HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2006, 29 July 1880, Page 4

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a -copy of a statement showing the receipts and expenditure for the year eading Jane 30th, 1880, of the charitable institutions under the control of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. The number of patients in the Hospital on July Ist, 1879, was 82 ; and since that date Tip to June 30th, 1880, 687 patients have been admitted. The number discharged during that period (including deaths) was 709. The daily average number of inmates ior the year was 79, against 75 in the preceding year, the daily average cost of each patient in the years mentioned being 3s 2d and 3s 2Jd respectively. Eighty-seven people died in the Hospital during the year. At the Orphan Asylum 14 boys and 13 girls have been admitted during the year ending June 30th. Ninety-seven children were in the Institution on July Ist, 1879, making a total for the year of 124. Of this number 19 have been apprenticed or withdrawn by relatives daring the year. The average cost of each child per week was 7s 6£d, against 6s 2d for the preceding year, the increased cost being due to the large amount of sickness amongst the children, from which, however, no deaths occurred. The number of inmates in the Ashburton Home on July Ist, 1879, was 35, and 77 were admitted during the ensuing year, while 70 were discharged or left the institution. The expenditure in maintaining the Home has been £97113s Id as agains £1134 19s lid for the preceding year. In the Charitable Aid department we find that, exclusive of tho Home, the number of persons in reoeipt of relief on June 30th, 1880, was 677 against 671 at a similar period last year. This number comprised—Males, £7 ; females, 152; children, 468. Of the 57 males, 17 are employed in the Government Domain at from 3s to 4s per day; 25 arb ill •or unable to work; and 15 are aged and infirm. Of the 162 females, 90 are widows; 10 have been deserted by their husbands; the husbands of 7 are in gaol j 40 are Teoeiving relief on acoount of sickness, or age and infirmity; and in 5 cases *he husbands are in the Lunatic Asylum. During the year, temporary assistance was also granted in ninety-five cases, the total number relieved was 428 souls. The receipts on charitable aid were £l2 14s as against £4O 17s 5d for the preoeding year. The expenditure was £7715 2s Id, as against £6791 9a 7d. This expenditure includes the sum of £IOBO 6s 6d as wages on relief works ; last year the amount paid as wages was £lOl4 8i 3d. The svotual cost, after deduoting receipts, of the hospitals and charitable institutions under the control of the Board, for the year ending 30th June, 1880, has been £15,810 9a 7d, as against £14,606 Os Id for the preceding year. At the casual ward, Lyttelton, eleven patients were received and nine discharged. One death occurred during the year. The receipts have been £42, as against £63 13s 3d for the year preceding, and the expenditure was £l5B 14s Id, as against £175 16j lOd last year. At the hospital cottage, Akaroa, the number of patients at the beginning of the year was two, and forty-six were admitted up to June 30th. forty-two were discharged, and three deaths ocourred. The receipts for the year ending 30fch June, 1880, amounted to £lO9 14s, as against £35 14s 8d for the previous year, and the expenditure was £563 14s 4d, as against £694 12s lid for the year preceding. The daily average number of patients was three, and the daily average cost of each patient 10s Sid, but repayments reduced this amount to 8a 3ld.

Following Mr Maroh'a report, from which wo hare extracted the above, iB a seriee of carefully compiled tables, giving in detail the ifiemi of expenditure in the various departunder the administration of the Board.