DISTRICT HOSPITAL.
A YEAR’S STATISTICS
The annunl reports of the Palmerston North District Hospital have just been issued. They are prefaced by the following statement, giving details of the year’s work. A total of 821 patients wen treated during the year. The figures are as follows : Patients in Hospital on April Ist, 1912 ... 49 Patients admitted during year ... , ... ... 772 Total under treatmeut ... 821 Number discharged ... 716 Deaths 51 Under treatment on March 3i5t,,1913 54 Male, 463 ; female, 358.
Number of beds available. —For males, 27 ; for females, 28 ; children’s cots, 3 ; isolation and infectious, 19; total. 77. In-patients. Collective days’ stay, 19,490; individual average days, 2374; average daily cost per head, 5s 6>£d; average daily payment per head, is lod ; average daily cost per head alter deducting inpatients’ payments, 3'B>£ ; weekly fee charged for maintenance, 4s 6d ; percentage of cost of administration on maintenance expenditure, 3.6 per cent.
Districts from which patients came.—Palmerston North 356 ; Feilding, 62 ; Foxton, 36 ; Manawatu County, 74; Kairanga County, 71; Oroua County, 63; Kiwitea County, 45; Pohangina County, 27 ; other hospital districts, 87 ; total, 821. Nationalities of patients.—New Zealand, 535: English, 135; Irish, 38 ; Scotch, 46 ; Australian, 40; Danes, 6; Germans, 5; Canadian, x; Anglo-Indian, 1 ; French, 2; United States ot America, 1 ; Welsh 3 ; Swede 1 ; South Africa 1 ; unknown, x ; Norway, 2; South America, r ; Swiss r ; Egyptian, 1 ; total, 821,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1173, 18 November 1913, Page 2
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228DISTRICT HOSPITAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1173, 18 November 1913, Page 2
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