •• •• ••I •■ 1 A 1 "I ..I • I H I •• - I I •1 I •• 2 1 ■1 " "I ■• H 2 2 •• •• - .. - ■■ - •• 1 2 2 3 •• •1 .. 2 A I A ■A •• •• •• 2 - - •■ - ■■ • •• • - !•• H ■• • ■ - - •• - " •• ■■ - .. - 4 7 •• •• ..! •• • 1 !•• •• - - •• - - ■■ - •• - "I 1 1 J 1 • - 1 - •■ 1 •■ • - 3 2 " I - 1 •■ • CO CO W CO - - ■• - .. - •• - - - - ••! h - •• - '•• •■ .. •• - ■: •• • ■ - • - .. -• - - - •■ ■ - - 1 •• - 1 ■■ - ■ 1 - 2 8 2 2 •■ •• •• • - 5 1 - - - ■• 1 " 14 36 1 •■ 1 1 - 3 ■• 3 5 46 1 1 •■ • - I - 1 8 ■ 4 3 16 - - •■ 4 • • ■■ •• .. 5 •1 • •■ •• •• .. - 1 ■ ■■ - 1 ■ •• — — — r— - H H H H H —I - — - 6 H Total Order 1 .. 7i 4 3 .. 6 1 .9 j 1 J 4 4 • 14 2 11 2 • 11 A 7 1 2 3 14 • 3 o O { ■■ ■•! ■■ — — — I — -- —A — ~ — — -— — — — L- — — Order 2.— Diseases of Organs of Special Sense. 1. Otitis, Otorrhcea 2. Epistaxis and Diseases of Nose 3. Ophthalmia and Diseases of Eye 3 1 34 •• •• •I "I •• ■• •• I 3 •• ■■ •• ■• •• ■• •• •• 1 "I •• - 2 - 2 -I I26 3 1 •• 1 - 1 2 h 5 h •• -■ 1 -I - •• .. - 1 Total Order 2 .. — — H H H H H H - H 38 •• 2 -I .. 7 J29 3 - ■ 6 .. ■• 1 •• ■• •■ ■• 1 •• 1 1 — — --- — — \—\ — — i — \—A i— — \—\ — \— Order 3.— Diseases of Circulatory System. 1. Endocarditis, Valvular Disease .. 2. Pericarditis 3. Hypertrophy of Heart .. 4. Fatty Degeneration of Heart 5. Angina Pectoris 6. Syncope 7. Aneurism 8. Senile Gangrene 9. Embolism, Thrombosis .. 10. Phlebitis 45 1 ■■ ■■ 1 11 1 •• I " 8 "' 1 • " 1 •' " 4 A •• ■■ 5 - " •• 1 4 I •"I " 14 3 8 A • i 6 ■ ■ • 1 •• ••i 1 1 ■■ 1 •"I 1 1 1 "I 1 ■■ 1 1 I •• • 4 2 •■ 1 "I 1 • 3 ■■ 2 1 -• • 1 I - • • • • • T •• 1 I 4 1 -! ■ .. 1 • I • - 1 1 ■ • 2 I • ■• 2 1 1 •• 2 ■ 4 2 - 4 -■I •• ■ •• • ■• - 1 •• • 1 • - .. " •• ■■ - - • • - •■ - ■• •• - •■ • • 1 •• • • •• ■ • •• • • • • • • ■■ •■ . •■ .. ■ • .. .. • • • ■ .. .. • • .. • • •■ ■• 1 • • ..

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DISEASES AND DEATHS IN HOSPITALS. Table showing the Number of Cases of Disease and of Deaths from each Cause in the various Hospitals in the Colony during the Year 1891— continued.

