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Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st March, 1908. Receipts. £ s. d. I Expenditure. £ s. d. Balance from last year ... 1,839 1 9 j Rations ... ... ... 639 7 8 From Government ... ... 1,624 2 2 I Wines, spirits, ale, and porter ... 45 16 9 Local bodies... ... ... 1,147 0 5 Surgery and dispensary ... 401 5 4 Subscriptions and donations ... 15 18 6 Fuel and light ... ... 268 19 7 Rents ... ... ... 600' Bedding, clothing, furniture, and Patients' payments ... ... 581 4 0 ! earthenware ... ... 459 17 4 Interest on fixed deposit ... 51 3 7 Salaries and wages ... ... 918 8 7 Miscellaneous ... ... 44 17 4 I Funerals ... ... ... 37 17 0 Repairs ... ... ... 569 1 2 Additions to buildings and improvements ... ... 384 10 0 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 43 13 10 Interest and insurance ... 3653 Cartage and cab-hire ... ... 26 14 6 Miscellaneous ... . . 18 10 0 Total , ... ... £5,309 7 9| Total ... ... £3,850 7 0 Visited 6th May, 1908.—There were nineteen patients on the occasion of my visit. The three male-wards, the female-ward, and side wards have recently been lined with Wunderlich steel, which gives them a good appearance, and seems to have answered well. There is now no talk of bugs. The Board has recently decided to provide the male and female wards with suitable sanitary conveniences. At present there is only one closet in the building. It is to be hoped that there is sufficient fall available to allow the installation of proper water-closets. There is no registered nurse in this institution other than the Matron, though I understand the Board have advertised for one. On the occasion of my visit the Hospital was in charge of a second-year probationer nurse. The wards were clean and well kept, but the closets inside and out were in an unsanitary state, suggesting that the pans were not emptied as often as could be desired. There is a well-found infectious-diseases ward here that can accommodate seven patients. There are seven shelters in the grounds, two of which were occupied.

19. OAMARU HOSPITAL. Governing body : Oamaru Hospital Trustees. Honorary medical staff: Drs. Whittnn, Douglas, McAdam, Stevens, and Liddle. Stipendiary medical staff: Dr. Garland. Nursing stafi: Matron, Mrs. Desmond; 1 registered nurse and 5 probationers. Domestic stafi : 1 cook, 1 kitchenmaid, 1 housemaid, 1 laundress, 1 gardener. Number of beds available for males, 24; for females, 14: total 38 (and 8 beds in children's ward). Number of patients under treatment during year: In-patients—male 179, female 70—total 249; out-patients, 78 (number of attendances, 785). In-patients: Average days' stay, 29 - 6; average daily cost per head, ss. (cost after deducting patients' payments, 3s. HJd.). Percentage of cost of administration on maintenance expenditure, 3708. Localities from which patients came: Waitaki County, 117; Oamaru, 94; north of Waitaki, 4; shipping, 3; Dunedin, 1; no residence, 2. Nationality of patients: New-Zealanders, 102; Irish, 37; Scotch, 32; English, 28; Australian, 13; Jerseymen, 2; Scandinavian, 3; sundry, 4. Religion: Presbyterian, 80; Church of England, 58; Roman Catholic, 53; Salvation Afmy, .4; Church of Christ, 5: Wesleyan, 13; Plymouth Brethren, 2; Baptist, 6. Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st March, 1908. Beceipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ g. d. Balance from last year ... ... 389 14 8 Eations ... ... ... 562 7 6 Prom Government .. ... 466 18 4 Wines, spirits, ale, and porter ... 6 0 0 • Subscriptions and donations ... 359 16 8 Surgery and dispensary ... 203 12 0 Rents paid in advance, due Ist April 397 6 ] J Fuel and light (gas, £62 os. 3d; Rents to 31st October ... ... 837 7 9 fuel, £94 18s.) ... ... 156 18 3 Patients' payments ... ... 392 19 7 Bedding and clothing ... ... 39 15 5 Interest ... ... ... 142 6 3 Furniture and earthenware ... 94 0 3 Mortgage repaid ... ... 60 0 0 Salaries and wages ... ... 690 6 7 Sundries ... ... ... 47 8 7 Funerals ... .. ... - 6 18 0 Repairs—improvements to grounds 44 16 2 Additions to buildings ... ... 156 10 2 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 11 5 11 Interest ... ... ... 050 ! Insurance ... ... ... 927 Other expenses ... ... 67 12 7 Total £3,093 17 11 Total £2,049 10 5