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Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st March, 1908. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance from last year ... 1,440 10 6 Rations ... ... ... 532 1110 From Government ... ... 877 9 5 Wines, spirits, ale, and porter ... 7 7 6 Local bodies... ... ... 877 9 5 Surgery and dispensary ... 169 18 7 Subscriptions and donations ... 163 0 0 Fuel and light ... ... 155 611 Bequest ... ... ... 130 0 0 Bedding and clothing, furniture, Rents ... ... ... 40 4 0 and earthenware ... ... 163 4 6 Patients'payments ... ... 1,040 18 7 Salaries and wages ... ... 1,125- 5 5 Interest ... ... ... 22 9 9 Chloroform fees ... ... 136 10 0 Charitable Aid Board, for medi- Water-supply and rates ... 57 0 4 cine supplied to district Home 10 0 0 Funerals ... ... ... 2 16 6 Repairs ... ... 4 118 Additions to buildings... ... 388 17 2 Sanitary drainage - works, septic tank, and w.c.'s ... ... 288 6 9 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... 58 12 4 Interest ... ... ... 026 Insurance ... ... ... 31 5 1 Purchase of land adjoining hos-pital-site ... ... ... 950 0 0 Garden and grounds ... ... 13 16 9 Miscellaneous ... ... 12 13 6 Rent ... ... ... 10 0 0 Sanitary service ... ... 16 0 0 Legal expenses ... ... 10 18 2 Travelling-expenses, members ... 34 4 0 Total ... . .£4,602 1 8 Total ... ... £4,169 9 6 Visited 14th March, 1908.—There were thirty-three patients in the Hospital at the time of my visit : one was a case of chronic neuritis which had been in hospital four years, but she makes herself very useful in helping the Matron with needlework, &c. Another patient with chronic gastritis had been in over a year : enterostomy had been recently performed. Another chronic case had been in over four months. There were five cases of typhoid. The Hospital was in excellent order. In fact, this Hospital may be safely regarded as one of the best-managed institutions in the Dominion. It stands in the centre of the town on a section of about 2 acres. This is naturally a great-drawback, but recently the Trustees have been fortunate enough to acquire about half an acre adjoining the Hospital. On this it is proposed to erect a small isolation building, and shelters for consumptive patients. A closed-in verandah has recently been erected off the women's ward. This is much used by convalescents. The drainage is treated in a septic tank, which seems to be working well.

11. GISBORNE HOSPITAL. Governing body : Gisborne Hospital Trustees. Stipendiary medical staff : Dr. Wilson. Nursing staff : Matron, Miss Stewart; 2 registered nurses and 8 probationers. Domestic staff: 1 cook, 1 wardsma-rd, 1 housemaid, 2 laundresses, N l gardener. Number of beds available for males, 33 ; for females, 20 : total, 53. Number of patients under treatment during year : In-patients—male 367, female 141—total 508; out-patients, nil. In-patients: Average days' stay, 24'33; average daily cost per head, ss. sfd. (cost after deducting patients' payments, 4s. 7d.). Percentage of cost of administration on maintenance expenditure, 34'9. Localities from which patients came : Cook County and Borough of Gisborne. Nationality of patients: English, 60; Irish, 41; Scotch, 24; Welsh, 4; Australian, 41; New-Zealanders, 317; Tasmanian, 11; Canadian, 2; American, 4; German, 2; Scandinavian, 1 ; Russian, 3.