3 j 5-3 o ci o rt i T rt 'rt u! rt rt Si U 3 6 a rt £ o Ib o rt rt rt Z > So £ rt 2 c M rt j Orders, Diseases, &c. rt j" I o a I Vi rt 6 a Q v, rt rt M U G rt a rt « a v rt rt Si U 3 1> I rt 6 u a rt <u U G I H rt rt Si u a o a I rt i irj rt v rt rt o rt Q o u rt rt rt o co C CO I.H r% i. Premature Birth 2. Atelectasis 3. Cyanosis 4. Spina Bifida 5. Imperforate Anus 6. Cleft Palate, Hare-lip 7. Other Congenital Defects 8. Old Age •• " - •• ■• - - •• .. .. ■• - •• • • |_H_11 " ., '" •1 - - - ■■ "I I • - •• • • • •• " •I •• " "I - - - 1 - • ■ ■• •• ■■ - - - •■ •• - - - •• •• •■ •• 1 - 1 1 " "\ - - !■■ • ! - •• • - ■ •• 3 2 - - 1 - 'I :• •"I - 5 10 46 63 •• I • ■■ I- •• !•• 1 ■• •• 1 - ; I •• - 2 A i( 6 3 •' 1 - 3 ■■• 1 - 1 1 1 •■ _ J - A - .. - •• 1 1 ■• Total Class V. .. — i I M H H H hH H - — — 6 " 6 .. .. 1 - •• 1 • • .. 1 1 ■ • 2 1 • • •• •• Order i.— Diseases of Nervous System. 1. Inflammation of Brain or its Membranes.. Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 2. Apoplexy 3. Softening of Brain 4. Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis 5. Paralysis 6. Paralysis Agitans 7. Insanity, General Paralysis of Insane 8. Chorea • .. 9. Epilepsy 10. Convulsions 11. Laryngismus Stridulus .. 12. Idiopathic Tetanus 13. Paraplegia, Diseases of Spinal Cord 14. Other Diseases of Nervous System — —I— — \— __j — L-U — I — — • •■ •• 4 4 ■■ •• •• 2 2 1 ■1 •■ ■• ■• •• " •• •• 'I •• •• "I •• 1 • ■■ •1 22 9 29 16 41 3° 6 1. 'I •• •• - ■■ - •• • •• ■ 2 7 A 1 1 il ■• ■ I A 3 2 7 " 1 1 ■■ A • • - A ■ 1 21 11 - 1 .. •• • 1 ■■ 1 • • 6 ••• .. 1 1 •• 2 2! 2] " I •■ - • • - • A 1 2 9 - I1 " • 1 • 1 •• •• I "I 2 ■■ •• - - - •• 7 1 1 • 1 •• - •• •• 5 2 •• 2 •• 1 7 2 1 ••I 10 •• •• = - 34 12 •• .. 2 - • • • • ■ •■ 1 ' 1 ■ 1 13 •• ..I .. 1 •■ - 5 - - • 1 - • - 1 •- •• ..! 2 - I 49 •• ■• ■■ ■• ■■! - • • •• I - •• " •■ ■• ■■ co CO co hH u o [ •■ - •■ •• ■• ■• • ■ • - - - - ■• - •• 11 ■■ - - • 2 • •• •■ .. •:• 6 16 •• 70 142 4 6 I - 4 - 1 ■■ 1 2 - 5 6 • 2 1 4 16 •■ 6 2 2 " • •:• A - ■• •• - .. - .. •• - .. • • •• I Total Order 1 .. — — H \—\ 1 H H — H — H — M _24 6 4 ■■ 40 5 3 .. .. *7 2 1 — A i— 61 3 8 2 4 3 - 32 3 2 — 460 Order 2.— Diseases of Organs of Special Sense. 1. Otitis, Otorrhcea 2. Epistaxis and Diseases of Nose 3. Ophthalmia and Diseases of Eye ■• - 5 3 5i " •• • •1 ■■ 4 2 45 — 2 •1 M 2 •■ — •• •• - ■• — 19 8 i - - ■■ - 7 1 .. j 1 ■■ • ■■ - - ■• - •• 5 •I - 1 .. - ■• 2 •• .. •■ 1 - ,_ 2 - - - 3 .. 204 Total Order 2 .. — — — H H - - hH 6 ■■ 59 .. 7 ■■ • 1 51 I • • .. • • 3 231 ■• •• ■• •• Order 3.— Diseases of Circulatory System. 1. Endocarditis, Valvular Disease .. 2. Pericarditis 3. Hypertrophy of Heart 4. Fatty Degeneration of Heart 5. Angina Pectoris 6. Syncope 7. Aneurism 8. Senile Gangrene 9. Embolism, Thrombosis 10. Phlebitis - _j — — — — I 15 1 1 31 1 15 1 2 8 5 189 10 8 17 1 7 39 3 2 8 1 •• 1 1 ■■ 21 3 2 1 1 •1 1 1 3 1 2 4 2 2 •■ • - • I •• • 3 • .. • • - 1 1 II • " S •• 1 1 ■•I I • 3 • ■• •^ 1 ••1 I '"I ' ■ ... I •■ 1 •"I I I: i - - • - 4 • • " - - • - ■■ • ••I • • • • - - I • - •• 1 • • ii 3 ■■• •• ..1 - - " •• i - A - 7 1 2 • • • • - - • - ■• • 1 1 " • ■ " • ■ ■ •• - •• • • • • • ■ - - " •I 1 ■• .. -■ 2 .. .. •• .. ■• •■ •• .. 3 •• .. • • .. ■• • • •• .. 1 • •• - • • • •

