HOSPITAL FINANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 90, 16 April 1940, Page 7

HOSPITAL FINANCE

FIGURES FOR 193940

ITEMISED STATEMENT

Details of actual expenditure by the Wellington "Hospital Board during the' financial year ended March 31, 1940, were presented with th&^estimates for the current financial year'which were before the board yesterday. The figures were as follows,, this year's estimates being given in parentheses:— Gross ordinary expenditure, £329,043 (£389,630); receipts other than levies and subsidies, £99,429; net figure, £229,616 (£1B3,18O). Heads of ordinary expenditure: Wellington Hospital, £298,300. (£357,714); social welfare, £7118 (£7100); Central Park Hospital, £10,558 (£12,000); head office, etc.,/ £12,477 (£12,816); liabilities'- over, assets,' March 31,-1939, £592 ;(nil).y . :: The' main items of ordinary, receipts , were shown as foUows, this years,es> tiinates in parentheses:— Hospital maintenance f<4, ■ £71^,523 600)| put- ;; patient fees, £2803 (£2800); , dental - fees £4274 (£4300); endowment rents,; ; £7194 (£7337)•' Central Park Hospital, £5870' (£6189).: -■.;.'■£•£;>; X '' :r- V'^rv; Actual capital expenditure amounted to ■■' £79,724, of which levy expenditure was £34,445 and loanmoney expend!-■ tiire £45,279.; The /total capital ex- : periditure during the current fii^ncial year is estimated at £964,536, of which £ 887,712 is loan money, v The principal..... items in the loan expenditure .schedule are: Nurses' home, £119,533r- acute, block, £453,313; Hutt Valley Hospital, £200,000. At yesterday's meeting_ot, the board it was suggested .that the v capital expenditure: would, not amount -•.. to anything like- £;964;536 th^ .yearv / but the chairman L (Mr. J. Glover); pointed out that there was a statutory obligation to set down the figures, whether' the money was-spent or nou