MAINTENANCE ESTIMATES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4443, 24 April 1930, Page 2

MAINTENANCE ESTIMATES.

FO R 1‘ L' BUG HOG DITAL. AUDI ‘ I lON BY BOARD. Kstimaies for the maintenance of the ißalmerston North Hospital for Hie year ending March 31, 1931, were presented at the annual meeting of the board as follows: — Receipts. —Cash in hand, £l5B 5 ■ (i; voluntary contributions, £3OO (last year estimate £SOO, actual receipts £521 1/0); subsidy on voluntary contributions, £3OO (£SOO, £479 15/2); patients’ payments, f 1 2,999 (£10,590, £ LL,043 11/-); charitable aid recoveries, £I3OO (£IBOO, £1847); interest, (£550, £OOI 38/4); patients’ property, £OO9 (£759, £055 7/1); bacteriological laboratory fees, £OO9 (£6OO, £O4B 19/8) ; A-wapuni farm receipts, £3OO (£2OO, £3OB 8/5); miscellaneous, £75 (£IOO, £75 14/6); sublota Is, £10,133 5/0 (£15,500, £l6, 781. 8/3) ; maintenance levy, £22,270 tl/d (£22,000, £22,000); maintenance subsidy, £18,137 7/5 (£17,059 17/1, £17,659 17/-); totals, £50,540 13/5 (£55,159 17/1 £50,441 5/4).

Daymenls.—Overdraft at April 1, 1929 —(lasi year estimate £248 7 3, actual payment £24S 7/3); Dalmerston North Hospital and "Maternity Home maintenance, £34,500 (£32,500, £33,528 13/5); Otaki Hospital maiulenanee, £2250 (£2,000, £2215 7/0); Old People's Home maintenance, £2459 (£2400, £2084 12/-); charitable aid, outdoor relief, £4300 (£4500, £4IBO 1/4); district native nursing, £420 (£4OO, £434 10/2); administration, £2050 (£2590, £2551 5/-); amounts paid to other hoards or separate institutions, £2890 (£2890, £2725 10/-); interest on loans, £4130 (£4500, £1447 9/9); contribution to National Provident Fund, £525 (£SOO, £491 19/8); refund of subsidy, £l2l 13/5 (£543 31/7, £543 11/7); Awapuni farm, £IOOO (£9OO, £9BO 2,9); patients' property, £OOO ( £750, to 10 10/0); miscellaneous, £599 (£Ol7 18, 3, £O2B 6/11); cash in hand ) —totals, £56,5 10 13 5 (£55,159, £50,441 5/4). ‘file estimates were adopted on the motion of Mr. .1. A. Nash, M.P., seconded by the chairman (Air. J. K. llornhlow). .Submitting notes on the estimates, the managing-secretary (Mr. A. J. Dhillipps) stated that about £399 was a normal year’s estimate of voluntary contributions. The revenue from the laboratory, including sale of sera, was £OO9. The increase in the maintenance levy ibis year was £276, compared with £497 last year. In maintenance payments the year had opened with an overdraft, and ended with a surplus. Thus the revenue exceeded I he expenditure by £4OO 12/9. There were at present sufficient cases in the hospital to lili the two new wards immediately they were opened. They were now being accommodated oil verandahs and in beds placed down the centres in the present words. The expenditure on provisions last year was £5899 13/8 amt in the previous year £5940 Mi 8. The establishment of a proper store during the year had enabled delimit* economies to he eftceied in the issue of provisions. “To prepare for the opening of She new wards we have been carrying additional nursing staff during the past year. The increase in nursing staff salaries in accordance vii h establishment at present as again.-t the establishment a year nt'n amounts to £1000,” add.ed the managing secretary. An additional masseuse has been employed at a cost of £2OO, an additional porter at a cost of £IOO and additional coinesi.ies ar a cost of £240. With the opening of the new wards two 1 art her sisters will he necessary at

a cost of approximately £3OO, two additional domestics at a cost of Cloo, and one additional porter at a cost of £IOO. “Though when we look over the Otaiki Hospital, the Health Department spent a eonsidi rablc sum in renovations, it was necessary during the year to renew a considerable portion of the linen stock. If the maternity side of the work at Otalci is developed, and this side appears to be gradually improving, we should get a few more paying patients. 1 do not think that there is any way by which we can reduce expenditure at Otaki. The present staffing appears to he a minimum with which the institution can be satisfactorily carried on.”