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Orders, Diseases, 8cc. i O o-S o < c m U Q j s o a 6 a 3 c g < i 6 Q It i So ! rt 5 I c 5 a z. ~ ""3 ■S « o '3 Q o cd ) 3 c D in Cβ CJ Q to I 1 U rt U rt . Order 3.— Diseases of Circulatory System —contd. 11. Varicose Veins, Piles 12. Other Diseases of Circulatory System • 1 1 .. '• •• 19 •• •• •1 \M ••1 .. 1 6 1 • I " 1 • •• ■ 1 .. .. .. ■1 2 • ii •■ 77 I3 I - - • ■•• ■ ■ •■ 3 • - •• • • .. .. !•■ ■ •■ •• •I — — — — — i 1 1 1 P i 1 — — I — i - 1 i 1 1 M — 1 1 1 I I i Total Order 3 .. 18 7 * 1 60 j - - 10 3 I A 7 i 1 5i 11 ! 2 2 iA i 4 • 3 ■■ 2 Jj 2 3 2 _J74l Order 4.— Diseases of Respiratory System. 1. Laryngitis 2. Croup 3. Other Diseases of Larynx and Trachea 4. Emphysema, Asthma 5. Bronchitis 6. Pneumonia 7. Pleurisy 8. Other Diseases of Respiratory System - ! I s g ! 1 !- — — ! ! — 1 — — i — • — 2 3! •■ 14! I I .. Ad 3 22! 6j I •■ ■ •■ •■ ••i •■ ■ ■1 • "I 'I •• •■ •• • ■■ ■■■ i 'I ' '1 • • 5 2 - - • h - - - • - 1.. - • ■ • • - - • ••! • "s • - ■ ■ - •• • 4 39 313 22 5 40 2 12 2 I • •• ■■ 1 - 5 33 21 •■ 1 7 3 •• :■• 11 16 31 ■■ •■ 1 9 3 I 1 ■• • 1 8 5 4 1 I 2 9 25 I2 1 3 8 1 I • 1 ■ I 13 ■ A 5 3 1 2 4 4 2 • • 2 . .. 9 1 10 4 7 ■ • 14 1 3 ■• 3 ■• I 8 5 2 • 21 5: ■ ■• 11 i " - •■ ■ ■ 2 •■! 1 • ■ • • I 1 .. ■ ■ ■■■ j 1 ■■ - • ■ ■• •• • ! ■■ •• •• .. i .. •• •■• ■• .. Total Order 4 .. ! P 1 1 h^ 8 1 H — h" - I " — I - — 1 — 1 1 I ! 1 1 29 5 1 .. 12 .. H 20j 2 , 3 • 14 !- i 19 1 l_!l i 21! 6 • 10 1 H 9 12 i 20 1 1 — i 1 754 en CO p — — 1 a — 1 — O Order 5.— Diseases of Digestive System. 1. Stomatitis, Cancrum Oris 2. Dentition 3. Sore Throat, Quinsy 4. Dyspepsia 5. Hasmatemesis 6. Melaena 7. Diseases of Stomach, Gastritis 8. Enteritis 9. Ulceration, Perforation, of Intestine 10. Ileus, Obstruction of Intestine 11. Stricture or Strangulation of Intestine 12. Intussusception of Intestine 13. Hernia 14. Fistula 15. Peritonitis 16. Ascites 17. Gallstones 18. Cirrhosis of Liver ig. Other Diseases of Liver, Hepatitis, Jaundice 20. Other Diseases of Digestive System •• I 6 4 .. • • 3 - • •• 1 2 J 7 •• •• 13 3 •• ■■ •• ■■ •• A •• - ■ •■ • • ■\- ■ 3 1 1 .. ■•!•• 8 6 1 4| 1 •■ •■ i ] ••■ 1 • ■ 2 i 3 ■■ 4J • ■ "l "■ I .. I 13 7 2 1 18 3 •■ 3 • 1 •I • ■ - 2 1 **■ I ■ ■ • - • •I • • ■ •• 3 1 1 1 3 1 * * 6 I I •■ • • • I- • • ■ •• • • .. ... •• •• •• •• 1 . .1 - • " 6 I - .. .. ■" •■ • 1 1 •■ •• 5 4 1 • ■ • • •• 1 • •■ • loj 77! no 3 74 29 24 22| •1 ■ 4| ii • 1 .. -!• - - •• •• .. • - ■ •■ 2 .. 14 3 9 1 "I ■i !• .. i .. •■ I •• - - •■ 4 J •• I - •• 29 1 • • • • !■ .. .. .. .. I- •• I .. ...- ■• 1 ■ 1 •■ ■•! •■ a • ■ • 1 : 1 ..I 1 •• •■ ■•• ■■1 ■ :;: 1 1 ■ • • 1.. !•• 3H I 10 • • •■ - • .,,, • ■ ■ ■ A - •■I .. I 3 ■ • • 1 ■ 1 5 3 6 ij •• •■ -I -• H •• : 6j ■• I ■ • ■■! 2 " • ' 1 2 • • ''I • 1 ■ i- ■•■■■■ 1 3 1 14 2 2 1- - " IO 2 7i 1 • - ••: ■■ • • • ' - - -• •• •• ••! ■■ 1I .. • • • • 3 - !•• ... .. - 16 — — i— I — 1 hH \-\ —hH 8 H M — — — i— Total Order 5 .. •• u A 89! 2 ' i12! J 32 I 4 82 •• 4 .. d 1 1 1 A 13 ! A 621 — } — 1 i— —: — — I ! 1 1 — — 1 — i— Order 6.— Diseases of Lymphatic System and Ductless Glands. 1. Diseases of Lymphatic System 2. Diseases of Spleen 3. Bronchocele 4. Addison's Disease •• •• ■■ •• •• •• •■ •• 1 - •• 4 •• •• •• •• •• ■• •1 ■• • ■• 1 ■• - ■ - ■ - •j ..... - ■ h h ■■ • - ■ •• • ■■ ■• •• 1 - •■ "• 2 1 i • H 1 H - 2 ■• - • 1 • ■ ■ 1 ■■ 12 1 2 - •■ •■ • ■• ■■ 1 ■■ •• - I • - •• - •■ - •• •• Total Order 6 .. -H ;— 1 1 — 3 1 H - M 1 1 -H i I 39 .. • • .. ■• • • 6 .. .. -. ... • • .. .. • • ••

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DISEASES AND DEATHS IN HOSPITALS. Table showing the Number of Cases of Disease and of Deaths from each Cause in the various Hospitals in the Colony during the Year 1891— continued.

rt U Orders, Diseases, &c. — I ! rt c rt 'rt o 3 " x u a z O z .J. rt w o rt |1 rt S o 5 to 03 rt rt £ u Q o Z o 717 05 Ci rt Ji U I Q rt o 03 x: 03 rt rt v o x O 3 c5 o B ! I en" rt rt tn -C rt ' u U I G rt Q rt ? rt rt rt rt a rt j w o a s 3 rt U <D S rt rt •; O I 3 rt u a rt sz rt Q 1 s rt w u a cn rt rt " rt i 1 rt 1 rt u ' U G Order 7.— Diseases of Urinary System. 1. Acute Nephritis 2. Bright's Disease 3. Ursemia 4. Suppression of Urine 5. Calculus 6. Hematuria 7. Diseases of Bladder and Prostate 8. Other Diseases of Urinary System 3 4 1 1 •• •• ■■ 3 •- I ■■ • " 1 "I •• j l| •• A 2 1 •• 2 A 3| 9 I • A 4 1 ! •■ 1 1 .. "I - •• - •• •• I 1 1 •• 3 ■• - •• •• •• 3 2 1 "A ■■ •• • •• ..I 1 •■ ■; :: - -I •• ■ - 1 1 • - - •• •• - ■• ■■ 2 " '* - •■ •• 2 1 1 - - •• " - ■■■ ■■ - - - \ 4 - 1 - • " - • - .. • .. h 1 • - • - 1 "8 - - ..1 •• " .J - •• •• 9 !•• - ■• - h •■ ■• • - - •• •• 5 •• A 2 1 4 2 .. !•■ !•■! 11 1 15 2 4| •• 4 2 5 •• A - A 1 - 1 • I 1 h •■ - 2 ii 1 1 - - - ••! . .1 •• l •• •• • .. •■• • - .. H •■ • .. 6 M — — \—\ _j — 1 1 — — 2 .. H H H — — H H — Total Order 7 .. 25 1 •• 9 A .-' 2 A 6 ! A 23 A 13 2 • ■■ 3 •• 2 1 3 3 - •• J 3 3 •• ■■ — — — -— _j — — — — — — — 1— — — — — — CO CO CO U o > Order 8.— Diseases of Reproductive System, (a.) Diseases of Organs of Generation,— 1. Ovarian Disease .. 2. Diseases of Uterus and Vagina 3. Disorders of Menstruation 4. Pelvic Abscess 5. Perineal Abscess 6. Diseases of Testes, Penis, Scrotum, &c. .. (b.) Diseases of Parturition, — 7. Abortion, Miscarriage 8. Puerperal Mania 9. Puerperal Convulsions 10. Placenta Previa, Flooding 11. Phlegmasia Dolens 12. Other Accidents of Childbirth .. (c.) Childbirth (Lying-in Patients) 6 17 3 7 1 ■•! - - - .. I 4 1 3 9 2 1 1 • • 2 " I '• 2 •• 3 3 ■■ •■ " 1 3 2 1 " .. 2 "l .. 5 24 2 2 2 16 ■ ■ 5 i •• 2 .. .. 3 •• 2 5 2 1 .. 1 .. ••! •• 1 " .. *■ 2 2 1 " • ■ 1 ■ • • •• 1 2 3 1 .. I 1 2 1 1 1 •• ■■ •• ••! ■• " 1 'I •• I ■■ • •• " •• •■ •• ■• •• 3 ■■ " •• •• •• •• •• 'I ■■ •• - - - ■• ■■ - ••! - • - ■■ h • •• ■• •• ■ ■• • •■ ■ h •■ • - - • - - - • - • - ■■ h :- - ... • - " •• - • •- 1 1- •• •• • - - 1 • - ■■• • ■■• • •■ ••! • • !•• - • • - h •• ■■ I 1 1 •• - 1 - ••! I- • • - - !•■ •• • -! !■ ■ ■■• '•■ • 1 •• h •• 1 • •■ • •• - • !- !•• 3 • • ... ■ ■•■ - •• - • - h - • • - • .. • • •• - •• - •• ii - !■• • - •■ - • •• •• 1 ■' • ■ • - h •• •• • — i H 16 i — H 1 1 H — H H ! - . 1 i 1 1 1 i H - — H h- - - — H H - H I Total Order 8 .. 36 2 • • ■■ 8 ■■ I ■■ 6 6 2 • 7! - - 2 ! -J « .. 12 — •• — 2 i _._ - i 1 2 — ■ 6 — 2 6 •• 2 - I •• • 1 5 — — hI— V— — — 1 — —J — — — — — — — — Order g.— Diseases of Organs of Locomotion. 1. Caries, Necrosis 2. Arthritis, Ostitis, Periostitis 3. Other Diseases of Organs of Locomotion .. 26 36 6 •• •• 2 3 2 •• 7 4 3 •• 1 1 1 4 8 ■• 1 3 1 ■• 29 31 3 2 9 2 1 h •■• 1 'I •■ ■• 2 3 ■1 2 1 •■ "I •• A •• - ■• 2 - ■• " - •■ • • - !- • - - h 1 - I •• 5 !■• - ■■ .. • • - .. - -A •• •■ 2 h ■• ••! • •■ 4 •• - • - - - — :— M — — - H H 1 I — H H - H - H — H H H ~ — - — H Total Order 9 .. 68J ■■ •■ ■■ 7 14 - 2 1 12 •• 1 - .. ■• .. 6 3 | 13 1 ■• •• 1 •• - .. 6 5 I3 ■• I- .. 2 ■A I .. 7 — — — — —j — — i— -A _-! ! _j — — — — — 1 — — — — Order 10. — Diseases of Integumentary System. 1. Carbuncle 2. Phlegmon, Cellulitis 3. Lupus .. .. .. •• 4. Ulcer, Bed-sore 5. Eczema 6. Pemphigus 7. Other Diseases of Integumentary System .. 2 15 5 21 8 .. .. 1 !■■ A •■ - •• » 8 2 •• • • •• 2 6 2 •• ■• " 2 , •• A - " h ..I A .. ■■ - 1 ..I 1 •• • •■ 1 • ■• 4 1 ■I - i .. 1 • •• j I2J •• I 1 2 4 34; 9 1 • 2 2 " • - • .. "I ••1 -■ 8 "I •• • •■ 3 ■• • ■ •1 •• 1 •• • • •1 - A 11 2 ■■ • • •• 1 A A •• •• 1 •• ■ Si 1 • - ..I •• ..I I I I ■• - - •• - 4 3 •• - - ■■ - - ■• - - H •r !■ •• "I ■ •■! • •• - • - - 2 • * - I- - 1 iI- - 2 •• •■! 1 - - - 2 • •• 1 - •• - • .. .. I- ■■ •■ •• ■• ■• - - 3 ■■ •• !- •• •- - •■ ■:•• ! •• i 1 - ■■ 1 • • • 1 •• • - • ■ •• - •• - • •■ 9 2 I 1 - - •■ 4 1 ■• 1 - - !•■ 1 i2 ■ I •• - • • • ..: • •■ •• •■ • • 2 .. 2 •• - Total Order 10 .. Total Class VI... 32 — 1 1 1 3 37 8 — - — 23 1 H - - — » L__ — - —A 1 3 ! 1 - H — 10 7 6 H - -H 3 M H • — 8 1 1 I .. ! 1 ! I I H i ■ H - — I— 59' 452, —! I j 1; i—i 14 1 1 H !• H H - H • H — 9 hI I • H — 3 1 1 • - 3 H " — - 5 - V — H 4 H 1 - I - H - -d — 3 - ■• H H 9 - •• 18 — 2 rH 472 .. 103 7 94 5 43 7 ! 8 H 2 Mi ! 5 N 7 4°i ji°4 h4 20 3 24 2 22 3 -17, 5 52 5 28 22 1 45 5 77 421

H.—3.

DISEASES AND DEATHS IN HOSPITALS. Table showing the Number of Cases of Disease and of Deaths from each Cause in the various Hospitals in the Colony during the Year 1891— continued.

rt O O 5-5 rt rt < o < rt rt £ U G rt g "rt = Q tn" i m rt rt £ rt Q 0) g rt d G £ rt 1 vi U ! ~rt rt '-J U j G rt >'Eb ■— (J o 03 rt 0 Orders, Diseases, Sec. rt ij 'O G .n rt Q a X .u a oj rt rt " rt Q rt rt 03 rt o Q rt i^ o a 1 rt £ O Q en JS 03 rt rt % O I Q rt Si o I a rt rt o 03 Q rt o U rt rt v rt rt j Order 7.— Diseases of Urinary System. 1. Acute Nephritis 2. Bright's Disease 3. Uraemia 4. Suppression of Urine 5. Calculus 6. Haematuria 7. Diseases of Bladder and Prostate 8. Other Diseases of Urinary System I •• i ■■ - - 5 7 2 - - •■ 1 • • ■• - - 2 • • 1 " 1 2 " ■• - " ■■ "I •1 •• " 2 8! 1 1 ' 3 1 ; - •• •" ' 1 •• •■ 1 ■• • - !•• 1 1 • - 1 2 il - " 3 i 1 I - - •• 3 1 2 1 ••I 21 61 6 6 3 23 4 1 •• I - 2 • 1 2 ■ • •• -! 1 1 •■ •• • - - ■• •• 15 4 63 40 2 "I " - 13 3 •• ■■ - •• -i •• 6 - •• 1 1 - - - ■• 1 •■ ■■ •• •• "1 1 1 - • 1 I A A - •• •• 1 - ■■ ■ I -1 - •• •• •• 8 5 - - 1. "■ •• A 4 s 1 I -•! 3 ■■ ■• H - •• - - ■• •• - ... • Total Order 7 .. — — — — H — H I H H — H _ 1 1-1 i H !- i— — H -H 1 1 A 3° 3 1 1 ■■ 6 1 i 1 2 i 4 21 ! 7 1 I1 - 2 - 1 2 i I 3 1 A 4 1 4; 3 216 46 * i i— — i — —A — -A U- — — j — — — - — LI '.— — — ! — CO co co Q Order 8.— Diseases of Reproductive System, (a.) Diseases of Organs of Generation, — 1. Ovarian Disease 2. Diseases of Uterus and Vagina 3. Disorders of Menstruation 4. Pelvic Abscess 5. Perineal Abscess 6. Diseases of Testes, Penis, Scrotum, &c. (b.) Diseases of Parturition,— 7. Abortion, Miscarriage 8. Puerperal Mania 9. Puerperal Convulsions 10. Placenta Praevia, Flooding 11. Phlegmasia Dolens 12. Other Accidents of Childbirth (c.) Childbirth (Lying-in Patients) 1 •■ I 1 1 15 33 •• 4 11 3 • •• -l •• •• • • 1 2 2 1 - 4 - . j .. 1 4 1 ..' •1 1 2 • • I *■ ■■ •■ 2 ■'• '"! 7 26 4! 3 2 8 •■ I •I .. 2 "I 1 1 6 I 8 •• • • 5 •• •• 1 1 .. .. ■1 ..! 56 153 21 12 11 70 4 4 1 1 1 1 9 1 ■• "I •■ 'I ■■ •• •• '• •1 "I "I " 'I •• • • " I " •• •• ■■ • ••i H 'I - I - •■ •• • 1 ••' ••! - - •1 •• .. •• - •■ - • .. - - - 1 h - - 1 6 •• ■ - - I - •• I "1 ■ • - .- .. ■■! - - 1 ■■' - - • •• • • • A • ••! 5 ., !- i •• - - - •:• A o l-l > •• - ••: • ■•I • 5 * • ; 5 - - •■ - - ■■ 7 •• — M — i i— — H - 1 1 I — I" - - H - H - H ! H — H — i Total Order 8 .. 2 - 2 ! - 64 3 11 1 7 7 56 1 • ■■ 1 •• IO ; •■ 13 •• 1 !• 1 ! 357J ■■ I I I ! i ; — — ; — M - 1 — — — — L-a 1 — i j 1 I ' Order g.— Diseases of Organs of Locomotion. 1. Caries, Necrosis 2. Arthritis, Ostitis, Periostitis 3. Other Diseases of Organs of Locomotion .. •■ •■ •• 36 23 17 7 5 ■•• 2 8 7 A 16 34 ■13 63 •• •• •• 2 •• •• ■• •• 1 •• 8; I "I 165 167 75 2 ! A "I 1 3 - " "' 2 - l-l I •1 2 ■• 'I J - - 9 - - •■• I !- • - ■7 - ■• ■• ■• - ' ■•! • - •• •• - - I" !•• — — M M H I- - i H H - - _i H I— - H H i— H 1 8 H Total Order 9 .. 3 - ■■ - 7 _J 17 •■!• 2 •• 4 • • 2 :■ \" 3 - • ■ .. - IO •• ■ 407 •• ; i 1 1 il — I- ■ \-Hi I— I — u~ — — -—' i i - — — 1 j I — 1 — : Order 10. — Diseases of Integumentary System. 1. Carbuncle I 2. Phlegmon, Cellulitis 3. Lupus 4. Ulcer, Bed-sore 5. Eczema 6. Pemphigus 7. Other Diseases of Integumentary System .. ....... ...... • 2 7 3 13 11 i - " - . ... .. •• \ " •1 1 ■• 4 8 6 I" - 1 1 •• - • •i 2 •• * "1 •• •■ - •• •• •• 2 - - •• i 12 44 22 I I 5! •■- 1 - " - ... 4 3 I - A ■■ i| .. 3 •• 39 3 " •• 1 2 4 2 ■i 3 1 •• 1 •1 I 2 " 13 - 3! 1 177 73 - ..j.. - ; I - 1 • •■ ...... - - .. .. - '- ■■ ■■ - - •• 4 •• •• - ■• Total Order 10 .. 7- •• Lj£glQ : 109 13 19 •• — •• A 43 • — .. " — -I - H I- ____ 3.. 3 10 H •• ■■ 5 24 - !- - 1 H 1 8 - - I2 ■• \ -I i ! IO .. •• I 1 .. .. H - I - — - — 15 - 1 1 ■• 1 • 60 388 Total Class VI... — — - 74 7 h~ - - H H H i I 22 - •— — — — 4 54 6 39; 8 .. 13S] 10 57 3 489J 54 17 1 i J 36 2 I 63 4 „ "I i°7 9 5° 3,847 35'

H.—3.

Table showing Admissions, Discharges, &c., of Patients at Hospitals for Year ended 31st March, 1892.

™ ! Orders, Diseases, &c. iS < 6 a c u Q I i . •z. I a. rt in 1 1 f • g Q I is o 5 u [ c o * \s 6 I 5 a rt o 1 I c3 a c I i I 6 2 us rt 6 a o I Q 6 a 6 o " 2 1 o J Q S :| <3 a 1 11 I u Q 6 a rt O a CIS Q i > Order i.— Accident or Negligence. 1. Fractures, Contusions .. .. 93 9 2. Gunshot Wounds .. .. .. i 9 1 3. Cut, Stab .. .. .. .. ; 36' .. 4. Burn, Scald .. .. .. .. uj .. 5. Sunstroke .. .. .. ..21 6. Poison .. .. .. .. I 4 .. 7. Drowning .. .. .. ■ .. 4 1 8. Suffocation .. .. .. ...... 9. Exposure .. .. .. ...... 10. Otherwise .. .. .. .. j 13I .. Total Order 1 .. .. .. | 172! 12 Order 2.— Homicide. 1. Murder, Manslaughter .. .. .. .. 1 .. 2. Wounds in Battle .. .. Total Order 2 .. .. .. .... Order 3.— Suicide. 1. Gunshot Wounds .. .. ...... 2. Cut, Stab .. .. .. .. 11 3. Poison .. .. .. 4. Drowning .. .. .. .. \ .. 5. Hanging .. .. .. ...... 6. Otherwise .. .. .. .. I .. i - - •!• -• •• :: :: .. i.. . ••.-... 1 I ! <!•■ 1 •: 20 .. 3 ! • • • • ■ •• •■ • • ■ :: : • 46 1 I : I 26 1 1 I .... I •• " 6 1 Hj I ! 15 1 1 .. .. .. 1. 10 .. 27 1 22 ■■ 3 2 4 1 32 •■ • •■ • • • - - - H •■ 6 .. 1 .. ::: 2 i ■ - — 9- ™, 42: 1 ii 19: •• .... 21 . . I . . • •■ 974 1 32 2 ■■ ■ 'i 1 34 •• - - •• •■ ■■ i 1! 15: :i2O| 2 4! • ■ icj .. 5! •■ 2! .. •■••• M i 1 1 55 40 1 12 1 . i i • •■ • - •■ •• •■1 ■ .. 129 1 2 . . .. .. I .. 32 I •• H « 14 1 ! .. I •• I •• 1 12 8 A 1 1 1 - - • j. • • • ■ ■ H ! I I ! 5 ! .*. .... i —\-A 13 6 I 20 1 • - • •• :■• :•■ H 4 — 8 1 5 2 "■ 16 1 ... ••■ - - - • - - - H i .... ■•- -— - 31 I 1 - • • — 36 • ■ • A 1 ■■ .. • - • H i 120 1 3 ■• H - - ■ ■■ - —I h=91 2 ■•! • • .. Ill I ■■ ■ - • • •■ •• M « — i i_ ! 1 i .. .. :: ■ : • • ' .. .. .. .. ... .. i .. • ■ 1 •■ • ..,.. j • ■■ •" - •• •• •• • ■ i • - •I- • • H i1 -a H H i 1 — • •• Ld_J ■• 1 1 NW .. ■• - ■ I .. •• •■ •I •I ■• •■ •• "I ■■ :■ MH — j j— — I— ' — I — j I 1 1 '< — — — j — 1 .. .. - - •• • •• •• ■• ■• • 1 ■ •• I 1 • • •• • •; •• •• •■ • ..;.. • •• - 1 ■■ i ••• - .. ... • i •• .... ■ • " .. • • • •• •• ■• ■ ■•• - • ••!- - ■ 1 ■ ■ • • - • " - ■••■ m ..:.. ■ ■ i ■• ■• • - - ■ • ■ ■■ •• - • - - •■ "■ -■ " .. .. j - ••! .. !•• •■ •■ ■ m ■ •• • - .. • • - • • I ! i— — H H H^ H H — H — Total Order 3 .. .. .. ' • 1 1 4 ■■ • • • ■! ■■ .. ■■ 1 .. ■• 1 1 ! ■• 1 • •I •• ■■ ■■ •• •■ i •• •• •• I Order 4.— Execution. f Mi 1 !— — M- — — — 1 1— — ! — i Hanging .. .. .. .. I .. .. • .'...! ■ - •• 1 •• — h ■ •• 40 2 i 1 .. ■■ •• •1 I •• ■ •• •I "I •■ .- •• • ■ [ " Total Class VII. .. .. 173 13 ! — 1 !— 78 L_L_J —!H — i — H — — J 73 13 • 46J 1 27] 4 32 i •• - 2J 134 1 J 5O 2 55 4 - -1 15 Hv iS 2 H 4 I l6 1 5 ■• 36 H 30; lj£ I 1. Dropsy .. .. .. 2. Debijity, Atrophy, Inanition .. .. 1 .. 3. Mortification, Gangrene .. .. 61 4. Tumour .. .. .. .. 3 • • 5. Abscess .. .. .. ..211 6. Haemorrhage .. .. .. 7. Sudden (cause unascertained) .. 8. Other Ill-defined and Not-specified Causes 2 .. — H ~1 ~- H-H HH hH - ■ •• ••: • - • ..I I .. .. ' - •• •• 1 ' ••! - - - I 6 I 5 •• 2 .. 1 .. 200: 14! 7 ■■ i 6 1 - • '.'. 7 :: I I 3 : .. • - • • •• I •• 1 " 1 - I .. i7. - 1 • 3 ■■ I 1 • • - 16 12 I ■■ I • • •• ■■■ •■ • 3 •■ 1 . j • " •■ •• •• • 3 21 ij • • •■ - ■•! 6 4 21 1 5 • 2! .. Ill .. I .. ■• * • 1 •• - 3 3 • 12 1 • • - - .. • !•• ■ .. • ■ • •■ - - ' ■ ■ • - •• - - •• - •• • - i- ...... •• ■•• • • -i • 2 ■ 13 •■ I ■ - •I Total Class VIII. .. .. 33 2 2 I 33 .. 2 ■ — - 1! 1 2.. 173; 11 12 h~ H ■ - ij ■■ • ■■ H .. - ... I 2327 i ■ •■ 1 h - L 7] 39 ■■ - — h • • I 14 ..j §3 ! 6 i 1 : 3-1 •• I I 6 - .. — 19 4 - — ' • H • 10 •• i 1 • ■ ■• 8 5 I General Totals .. .. .. 977 90] — - h1 i i 1 M - I I > I I 9 f h-HH s — j 1 1 ! 977 90 *3 1 M4i ! m 141 U 221! 043 82 217 19 i 56j 4 5j II6 114 8 8 7 !2 37 3 10 154 7 29 H 108 26 I I I

H.—3.

DISEASES AND DEATHS IN HOSPITALS. Table showing the Number of Cases of Disease and of Deaths from each Cause in the various Hospitals in the Colony during the Year 1891— continued.

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